Posted on 01/31/2005 5:48:41 PM PST by Libertas aut Mortis
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) - Sudan's foreign minister said Monday a U.N. report concluded that no genocide was committed in his country's Darfur region, where tens of thousands of civilians have died in a nearly two-year crisis.
At U.N. headquarters in New York, diplomats confirmed that the report did not find that Sudan had committed genocide, but they said it was very critical of Sudanese government actions. The report was expected to be circulated in New York on Tuesday.
The United States has accused Sudan's government of directing militia who attack civilians in what Washington has called a genocidal campaign in the western region.
"We have a copy of that report and they didn't say that there is a genocide," Sudan Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail said on the sidelines of an African Union summit in the Nigerian capital, Abuja.
Last year, the United Nations said the Darfur conflict created the world's worst humanitarian crisis. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Sunday a report on the situation would be forwarded to Security Council members "very shortly."
Annan declined to say whether the team made a determination that genocide was committed.
"Regardless of how the commission describes what is going on in Darfur, there is no doubt that serious crimes have been committed," he said.
U.S. diplomats at the United Nations said recently they would make proposals to the Security Council to bring the perpetrators of atrocities in Darfur to justice.
Also Monday, Sudan's government and Darfur rebels said they will reopen long-stalled peace talks in Nigeria in February. Three previous peace conferences and a cease-fire agreement have failed to calm the violence.
Both Osman and representatives of allied Sudanese rebel groups the Sudanese Liberation Army and the Justice and Equality Movement said they would attend the latest meetings, which a Western diplomat said on condition of anonymity were scheduled to begin the third week of February in Abuja.
The most recent peace conference began Dec. 11 in Abuja, but rebels boycotted meetings with government delegates two days later, alleging a new government offensive. The talks broke down entirely within weeks.
The Justice and Equality Movement, the smaller insurgent group, would attend the talks if AU negotiators treated them fairly and were "serious and objective," Khalil Ibrahim Mohammed, a top rebel official, said Monday.
He added that insurgent leaders wanted a new mediator for the talks.
"America and the European Union must come forward," he said by phone from Eritrea.
The Darfur conflict began in February 2003 when the two rebel groups took up arms against what they considered years of state neglect and discrimination against Sudanese of African origin.
The government responded with a counterinsurgency campaign in which an Arab militia, known as the Janjaweed, committed wide-scale abuses against the African population. An estimated 1.8 million people have been displaced in the conflict, and more than 70,000 people are believed to have died from hunger and disease since March.
Where is the UN report clearing Serbia of the ridiculous accusation that it committed genocide in Kosovo?
U. + N. ='s Useless Nobody's!
I guarantee you this: If say, American conservatives were to go on a murderous rampage and kill(only hypthetical, as I'm not advocating violence---useless disclaimer) say, 1,000 snot nosed, leftist, protesting, secular/atheistic, Communist liberals, the U.N. would be all up on it's bandwagon(of thieves of course) and declare that there is genocide! Kill over 70,000 God fearing, conservative Christians and, oh well...it's just "serious crimes."
Now, if the Untied States hadn't been so insistent that there was "genocide" committed in Darfur, I would put my money on the U.N. making a claim that there was a "genocidal ethnic cleansing", because it seems that the U.N. takes great pleasure in countermanding ANYTHING that the U.S. espouses.
I have only two words for the U.N.: F*ck off!
Let's move along, nothing to see here!
Tinkerbell and the Tooth Fairy have been committing the murder and hacking apart the bodies in Sudan all these years.
Why can't we just evict those criminials and sell off the Manhattan property.
Put it on eBay.....
Apparently there is a ceasefire in Sudan. Not withstanding the fact that 100 people were killed in an air strike last week and Ethnic violence is now errupting in the east of Sudan. It's going to get worse. I do agree though failure to call this genocide is appalling.
I wouldn't smear the bad memory of the LON with the UN :-)
John 15:20 a&b Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you;
Amen! I agree. Christians have been persecuted around the world for a long time, but it's just now beginning in America. The ACLU is one of the biggest enemies we have.
>>What the heck does it take for the U.N. to actually condemn a fascist regime?<<
>Depends on who you bribe. Bribing Kofi might be simpler but more expensive than bribing a few dozen ambassadors.<
Oh, O.K. As long as there's a going rate, that's understandable. Just wish they'd publish it.
-George
Once you've established that there was murder, why do you care whether or not it was genocide or just random human cruelty? The dead are still dead, and the guilty should be charged, tried and when found guilty punished.
This is the same UN that said "never again" the other day over at Auschwitz.
"He went on to vow that his government would search for the real killers."
Yeah, Adolph Hitler and Josef Stalin never killed anybody, either.
You might be interested in the following links:
http://www.moveamericaforward.org/
http://www.getusout.org/
Both are grassroots efforts to get the US out of the UN, and get the UN out of the US.
Thanks alot
Someday when we elect truly conservative leaders and rid ourselves of the overt and covert globalists... our true conservative leaders will actually lead?
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