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| Solution to Genecide is at hand: U.N. to form a new Commission | |||
| 2004-01-27 | |||
| Summary - they want more US taxpayer money for a new forum whose purpose is to bust our chops and condemn every action that Israel takes. Warning massacres like those carried out in Rwanda and Bosnia could happen again, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Monday proposed an international committee to help prevent genocide. Maybe the commission will discover a solution to genocide during a brain-storming session of a cross-functional team. Annan made the proposal at the opening of a three-day conference in Stockholm on preventing genocide. More than a half a million people were slaughtered during the 1994 war in Rwanda.
and the French would block any action regardless of what was proposed. Annan suggested forming a U.N. committee on preventing genocide and having a "special rapporteur" who would report directly to the Security Council to monitor "massive and systematic violations of human rights and threats to international peace and security." Can we free up Ambassador Bolton to fill the slot? Several delegates welcomed the idea, including Sweden’s Prime Minister Goeran Persson and Latvia’s President Vaira Vike-Freiberga, who said "there have been many failures when it comes to preventing genocide during the last years."
Maybe if we had more armed people out preventing the actual genocides we would do better. The conference is the final one in a series of annual conventions called the Stockholm International Forum, which began with a conference on the Holocaust in 2000. Organizers said they hoped delegates would sign a declaration with commitments from 60 countries to improve efforts to prevent genocide. Participants include the European Union’s foreign policy chief Javier Solana; former chief U.N. weapons inspectors Hans Blix and Rolf Ekeus; International Criminal Court prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo, and Nobel Peace Prize winners Bernard Kouchner and Elie Wiesel. Israel downgraded its representation after a Stockholm museum refused to remove a display showing a picture of an Islamic Jihad suicide bomber from an exhibit linked to the conference. Israel said the piece glorified suicide bombers. The Israeli-born artist who created the installation, Dror Feiler, was among hundreds who protested Monday against Israel’s presence at the event. And the bus drove into the ditch. | |||
| Posted by:Super Hose |
| #13 Today's trivia question is - Which two east african states were a United Nations Trust Territory? Give the prize to the person who said Rwanda and Burundi. Of course there is no possible causal link between the UN being responsible and large scale civilian masssacres. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2004-1-27 10:02:27 PM |
| #12 MY point is that the goal of the UN is not to stop genocide, but to pin blame Bzzzt! Wrong answer. The goal of the UN is the same as every leftinger and leftwing organization: deprecate and bring down the defenses of America so it can be destroyed. I am, howver, willing to make an in-kind contribution to the UN: A week of my time and my pickup truck. I will help pack you communistic f*ckers to the piers of New York so we can ship your socialist asses to Eurostan. |
| Posted by: badanov 2004-1-27 8:39:39 PM |
| #11 Judith: "Reg, Reg!, Brians been taken prisoner!!. We've got to *do* something!" Reg: "Wot!, this calls for immediate discussion!!" ad nauseum... |
| Posted by: Tony (UK) 2004-1-27 4:50:04 PM |
| #10 MY point is that the goal of the UN is not to stop genocide, but to pin blame. It often takes very little research to lay blame, often even bureacrats have the gut instinct knee-jerk blame America (or Israel) response. The committes will just confirm this later with an official UN report nobody will read. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2004-1-27 12:51:36 PM |
| #9 And the UN is actually aiding and abetting Arafish's genocide attempt. |
| Posted by: Korora 2004-1-27 12:43:16 PM |
| #8 Ruprecht (the crown prince?)- Actually the true bureaucratic response would be to form a subcommittee to study the situation: "We'll get back to you on that!" |
| Posted by: Spot 2004-1-27 12:11:18 PM |
| #7 No genocide has EVER been perpetrated against an armed populace. Draw your own conclusions. |
| Posted by: mojo 2004-1-27 11:46:38 AM |
| #6 Spot, nice try but off. Lackey: Mr Secretary-General? Kofi: Yes? Lackey:There's a genocide going on in (insert sh**hole country here)! Kofi: Why thank you, Mr. Special Rapporteur, can we blame the Americans? Lackey:Well sir they had nothing to do with the country but so far they have failed to stop the conflict. Kofi: Excellent, I'll expect a presentation by midweek. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2004-1-27 10:24:43 AM |
| #5 During his tenure Annan has done nothing to halt the continuing genocide in the Sudan. Despite the death of more than two million southern Sudanese over a prolonged period of time the UN has turned a blind eye to the tragedy. It has been satisfied to feed the millions of refugees generated by the Islamist government in Khartoum. Why? Because it gives lots of work to UN bureaucrats. |
| Posted by: Tancred 2004-1-27 10:21:22 AM |
| #4 CF, let me add (Commission - demand that Irsael return the temple mount to alligators displaced by volcanic activity.) |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-1-27 9:35:12 AM |
| #3 Maybe they can hit them with those big leather conference chairs. That's if they can hire some locals to lift them for them. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-1-27 9:33:03 AM |
| #2 A f***ing committee? A f***ing committee?? Mr. Secretary-General? Yes? There's genocide going on in (insert sh**hole country here)! Why thank you, Mr. Special Rapporteur! We'll get right on it. I am stunned by the dream-world these idiots are living in. |
| Posted by: Spot 2004-1-27 9:29:08 AM |
| #1 There is a snake in the bathroom. What shall we do? U.S.: Kill the Snake France: Run away! Run Away! U.N.: Lets form a comission on reptiles and hope that, someday, we will be able to deal with snakes. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-1-27 9:17:56 AM |