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| Sudan agrees to demands to stop violence | ||
| 2004-07-02 | ||
Sudan has agreed to act to stop violence and facilitate relief work in its western Darfur region following visits and the threat of limited sanctions by Colin Powell, US secretary of state, and Kofi Annan, UN secretarygeneral. Diplomats said a draft resolution would be put to the Security Council if Khartoum failed to act on its commitments. But they conceded any sanctions would be
Mr Powell said the Sudanese government had agreed to a list of actions to be taken "in the very near future", including a specific commitment to use the police and military "more aggressively" to deal with the militia. "Words alone are not enough," Mr Powell said, calling on the government which has been accused of aiding the militia to "break the back" of Janjaweed. He said Khartoum had also agreed to ease all restrictions on visas for humanitarian workers, make sure relief convoys and monitors had access and to "get immediately involved in the political process". In an interview with National Public Radio, Mr Powell also disclosed that Bush administration legal advisers had come to the conclusion that, based on the evidence available, the violence directed against Darfur's African tribes by Arab militia "does not meet the tests of the definition of genocide". He rejected comparisons with the genocide against Rwanda's Tutsi minority in 1994. "This is not Rwanda 10 years ago. It is Sudan now," he said.
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #9 You have a low opinion of Americans. Why? |
| Posted by: jules 187 2004-07-02 4:51:14 PM |
| #8 right. but not before dragging our feet in the dirt or ignoring it as much as possible without looking bad |
| Posted by: Dcreeper 2004-07-02 4:23:06 PM |
| #7 Actually, Dcreeper, we are usually the only ones making sacrifices to help others, with a few laudable exceptions like Britain, Australia, Poland, Italy... It isn't for show, as many soldiers in Army hospitals can attest. We have values; it is most of the rest of the world which only wants to APPEAR to have them, without actually ever moving to help. |
| Posted by: jules 187 2004-07-02 4:07:38 PM |
| #6 because doing more than negotiating would mean we would actaully have to make a personal sacrifice on the behalf of others... and who wants to do that ? almost nobody so we talk and pretend to have values, for our image and pride eventually it becomes obvious that we are doing nothing and it becomes needful to send forces(or look bad), but for now... delay delay delay pessmistic, but is there any other explanation that fits past and present behavior? |
| Posted by: Dcreeper 2004-07-02 3:42:38 PM |
| #5 Sudan has agreed to act to stop violence and facilitate relief work. Just by uttering these words, Sudan is implicated as having allowed violence and blocked relief work before. Why are we still negotiating with scum? |
| Posted by: jules 187 2004-07-02 11:33:36 AM |
| #4 Just checked a map... Yep, De Nial does indeed run through the Soudan. They gots De Blue Nial, De White Nial and just plain De Nial, Yep. (ducks for cover! :) ) |
| Posted by: N Guard 2004-07-02 11:32:35 AM |
| #3 And now we enter the phase of Decap the Sudanese government right now. What's the harm? |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-07-02 10:08:25 AM |
| #2 Yep, we'll get right on that. Sure will. Anything else you need? Are they gone yet? |
| Posted by: Sudan 2004-07-02 8:57:36 AM |
| #1 That's mighty white of the Sudanese Arabs. Since the warfare/pillaging is phase is complete; now starvation, thirst and disease will take the real toll. |
| Posted by: ed 2004-07-02 1:47:30 AM |