ANOTHER month, another 10,000 dead. The United Nations will today let down the people of Darfur again.
| "They're all Negoes. They don't feel pain like we do." |
On 30 July, the UN Security Council warned Sudan that it had 30 days to clean up its act and end the persecution of its people in the region. A month later, a damning UN report demonstrated that it had done no such thing.
| Sounds like they need another 30 days. These things can't be rushed, y'know... |
Today, more than two weeks on from the publication of that report, and after days of diplomatic wrangling, the Security Council is to vote on a fresh resolution which many hoped would leave Khartoum in no doubt it had run out of time.
| ... a month and a half ago. |
It will do no such thing. China and Russia have seen to that, along with a handful of other states with their own idiosyncratic reasons for letting Sudan off the hook. What the Security Council will vote on will be a watered-down resolution backed only by the vaguest of threats.
"Boy, you're gonna get it! We're warning you!"
"Ehrrrmmm... Take out the word 'warning.' Make it 'admonishing.'" |
The US and Britain had demanded sanctions against Sudan's oil industry to focus its mind on the demands of the international community. But Sudan is the fourth-largest supplier of oil to China, and Beijing would not tolerate that. It threatened to veto the resolution.
| "Nope. Nope. Can't do it. Africa's got more Negroes than we have oil. If they start to run out of one or the other we'll look into the matter again." |
| How many US/UK warships does it take to stopper up the Red Sea again? |
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