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2005-03-18 Africa: Horn

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Posted by Fred 2005-03-18 12:00:01 AM|| || Front Page|| [13 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Does Nigeria have time for this? I seem to recall they have troubles of their own.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-03-18 4:15:11 AM|| 2005-03-18 4:15:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 The surprise memorandum from Nigeria,

Was it sternly worded?

Posted by Raj 2005-03-18 12:25:35 PM|| 2005-03-18 12:25:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 This sounds like a darn good idea. How about we let Sudan appoint the Panalists too -- after all they are a member of the human Rights Comission.

/srcasm

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-03-18 12:45:03 PM|| 2005-03-18 12:45:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 On one hand, regional responsibility seems a fine thing, and each group of nations dealing with its own problems.

On the other hand, I have reasons to mistrust it: Throughout the third-world (and CIS too) there seem to be growing (or atleast not receding) movements of so-called "anti-colonialism" or "anti-imperialism" which in reality are merely a pretense for the case of regional or racial or religious unity in opposition to democratic pressures by Europe or the United States: in short they label the cause of democracy, freedom, human rights nothing bu "colonial intervention" -- but they look the other way in the face of the most brutal neighbourly oppression, imperialism or massacre.

"Indiofascists" in Latin America hating white folk -- black racists in Zimbabwe and South Africa trying to erase any elements of colonial past, blaming all that goes wrong to that past -- CIS nations condemning the Orange Revolution as "Western interventionism" -- Arabs calling the very existence of Israel as "colonial state".

So in short: "new African Panel" -- is the rejection of ICC a way to reject Western pressures and "Western values" in the cause of blind African "solidarity"? If so, that's a very bad thing.

Posted by Aris Katsaris 2005-03-18 1:19:29 PM|| [http://www.livejournal.com/~katsaris/] 2005-03-18 1:19:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Interesting point, Aris. I hadn't thought of that.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-03-18 8:12:01 PM|| 2005-03-18 8:12:01 PM|| Front Page Top

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