International Crisis Group – Getting the UN Into Darfur
International Crisis Group – Getting the UN Into Darfur
The ICG has written a report about the UN and Darfur:
The impasse over deploying a major UN peacekeeping force to Darfur results directly from the international community’s three-year failure to apply effective diplomatic and economic pressure on Sudan’s government and its senior officials. Unless concerted action is taken against the ruling National Congress Party (NCP), Khartoum will continue its military campaign, with deadly consequences for civilians, while paying only lip service to its many promises to disarm its Janjaweed militias and otherwise cooperate. No one can guarantee what will work with a regime as tough-minded and inscrutable as Sudan’s, but patient diplomacy and trust in Khartoum’s good faith has been a patent failure. The international community has accepted the responsibility to protect civilians from atrocity crimes when their own government is unable or unwilling to do so. This now requires tough new measures to concentrate minds and change policies in Khartoum.
The procrastination and lack of decision at the U.N. can only be due to obstruction by one or more countries that have self-interest in keeping UN forces out of the Sudan. It’s ab out time some national newspapers published an account of what is actually happening behind the scenes at HQ in New York, so that the public pressure can be brought to bear to remove these barriers. Why are we not being told of what is happening behind the scenes to account for these inhuman delays. Why, as the U.S. has proclaimed, is the terrorism there not universally accepted as genocide?