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"ArKLyte_" |
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06 May 2004 04:51:05 AM |
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Outrage over Sudan's human rights role at UN |
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Outrage over Sudan's human rights role at UN
Financial Times - 5/5/04
Mark Turner
Sudan yesterday won a seat on the United Nations Commission on Human
Rights, outraging human rights groups, exasperating UN officials and
prompting the US to walk out in protest.
Sichan Siv, the US ambassador to the economic and social council, was
"perplexed and dismayed" by the decision to put forward "a country
that massacres its own African citizens", and said: "The US will not
participate in this absurdity."
The annual spectacle of the world's worst human rights offenders being
elected to the commission has become a source of deep embarrassment
for the UN and a rallying cry for its critics. The membership of
Zimbabwe and Cuba this year caused similar outrage, while Libya's
chairmanship of the commission last year became a must-mention in any
anti-UN tirade.
Sudan's uncontested election, backed by the African regional group,
comes as UN officials say a catastrophe is unfolding in its Darfur
region.
Jan Egeland, the UN's humanitarian chief, recently described "an
organised campaign of forced depopulation of entire areas", in which
"entire villages are looted, burned down and sometimes bombed. Large
numbers of civilians have been killed and scores of women and children
have been abducted, raped and tortured," he said.
"Scorched-earth tactics are being employed throughout Darfur. I
consider this to be ethnic cleansing."
Mr Siv said yesterday that "Sudan's membership on the commission
threatens to undermine not only its work, but its very credibility".
Sudan's envoy retorted that the US was "utterly blinded by cultural
arrogance and sensational hegemony", and accused it of "turning a
blind eye to the atrocities committed by American forces" in Iraq.
But human rights groups, for once in concert with the American right,
also condemned Sudan's election.
Joanna Weschler, from Human Rights Watch, said the problem lay with
the UN's system of granting regional groups a set number of seats,
with no minimum criteria.
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"War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it."
- General William Tecumseh Sherman
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| User: "William Grosvenor" |
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| Title: Re: Outrage over Sudan's human rights role at UN!!! WARHEIT!! |
18 Nov 2004 04:00:10 PM |
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ArKLyte_ <ArkLyte_@Now.Net> babbled in
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http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullSt
ory&c=StoryFT&cid=1083180279380
Outrage over Sudan's human rights role at UN
Financial Times - 5/5/04
Mark Turner
Sudan yesterday won a seat on the United Nations Commission on Human
Rights, outraging human rights groups, exasperating UN officials and
prompting the US to walk out in protest.
It seems the United Nations no longer understands the savagry of the
barbarous Muslem extremists who are murdering Sudanese Blacks.
I am disgusted!
Sichan Siv, the US ambassador to the economic and social council, was
"perplexed and dismayed" by the decision to put forward "a country
that massacres its own African citizens", and said: "The US will not
participate in this absurdity."
Three cheers for George W. Bush!! It's about time the United States and
Canada stood up to those racist rednecks and spoke there minds!!
It seems that it is time to SCRAP the United Nations, and devote the
money saved to worthy Jewish charities, right here at home!!
William Grosvenor
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