Darfur...........it gets worse.........

[michel]

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2007/04/19/2003357298

Sudan using mock UN planes to bomb Darfur: UN report
IN DISGUISE: A photo showed an armed forces plane that investigators said was whitewashed and had the letters `UN' stenciled onto its wing

AFP, WASHINGTON
Thursday, Apr 19, 2007, Page 6

The Sudanese government is using airplanes disguised as UN aircraft to carry out bombings in the conflict in Darfur, a newspaper citing a UN report said yesterday.

The confidential UN report also said Sudan was violating UN Security Council resolutions by flying arms into the region.
The story included photographs from the UN report of a Sudanese armed forces plane. UN investigators said it had been whitewashed and had "UN" stenciled on its wing and bombs laid out beside it.
It said that this and other planes were being disguised and used to bomb villages and transport cargo in Darfur, where bloody civil violence has caused a humanitarian crisis.
More than 200,000 people are estimated to have been killed and at least 2 million others displaced in Darfur since 2003.
That was when government forces -- including its Janjaweed Arab militias -- began fighting rebel groups who had taken up arms in protest at the distribution of resources.
The release of the report came after Sudan on Monday agreed, following months of delays, to let 3,000 UN personnel plus helicopters into Darfur to support under-equipped African Union forces trying to stabilize the region. The UN report, said forces on the rebels' side were also guilty of violating UN resolutions and humanitarian standards. It called for a tightening of a Security Council arms embargo on Sudan, the newspaper said.
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[gnomon]

Am I correct in assuming that the United Nations has still not declared the situation in Darfur a genocide?

 

[Mathematician]

Am I correct in assuming that the United Nations has still not declared the situation in Darfur a genocide?

You're correct.

 

[Booko]

I heard about this story today only because I watched the BBC news.

You hardly hear anything about Darfur in the U.S. There are some things in print.

I recall the U.N. claiming that they would never allow another Rwanda to happen.

 

[kiwimac]

AND where were the troops to back them up?

 

[Jaymes]

Oh god.

Why are we still sitting on our hands about this?

 

[Dr. Nosophoros]

It doesn't really matter to me what the recent "outrage" is in the random African country the bottom line is who started it, who perpetuates it and who still profits from it. They have been fighting for years and always will. Millions of people live in a perpetual sewer because countries that wished to exploit them are fighting over the control to exploit them. Would you fill your tank up at the gas station if you knew that by doing so meant that a woman in some far off place would have her breasts cut off? Would you care that the diamond ring on your finger was the result of slave labor, would you cherish it or would you throw that piece of trash in the dirt?

 

[gnomon]

I heard about this story today only because I watched the BBC news.

You hardly hear anything about Darfur in the U.S. There are some things in print.

I recall the U.N. claiming that they would never allow another Rwanda to happen.

Do you get the BBC news program off of WPBA or another channel, perhaps off an extended cable package. The only place I can find it is on WPBA on Fridays. I really don't like basic cable.

Anway, it's interesting your last comment. As long as the U.N. doesn't recognize the incidents in Darfur as genocide then they are in the comfortable position of claiming to never allow another Rwanda to happen. Now I'm interested in what their criteria is for declaring certain actions genocidal.

 

[Dr. Nosophoros]

Genocide isn't genocide unless a world council says its genocide, but that would make them ineligible for the benefits from them, that's why it isn't called genocide, they trade money for blood in your name.

And I'm the crazy one.

 

[gnomon]

Genocide isn't genocide unless a world council says its genocide, but that would make them ineligible for the benefits from them, that why it isn't called genocide, they trade money for blood in your name.

I did have a wonderful edit to my post addressing this further but apparently I took to long, the forum logged me out and I'm a fool for not saving the information.

But you essentially summed up what I wanted to say. The U.N. was able to find Milosevic guilty for the "intent of genocide" while in the Sudan the janjaweed are basically keeping the people in Darfur confined while killing and raping them at leisure.

Anyway, here's part of what I was going to add:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3853157.stm

It's also interesting that Russia and China veto any attempts by the U.S. and other security council members from sanctioning the government of Sudan. I also feel that the U.N. would rather leave much of the problem to the Africa Union.