The UN is rapidly reaching the end of whatever usefulness it had in the world. In the concerted effort to undermine the United States, the UN, despite its general support for many thuggish regimes throughout the world, appears to be getting caught in the same net. When a genocidal regime like the one in the Sudan starts accusing Kofi Annan of being an American puppet, the end of the road is in sight. (Incidentally, keep in mind that the New York Times cheerfully carries advertising for Sudan while Actively trying to undermine the American government). The genocide will continue while the bureaucrats in the UN wring their hands.
A senior Sudanese parliamentarian accused UN Secretary General Kofi Annan of spearheading a US-engineered conspiracy against Khartoum following a stark warning issued by the world body and Washington over the situation in Darfur.
"Annan is spearheading a conspiracy engineered by the US against the Sudan," senior parliamentarian Ismail Haj Mussa told the official Omdurman radio.
Backed by the United States, Annan has been pushing for the deployment of UN peacekeepers to replace an ill-equipped cash-strapped African Union force that has failed to stem the more than three-year-old bloodshed.
"Thanks to Kofi Annan, there is no longer an independent UN but only a section within the American state department," Mussa charged.
The UN Security Council two weeks ago adopted a resolution urging the deployment in Darfur — an arid territory roughly the size of France — of up to 20,000 UN peacekeepers.
The Sudanese government has consistently rejected the option of a UN deployment in Darfur and instead dispatched its own forces to the western region, sparking fresh clashes with holdout rebel factions.
"The fighting started yesterday morning in Umm Sidr," some 50 kilometres (30 miles) north of Al-Fasher in North Darfur, National Redemption Front spokesman Ahmed Yusef told AFP.
"Seven fighters were killed and 10 others wounded," Yusef said, adding that the government used helicopters in its latest offensive and also lost "several" forces in the fighting.
There was no immediate comment from the Sudanese military or government on the latest bout of fighting in Darfur.
Meanwhile, our homegrown "internationalists" will shrug their shoulders at the situation. As will the dedicated left of Europe. Most won't even notice Sudan – it's off the radar when they are hunting their really big game: George Bush.
THE ONLY HOPE FOR DARFUR: WE-THE-PEOPLE. Duh.
It is said that the mark of truly being “crazy†is expecting different results from doing the same thing over and over and…. Ok, we needed to try some new approaches, hoping we could find a new formula for mass social change (stopping Genocide has NEVER been done.); looking for one that would be comfortable, convenient, safe, executed from our computer terminal / phone / TV or office in some combination. The variations we’ve tried are: * Blame (Bush, UN, EU…) , * Emails, letters, postcards…,* Letting the Nonprofits do it, * Divestment. And the results are in. WE ARE NOT, STOPPING THE GENOCIDE!
You mean that the answer for Darfur is the same answer we found for…* Ending the Vietnam War, * Gaining Civil Rights in the US, * Gaining Women the right to Vote in the US, * Ending apartheid in South Africa, * Throwing off the British oppression at our start….?
Yup. No one else, nothing else can stop it, can save 4,000,000 in Concentration Camps in Sudan and Chad. The buck stops with WE-THE-PEOPLE. Let’s stop talking and start – marching, demonstrating, sitting-in, hunger striking….
The next step is September 17th (SaveDarfur.org; DayForDarfur.org). BUT, then we need to be ready on SEPTEMBER 18th, 19th… AS LONG AS IT TAKES, WHATEVER IT TAKES.
Jay McGinley, jymcginley@cs.com; Day 105 24/7 DC VIGIL; Day 35 HUNGER STRIKE (54 days so far this summer, with breaks); ARRESTED Sept 9th at White House with 29 others from Save Darfur; http://wwww.standwithdarfurwhitehouseii.blogspot.com