Now Back To Our Regularly Scheduled Genocide

The government of Sudan has kicked out the UN envoy sent there to try to get that nation to accept UN peacekeepers. It would appear that UN diplomat Jan Pronk gave enormous offense to the ruling thugs by telling the truth.

The Sudan News Agency gave no reason for the order against the envoy, Jan Pronk of the Netherlands. Pronk drew sharp criticism from the Sudanese military this month after writing in a personal Web blog that government forces had suffered serious losses recently at the hands of rebels in Darfur.

Sudan's government has been at odds with Pronk over Western efforts to get Sudan to allow a U.N. force of 20,000 troops to take over peacekeeping in Darfur — a move President Omar al-Bashir has flatly rejected as neocolonialism.

The Sudanese agency said the Foreign Ministry informed the U.N. office in Khartoum in writing that Pronk's mission "has come to an end" and he "must leave Sudanese territory within 72 hours starting from midday Sunday."

In a blog posted Oct. 14, Pronk wrote that Sudanese army losses in recent fighting "seem to have been very high."

"Reports speak about hundreds of casualties in each of the two battles, many wounded soldiers and many taken as prisoner," he said, adding that morale was low among Sudanese troops in northern Darfur and "some generals have been sacked; soldiers have refused fighting."

Of course, if Pronk had written nothing whatsoever about anything, Sudan would have found an excuse to eject him anyway. The UN cannot even get lip service from thugocracies anymore.