More ways to stop the Genocide in the Sudan
Mary Madigan
Don Cheadle (of Hotel Rwanda) and John Prendergast criticize the US for not doing enough to stop the Genocide in the Sudan in today’s Opinion Journal.
They’re right, the US hasn’t done enough. Unfortunately, the US and the UK have done more than any other nation in the free and not-free world. Washington has led efforts to force the UN Security Council to internationalize the crisis in Darfur, which the world body describes as the worst humanitarian catastrophe in the world. But, as the Iraq war proved, the US does not control the actions of the United Nations. Kofi Annan’s refusal to take action against the genocide in the Sudan appears to have been influenced by the Arab League. The League opposes action in the Sudan in the interests of preserving "stability," and "justice."
If you oppose the UN and the Arab League’s efforts to allow genocide to thrive in the interests of stability and justice, here is one site that will send a petition to the relevant UN members.
The UN avoided taking action in Rwanda by refusing to admit that it was genocide. Kofi Annan is doing the doing the same thing in the Sudan. If you want to send him a letter about it, here’s the link:
Kofi, Don't Hide from Genocide
The government of the Sudan is an Islamic state that Osama bin Laden can love, with Shariah laws that encourage both slavery and genocide. It’s also the Islamic state that’s hiding a large part of Osama’s money. An international action against this criminal government would also be in the interests of our national security.
The Arab League will never approve of any action against the Sudan, because they know how important the country is their own interests. When the US and the UK try to force the issue, the Sudanese government will claim that Washington is using the Darfur crisis as a pretext to invade.
..and we know how Kofi Annan feels about the invasion of a sovereign totalitarian nations. We should let him know how we feel about allowing genocide and terrorism to thrive.
It just takes a second. Your cards and letters really can make a difference, as they did for Abdulkarim Al-Khaiwani who has just been freed from a prison in Yemen. Congrats Dean and Jane!
Related Posts (on one page):
- More ways to stop the Genocide in the Sudan
- Foot Dragging On Darfur Genocide
Until then, fuck both Bush brothers, the judicial system that led to this atrocity, and all the rest of the diversions that are supposed to divert the attention of hundreds of millions of Americans away from vilest of all incidents happening right in our home country.
I have never been so disillusioned in almost 71 years of life.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
Mind you, I am largely sympathetic. Nothing in my brain can conceive of behaving as Michael Schiavo is behaving. I know that I definitely could order a love one to be removed from life support, and I know that I would not want to live as a vegetable. Neither of those is the point. I cannot conceive of behaving as he has, and I am astonished at the reaction of those who support denying this woman potential new therapies and pulling this woman's feeding tube instead.
That said, I honestly am not certain what, short of simply riding in on horseback with sword and gun in hand and physically taking possession of the woman, what either of the Bush boys can be expected to do beyond what they've done. Although perhaps I've missed something. Were I President I doubt I would have it in me to defy Constitutional order over such a matter, as disturbing as I find it.
I have no sympathy for Michael Schiavo. I do not hate him, I just do not see him as in any way deserving of sympathy--and I do not buy one word of the "loving husband" bullshit his defenders try to peddle. Terri's parents, however, I can feel nothing but anguish for.
Now, like millions of others, I sucker-punched myself into this one. I've been eating, sleeping, breathing this fantastic, sad, horrible case for the better part of a week, having more or less ignored it for all the years Terri Schiavo, her parents, her disability, her husband, and now, her doom, have been in the news, on and off.
Everything about it is hopeless. Like being one the remaining 1500 people on board the Titanic as it was sinking, and watching as the last boats filled up and sailed away into the cold black night.
I too find it disturbing to think such thoughts. But I too would carry that woman out of there and try to save her. Regardless of the courts. And I think the country would understand. Would that be a fatal blow to the United States Constitution? Much less so than when Abraham Lincoln suspended habeus corpus. Or Franklin Roosevelt sent the Japanese-Americans to concentration camps. Or a lot of other mostly illegal actions that our governments in this country have taken in times of perceived necessity.
But you are right of course. Every atrocity against human rights has to be treated the same. And that of course includes the atrocities that are commonplace in daily life in all too many of the african republics.
So. We'll all soldier on. Because in human events, there is no meaningful alternative.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
The genocide in Darfur is not just an "African" problem. The people who are oppressing the Sudanese blacks follow the same philosophy and the same laws as the people who paid for and planned 9/11. If we were as defenseless as the Sudanese blacks, the Islamists would be treating us the same way. It's what they do.