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| July 12, 2008 |
Shame on us all
Major Jill Rutaremara, a Rwandan military spokesman, condemned this week's devastating Janjaweed/government attack on UN peacekeepers. He also blamed the high level of causalities on the poor equipment of the forces. "Our peacekeepers are ill-equipped in a situation where they come under attack from heavily armed people,"Though UNAMID force is supposed to have 26,000 members, only about 9,000 troops are on the ground now. The Sudanese government continues to block an effective deployment of the force and the international community has acquiesced . We have failed to support the peacekeeping mission in every essential way. If the peacekeepers had had appropriate intelligence capacity and equipment this tragedy almost certainly would have been avoided .
The peacekeepers have been pleading for 26 helicopters. No nation has offered even a single helicopter.
Excellent article and U-tube link
Darfur - A Summary <http://www.By admin
The crisis in Darfur is a problem many have heard of but have failed to grasp. This article is designed to be a quick summary rather than an exhaustive explanation. It designed to give people a quick understanding of the crisis
| July 11, 2008 |
Who murdered the peacekeepers in Darfur?
My sources have now made it clear that the attack on UNAMID was by Janjaweed, with ample support from the government of Sudan. Khartoum will claim the culprits were rebels --simply not true.CHINA, Sudan's Enabler and Defender
The International Criminal Court is on the verge of issuing an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir for crimes against humanity. At this very moment, China is preparing to introduce a United Nations resolution to suspend the jurisdiction of the ICC over Sudan. The Chinese backed resolution proposes stripping the ICC of its power to investigate or prosecute Sudanese authorities for 12 months. Under Article 16 of the Rome statute the UN Security Council has that authority, renewable at 6 month intervals. If the UN Security Council invokes such a suspension, they will be held accountable by the people of the world. I think the resolution will be vetoed, hopefully by the US, almost certainly by the UK and France, who have been clear supporters of the ICC. It will be an interesting time to see the P5 (US, UK, France, Russia and China) forced to put their cards on the table. Whom will they stand for? The perpetrators or the victims?This move by Beijing further casts China in the role of Sudan's enabler and defender, and secures their position as the second most culpable nation in the world.