Sudan blocks UN rights team from entering Darfur

[AndyMarquisLIVE]

This just gets more and more frustrating...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon expressed disappointment Thursday that Sudan's president reneged on a promise to allow a United Nations human rights team to visit Darfur to assess alleged atrocities.
He said the deteriorating situation in the vast conflict-wracked western region of Sudan is unacceptable.

Ban said that during a meeting with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir at last month's African Union summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, "he said he would issue visas to the fact-finding mission — he said he would have no problem."

"If he believes that there is no problem, then he should be able to receive the human rights fact-finding mission," the secretary-general said.

The 14-member mission has been stuck in Addis Ababa because Khartoum has failed to give them visas.

Mission leader and Nobel peace laureate Jody Williams said Wednesday the team couldn't wait any longer and would carry out its assessment from outside the country and submit a report to the Human Rights Council in Geneva.

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[PsyOps]

I think it's time for us to do something there.

BTW Andy... You don't sleep much do you?

 

[AndyMarquisLIVE]

Late-Breaking developments from Sudan: The United States is urging more african nations to send forces to Sudan. The U.N. thinks peace talks are the way to fix the situation, since that's worked so well for the last 4 years. The U.N. also sees the situation spreading into Chad and fears the worst there (yet not doing anything about it fixes it ).

I'm gonna make a prediction that Mr. Bush ends up sending troops to Sudan within the next 4 months.

 

[PsyOps]

Late-Breaking developments from Sudan: The United States is urging more african nations to send forces to Sudan. The U.N. thinks peace talks are the way to fix the situation, since that's worked so well for the last 4 years. The U.N. also sees the situation spreading into Chad and fears the worst there (yet not doing anything about it fixes it ).

I'm gonna make a prediction that Mr. Bush ends up sending troops to Sudan within the next 4 months.

CAN ANYONE REALLY TELL WHAT PURPOSE THE UN SERVES IN THIS WORLD?

 

[Toxick]

CAN ANYONE REALLY TELL WHAT PURPOSE THE UN SERVES IN THIS WORLD?

They setup resolutions, and enforce them by writing scathing letters and authorizing sanctions when those resolutions aren't followed.

 

[PsyOps]

They setup resolutions, and enforce them by writing scathing letters and authorizing sanctions when those resolutions aren't followed.

okay... Anyone else?

 

[SamSpade]

CAN ANYONE REALLY TELL WHAT PURPOSE THE UN SERVES IN THIS WORLD?

Typically, humanitarian relief, human rights intervention and diplomacy - but only by invitation. To my knowledge the closest they ever came to serious military intervention that wasn't playing back up to the U.S. was South Korea - and even that's questionable.

I can't think of a serious military engagement they got into where we weren't the ones doing most of the dying.