Things Not Discussed By Emergency UN Sessions This Month: The Continuing Genocide In Sudan

By
Omri Ceren
– November 22, 2006Posted in: United Nations

A black mark on every two-bit politician and human rights activist who has ever sworn Never Again:

When the fighters came, the mothers of Jebel Maun could not protect their children. Screaming toddlers were ripped from their grasp and shot; older children who tried to save their brothers and sisters were hunted down. “Four children escaped in a group and ran under a tree for protection. An attacker came and shot at them, killing one of the children,” said a witness in an account to United Nations staff. Another group, aged five, seven and nine, tried to run away. The five-year-old fell down and was shot dead. Another boy stopped and told the attacker: “You killed this child. Please let me go.” It was no use. He too was killed, one of more than 20 children who died that day. Local people in the Darfur region of Sudan put the number of dead in the attack earlier this month at 63, mostly old men and children. The African Union, which has a peacekeeping force in Darfur, said 92 people died in the eight villages attacked.

In the last couple of years, Sudan has been a member in good standing on the UN’s human rights watchdog. This is despite the Sudanese government’s – and let’s not be coy and pretend otherwise – undeniable complicity in the Darfur genocide. Their willful complicity qua footdragging in the Darfur genocide certainly has nothing to do with:

(1) Chinese arms interests
(2) Russian concern about access to oil
(3) The way that many theocracies in the UN are theocratic in more or less the same way that the Sudanese government is

The UN spent the last two weeks looking for new ways to condemn Israel. But they’re not obsessed about the Jewish State or anything like that. Their focus is best explained as a rational calculation on where the world’s worst human rights atrocities are taking place.

Previously: If Anti-Zionism Isn’t Supposed to Be Anti-Semitism, Someone Should Probably Tell the Anti-Zionists, OneJerusalem.org Conference Call: Yehudit Barsky on Salah Choudhury, Hey UN, Shove It

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