Compare and Contrast
Seriously, this whole "play along and pretend the UN has legitimacy" thing is just getting silly:
Sudan won re-election to the United Nations' main human rights watchdog on Tuesday.
Silly in that "not even close to funny" kind of way:
Nearly a million people have had to leave their homes in Darfur, a region in western Sudan. The refugees tell of attacks by armed horsemen, the janjaweed, who are destroying villages and killing and raping the residents. The grain silos are looted, the fields are torched and there are tales of mass executions... Human rights groups claim the Arab-dominated government is supporting Arab militias, with tactics that include bombing and helicopter reconnaissance. Human Rights Watch, a New York-based non-profit, labeled it a strategy of "ethnic-based murder, rape and forcible displacement of civilians in Darfur."...
The United States has moved this direction and should pick up its efforts. European nations, however, need to step forward. So far, they've held back, reluctant to disrupt the peace negotiations over the civil war.
As a reminder, this is the Commission that the United States was voted off of. Lesson for today: if you condemn genocide, you get thrown off the Human Rights Commission. If you commit genocide, you get a plush seat and a platform to launch hypocritical accusations.
Sudan won re-election to the United Nations' main human rights watchdog on Tuesday.
Silly in that "not even close to funny" kind of way:
Nearly a million people have had to leave their homes in Darfur, a region in western Sudan. The refugees tell of attacks by armed horsemen, the janjaweed, who are destroying villages and killing and raping the residents. The grain silos are looted, the fields are torched and there are tales of mass executions... Human rights groups claim the Arab-dominated government is supporting Arab militias, with tactics that include bombing and helicopter reconnaissance. Human Rights Watch, a New York-based non-profit, labeled it a strategy of "ethnic-based murder, rape and forcible displacement of civilians in Darfur."...
The United States has moved this direction and should pick up its efforts. European nations, however, need to step forward. So far, they've held back, reluctant to disrupt the peace negotiations over the civil war.
As a reminder, this is the Commission that the United States was voted off of. Lesson for today: if you condemn genocide, you get thrown off the Human Rights Commission. If you commit genocide, you get a plush seat and a platform to launch hypocritical accusations.
