Sudan blocks UN rights team from entering Darfur

[struggle4progress]

UN secretary general blames Khartoum for failing to give 14-member mission visas
Last Updated: Friday, February 16, 2007 | 12:11 AM ET
The Associated Press

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 ...

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/02/15/un-darfur.html

[Geezus]

1. Maybe the UN should give some funding to the rebels in Darfur

until Omar lets the UN members in. That'll put the pressure on him.

[pampango]

2. Agree to admit UN mission, renege, continue genocide.

Agree to a cease fire,renege, continue genocide. Rinse and repeat.

On a per capita basis this is much worse than the civilian slaughter in Iraq. Since we did not have a direct hand in causing it and sustaining it, though, no one seems to care. Bush is guilty of calling it a genocide and doing nothing about it. Others are guilty of not calling it a genocide and doing nothing about it.

[Doondoo]

4. Don't forget...MONEY TRUMPS PEACE!

We're too busy chasing the money to worry about peace in some poor shithole.

[pampango]

5. You're right. Unfortunately, we are apparently not the only ones

too busy with other things to deal with genocide.

[ohio2007]

10. China Invests Heavily In Sudan's Oil Industry

nothing to see here.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21143-2004Dec22.html

Like other African nations where local populations want a slice of the oil revenue,
what happens?
China says "no". Where are the reports on this from our own MSM ?

<crickets>

[ohio2007]

9. there is a "YEN" to keep "business as usual"

China needs to deal with stable African govt's and any interruption in their oil supply far outweighs any anti-genocidal peace deals.

the money trump peace quote was about Euro dollars flowing into Iran but the shoe fits in China's foreign policy.

<crickets>

[Amused Musings]

6. I wonder what the US could do

We cant send in the military and I dont think anyone in NATO is willing to open up another battle front (the other one being Afghanistan). China and Russia are not very agreeable and any resolution with sharp teeth would probably get a veto.

Maybe boycott the Beijing Olympics? It would be a stunning rebuke to China who are very desperate to show off in that event.

[ohio2007]

12. What US president will order a boycott of China ?

WOuld it make a difference in which party held the oval office in forming public opinion for or against such a move?

[applegrove]

3. I hope Omar al-Bashir is on that secret ICC list of genociders.

[ohio2007]

7. He is a "president" in title only

He is a top notch tin pot dictator that the MSM seems to be willing to overlook.
Why is that again?

[pampango]

8. Do you have a theory? n/t

[ohio2007]

11. his actions speak louder than theories.

On a US scale, a hurrican Katrina policy would have been cut off all aid to the New Orleans region until the local population withered and died off....