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The killing fields

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I disagree with many things in this article . I do not believe that the problem in Darfur is money or more aid workers. Having 14,000 aid workers is impressive; the question is what we are doing with them.

What is horrifying for me is that for more than two years we are busy in diplomatic games instead of stopping the killing. The UN that was established to prevent wars and genocide was able to achieve exactly nothing:

I first spoke to the U.N. Security Council on Darfur two years ago, calling it ethnic cleansing of the worst kind. Today, I could simply hit the rewind button on much of that earlier briefing. The world’s largest aid effort now hangs in the balance, unsustainable under present conditions. If we are to avoid an imminent, massive loss of life, we need immediate action — from the government of Sudan, the rebels, U.N. Security Council members and donor governments.

The carnage in Darfur is escalating, spilling over into Chad. Another 200,000 people have fled for their lives in the last four months alone. More than two million people are displaced. Marauding, government-backed militias prowl the countryside on a scorched-earth campaign of terror, systematically destroying lives and livelihoods with impunity. Rebel attacks continue against civilians as well as humanitarian operations.

While the delegation in the UN busy with diplomatic games and bureaucracy people are dying.  One has to wonder, if the UN cannot stop the genocide in Darfur – or anywhere else for that matter, why do we need this organization?

 

Written by Rogel

May 4th, 2006 at 7:29 am

Posted in Darfur, The UN


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