I want you to pay very close attention to these paragraphs from the NYTimes.
The Khartoum government “has manifestly failed to protect the population of Darfur from large-scale international crimes and has itself orchestrated and participated in these crimes,” according to the 35-page report from the mission of the United Nations Human Rights Council. It added that antigovernment rebels were also to blame for abuses, including the rape and torture of civilians.
It urged the implementation of all resolutions from the Security Council and the African Union “including those relating to travel bans and the freezing of funds, assets, and economic resources of those who commit violations.”
Human rights advocates welcomed the unusually tough tone of the report and its recommendations, but they warned that steps were already under way to block its effect when the report comes up for adoption on Friday in Geneva.
The Human Rights Council has been widely criticized for being no more effective than the discredited Human Rights Commission it replaced this year, and whether it takes action on Darfur or not is being seen as a measure of whether it can start to build credibility during its formal session, the fourth it has held, that began Monday.
Understand that we neocons would argue for putting US troops there, pre-emptively. Right now, however we haven't updated the structure of the Pentagon and armed forces in order to handle this kind of situation righteously. I am hopeful that such reforms will take place in the mid term - within the next 10 years.
The United States of America has the ability, but not the political will, to end all genocide in our lifetimes. Understand the extent to which those who currently rally against the war in Iraq are on the side of letting tyrannical dogs run. We've seen them before.
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