I have some questions and statements that I’d like to address to the panelists
To the media:
There has been a lot of talk recently about China being “the enabler of genocide” due to their support of the Khartoum government. Why hasn’t there been talk or focus about who the enablers of the rebels are? The rebels receive support from certain groups whether directly or indirectly. Shouldn’t those groups be scrutinized too for playing an enabling role in the conflict and dragging it further?
To intervention supporters:
The goal of intervention supporters is to help ease Darfur’s pain. Do pro-interventionists truly believe that intervention is going to make things better? Jihad is inevitable. That certainly ought to make the war messier and more violent. What will UN troops do then?
To the Sudanese Ambassador to the UN:
The Darfur conflict generally hasn’t been portrayed accurately in the Western media. However on the other hand, don’t you believe the way the conflict is being downlplayed by the Sudanese government shows a lack of respect for Sudanese lives especially when statements like “only 9,000 have died” are stated openly?
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UN Peacekeepers have always been ineffective at best as in Lebanon, or horrendous.
Thank you for stating the obvious. And remeber that’s without al-Qaeda or any jihadists actually being involved.
As usual, I support reinforcing the AU and pressuring both sides to reach a power and wealth sharing agreement.
Should a UN force be accepted by Khartoum, it will only be under Chapter 6 of the UN charter. This will make it purely backup for the Sudanese military, and thus useless.
Should the matter be forced on Sudan under Chapter 7, the UN force will draw in the jihadis.
Either way, total loss. And that’s before we even take the UN’s mismanagement and politicization into account.
The only positive role the UN can serve here is logistics support. Just barely.
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