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2/2/2005 8:27:00 PM
WASHINGTON, February 2 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – The United States pressed anew for imposing United Nations sanctions on Sudan, reiterating that Khartoum was committing “genocide” in troubled Darfur.
“The United States is now proposing to other council members a number of elements: an accountability tribunal, deployment of peacekeepers and the imposition of sanctions, which we believe up the ante and do move aggressively to try to stop those atrocities,” US State Department spokesman Richard Boucher was quoted as saying by Agence France-Presse (AFP) Tuesday, February 1.
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2/2/2005 8:29:00 PM
The United States is trying to act on the genocide taking place in Sudan yet is being blocked by countries like China who has considerable investment with Sudan's oil industry.
Looks like the US is going to have to do it alone again, as the world sits by and lets Sudan commit genocide.
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2/2/2005 8:30:00 PM
**edit** spoke too soon
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2/2/2005 9:40:00 PM
well...kudos to the yanks if that is what they are trying to do...too bad it has nothing to do with saving lives... just a handy side-effect.
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2/2/2005 11:32:00 PM
yes true. kudos for the US for this act of goodwill towards humanity.
and also, kudos for the US for continuously blocking other countries from passing resolutions that condemn israel for their treatment of the palestinians and for funding israel with 15 million dollars a day in mostly military aid.
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2/3/2005 12:31:00 AM
you know mythos you discredit yourselff when you make everything about Israel
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2/3/2005 12:39:00 AM
you're the one who discredits himself by always trying to defend israel while not finding anything wrong with what they do.
you're the one who discredits himself by showing the bigotry and racism towards arabs and muslims.
you're the one who discredits himself by wearing long white socks.
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2/3/2005 2:06:00 AM
I have to totally agree with mythos... those long white socks are ridiculous....
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2/3/2005 7:04:00 AM
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2/3/2005 5:31:00 PM
For someone who postures as a young Sigmund Freud you've got some serious issues
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2/3/2005 5:43:00 PM
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2/3/2005 6:01:00 PM
Does it really matter? The human race probably wont survive much longer....when you think about it. We still act and kill eachother like humans did back in the middle ages. What progress has been made? Sometimes I get so overloaded with hearing about genocide, mass killings, torture, and war. Do we really deserve a future?
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2/3/2005 6:06:00 PM
Interesting.....Your also forgetting something.
This was copied from the BBC News website.
UN rules out genocide in Darfur
A UN report has said Sudan's government and its militia systematically abused civilians in Darfur - but it stopped short of calling the violence genocide.
It said those responsible should be prosecuted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague.
Where genocide is found to have taken place, signatories to a UN convention are legally obliged to act to end it.
The report also said rebel forces in Sudan's western region had committed serious human rights violations.
More than 70,000 people have been killed and two million more forced to flee their homes in Darfur since February 2003.
Khartoum denies arming the pro-Arab Janjaweed militias and blames Darfur's rebel groups for starting the conflict.
'Genocidal intent'
The report was initiated in October by the UN Security Council which had asked Secretary General Kofi Annan to set up a commission to investigate alleged human rights violations in Darfur.
"The commission found that [Sudan's] government forces and militias conducted indiscriminate attacks," the report by the five-member commission said.
It said those included "killing of civilians, enforced disappearances, destruction of villages, rape and other forms of sexual violence, pillaging and forced displacement, throughout Darfur".
The commission concluded that the Sudanese government "has not pursued a policy of genocide", but added that the crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Darfur might be no less serious.
It said some individuals - including government officials - may have committed "acts with genocidal intent". However, it did not name names.
Genocide is defined as intent to destroy a group on national, ethnical, racial or religious grounds.
The commission also found evidence that rebel forces were responsible for serious human rights violations "which may amount to war crimes".
The commission recommended the situation in Darfur should be referred to the ICC, founded to try cases of genocide and war crimes.
However, the US, which has already said genocide took place in Darfur, would rather see a separate tribunal set up, reports the BBC's Susannah Price at the UN headquarters in New York.
Parts of the report were leaked in advance by the Sudanese government.
- End of quote from BBC News. Febru
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2/3/2005 9:56:00 PM
stop the jihad for a sec mythos. Do you see anything in the initial post that has anything to do with Israel? WTF does this have to do with Israel. Your like that John Goodman character in the Big Lebowski who turns everything into Vietnam. Someone could post a photo album and you'd turn it into a Israel rant.
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2/3/2005 10:01:00 PM
i think the point he was trying to make - which you clearly missed - was that anytime someone tries to congratulate the United States for a human rights 'win', the credibility of the United States remains in question due to their human rights 'losses' in the middle east.
So the original post had to do with the United States of Israel, which is in a sense related to Israel.
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DickSS
Promo Model (16767posts)
2/3/2005 11:18:00 PM
So the original post had to do with the United States of Israel, which is in a sense related to Israel.
the united states of israel?
is that the zog?
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2/3/2005 11:24:00 PM
I didn't mean to praise the Bush Admin there...
Despite their obvious credibility problem (as mythos pointed out), and despite the real reasons for the interest on the part of the American government having nothing to do with the protection of human rights, I don't think those being displaced in Darfur would object to their aid.
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DickSS
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2/3/2005 11:40:00 PM
I've heard about the zog... sounds scary...
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2/3/2005 11:48:00 PM
mythos isn't trying to contribute to the conversation, he's trying to bring it back around like Israel, because for him everything is Israel. And there's nothing else.
Well I've jihad enough of his pretense.
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2/3/2005 11:51:00 PM
You're not even Jewish. Get over it.
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DickSS
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2/3/2005 11:54:00 PM
z0g p0\/\//\/5
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