Never Again: How Obscenely Disingenuous Those Fine Words Sound Today - Mia Farrow
What is required now and for future genocides, is the will of the international community to accept it's responsibility to protect civilians threatened by genocide, ethnic cleansing or crimes against humanity. A responsibility unanimously accepted by the UN in 2005 -words proving to be as hollow as 'never again' Genocide Sudanese-style is expensive. It requires bombers, attack helicopters and a steady flow of arms and ammunition. Some 70% of Chinese oil revenues -- which now top $2 billion per year, have been used to attack the non-Arab population of Darfur.
The vast majority of weaponry used to attack civilians across Darfur is of Chinese origin.
Never Again: How Obscenely Disingenuous Those Fine Words Sound Today
If Beijing elected to act rather than talk, there is plenty it could do.
China could use its influence to insist that the Janjaweed be disarmed.
China could demand that the regime call a halt to the on-going attacks and aerial bombardment of civilians.
China could demand that Khartoum cease to obstruct the deployment of peacekeepers.
China could refuse to sell weapons to Sudan.
China could threaten to suspend new oil deals with Sudan.
How can China host the Olympic games at home, and underwrite genocide in Sudan?We look at Rwanda and despair at our abysmal failure to act.When the history of this terrible episode in human destruction is written, will we have any less reason to despair? Our country, the United Nations and all the nations of the world failed the people of Rwanda, and we are failing the people of Darfur, collectively and individually, even as we have utterly failed our most essential selves.
As Elie Wiesel wrote in amazement...
"The victims [of the Holocaust] perished not only because of the killers, but also because of the apathy of the bystanders. What astonished us after the torment, after the tempest, was not that so many killers killed so many victims, but that so few cared about us at all."
The vast majority of weaponry used to attack civilians across Darfur is of Chinese origin.
Never Again: How Obscenely Disingenuous Those Fine Words Sound Today
If Beijing elected to act rather than talk, there is plenty it could do.
China could use its influence to insist that the Janjaweed be disarmed.
China could demand that the regime call a halt to the on-going attacks and aerial bombardment of civilians.
China could demand that Khartoum cease to obstruct the deployment of peacekeepers.
China could refuse to sell weapons to Sudan.
China could threaten to suspend new oil deals with Sudan.
How can China host the Olympic games at home, and underwrite genocide in Sudan?We look at Rwanda and despair at our abysmal failure to act.When the history of this terrible episode in human destruction is written, will we have any less reason to despair? Our country, the United Nations and all the nations of the world failed the people of Rwanda, and we are failing the people of Darfur, collectively and individually, even as we have utterly failed our most essential selves.
As Elie Wiesel wrote in amazement...
"The victims [of the Holocaust] perished not only because of the killers, but also because of the apathy of the bystanders. What astonished us after the torment, after the tempest, was not that so many killers killed so many victims, but that so few cared about us at all."
posted by temporal at 4/08/2008
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