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UN passively abets African genocide.(Insider Report)
On April 7, declaring that "the international community cannot stand idle" in the face of state-sponsored mass murder, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan proposed an "action plan to prevent genocide, involving the whole United Nations system." Invoking the memory of the hundreds of thousands slaughtered in the 1994 Rwanda genocide, Annan promised to keep "all our peacekeeping forces under constant review, particularly with the threat of genocide in mind, and be ready to reinforce them promptly when the need arises."
That need is hardly hypothetical, as totalitarian regimes in Africa systematically slaughter--through armed assault, and politically induced famine--thousands of innocent people. In Sudan, militias deployed by the Islamist regime have "overseen and directly participated in massacres, summary execution of civilians, burning of towns and villages, and the forcible depopulation of wide swathes of land" inhabited by tribal minorities, reported Human Rights Watch on May ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, UN passively abets African genocide.(Insider Report)