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Busy Doing Nothing.(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)(EDITORIALS)(Editorial)
Darfur: A United Kingdom report puts the death toll at 300,000 in Sudan's war-ravaged province. What is the United Nations' response to this gruesome slaughter? Send in the lawyers.
To be fair, it needs to be noted that the Security Council has passed not one but three resolutions regarding the Sudanese situation over the past couple of weeks.
It has voted to send 10,000 peacekeepers. Unfortunately, these are headed not to the Darfur killing fields but the site of an unrelated (and recently ended) conflict in Sudan's south.
It also has voted to tighten sanctions against some individuals in Sudan. But it stopped short of any serious action against the government, such as an oil embargo. China, a big buyer of Sudan's oil, saw to that.
To cap things off, the council voted Thursday to refer Sudanese war-crime cases to the International Criminal Court.
At latest report, two dozen ICC investigators were due to fly to Sudan to start building their case. We can only imagine what terror now runs through the hearts of the janjaweed, the Arab militiamen who have been imposing a reign of terror (with the government's blessing) on the black inhabitants of the Darfur region. Surely they'll surrender rather than face the soft power of functionaries dispatched from The Hague, Netherlands.
So when can the people of Darfur expect some real help? Not until the facts on the ground change -- and the Security Council has done nothing to change them.
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