PROUT Editor's note: One needs to ask the question: why has the UN Security Council backtracked, or reneged on its earlier commitment to save the starving, tortured, raped millions of refugees in Darfur? What are the deep politics behind this latest immoral move? It is clear proof to any moralist-minded person that the United Nations has become a useless entity. Most especially, the UN Security Council is simply a group of rich powerful men looking out for their own personal interests. They have no interest in alleviating the suffering of the masses. For this reason, the time is over for looking up to the United Nations for solutions to global or local problems. The time has come for people to create a new organization, a world government, which will have representatives elected by the people, and those representatives will work tirelessly for the welfare of the masses in every corner of the earth! This must now be our new agenda as a crucial step towards creating a new world!
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(Nairobi, November 19, 2004) - The U.N. Security Council has retreated
from its previous stance to hold the Sudanese government accountable
for the ongoing human rights abuses in Darfur, Human Rights Watch said
today. A new resolution was passed today by a unanimous vote of the
Security Council's 15 members.
While today’s resolution recalls prior Security Council resolutions
passed in July and September, it leaves out the explicit demand in those
resolutions for Khartoum to disarm and prosecute the government-backed
Janjaweed militias.
In addition, the new resolution omits language in the Resolutions 1556
and 1564 that specifically threatened "further measures," including the
possibility of sanctions. Instead, it includes a much milder warning to
"take appropriate action against any party failing to fulfill its
commitments."
“We fear that the Sudanese government will take this resolution as a
blank check to continue its atrocities against the civilian population in
Darfur," said Jemera Rone, Human Rights Watch's senior Sudan researcher.
Human Rights Watch called on the Security Council to monitor the
situation closely and follow through on its prior commitments to end
the massive human rights abuses in Darfur.
"Don't leave the people of Darfur unprotected," said Rone.
