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Posted: Jul 17, 2008 - 01:42 PM
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Joined: Jul 25, 2005
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Heres an email I got today, bout time
Dear David,
The ICC has charged Sudanese President Bashir with genocide.
Now the U.N. Security Council must finally take the effective, decisive action needed to end the genocide.
David, please send your message by July 31.
A lot has happened since I wrote to you last week.
On Monday the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued formal charges against Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir for genocide.
How Bashir will respond is unclear. His record suggests that he could take his vengeance out on Darfuris.
If that danger weren't enough, a BBC report this week revealed evidence suggesting that China, one of the Security Council's permanent five members, has been providing the weapons used to carry out the genocide.1
It's never been clearer that the U.N. Security Council needs a comprehensive plan for Darfur. And its leaders need the political will to implement it.
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The ICC prosecutor's charge against Bashir is the first time the court has made such a charge against a sitting head of state. The prosecutor spent years gathering evidence and found that Bashir and his government orchestrated a strategy of genocidal attacks.
And according to the prosecutor, when Bashir didn't kill with direct violence he "organized the destitution, insecurity, and harassment of the survivors. He did not need bullets. He used other weapons: rapes, hunger and fear. As efficient, but silent."
And all this happened under the nose of the U.N. Security Council. The Council has watched Bashir unleash a 5-year campaign of terror...without consequences. It hasn't sent enough peacekeepers. It hasn't provided enough equipment. And it hasn't held Bashir accountable as he defies one Security Council resolution after another.
It is time for the U.N. Security Council to finally follow through on its commitment to bring peace to Darfur.
Tell the Security Council it's time to keep its word and fulfill its moral obligation.
And after you sign the petition, click here to help us reach our goal of 50,000 messages by July 31 by telling your friends and family about our campaign.
Thank you for your help and your commitment to the people of Darfur.
Best regards,
Colleen Connors
Save Darfur Coalition |
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Posted: Jul 17, 2008 - 02:10 PM
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Joined: Jun 24, 2008
Posts: 47
Location: Carthage, NY
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That is so fucked up!
I fucking despise all our selfish, greedy and just plain evil world leaders.
Real nice, China.
But it is about fucking time that Bashir was charged. |
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Posted: Jul 17, 2008 - 07:03 PM
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ddevil
Joined: Apr 16, 2007
Posts: 1138
Location: Wales - The land of my fathers. My fathers can keep it.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7507641.stm
Looks like he isn't going to give up without a fight, though. The government have said they will "block the case".
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Ghazi Salaheddin said that if the ICC pursued the case it could jeopardise relations between Sudan and the UN.
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Posted: Jul 18, 2008 - 02:16 AM
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| pft the UN controls everything, so jeopardizing relations, I don't buy it. |
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Posted: Jul 18, 2008 - 05:21 AM
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Joined: Jan 31, 2008
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Location: PC=Padded Cell
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If the UN would cave in to that what are they there for, then? That would be the weakest move they could possibly come up with. Except for sending Bashir a gift basket with chocolate and weapons.
And China... I will not go there. In every possible sense. |
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