That UN hasn't had a large contingent there already just tells you how utterly useless the UN is. I believe there's more chance of Santa Claus showing up and doing good than the UN. There are far too many on the UN who seem to believe that killing people is a genuine by-product of governing people.
Again, the UN is not a government or a country, it depend on the sovereign country that are members to the UN, mostly the security council, they should be held responsible first, then the UN as an institution. (Dallaire's words). UN have to wait till those country commit troops, they don't have a UN army.
UN have a proposition and a mission ready for Darfur, it's only a matter of time before it happens, it's in our responsability/duty (there's a resolution for this at the UN, Canada signed it) to protect civillians against their governments if the said government is repeatdly violating human rights, and further in the Darfur case, commiting a genocide. We MUST act in Darfur, asap. I hope Canada will commit a lot of troops in this mission.
"L'homme est né libre, et partout il est dans les fers"
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Too bad the Canadian Prime Minister remain mostly silent on this issue, i don't know what is Canada stance on this genocide currently happening. At least on this one, USA foreign policies are way ahead of the Canadian's one...
edit: ... and i salute the fact that George Bush talk about it, as a genocide, in his UN speech.
"L'homme est né libre, et partout il est dans les fers"
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Again, the UN is not a government or a country, it depend on the sovereign country that are members to the UN, mostly the security council, they should be held responsible first, then the UN as an institution. (Dallaire's words). UN have to wait till those country commit troops, they don't have a UN army.
UN have a proposition and a mission ready for Darfur, it's only a matter of time before it happens, it's in our responsability/duty (there's a resolution for this at the UN, Canada signed it) to protect civillians against their governments if the said government is repeatdly violating human rights, and further in the Darfur case, commiting a genocide. We MUST act in Darfur, asap. I hope Canada will commit a lot of troops in this mission.
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
edit: ... and i salute the fact that George Bush talk about it, as a genocide, in his UN speech.
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060924/pl_nm/sudan_us_dc