United Nations, Sudan and United States
Bad news / Good news
From Charles at
Little Green Footballs comes the information that Sudan was voted into the 53-nation U.N. Human Rights Commission in an uncontested election.
Charles links to an article in
Yahoo/Reuters:
The Good news is that the United States delegate to this council had the stones to get up and walk out of the meeting.
bq. Sichan Siv, the U.S. delegate to the council, accused Sudan of having no right to sit on the rights commission because of ethnic cleansing in Darfur where the government is accused of backing Arab militia in pillaging black Africa villages, raping and killing.
bq. "The United States will not participate in this absurdity," Siv said. "Our delegation will absent itself from the meeting rather than lend support to Sudan's candidacy," he said before briefly walking out of council chambers.
Arab militia? But they are the religion of peace aren't they?
Posted by DaveH at May 4, 2004 10:56 AM