Obligatory UN Bashing Session On Dafur Situation

A United Nations report has accused Sudanese authorities of taking no action against militiamen and soldiers accused of rape in the Darfur region.
Women in refugee camps risk being raped if they go in search of food, the UN's human rights commissioner says.

International charity Medecins Sans Frontieres said in June that 500 women had been raped in four months alone.

Sudan's authorities have threatened and arrested victims to make them withdraw the charges, the UN report says.

More than two million people have been forced from their homes and at least 180,000 have died during the Darfur conflict.

What does the UN do in the face of genocide, mass rapes, and mass displacement of hundreds of thousands of people?

They produce reports!

Lots of reports. With statistics. Those statistics are all that stand between the righteous and the damned.

Now, if the UN could get off its collective arse and produce a strongly worded statement, we might be getting somewhere.

Filed under gallows' humor

The UN continues to show itself useless in these failed states situations. And failed states are the incubators for terrorists. Just look at Somolia, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Syria, and Iran. Yes, I know that Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Iran are totalitarian regimes with strict control over what happens within their borders, but they are failed states nonetheless. These three in particular, have no problem with terrorists running free throughout the country, and even give safe harbor to terrorists.

Of course, I shouldn't expect much from the UN considering that many of the states that participate in the UN are really failed states as well, and it wouldn't serve their purposes to demand action on another failed state, because it could potentially mean them down the line. So they blithely stare ahead and care not about the genocide going on next door (literally).

But, if we shouldn't expect much from the UN, what is someone who truly believes in human rights to do? Human rights groups like AI are more interested in bashing the US than the Sudanese government or North Korea, whose governments have murdered and imprisoned millions over the past 50 years.

We need to convince the US government to step in and deal with these situations because the failure to do so can result in far greater consequences.