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Interesting Questions about Darfur
excepted from Fridayâs State Department Press Briefing. In this case the questions were much better and more concise than anything that Boucherâs stand-in said. The questioner was intelligent and logical - Iâm betting that the questioner was not an employee of NPR.QUESTION: -- the Secretary mentioned the possibility of declaring the situation there to be a matter of genocide. Can you advance that at all?
QUESTION: Well, wouldnât a designation of genocide trigger certain actions that would have to be taken by this government?
QUESTION: But just one last point on that. So if the legal distinctions that would trigger some things, would trigger some things, and youâre saying that classifications seem hollow, why donât you just do those things right now?
QUESTION: When you say itâs under active consideration to put sanctions on individuals, what is it that youâre weighing up?
QUESTION: But you are always saying that itâs the government thatâs backing them --
QUESTION: -- and the militia thatâs responsible --
QUESTION: -- so the leader of the government, arenât they responsible? Where is the legal technicality that stops your identifying?
QUESTION: But youâve been making the case all the time that the governmentâs responsible for the militias.
QUESTION: Is all of this affecting the big plans to hold the White House ceremony to which the leaders in Khartoum and the leaders of the SPLA would be invited to celebrate the signing of agreements leading to peace between the north and the south?
QUESTION: The same said editorial talks about certain countries in the UN Security Council that are protecting Sudanâs interests and basically blocking stronger action there. Do you agree with that, that there are (inaudible)?
Posted by: Super Hose 2004-06-19 |
