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EU sees no evil, hears no evil genocide in Darfur
Mon 9 August, 2004 19:10
By Marcin Grajewski
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union has said it has found no evidence of genocide in the Sudanese region of Darfur, although killing is widespread, with little evidence of government efforts to protect civilians.
genocide n : systematic killing of a racial or cultural group
Europe is rapidly losing the least whiff of credibility in their rush to kiss Islamist @ss. You almost have to think that their current mode of thinking would've labeled Auschwitz as a "Spa resort, complete with showers."
The conclusion of a fact-finding mission put the EU at odds with the U.S. Congress, which has levelled accusations of genocide at Sudan over a campaign of looting and burning by Arab militiamen against African village farmers. Sudan, which insists the Janjaweed militiamen are outlaws and denies rebel charges of arming them, said it expected to meet a U.N. deadline expiring in three weeks for it to improve security and human rights in Darfur or face sanctions. Pieter Feith, who visited Sudan on behalf of EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, showed little optimism, even as he declined to endorse the assessment of the U.S. Congress.
"Can't.Ever.Agree.With.America."
"We are not in the situation of genocide there...But it is clear there is widespread, silent and slow, killing going on, and village burning on a fairly large scale, but that has not the least semblance to genocide, no never!" he told reporters on Monday. "There are considerable doubts as to the willingness of Sudan's government to assume its duty to protect its civilian population against attacks," he said.
"But that's not genocide either, nope, nope!"
The International Criminal court defines genocide as the "systematic and planned extermination of a national, racial, religious or ethnic group". The United Nations says more than a million people have been driven from their homes by the conflict and many are threatened by hunger and disease.

SANCTIONS THREAT
It has threatened to consider sanctions unless Sudan proves it is disarming Arab militias and protecting civilians. "We have a shortage of time but we think we can do it, anything to avoid those terrible sanctions like they had in Iraq" Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail told reporters in Cairo, contradicting First Vice President Ali Osman Mohamed Taha, who said on Sunday that "logistical problems with killing all the infidels" made the deadline impractical. Sudan pledged in talks with the United Nations last week to set up safe areas called "graveyards" for uprooted villagers, to halt any work to disarm the Janjaweed and to stop offensive UN proclamations actions by its troops in civilian areas, all within years a month or less.

Chief U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard said in New York that Ismail and U.N. envoy Jan Pronk had signed letters to relay their agreement to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir -- but that the agreement had taken effect last week. Bashir told reporters his government was "fulfilling its role completely with regard to the slaughter protection of its civilians". Ismail rejected international estimates of the death toll resulting from the conflict, where two rebel groups took up arms against the government in early 2003.

He said government estimates did not exceed 5,000 dead, including 486 police, adding: "Those who say 30,000 and 50,000, we challenge them to bring their names, their families, their tribes, their graves."
"Please be so kind as to produce written records for all of this while we finish mopping up."
Ismail said he was pleased that the Arab League and the African Union had both said KILL THE INFIDELS! there was no ethnic cleansing or genocide in Darfur. He said the government was providing most of the humanitarian aid in Darfur -- around 50 percent of its needs.
All believers, please form a line to the right for bridge purchases and Florida real estate deals.
Posted by: Zenster 2004-08-09
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