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UN Panel to Probe Genocide Claims in Darfur
2004-10-08
EFL:
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has set up a commission of inquiry to investigate and determine whether genocide has been committed in Sudan's strife-torn western region of Darfur.
That'll show them, thanks Kofi.
He appointed an Italian judge to lead the probe. The five-member commission, which was formed on Thursday, will also investigate reports of violations of international humanitarian law and human rights in Darfur, where militias locally known as the Janjawid stand accused of killing and raping thousands of villagers since February 2003, when rebel groups took up arms against the Sudanese government.Annan's decision to set up the commission of inquiry followed the Council's request that he do so in a resolution adopted last month on the humanitarian and security crises engulfing Darfur, a vast and impoverished region.

Antonio Cassese of Italy, the first President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), will be the commission's chairman. Professor Cassese has taught international law in Italy and the United Kingdom and also served on human rights committees for the Council of Europe. The other members are Diego Garcia-Sayän of Peru, Mohammed Fayek of Egypt, Hina Jilani of Pakistan and Thérese Striggner Scott of Ghana. Dumisa Ntsebeza of South Africa will act as executive director, heading the technical team that supports the commission. Garcia-Sayän, previously Foreign Affairs and Justice Minister of Peru, a legal professor for nearly 20 years and a UN negotiator during the Guatemalan peace talks in the early 1990s. Fayek is Secretary-General of the Arab Organization for Human Rights, a non-governmental organisation, and has served as both a minister and as a presidential adviser during his time in the Egyptian parliament.
A truely un-biased panel member.
Jilani has been the Secretary-General's Special Representative on Human Rights Defenders since August 2000. She has a long record as a human-rights lawyer and activist in Pakistan and started the country's first firm of female attorneys in 1980. Striggner Scott, currently chair of Ghana's Law Reform Commission, has worked as a High Court judge in Ghana and Zimbabwe and has also been an ambassador for her country during a long diplomatic career.
Kofi gave them three months to report back, wonder if anyone will still be alive by then.
Posted by:Steve

#9  I'd like the United States to supplement the committee with about six AC-130's, a dozen Predator drones, a batallion of Kurds and 50 parents from Belsan. Then that committee might actually DO something.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2004-10-08 7:50:51 PM  

#8  I figure they will take at least 6,000 lives six weeks to establish the lunch menu for the 1st week of 'study'.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2004-10-08 7:24:51 PM  

#7  Unbelievable.

Let's form a committee. Figure out who sits where, get the catering setup, and work out the subcoms to figure out what the true definition of genocide is, understanding that many cultures may see it as many different things.

Then a report will be issued. Genocide will be tightly defined, probably as meaning no one's left alive. Darfur won't fit the definition, so let's all just go back to lunch.

Classic UN. Absolutely classic. This is who Kerry trusts with our National Security.

Posted by: RMcLeod   2004-10-08 7:02:42 PM  

#6  Yeah, from looking at the members of the panel, I'll try not to get my hopes up too, too high.
That euphoria can kill ya.
Posted by: tu3031   2004-10-08 4:39:33 PM  

#5  hmmm. quacking. hehehehe.
Posted by: Brutus   2004-10-08 3:32:59 PM  

#4  Oooh. I'll bet that the Janjaweed is quacking
in their boots. Reality: after many months
of dickering about how to word their conclusion, they'll state that there wasn't enough evidence.

Being that they'll be nobody left alive to disagree, they can proceed to discuss how to condemn the Zionist entity for not giving the Paleostinians enough jobs.
Posted by: Brutus   2004-10-08 3:32:12 PM  

#3  NU (Nations Unies)= Necromancers United.
Posted by: jules 187   2004-10-08 10:41:36 AM  

#2  Yep. No choice but to understand that through their discussion and inquiries and visits inaction, another 30,000 dead is their goal.
Posted by: jules 187   2004-10-08 10:35:40 AM  

#1  In 3 months another 30,000 furs will be dead.
Posted by: ed   2004-10-08 10:29:06 AM  

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