The EU knows abuse when it sees it

[Gonz]

Again, I'm left speechless

By Marcin Grajewski
BRUSSELS, Belgium (Reuters) - The European Union Monday said it had found no evidence of genocide in the Sudanese region of Darfur despite widespread killings, and there were few indications of government efforts to protect civilians.

The conclusion of a fact-finding mission put the EU at odds with the U.S. Congress, which has leveled accusations of genocide at Sudan over a campaign of looting and burning by Arab militiamen against African village farmers.

"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," he told reporters.

"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.

So, according to the EU fact finders, a widespread, silent and slow, killing and village burning on a fairly large scale while there are considerable doubts as to the willingness of Sudan's government to assume its duty to protect its civilian population against attacks is not genocide.

Do these guys know Hans Blix?

Reuters

 

[Leslie]

Re: The EU knows abuse when it see's it

pssst...it's sees (without the apostrophe)

*ducks and runs away*

 

[Gonz]

Re: The EU knows abuse when it see's it

OK, fixed...force of habit...now about the story?

 

[ResearchMonkey]

Re: The EU knows abuse when it see's it

pssst...it's sees (without the apostrophe)

personally the word looks weird like that, it needs some 'bling-bling' on it. I like the 'atrophe'.

as for the story, sure out of site of mind. If we ignore it it will pass eventually.

Then they can blame the US becuase we saw somethin' they didn't and we should have done something --or-- something will go wrong then they can blame us for messing it all up.

THey will whine about what ever happens, but if they are not involved they are free of criticizzzmzzz'z'z'z

 

[MrBishop]

I think that they don't like the terminology because Genocide is related to very large-scale killings, usually in a short period of time, and Genocide has a lot of emotional weight to it.

Much like the term Pandemic which describes something that crosses the globe is sometimes not applied to AIDS. It's often referred to as the AIDS epidemic...when it obviously is a world-wide issue.

Redtape bullshit and semantics. Spin-doctoring and shit-shoveling. The stuff of politics

Wether they label it genocide or not...it's still a lot of people dying and a lot of people being pushed out of an area.

 

[Gonz]

They're showing the uselessness of organizations like the UN. Instead of getting their hands dirty they expext the US to help & raise a fuss when we say we're busy. God forbid France actually has to put its troops in harms way when Americans are around.

This is precisley why GW went to Iraq sans the UN. They can't be trusted.

 

[Gato_Solo]

What we see here is an Islamic crusade. It's been going on in sub-saharan Africa for close to 40 years now. Most of the violence has been between Islamic-backed governments/militias against anything that is not Islamic. Now, I'm ready for the apologists and nay-sayers who will let their emotions run amock in here.