UN urged to intervene in Sudan

[dArKeR]

Southern Sudanese exiles demonstrated here on Wednesday, urging the UN Security Council to intervene and revive talks aimed at ending a 20-year civil war in Africa's largest nation.

Around 100 protesters gathered outside UN offices here and the embassies of countries involved in the peace process for Sudan, brandishing banners urging the UN Security Council to pass a resolution that would automatically draw the international community into peace efforts should current efforts to broker peace collapse completely.

"We are tired of war. We are tired of being in exile. Sudan peace process should be embodied in the UN Security Council resolution," read some of the banners carried by the demonstrators.

The protesters accused Khartoum of delaying an agreement in order to exploit the rich oil resources in the south...

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[papau]

1. Interesting - seems US pushes Islamic law over Xtians so as to stop peace

and allow resource exploitation to go on.

So we prevent Sudan problem from going to the Security Council.

The one constant of Bush policy is to exploit resources - the religion you back is the one that gets the result you want in the given country.

I wonder if the US Media will ever tell US Christains that Bush is dumping on Sudan's Christains in favor of Islamic Law "problems" that prevent peace - with the result that resource exploitation of Christain areas continues by the Islamist Government of Sudan that controlls the North Sudan but exploits the South Sudan's riches.

Nah - US Media has that rule - protect Bush from any news that might hurt politically. Can we talk Arnold? now.

[Zuni]

3. not true at all

The US government has sanctions against the Government of Sudan, and Bush was actually one of the key players in getting both sides to peace talks in Kenya last year.
The US buys no oil from the Sudan
It is good to be anti-Bush, but at least stick to the facts.

[wtmusic]

2. A friend of mine directed

a documentary called 'Footsteps of Peace' about an American Christian missionary and a Sudanese Muslim religious leader joining forces to bring peace to Sudan. Great story. They presented it to the president of Sudan (who was very receptive) and it was presented on Sudanese national television two weeks in a row.

What chafes me about all this 'the world is better without Saddam' crap is that 2 million people have been killed in the Sudanese civil war over ten years. Hypocrisy and misplaced priorities.