Bush gives Sudan's president `last chance' to end violence in Darfur

[babylonsister]

Why is the dim one threatening anyone?


http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/nation/17098623.htm

Bush gives Sudan's president `last chance' to end violence in Darfur
By William Douglas
McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON - President Bush warned Sudan's president on Wednesday that he has one "last chance" to end the violence in Darfur before the United States imposes strict economic sanctions and considers "even sterner" options against his country.

Bush's warning, delivered in a speech at Washington's Holocaust Museum, came amid mixed signals from Sudan. Even as President Omar Hassan al Bashir's government announced that it will allow a large United Nations force to supplement African Union peacekeepers in Darfur, Bush charged that it was simultaneously sneaking military arms and other equipment into the region in military aircraft painted to look like U.N. or African Union planes.

Bush didn't set a deadline but said he's deferring to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's diplomatic efforts to press Bashir to keep his commitments.

"President Bashir should take the last chance by responding to the secretary-general's efforts and to meet the just demands of the international community," Bush said.

As many as 450,000 people have died from violence, malnutrition and disease, and some 2.5 million people have been left homeless and living in camps, according to humanitarian aid groups. The civil conflict expanded in 2003 when Darfur's African tribal villagers armed themselves against the Arab-dominated government in Khartoum in a fight for greater political rights.

Bush has called the atrocities in Darfur genocide, but Washington and other world capitals have been unable to come up with a solution to the conflict and suffering.

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[AlienGirl]

1. IMO this is too little, too late.

Stopping a genocide in progress is one of the legitimate reasons I can see for a country to invade another country without UN consensus. To my mind, it has the same sort of urgency that seeing your neighbor beating up his toddler has.

Tucker

[crim son]

2. Well, the answer to genocide is clearly

trade and economic sanctions and maybe an attack by the big ol' U.S.A. My guess: the pretzel wants to make it looks like he cares, but we know better.

[MadMaddie]

3. Ah...another threat....wonder if he is going to say "Bring em on"!!

We see how that turned out...