Monday, August 06, 2007

Stamp of Approval

The Sudanese government has achieved its goal of killing and evicting Darfurians enough to finally let the UN in to Darfur:

The government believes it has already won. Most of the non-Arab Darfur tribes (over two million people) have been driven into UN administered refugee camps, and Arab tribes are being brought in to take over the abandoned villages and lands. The government believes the peacekeepers will not be able to remove the new Arab migrants, so that the black Sudanese refugees can get their land back. The government will just leave the black tribesmen in the refugee camps, to be paid for by the UN.

That's the problem with the international community. After years of talk and doing nothing to stop the Darfur slaughter and ethnic cleansing, the international body is only allowed to act after it is pointless.

And worse, the UN action will in fact support the Sudanese government. Documents will be signed. Troops will be deployed. A Nobel Peace Prize or two will be handed out. And it will ratify the status quo in which Khartoum won and the black Sudanese lost.

Ah yes, the sainted will of the international community.

UPDATE: I underestimated the UN. Since in the past I've noted that the UN dithers until it acts and actually makes things worse, I don't know why I assumed the UN would limit itself to ratifying one crime. The murdering militias may just turn to the south:

And the final danger of any successfully-negotiated "peace" between Khartoum and the Darfur factions is that it will free up resources and let them combine forces to turn on the defenceless Christians and Animists of Sudan's south.


One action, two failures! The UN really is that good.