Sudan Genocide? Too Bad! Blame Danish Cartoon Jihad!

The government of Sudan has blocked Jan Egeland, the top U.N. emergency aid official, from visiting the western Darfur region this week, prompting Egeland to accuse Khartoum of trying to hide the dire conditions there. Story here . Jan Egeland told the BBC he thought the government did not want him to see the latest wave of "ethnic cleansing" against black Africans in South Darfur. What to do? Blame the toons!

Jamal Ibrahim, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, said the visit was merely postponed because it would have coincided with the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday. He also said in an interview with the BBC that it would not have been safe for Egeland, a Norwegian, to visit the country given the recent controversy over cartoons of the prophet published in a Danish newspaper.

Sudan has prevented the United Nations' top humanitarian official from visiting refugees from the troubled Darfur region, who have fled to Chad. But the United Nations said the trip had been planned in advance and that the decision by Sudanese authorities not to approve his flight appeared to be politically motivated. [ya think?- Atlas] 

Some 2m people have fled their homes in Darfur here.

"We are being attacked and our humanitarian services disrupted all the time," he told AFP news agency.

In early 2004 he labelled Darfur the world's worst humanitarian crisis.

Millions of people had fled their homes as militia rampaged through villages, burning, killing and raping.More here

The murdering Radical Islamic Sudanese government holds both the UN and the international community in contempt. And why not? The UN has stood by while millions have suffered terrible atrocities and NATO pussied out. It is up to the US again. Be in Washington on the 30th of April

More toon tales: Vologda newspaper editor goes on trial over Mohammed cartoons

UPDATE 4/5 - US slams Sudan for barring UN official from Darfur

UPDATE 4/5 - Their blood lust has been sufficiently slaked: Sudan Says UN Official Can Visit Darfur

Comments

[Jeremiah]

What's the future Oscar contender Hollywood production going to be called? "Hotel Darfur"? I'm sure some execs are pitching this story already....

[someonehelpher]

Not a word about that piece of shit DeLay, eh? Typical.

[raz0r]

*It is up to the US again.*

As if there was ever any doubt.

BTW, someonehelpher, spend some time around here. You'll see that Pamela calls the right on the carpet. She doesn't just save it for the left, they just usually earn it faster and more often. Especially with regards to areas like appeasement to radical factions like Iran, Sudan, etc.

[Filou]

someonehelper,
when you read about millions of africans fleeing their homes, and about militias killing, burning and raping, the only thing that comes to your mind is DeLay. i am sorry for you.

on another note, while the un has expressed its unhappiness at today's issue with egeland, it has tolerated for decades the unacceptable: the ethnic cleansing of blacks in sudan.

filou

[Indigo Red]

Can't come in because it's Muhammad's birthday?! Why not?

Prince Jahan (Taj Mahal builder) killed about 60,000 non-Muslims when his wife died as a tribute to her. Are the Muslims of Sudan killing non-mohammadans as a birthday gift to the prophet?

[chevalier de st george]

it is high time that China and RUSSIA STARTED TO LEND A HAND for goodness sake!
Every lefty wants America to go in so that they castigate them later for it.
Let the world's last remainig communist regime contribute for once in history. It would enhance their image a thousand fold.

[Jhn'1]

North Atlantic Treaty Organization is not the proper group to deal with this. Yet.
NATO desperately needs to be reworked to allow any nation with a multi-party democracy (the various single party kleptocracies with "presidents" fail this), a reasonably independant judiciary (France flunks here), a reasonable military force (with the willingness and ability to use it, so Canada may lose out here, depending on the thresholds)
Multi chamber, with stronger economics and military in higher chambers.
Replace the UN.
Oh, and "bills" passed may originate in any chamber and are passed upwards only.
Good starting point for the discussion.