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Annan favors UN peace keeping in Darfur, but against imposing colonial rule
2006-06-23
Oh, c'mon. Let the Belgians have the place for a hundred years or so.
UN Secretary-Generall Kofi Annan said Thursday that a UN peace keeping force will be needed for Darfur to help the parties implement the peace agreement and help provide security for the internally displaced. He added that though agreement by the Sudanese government has not been reached yet on a UN force but the talks continue and expressed hope that the Sudanese government will accept a UN peace keeping force.

"No one and least of all the UN is interested in imposing anything like a colonial rule on one of its member states, of course this was one of the fears Sudanese President Bashir used in rejecting a UN presence," he added. The African Union Force (AUF), he added, must be strengthened on the ground and that it would transition from an AUF to a UN force while retaining some of the African Union forces. . He added that the international community must exert pressure on the parties who have signed the agreement to honor and implement it in good faith and continue pressure on the rebels and parties outside the agreement to join it, and really press them to honor it in good faith.
Posted by:Fred

#10  Fred,

Read King Leopold's Ghost, by Adam Hochschild.
ISBN 0618001905.
Posted by: Eric Jablow   2006-06-23 22:20  

#9  SPoD says it straight. Disgrace!
Posted by: Captain America   2006-06-23 20:16  

#8  Oh wow, the UN can spend another 3.5Billion dollars to have a bunch of toy soldiers stand around with their thumbs up their butts while the slaughter and the rapes continue.

The freaking UN is a DISGRACE. Kofi should be flogged within an inch of his life, ridden out of town on a rail and have his Starbucks card revoked.

Morons, freaking morons. They could have or should have solved this crap ages ago. I mean you could drop the UN's FILES on Darfur from 25,000 feet and have one hell of a kinetic weapon.

Lets meet for lunch and exchange memos again and then we can meet in some toney resort and have a conference and hold a press conference....what about Davos, I need to work on my tan.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2006-06-23 19:53  

#7  Luv 'ya Bzerker, but Liberia was a Northern thingy.
Posted by: 6   2006-06-23 17:55  

#6  Plus, there is a strong movement in Liberia to force us to take them over for a few decades so we can rebuild the country and their civil society. Posted by: Shieldwolf 2006-06-23 16:24

Slave states in North America, increasingly interested in getting rid of their free African-American populations, encouraged the formation of colonization "civil" societies. These groups organized themselves independently of the ACS and founded their own colonies in Liberia for transplanting free African-Americans. Some of the "volunteers" were emancipated only if they agreed to emigrate. The Maryland State Colonization Society established its colony in Cape Palmas, Liberia around 1827. The Brits, the French, and the US have all at one time or another attempted to assist Libera. Not much success has been realized by anyone in nearly 180 years. The word "quagmire" must surely have been invented to describe regions such as this.
Posted by: Besoeker   2006-06-23 16:47  

#5  Just remember, that when Bush the Elder first took us into Somalia, there was a vote by the largest collection of tribal elders for the US to be given a 50 year UN mandate to run Somalia. That is right, they want to be our colony for 50 years. We said no thanks, and look what they have now. Plus, there is a strong movement in Liberia to force us to take them over for a few decades so we can rebuild the country and their civil society.
Posted by: Shieldwolf   2006-06-23 16:24  

#4  Annan favors UN peace keeping in Darfur, but against imposing colonial rule

.... might lead to the establishment of a civilized society. Who could abide that in phoeching Africa?
Posted by: Besoeker   2006-06-23 13:29  

#3  Not if the Belgians were involved, bigjim. These are people who regularly murder meat inspectors so they can keep on feeding their veal calves hormones to make the meat more tender.
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-06-23 12:54  

#2  The quality of life would no doubt go up immeasurably if it were under colonial rule.
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2006-06-23 10:17  

#1  ANYONE but the Belgians.
Posted by: Perfesser   2006-06-23 09:24  

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