Just when you thought they couldn't sink any lower: UN 'human rights council' to appoint Bashir
Just when you thought they couldn't possible sink any lower, the United Nations 'human rights council' is about to grant a seat to the genocidal Sudanese government, which continues to be led by indicted war criminal Omar al-Bashir.The election of a Sudanese warlord accused of genocide to the United Nations Human Rights Council is now virtually guaranteed, since he has the full backing of the world body’s African delegation.The United States has also condemned al-Bashir's election to the council, but don't expect the Obama administration to actually follow through on that by cutting funding or withdrawing from (or threatening to withdraw from) the Council.
The International Criminal Court has issued a warrant for Omar Al-Bashir — its first ever for a sitting head of state — for crimes against humanity he allegedly committed in Darfur. Yet, his regime is set to take its place on the panel, in the latest bizarre appointment to make a mockery of the UN’s human rights credibility, according to critics.
It’s like putting “Jack the Ripper in charge of a women’s shelter,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch.
Neuer’s Geneva-based group is calling on UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay to denounce election of the war-torn North African nation to the 47-member body. Sudan is not technically on the panel, but its election is a certainty because only five African nations are vying for the continent’s five seats.
What could go wrong?
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Labels: Omar al-Bashir, Sudan, United Nations Human Rights Council
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 7:27 PM
6 Comments:
I view this development as a good thing. Anything which subverts the authority and moral legitimacy of any part of the U.N. is a Good Thing.
Remember that the former US Air Force general, who has been at the Kenyan(?) embassy with an illegal communications station set up in a batheroom. I don't have time to find his name again... And in that guy's wiki bio, it says he thinks Bashir is all good. Is that Obama's point guy in getting all these bizarre things done?
Here he is.. Scott Gration. Where is he now? And what is he doing?
I don't see a problem. This is how the UN says it views human rights, in its own words. When Arabs commit mass murder that in fact IS an expression of THEIR human rights. Those are the words the UN uses.
Link for Gration:
Scathing internal report prompted Gration resignation
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/06/29/scathing_internal_reported_prompted_gration_resignation_0
United Nutcases.
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