So will the world and Europe take a tougher stance and help the Black Sudanese? Perhaps France will show it's true self and let the Arabs keep killing, raping, and mutilating the blacks.
-Rudey
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/09/in...a/09sudan.html
U.S. Urges Security Council to Take Tougher Stance on Sudan
By WARREN HOGE
Published: September 9, 2004
UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 8 - The United States circulated a draft Security Council resolution on Sudan on Wednesday threatening penalties on its oil industry, expanding an African Union force monitoring violence in the Darfur region and calling for the United Nations to create an international commission to determine whether genocide had occurred.
Stuart W. Holliday, a deputy United States ambassador, said the measure would be formally introduced Thursday - the day that Secretary of State Colin L. Powell will testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Washington on a new State Department report accusing the Sudanese government of promoting systematic killing based on race and ethnicity. To get around the reluctance of some Security Council members to use the word "sanctions," the language of the resolution substitutes a reference to an article of the United Nations Charter that lays out punitive economic and diplomatic measures as the likely consequence of noncompliance with the demands of the resolution.
A similar resolution on Sudan with that formulation passed the Security Council on July 30 by a 13-to-0 vote, with China and Pakistan abstaining.
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