Or should this be B is for Black Helicopters?
Anyways, we need to do something about Sudan and we need to do it quickly. And the real answer to prevent and fix the Sudans/Rwandas/fill in the ridiculous numbers of genocides perpetrated by humans against humans in every continent over the centuries, etc. of this world is to have a real world government. No borders here ; the concept of super powers and nation states are obsolete and need to be re-thought (and no, I don't have the answer).
Finally, the reality of today's UN is a joke. We need a UN, just not the UN we have today. What we need is a UN that is non corrupt and representative of the entire world and not caught up in red tape. A tall order to fill!
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http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/jim/2004/06/05#a660
If ever you, or any other blogger, is lost for words on what to say about the Sudan - and can blog pictures - take a look at this photo half way down the page of BBC news report at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3790559.stm
Look at the face and eyes of the mother of nine-month-old Adam who says that she walked without food for 10 days to reach a camp...
And you will see why one feels compelled to raise awareness about the people of Darfur.
I have book marked your blog. And will visit again soon.
Regards from Ingrid at http://meandophelia.blogspot.com
PS It was a 15 minute ordeal to register and leave this comment!
i was lucky enough to meet Jim Moore at BloggerCon last october which is one of the reasons I posted this link to his site.
Thanks for the links.
Now I need to convert my words into actions somehow!
Article 2
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
At what point does non-compliance, by the High Contracting Parties to the Convention, with the prevention provision within Article 1 constitute a de facto denunciation of the Convention?
Article 1
The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace, or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish.
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