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Saturday, September 8, 2012

Your UN at work - US out of the un and the un out of the US?


ACCUSED GENOCIDAL WARLORD NAMED TO HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL

U.N. elevation called 'callous, dangerous, and tragic'

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An African warlord once sought as an international criminal on genocide allegations will soon be contributing his judgments on human rights issues worldwide as a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council, a development that is sparking outrage in Congress.
Sudan, led by Omar al-Bashir, has been awarded a seat on the international tribunal starting in 2013, and U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., said it’s just gone too far.
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“Allowing this genocidal dictatorship, which has killed thousands of its citizens, to serve on such a body is beyond hypocrisy, it is callous, dangerous, and tragic,” she said in a statement issued as the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
“The U.N. has surrendered to despots and rogue regimes as it allows the likes of Iran’s Ahmadinejad, Venzuela’s Chavez, and now Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir to corrupt the system and use it to further their own oppressive and despotic schemes.”
She said, “It is beyond apparent that the U.N. is broken. It is time to stop this hostile takeover and implement real change. As the Obama administration has failed to act, I call on Congress and responsible nations to support true U.N. reform and stop supporting this corrupt system.”
She’s authored the United Nations Transparency, Accountability and Reform Act, which would require the U.N. to be funded by voluntary contributions from nations only, instead of assessments which the U.S. now funds.
The coming rise to power from Sudan’s al-Bashir on the Human Rights Council earned a featured spot in Judicial Watch’s Corruption Chronicles, where it outlines questionable national and international government actions.
“The famously corrupt United Nations has hit a new low, awarding a genocidal warlord indicted by an international court for crimes against humanity a seat on its laughable human rights council,” the commentary said. “The worst part is that this madness is funded by Americans to the tune of $7 billion plus a year. The American cash keeps pouring in even though the U.N. is [a] pillar of corruption, fraud and mismanagement. Its so-called human rights council is a huge joke with members that are famous for oppressing their citizens and, in many cases, committing atrocious human rights violations.
“Cuba, Iran and Venzuela are among the offenders.”
The organization said al-Bashir is “the last person on earth you would go to for anything related to human rights.”
He was charged by the International Criminal Court for war crimes in Darfur “and is responsible for killing thousands of his own citizens,” the report said. A Geneva-based human rights group described his coming ascent to the panel like putting “Jack the Ripper in charge of a women’s shelter.”
A Fox News report earlier this year reported that al-Bashir had been accused of “murdering, exterminating, raping, torturing and forcibly transferring” civilians in his own country.
According to the U.N., he’ll soon be expected to uphold “the highest standards in the promotion and protection of human rights.”
At that time, U.S. officials were outraged.
“Sudan, a consistent human rights violator, does not meet the council’s own standards for membership,” Kurtis Cooper, deputy spokesman at the time for the U.S. mission, said. “It would be inappropriate for Sudan to have a seat on the council while the Sudanese head of state is under International Criminal Court indictment for war crimes in Darfur and the government of Sudan continues to use violence to inflame tensions along its border with South Sudan.”
Several years earlier, Time magazine documented that al-Bashir came to power in 1989 when he toppled the prime minister in Sudan. He was accused of the violence that left an estimated 300,000 people dead.
“The al-Bashir regime mistreats and tortures detainees and censors the media, the group, Human Rights Watch, writes in its assessment of the north African country. Additionally, Sudan’s indiscriminate bombing in civilian-populated areas has displaced hundreds of thousands of people,” Judicial Watch wrote.

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Saturday, September 1, 2012

AIRLIFT TO RESCUE 2,000 BEHIND sHARIAH CURTAIN



Humanitarian effort reaches out to Christians trapped in Muslim territory

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The human rights group Barnabas Aid is announcing plans to fly about 2,000 South Sudanese from Khartoum in Sudan to Juba, the capital of the recently formed South Sudan.
The plan is billed as a humanitarian effort to rescue the South Sudanese who are trapped in the predominantly Muslim country.
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Barnabas Aid Director of International Relations Julian Dobbs says the project is going ahead even amid the military conflict on the border region.
“There continues to be considerable unrest along the border. That’s why this project has become necessary. We’re very aware obviously of the challenges that have come from the north,” Dobbs said.
“Christians have been impoverished and are extremely vulnerable. President Omar al-Bashir has made it clear that Christians are not welcome in Sudan. Frankly he’s repeatedly declared his intention to make the constitution of Sudan 100 percent Islamic,” Dobbs said.
“It makes Christians who are living in these regions in the north very vulnerable. Thus we’re having engagement with our partners in the Africa Inland Church,” Dobbs said.
Dobbs says the organization has enough resources to assist the people once they arrive in South Sudan.
“We do have some resources at our victims of violence fund which we can make available for this emergency project,” Dobbs said. “But we are calling on Christians in the West to support us and to support this initiative in this project.”
“Anyone who’s followed the tragedy of Christians in Sudan can see this as a way to help stand alongside their brothers and sisters in Christ,” Dobbs said.
Dobbs says that despite the policy of the Khartoum regime, the government hasn’t put any barriers in the way of the project.
“We haven’t had any difficulty at this time. We’re working with our partners – the African Inland Church,” Dobbs said.
“They’re developing this project for us. They’re the ones that have assisted and really put together the evacuation process for these 2,000 Christians, mostly women and children,” Dobbs said.
The website to help the airlift project is Barnabasaid.org/US/Home.
Conflict has been raging between the Muslims in Sudan and the mostly Christians and some tribal populations in South Sudan for years. The split into Sudan and South Sudan was supposed to address some of the concerns.
But Muslims in the north still repeatedly have attacked and expelled Christians living there.
The rescue project is in aid of those who have not yet been able to flee the Islamic north.

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