Obama advisor Samantha Power tops policy review on Sudan
February 26, 2009 (WASHINGTON) — Samantha Power, a White House aide, is one of the leading members of the policy review for Sudan, disclosed New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof in a column written from Djabal Refugee camp in eastern Chad.
Power was in Darfur in 2004, a period of intense displacement and killing. She is the author of A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2003.
Kristof’s column initially said that the policy review was being “co-led by Samantha Power,” which was later modified to “it’s being conducted by Samantha Power, among others.”
Last year Power co-authored an article with John Prendergast, a former White House official and activist, advocating certain policy steps that include: widening the scope of UN-led civilian protection efforts in Darfur, engaging in an aggressive diplomatic effort to enlist certain countries into pressuring the government and rebel combatants into a peace process, and leading an effort to impose stricter, worldwide financial sanctions on Sudan’s leaders.
She co-wrote, “the United States must use all its leverage to turn up the heat and punish the perpetrators in Khartoum… the United States and Europe could also do far more to help accelerate further indictments, by the International Criminal Court, of those officials most culpable for orchestrating genocidal violence and obstructing the UN deployment.”
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David Glenn
Obama advisor Samantha Power tops policy review on Sudan
In all honesty,i would not capitalize much on what Nicholas Kristof writes,he is not objective.