Darfur – UN must implement its own resolutions
By Alfred Taban, The Khartoum Monitor
April 24, 2006 — The United States decision to seek a [UN] Security Council vote on a resolution to slap sanctions on four Sudanese for their role in the Darfur conflict in western Sudan is a child’s play. I do not know what the real intention of the United states is.
The four gentlemen named as culprits in the Darfur genocide are really very small fish that are not even worth catching.
Does the US believe an airforce commander in Western Darfur can order air strikes on villages without express orders from Khartoum.
Who is Musa Hilal, but a small tribal chief of the small unknown Jalal ethnic group.
Who is Adam Yaqub of the Sudan liberation Army [SLA] and Jibril Abd-al-Karim of the National Movement for Reform and Development?
This is a kids game. Where are the leaders of these groups? Where are the top commanders? Where are the commanders in chief of these armies? Where are the people giving orders? Where are the 51 persons who have been referred to the International Criminal Court (ICC) ?
The USA must not play with the suffering of the people of Darfur, if the US is too chickened to deal with the big shots, who have caused immense suffering for the people of Darfur, then let them step aside and let the Darfur people and justice and freedom seeking Sudanese resolve this issue by themselves.
Negotiations are continuing in Abuja for the resolution of the conflict in Darfur. The people in Darfur want peace but they also want justice, they believe it is only justice that will bring sustainable and honourable peace. Thus while the people in Darfur are negotiating for their rights in their own region and in Khartoum they are also seeking redress.
While they are talking peace , they are also looking for their loved ones who they lost, they are also trying to find out what happened to their relatives who disappeared in their prime. They are seeking answers to some of the most cruel murders that have taken place and remain unresolved, they are trying to dry their tears, they are seeking justice.
Peace and justice are two different procedures, moving side by side, one must not be achieved at the expense of the other, unless the people of Darfur say so.
If peace and justice are achieved and the people of Darfur decide that they would like to forgive those who have wronged them and I am aware the people of Darfur have a big forgiving heart, then let it be so.
Until then the UN must implement to the letter its own resolutions, including that calling for the prosecution of the 51 persons who have caused so much harm to the people of Darfur.