US special presidential envoy to Darfur, Andrew Natsios, appeared on C-span on Monday. After listening to him I realized that he will be of no help. I am convinced that peace agreements will continue to be made, but no effort by the government of Sudan will be put forth. And we will not and can not do anything to help propel the government of Sudan towards peace. Mr. Natsios wants to wait until January 1, 2007 to give it a go with another peace agreement. NO! How many lives will be taken, how many will be ruined during that time? I for one am sick of the waiting. 400,000 have been killed and nothing has been done. In Bosnia, by the time 8,000 were killed there was intervention. Hmm. Apparently human lives aren't that valuable any more.
I also had a problem with the excuses. Mr. Natsios says to the effect, "If we get a peacekeeping mission going, we have to figure out how to pay people, what to do if people get injured..." Shouldn't that have been figured out a long time ago? Since 2003 this has been going on. We knew of possible intervention since then. If we can figure out how to pay soldiers in Iraq and the forces that stormed Bosnia, I am sure we can figure this out.
I heard Mr. Natsios say that this war in Darfur was nothing new to Sudan. We all know this, but don't slough this off as another war. A very respectful man stood up and spoke of the past wars and said ..." The differences between those wars Mr. Natsios, is that this war is a genocide."
C-span data on the genocide was considerably off. They cited 200,00 dead instead of 400,000. I am not sure where that data came from, but it would be nice to see accurate data given to the media.
Here I sit writing my letters, e-mails, making phone calls, and endlessly plugging Darfur. Will my efforts be in vain? No, human lives are at stake.
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