UN Security Council adopts anti-genocide resolution
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) unanimously adopted a resolution (2150) on Wednesday, in which it called on all states to renew their commitment to prevent and fight against genocide and other serious crimes under international law. The community in Darfur stressed that “genocide is still going on in Darfur.” During the 20th anniversary of the onset of Rwanda’s genocide against the Tutsis and moderate Hutus this month, the UNSC called to benefit from the lessons learned from the genocide in Rwanda, 1994. Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson stated: “We must do more as a community of nations and as global citizens if we are going to live up to the promise of ‘never again’ and act upon our collective responsibility to protect.” Colin Keating, the former UN Representative of New Zealand, and UNSC President in April 1994, called his participation in the 7155th Security Council meeting “an opportunity for me as a President in the period of 1994, to apologise for what we had failed to achieve. Which should officially be recorded in the reports of the UNSC.” ‘Genocide might continue’ In Darfur, the Association of Displaced People and Refugees stated that genocide is still going on in Darfur, “since 2003 until now, before the eyes of the UN, its Unamid, the UNSC, the international community, and human rights organisations”. Hussein Abu Sharati, the spokesman for the Association, told Radio Dabanga that the Security Council’s Resolution 2150, which combats genocide, “are words on paper and so the genocide in Darfur might continue while everyone watches it happening now”. He demanded to bring the perpetrators of the ongoing conflict, led by President Omar Al Bashir and Defence Minister Abdelrahim Mohamed Hussein, to justice before the International Criminal Court. Arno Nugutlu Lodi, spokesman for the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) on Friday warned UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon of letting Rwanda’s genocide repeat in the Central African Republic. He added that “yet in Sudan, offences are committed under the auspices of the state, which is headed by a President wanted by the International Criminal Court.” Lodi further drew attention to the statement mentioned by the former official spokeswoman of the UN mission in Darfur (Unamid), Aicha El Basri, that was published on this website and the Foreign Policy’s website, saying it “raises several questions”.File photo: The United Nations Security Council Related: Sudan Leaks: Unamid spokesperson ‘resigned to tell the truth about Darfur’ (9 April 2014) ‘UN missions fail to grasp Darfur, Sudan conflict’: human rights activist (9 April 2014)
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) unanimously adopted a resolution (2150) on Wednesday, in which it called on all states to renew their commitment to prevent and fight against genocide and other serious crimes under international law. The community in Darfur stressed that “genocide is still going on in Darfur.”
During the 20th anniversary of the onset of Rwanda’s genocide against the Tutsis and moderate Hutus this month, the UNSC called to benefit from the lessons learned from the genocide in Rwanda, 1994. Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson stated: “We must do more as a community of nations and as global citizens if we are going to live up to the promise of ‘never again’ and act upon our collective responsibility to protect.”
Colin Keating, the former UN Representative of New Zealand, and UNSC President in April 1994, called his participation in the 7155th Security Council meeting “an opportunity for me as a President in the period of 1994, to apologise for what we had failed to achieve. Which should officially be recorded in the reports of the UNSC.”
‘Genocide might continue’
In Darfur, the Association of Displaced People and Refugees stated that genocide is still going on in Darfur, “since 2003 until now, before the eyes of the UN, its Unamid, the UNSC, the international community, and human rights organisations”.
Hussein Abu Sharati, the spokesman for the Association, told Radio Dabanga that the Security Council’s Resolution 2150, which combats genocide, “are words on paper and so the genocide in Darfur might continue while everyone watches it happening now”. He demanded to bring the perpetrators of the ongoing conflict, led by President Omar Al Bashir and Defence Minister Abdelrahim Mohamed Hussein, to justice before the International Criminal Court.
Arno Nugutlu Lodi, spokesman for the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) on Friday warned UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon of letting Rwanda’s genocide repeat in the Central African Republic. He added that “yet in Sudan, offences are committed under the auspices of the state, which is headed by a President wanted by the International Criminal Court.”
Lodi further drew attention to the statement mentioned by the former official spokeswoman of the UN mission in Darfur (Unamid), Aicha El Basri, that was published on this website and the Foreign Policy’s website, saying it “raises several questions”.
File photo: The United Nations Security Council
Related:
Sudan Leaks: Unamid spokesperson ‘resigned to tell the truth about Darfur’ (9 April 2014)
‘UN missions fail to grasp Darfur, Sudan conflict’: human rights activist (9 April 2014)
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