Martin Hypocritical About Sudan
Posted on | November 27, 2004 |
Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin is certainly talking tough these days when it comes to problem-plagued Sudan. After wrapping up a brief visit to the war-torn African country, Martin said the world is no longer buying Khartoum’s excuses.
“The president [Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir] indicated to us that he was not able to control the Janjaweed - that in fact they were acting on their own. The point we made to him is we expected the Janjaweed would be controlled. Period. . . “”I just simply said that it is a responsibility of government to essentially control those kinds of extraneous militia forces.”
Nice words. Unfortunately there is nothing behind them. Paul Martin is currently on a crusade to reform the United Nations which he says has become ineffective. While he won’t get an argument from us on that point, his statement is contradictory. Despite all of the evidence, the PM still refuses to refer to the problem in Sudan as genocide. It’s more than semantics. By referring to the mass extermination of black farmers by the Arab Janjaweed as genocide, the UN would automatically trigger the necessary military action as called for under its own rules. So far they have refused. And so has Martin.
Besides, it was a then Finance Minister Paul Martin and Prime Minister Jean Chretien who invested $53 million of taxpayer money into Talisman Energy against the wishes of many Canadians, money that eventually wound up in the hands of the Janjaweed killers.
Paul Martin is all smoke and mirrors.
Comments
Leave a Reply