09-09-2010, 05:17 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-09-2010, 05:21 PM by Danny Jarman.)
Keith Millea Wrote:I remember a couple years ago,when Myramar(sp? Burma)had a big national disaster,maybe the tsunami.There was much flooding and people were in dire straights,but the Government(military rulers)wouldn't let US aid flights and teams into the country.This seemed to be so cruel,and the media of course played that up.It is plain to see though that the rulers of the country knew that the aid groups were indeed intelligence infested.
I seem to remember something similar with Sudan....my memory is sketchy. The president, Omar Al Bashir would not let UN peace keepers into the country, eventually he did but only let certain ones from African countries in, of course this development infuriated the powers that be and the man is now wanted by the ICC to be put on trial for crimes against humanity. :boring:
Quote:Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir reaffirmed on Friday his opposition to a United Nations peacekeeping force in the troubled Darfur region of Sudan, despite mediation by China's president, Hu Jintao.
"We refuse to accept the entry of UN peacekeepers into Sudan because the impact of our refusal is better than the impact of our acceptance," Bashir said, speaking in Arabic at a news conference at Sudan's embassy in the Chinese capital of Beijing. "We dare not think of what the consequences would be of them being there."
On Thursday, Bashir met Chinese President Hu Jintao who said he "understands" Sudan's decision to refuse UN peacekeepers.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk...1e2516.htm
I'll get more info later when i scrape about my archive.