by Ebey Soman

Created on: August 20, 2007

Despite the promise of "never again" following the Nazi Holocaust and over 140 signatories to the Genocide Convention, instances of mass massacre and genocide have continued to occur numerous times since World War II without adequate intervention from the global community.

It does not matter whether if it is Holocaust or the Armenian Genocide or the Rwandan Genocide or even the Yugoslavian Genocide. A Genocide is an atrocity committed against the very spirit of humanity and it should never be tolerated.However, even though the world has promised to never let this happen, it is happening.

The genocide in Darfur region is one of the latest genocides in a string of failures of the United Nations and the global community to stop such events from occurring. Out of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, the United States of America, United Kingdom and France are the only strong advocated calling to end the genocide in Sudan and they are the only countries calling for sanctions and other tougher methods to deal with the government of Sudan, who knowingly sponsored a state-run agenda of ethnic cleansing and systematic Genocide. In fact, United States of America, under the Bush administration was the first main international leader to term the ethnic cleansing of Darfur region as a Genocide and crime against humanity.

Countries and people in power like China and the Russian Federation are not doing enough to push Sudan into stopping such criminal activities. These nations continue to strongly oppose sanctions, provide arms and weapons to Sudan and trade in oil revenues with Sudan. Sudan uses the money form this oil trade with China and Russia to fund more state sponsored killings and massacres and uses the weapons and arms from their dealings with the Chinese and the Russians to kill innocent children in Darfur region and the neighboring Chad.

Thanks to China's and Russia's unwillingness to take tougher stance against this despicable acts of violence and hatred, Sudanese government is allowed a free reign to do whatever it pleases, including Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing. Some say the African Union troops are there, but do you really think that a multi-national troop force of poorly equipped afflicted low-morale, under-staffed and under-payed bunch of men in rags are going to stop a militant organization bend on killing civilians and funded by a national government? Do you even seriously think that some two-thousand men, who don't even want to

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