{"id":873,"date":"2004-05-05T21:51:15","date_gmt":"2004-05-06T04:51:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-05-05T21:51:15","modified_gmt":"2004-05-06T04:51:15","slug":"sudan-accuses-us-of-atrocities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/05\/sudan-accuses-us-of-atrocities\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan accuses US of atrocities"},"content":{"rendered":"

And so the US’s descent from the moral pedestal it once occupied is now complete.<\/a><\/p>\n

The United States walked out of a UN meeting Tuesday to protest its decision minutes later to give Sudan a third term on the Human Rights Commission, the world body’s human rights watchdog.<\/p>\n

US Ambassador Sichan Siv called the vote an “absurdity” and accused Sudan of massive human rights violations and “ethnic cleansing” in the western Darfur region.<\/p>\n

As Siv walked out of the Economic and Social Council chamber, Sudan’s deputy UN Ambassador Omar Bashir Manis launched into a heated response, accusing American forces of engaging in degrading treatment of Iraqi prisoners, using disproportionate force and committing “atrocities” against innocent Iraqi civilians.<\/p>\n

But the United States’ seat in the chamber was empty, and no American diplomat was there to hear it.
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\n“It is yet very ironic that the United States delegation, while shedding crocodile tears over the situation in Darfur … is turning a blind eye to the atrocities committed by the American forces against the innocent civilian population in Iraq, including women and children,” he said.<\/p>\n

Manis also cited “the brutal attacks against innocent civilians in Fallujah where for the first time in our lives we saw live reporting of mass graves \u2014 women, children and elderly and other innocent civilians buried in a football stadium” and the “infamous and degrading treatment of Iraqi prisoners by American soldiers in Abu Ghraib prison.” So Sudan’s seat on the Human Rights Commission “is not at all different” from the US presence, Manis said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, they do have a point, don’t they? Americans might as well get used to this sort of thing now that the Bushies and neocons have dragged us all through the slime with their reprehensible Iraq invasion and occupation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And so the US’s descent from the moral pedestal it once occupied is now complete. The United States walked out of a UN meeting Tuesday to protest its decision minutes later to give Sudan a third term on the Human Rights Commission, the world body’s human rights watchdog. US Ambassador Sichan Siv called the vote […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}