The Joke of the Day -- US Guts vs Canada's Canada Votes YES to Sudan's Third Term on Human Rights Commission!
The UN Human Rights Committee has, for a second time, appointed Sudan to its commission. The last time Sudan was on it, the Muslim leadership was murdering hundreds of thousand of their Christian blacks. Now they are murdering, raping, and driving into exile hundreds of thousands of black Muslims in the Danfur region. Slaughtering black Christians and Muslims at least shows they are equal opportunity monsters. And while the Third World dictatorships wring their hands about abused Iraqi prisoners, they cannot muster a word of dissent about Sudan. Oh, other noteworthy members of the UNHRC are Vietnam and Pakistan. I am sure if Pol Pot's Cambodia were to have applied it would have been accepted too. Come to think of it, the UN in toto might be the joke of the last half century.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United States walked out of a U.N. 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.
U.S. Ambassador Sichan Siv called the vote an "absurdity" and accused Sudan of massive human rights violations and ``ethnic cleansing'' in the western Darfur region before getting up from his chair and walking out of the Economic and Social Council chamber.
[. . . . ] Three other African countries - Kenya, Guinea and Togo - were also elected by consensus to represent Africa. Armenia and Romania representing Eastern Europe and Ecuador and Mexico representing Latin America also faced no opposition.
In the contested race among Western nations, Canada, Finland and France won seats, defeating Spain. And in the contested Asian race, Malaysia, Pakistan and South Korea defeated Vietnam.
[. . . . ] Last year, the United States also walked out to protest Cuba's re-election to the Human Rights Commission, which it called "an outrage." Russia, Saudi Arabia and several African countries with poor human rights records also won seats, and Libya chaired the commission in 2003.
