Bryen op-ed on Obama Admin. Clean Slate Policy in The Cutting Edge News, 10/26/09
Darfur the Latest Example of Obama’s Willingness to Clean Slates
By Shoshana Bryen, Cutting Edge Commentator
Darfur the Latest Example of Obama’s Willingness to Clean Slates
By Shoshana Bryen, Cutting Edge Commentator
The July 2008 indictment of Sudan’s Omar Bashir by the International Criminal Court includes three counts of genocide, five of crimes against humanity and two of murder. He is accused of running the campaign in Darfur that killed (using the lowest estimate the Court deemed reliable) 35,000 people directly and 100,000 more by related causes, and turned more than 2.5 million people into refugees. He is supposed to be arrested upon arrival in signatory countries-although his trips to the Arab world and Iran had the air of victory laps. But President Obama’s envoy to Sudan, retired Air Force General Scott Gration, declared the genocide over. In June he said, “What we see is the remnant of genocide… the consequences of genocide… the results of genocide.”