The U.N. Has A Moral Obligation To Protect The People Of Darfur From Sudan's Brutal And Oppressive Rulers - And It Must Do So Now!

The world was saved from catastrophe in 1945 as a result of the moral courage shown by a number of that era's leaders during the Second World War. Adolf Hitler’s evil Nazi regime was defeated because leaders such as Britain’s Sir Winston Churchill and US President Roosevelt, rather than appease Adolf Hitler, confronted and defeated him.

The people of Darfur expect the Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr. Ban Ky-Moon, to follow the example of Churchill and Roosevelt – and have the moral courage to confront the leaders of Sudan, not appease them. The government of Sudan has adopted a scorched-earth strategy in its ethnic-cleansing war against the people of Darfur.

Surely, the U.N. of today exists to protect vulnerable members of the one human race from the 21st century’s Adolf Hitlers – not to give succour to regimes carrying out pogroms? So why is the UN Secretary General giving the world the impression that he does not want to offend the sensibilities of the mass-murderers who now rule Sudan?

The Sudanese government is as brutal and cynical as the Nazi regime was – and its racist attempt to wipe out the people of Darfur is an affront to all of humankind. The time has now come for the international community to put aside the kind of political correctness that enables a number of repressive and brutal regimes around the world to commit crimes against humanity with impunity – and confront Sudan’s leaders.

One of the most outrageous arguments made by those who in reality do not want to help protect the people of Darfur from their brutal rulers, is that confronting the Sudanese regime will only worsen their plight – when in the meantime Sudan’s racist rulers are literally busy wiping them off the face of the earth.

The people of Darfur are members of the one human race too – and the world must protect them from a racist regime of Africans that is responsible for an African equivalent of the Nazi Holocaust. Sudan’s racist leaders regard the people of Darfur as less than human – simply because they are of a darker hue.

The sad irony in all this is that the Arab world, which Sudan’s leaders claim kinship with, despises Sudan’s so-called ‘Arabs’ too – because they are also seen by Arabs as a dark-skinned people. The international community must encourage the International Criminal Court (ICC) to indict Sudan’s President Bashir – and to issue a warrant for his immediate arrest.

President Bashir and the members of the apartheid regime he leads are as evil as the Nazi regime was. Humankind must never tolerate such regimes – and that is why the U.N. has a moral obligation to protect the people of Darfur from their despotic and barbarous rulers. The international community must put aside political correctness and confront the government of Sudan – not appease it: for, that would be unforgivable moral cowardness. Period.