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Originally Posted by icarus
According to the Responsibility to Protect protocol that was unanimously adopted by the UN at the 60th General Assembly, you don't need permission to intervene against widespread violations of human rights on a gross scale. To hell with the Sudanese government.
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I can easily see why the UN wouldn't want to go into a place that doesn't want them. I understand that when someone needs help you shouldn't need the bully's permission to get involved, but the countries that would be capable of getting involved in Sudan don't want to. I'm not sure why one would blame the UN when its really the 10-15 states that would actually be contributing 99% of the resources who don't want to get involved. The UN isn't a unilateral organization, its mandate and will is only as strong as its key members on the UNSC. If these member-states don't have the will to go in the UN can't do anything about that.
If blame needs to be issued I think it should be confined to the Sudanese government, the states that support the Sudanese government, and the states that
could intervene, but choose not to. Its not like 'the UN doesn't want to get involved', they can only act under mandates given to them by the UNSC. Talk to the P5 members if you don't like the way the UNSC has its hands tied.