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Originally Posted by Agamemnon
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.
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Well yes by blaming the UN for its failure to intervene I am implicitly referring to the Security Council. That goes without saying. I also blame Jan Pronk and Kofi Annan for allowing the UN to shrink away from Security Council Resolution 1706. The UN has its hands tied by its permanent members, but it is now also proving inept to enforce its own GA and SC resolutions.
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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
The AMIS is already a UN sanctioned mission. If the AU wants to increase their forces, then they are more than welcome to. NATO has already pledged logistical support, and the EU has offered financial support.
The problem is that the more powerful countries in Africa (S. Africa, Egypt, Nigeria, and Libya), will not do their part.
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NATO and the EU provide no support to the African Union force. AMIS has an extremely limited mandate, and has proven it is unable or in some cases unwilling to exercise even the mandate it already has. Even if more forces were agreed to and evenutally deployed, it would likely still be inadequate to stop the genocide.
And I don't know why you criticise South Africa for not doing its part. It is one of the major players in AMIS, as well as being devoted to missions in the DRC and the Great Lakes. The greatest criticism against Mbeki is that he cares more about the rest of Africa than he does for his own country. And South Africa has argued that the AU is insufficient, that the UN must step in.
NATO has had the chance to intervene as they did in Kosovo and decided against it.
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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
And UN soldiers from Europe and North America aren't exactly welcome. The UN is seen by many Africans as a construct of the same colonial powers that messed up the continent to begin with.
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The vast majority of UN soldiers come from Asia and Africa, not Europe and North America.
Regardless of how the UN is viewed in Africa, at this stage most would welcome a UN intervention to prevent the ongoing genocide, mass displacement and regional destabilisation.