John Bolton Blocked Darfur Genocide Briefing?
A small box containing a 150-word Reuters report tells us the latest doings of the controversial new U.S. ambassador to the international body: “John Bolton … blocked a United Nations envoy on Monday from briefing the Security Council on rights violations in the Darfur region of the Sudan, saying the council had to act against atrocities not just talk about them.”
Mr. Bolton, joined by the representatives of China, Algeria and Russia, prevented Juan Mendez, a special adviser to Secretary General Kofi Annan for the prevention of genocide, from briefing the Council on his visit to Darfur, despite pleas from Mr. Annan and the 11 other Council members.
The press has largely covered these events at an arm’s length, through the wires. The only vigorous attempts at examining the situation have appeared, periodically, on the op-ed pages. Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times has kept up his steady but lonely drumbeat for a long time now. There was also this editorial in the Washington Post last Sunday that refreshingly offered some concrete ideas.
Source: Columbia Journalism Review, NYTimes.
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