Should Canada Get Involved in Darfur

scribblet · April 12, 2007

Should Canada get involved, and how is this much different to helping the people in Afghanistan especially when thousands have marched against UN involvement

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4785066.stm

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/is...71-16a7f4683637

The ongoing crisis in Sudan's Darfur region raises a profound question: How does the world community respond to the spectre of genocide? One Canadian group -- STAND Canada (Students Taking Action Now: Darfur) -- believes it is time for Ottawa to take a leadership role in addressing Khartoum's crimes against humanity. STAND has asked a selection of prominent thinkers to write in support of the group's mission. In an ongoing series, the National Post is printing their essays. In today's instalment, human-rights expert and former Canadian justice minister Irwin Cotler outlines his prescriptions.

The genocide in Darfur continues. It is painful for me to have to write these words yet again. What is happening in Darfur is to our ever-lasting shame: a betrayal of the people of Darfur, a repudiation of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine and an affront to the lessons of history.

It is our responsibility --as I first said three years ago as minister of justice at the Stockholm Conference on the Prevention of Genocide-- to shatter the silence, to break down the walls of indifference, to sound the alarm, to stand with the people of Darfur.

http://w01.international.gc.ca/minpub/Publ...=E&docnumber=32

info from gov. website.

M.Dancer · April 12, 2007

Should Canada get involved, and how is this much different to helping the people in Afghanistan especially when thousands have marched against UN involvement
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4785066.stm

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/is...71-16a7f4683637

The ongoing crisis in Sudan's Darfur region raises a profound question: How does the world community respond to the spectre of genocide? One Canadian group -- STAND Canada (Students Taking Action Now: Darfur) -- believes it is time for Ottawa to take a leadership role in addressing Khartoum's crimes against humanity. STAND has asked a selection of prominent thinkers to write in support of the group's mission. In an ongoing series, the National Post is printing their essays. In today's instalment, human-rights expert and former Canadian justice minister Irwin Cotler outlines his prescriptions.

The genocide in Darfur continues. It is painful for me to have to write these words yet again. What is happening in Darfur is to our ever-lasting shame: a betrayal of the people of Darfur, a repudiation of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine and an affront to the lessons of history.

It is our responsibility --as I first said three years ago as minister of justice at the Stockholm Conference on the Prevention of Genocide-- to shatter the silence, to break down the walls of indifference, to sound the alarm, to stand with the people of Darfur.

http://w01.international.gc.ca/minpub/Publ...=E&docnumber=32

info from gov. website.

If Canada had unlimited resources, or even resources much greater than now, I would say absolutely, lets send what we can......but we don't so our aid must be moral and financial.

blueblood · April 13, 2007

I think after A-Stan we should go to Darfur, we have to make those tanks pay now. I wonder what the left would have to say about this now... Isn't there a pile of oil in Darfur???

scribblet · April 13, 2007

I think after A-Stan we should go to Darfur, we have to make those tanks pay now. I wonder what the left would have to say about this now... Isn't there a pile of oil in Darfur???

I think they did discover some a couple of years ago.

Shouldn't we be helping to stop the genocide, or should we just let them all go at it.

blueblood · April 13, 2007

I think after A-Stan we should go to Darfur, we have to make those tanks pay now. I wonder what the left would have to say about this now... Isn't there a pile of oil in Darfur???

I think they did discover some a couple of years ago.

Shouldn't we be helping to stop the genocide, or should we just let them all go at it.

Of course, the sooner we stop the genocide, the sooner the country stabilizes, the sooner we can invest in the oil in there. Letting them go at it would be the logical thing to do about it, but the left would get their knickers in a knot as we shouldn't let that be happening when we can try and stop it.