The UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has appointed a five-member panel to investigate whether genocide has taken place in Dafur. The investigators have been given three months to gather details and evidence about the events in western Sudanese region that has left over 50'000 dead and 1.4 million homeless as a result of Pro-goverment Arab militias.



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The commission includes human rights and legal experts from Peru, Egypt, Pakistan and Ghana and is chaired by Italian law professor Antonio Cassese, who was president of the UN war crimes tribunal for former Yugoslavia from 1993-1997.

The Janjaweed are accused of killing thousands of black African civilians and emptying villages as part of a campaign against rebels in Darfur.

They will leave shortly for Sudan.




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So it has taken over a year and half and over 50'000 deaths for the UN to finnally realise that they actually need to do something about these militias?

The same has happened in Rwanada and Cambodia and probably many other places and its only when they get 'asked' for help do they say...ok...so we knew but failed to do anything about it!!

The UN really do need to keep a more detailed and internal interest in places that war crimes and possible genocide are happening...how many deaths does it take for the political world to make a stand and say enough it enough!!

If those people in charge of the UN are not capable or competent enough of handling these situations...they need to step down and let someone else take over who is willing to make a choice for the greater good.

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