Reply #16: How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? [View All]

[Matilda]

Can we recognise a policy of genocide before most of the targeted
people are dead? This is one of those times when one feels totally
frustrated with the U.N. and its legal niceties.

Well, Mr Anan, with respect, we don't know whether this is genocide,
but we do know that people have been drive from their villages, and
from their country, in their tens of thousands. They have been
raped and beaten, their homes destroyed, their crops devastated,
they and their children are starving - those of them that are still
breathing - and maybe it is time for the U.N. to stop debating and
do something to help. Otherwise we may discover too late that it
was genocide, and once again we'll be asking the question: Is the
U.N. relevant?