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The U.S. presidential envoy to Darfur, Rich Williamson, joined his country's actress Mia Farrow Tuesday in lambasting the U.N. Security Council for failing in its duties to protect Sudanese people from genocide.
Williamson, who assumed charge in January, told a closed-door session of U.N. Security Council members it was "disheartening" that the world community had not done more to end the conflict and protect civilians caught in ethnic conflicts in the Sudan's Darfur region.
"All of us should be impatient. We have failed in our responsibility to the people of Sudan," he said. "If we continue this way, the slow-motion genocide will continue. We must do more," he added.
Williamson pointed to the two million people dead and the more than six-million displaced in Sudan's north-south civil war as a reminder to the U.N.'s colossal failure to bring peace to that war-torn country or to prosecute its alleged war criminals.
Farrow lambasted council members saying, "You are failing this body - the ideals and principles it represents. It is past time that a united U.N. Security Council stood up to end this human tragedy."
She went on to add, "History will long remember that the U.N. Security Council has, for five years, failed in the task you have been charged with - protecting a defenseless population."
"You have already failed the 300,000 or more who have died needlessly in Darfur," she said. "You are failing the millions of civilians who are struggling to survive in wretched camps across Darfur, eastern Chad and now the Central African Republic."
Farrow, who had just completed her ninth visit to Darfur, has repeatedly criticized the Chinese government for complicity in the killings in the region. She provoked a strong reaction from Beijing last year when she branded China's Summer Olympics Games in August as "genocide Olympics." She said Beijing chose to ignore the killings there to win Khartoum's favor for its investment in oil-exploration in Sudan.
The actress also pulled up the U.N. for bowing to Khartoum's dictate when it rejected Western and Asian nations' participation in the U.N.-African Union peacekeeping operations in Darfur and insisted on African troops.
The conflict in Darfur pits Khartoum-backed Arab militias against armed African groups, and has driven 2.5 million people out of their homes.
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