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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: Chris_ on February 29, 2008, 08:02:58 AM
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Campaign Against Suicide Bombing Moves Ahead
By Patrick Goodenough
CNSNews.com International Editor
February 29, 2008
(CNSNews.com) - An organization that is pressing the United Nations to declare suicide bombing a crime against humanity says it received an encouraging reception this week from Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
Among the thousands of emailed responses to the Simon Wiesenthal Center's initiative, some have come from Muslim countries, including Pakistan, Egypt and Turkey, the organization's associate dean, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, said from Los Angeles Thursday.
The human rights group has been campaigning for four years for an international condemnation of suicide bombing, and Cooper said there were indications of a growing level of support - including in Islamic countries.
MORE (http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=/ForeignBureaus/archive/200802/FOR20080229a.html)
So Sec. Gen. MonkeyBoon has decided that suicide bombing is baaaad. Kinda hard to prosecute the perps. Besides, all the UN ever does is issue stern warnings. :whatever:
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There are actually some possible good consequences to this, because I believe it would allow member nations or regional organizations to go after groups that sponsor it without further UN action, the same as genocide. Of course that depends on the testosterone level of the actors involved, but it takes it out of the UN Security Council veto deadlock or bogging down with surrogates and co-religionists of the bombers in the General Assembly, which paralyze action against any particular identified single group of bombers at the UN level.
It's awfully hard to avoid turning 'Ban Ki-moon' into something ending with 'Ka-boom' when reading this, I have to say.
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