Boy, there’s that R2P thing again. Talk is cheap, and the Sudan and the Congo are disasters right now. It is extremely frustrating to know that there is a capable company like Blackwater–ready to go into the fire and protect the weak, and yet we do nothing. Good job to Mrs. Bennett for putting together a great article. –Head Jundi
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18 Nov 2008
PSC prospects in Darfur
With the international community slow to react to the conflict in Darfur, private security companies weigh their options for entering the region, Jody Ray Bennett writes for ISN Security Watch.
By Jody Ray Bennett for ISN Security Watch
For almost five years the world has watched hundreds of thousands of Darfur civilians be massacred, raped and displaced from their families and homes.
Even though world leaders have issued calls to action, such as the 2005 international manifesto Responsibility to Protect (R2P), which called for states responsible for widespread harm to its population to face repercussions, the international community has been slow to respond to crisis in Darfur. Two years after the issuing of the R2P, approximately 200,000 to 400,000 Dafuris were dead and 2.5 million displaced.
As the US stretches its own forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, it has also been politically unable to justify the invasion of yet another Islamic country. China, Sudan’s closest economic, political and military ally, has failed to respond to the ongoing genocide despite its ability to do so.