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To: goldsnow who wrote (5628)	4/27/1999 6:28:00 PM
From: Douglas V. Fant	Respond to of 17770

goldsnow, The Boston Globe today takes up the issue of lsavery in the Sudan, and the UN General Assembly's double standard. Speaking of double standards- has anyone wondered why the US would not allow the Bosnian Serbs to secede from Bosnia, but now three years later is actively supporting the Kosovar Albanians' effort to secede from Yugoslavia? A strange double standard.... News Article by BGLOBE on April 27, 1999 at 17:08:23: A double standard on slavery A BOSTON GLOBE EDITORIAL 04/27/99 Until recently Sudan was able to keep its ugly little secret: the capture of black Christians and animists in southern Sudan and their enslavement by white Arabs in northern Sudan, a practice that has been going on for centuries. A couple of tenacious nongovernmental organizations - the Boston-based American Anti-Slavery Group and Christian Solidarity International of Geneva - have not only broken through the wall of silence that surrounded slavery in Sudan; they have raised money from schoolchildren in Massachusetts, Colorado, and Oregon to buy the freedom of enslaved women and children in Sudan. Remarkably, the slave redemption program run by Christian Solidarity International has been criticized by the United Nations International Children's Fund, or UNICEF. This is a program that has emancipated 5,000 southern Sudanese slaves at a cost of $50 for each person freed. UNICEF, which runs its own inoculation and food relief programs in cooperation with the Sudanese regime in Khartoum, at first tried to deny the existence of slavery in Sudan. When that became impossible, the UN organization turned its ire not against the slave traders or the regime that encouraged them but against the human rights groups seeking to free the slaves. UNICEF argued, preposterously, that these groups should instead be trying to stop Sudan's long-running civil war; that buying the slaves' freedom would encourage the arms trade; and that the very purchase of a human being is intolerable. But the slave redemption program has no effect on a war that has been going on for decades. UNICEF's dollar payments to Khartoum do far more to fuel the arms trade than slave redemptions in local currency. And UNICEF itself buys the freedom of children in India who have been sold into debt bondage by their impoverished families. UNICEF's criticism of those who liberate slaves reeks of the politicized behavior that has given its master, the UN General Assembly, a bad name. Human rights have no meaning if they are not universal.

To: goldsnow who wrote (5628)	4/27/1999 6:29:00 PM
From: Machaon	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 17770

<< Clark said ... that NATO is approaching its goal of cutting off and destroying Serb military forces in Kosovo. >> It makes one wonder if Slob Milosevic, faced with the loss of his criminal military forces in Kosovo, and faced with 24 hour round-the-clock bombing through out Yugoslavia, will come out from under his bed. Good old Slob. What a great legacy of destruction has been caused to Yugoslavia because of this tyrant. Ten years ago he could have worked towards peace and unity among all cultures. Instead, he chose to follow a path of racism that is reminiscent of Nazi Germany. Poor little Slob. He will have no place to hide from the Serb people when they find out that the state run news service has been telling them nothing but lies.