Politicians, Jewish Leaders Assemble At U.N. to Call for Stiffer Sudan Sanctions
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Diplomats, politicians, and Jewish leaders assembled near the United Nations yesterday to call for stiffer sanctions to be imposed on Sudan, where bloodshed in the Darfur region has killed an estimated 200,000 during the past three years.
Earlier this week, the U.N. Security Council issued sanctions against four Sudanese men accused of committing war crimes in Darfur. But speakers at the gathering, including Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Dan Gillerman; the Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver; Comptroller Alan Hevesi, and representatives from several Jewish groups, called on the international community to do much more.
Sponsored by the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, the event was a precursor to a Washington-based “Save Darfur” rally Sunday, which is expected to attract tens of thousands of people.
“This world has seen this type of action before,” Mr. Silver said. “We’ve stood silent before, and we can’t afford to be silent. We must crush this evil.”
The United Nations’s failure to take decisive action on Darfur proves the international body’s double standard, Mr. Gillerman told The New York Sun. “The U.N. is so quick to condemn Israel, too slow to condemn acts of terror against us, and silent on genocide,” he said, referring to Darfur.
