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06 décembre 2006
07:50
'Iraq syndrome' leaving world powerless in Darfur: UNHCR
TOKYO, Dec 6, 2006 (AFP)
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees regretted Wednesday that the world
had been powerless to stop the violence in Darfur and blamed an "Iraq
syndrome" for turning people against intervention.
Antonio Guterres, the former prime minister of Portugal and driving
force in bringing international intervention in East Timor in the late
1990s, said the UN Security Council had to accept the backlash against
the use of force.
"When we look at Darfur we are basically powerless and we are back to a
situation in which the government of Sudan says no intervention of the
UN (and) the Security Council is apparently unable to take a decision
against the view of the government of Sudan," Guterres told a symposium
in Tokyo.
The refugee agency chief said humanitarian workers were "helping as much
as they can, but with extremely limited capacity" in Darfur.
"The violations of human rights are there and the sovereignty of the
human being has been forgotten because the sovereignty of the state has
gained paramount importance," he said.
At least 200,000 people have died and more than two million people have
been displaced by war and famine in Darfur since 2003, according to UN
figures, in a crackdown against ethnic minority fighters that Washington
calls genocide.
Guterres said that momentum to allow intervention for humanitarian
reasons -- as seen in Bosnia, Kosovo and East Timor -- had been growing
until the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
"In my opinion, I would say that the world is suffering what I might
call the Iraq syndrome," he said. "There has been a massive reaction,
especially in the developing world, against anything that might lead to
foreign intervention."
"Probably we will have to work based on that," Guterres said, adding
that the UN Security Council would have to come up with new
"instruments" short of legal authorization of intervention.
© AFP Agence France-Presse
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