Word: khartoum
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...report charging that Beijing had rounded up political dissidents in the name of protecting Olympic guests from troublemakers. And Darfur activists got attention for labeling the games the "Genocide Olympics" because Beijing, a primary trading partner and supporter of the Sudan, has blocked U.N. Security Council sanctions against Khartoum for the killings in its Darfur region...
...when questioned, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner admitted: "It is only an idea so far ... but it might work.") Meanwhile, Africa and the Arab world offer no way forward, while China - whose oil interests and other investments in Sudan give it substantially more leverage than the U.S. has over Khartoum - has used its veto power in the Security Council to block harsher U.N. actions against Bashir's regime...
...Precisely because the U.S. ability to directly pressure Sudan is so limited, the al-Bashir regime has been able to ignore criticism and all but laugh at measures taken against it so far. With most diplomatic avenues exhausted, the only type of action that might change minds in Khartoum would be the threat of direct military intervention, but in light of the Iraq debacle, that option is simply not on the table. Despite the sanctions announced Tuesday by President Bush, the coming months will see more horrifying news of massacres from Darfur, more wrenching refugee tales, more urgent calls...
...police tear-gassed overly festive wedding parties, and the regime's determination to impose its harsh version of sharia law on the more Christian South helped to drag out the war. Its chief ideologue, Hassan al-Turabi, notoriously helped to radicalize Osama bin Laden during his years living in Khartoum...
...worth the paper it was written on. The U.N. has resolved to send in peacekeepers but has been stymied by Sudan's refusal to accept them. After a U.N. panel revealed that contrary to Sudan's denials, government planes have been transporting arms and military equipment to Darfur, Khartoum said it would accept the deployment of 3,000 U.N. troops. They would complement the 7,000 African Union peacekeepers already on the ground, but even that falls far short of what's needed to police a conflict involving hundreds of thousands of fighters and 2.5 million refugees...