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Then there is the burgeoning scandal over the United Nations?? Oil-for-Food program, which supervised relief to Iraq from 1996–2003. Through smuggling and graft, Saddam’s regime stole more than $10 billion from the program, according to the U.S. General Accounting Office. One veteran U.N. reporter has predicted that “it could be the biggest financial crime in the history of humankind.” The scandal implicates, among others, U.N. Oil-for-Food executive director Benon Sevan, French and Russian oil contractors, and possibly even Kojo Annan, Kofi?...
Don’t expect liberals’ standard outrage to tarnish the United Nations?? reputation as a standard-bearer for all that’s good and true, despite the recent revelation that Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s son skimmed money off Iraq’s oil-for-food budget...
...already left an estimated 30,000 dead—approximately 1000 individuals are currently being killed each week—and displaced nearly a million Africans. A lucky hundred thousand refugees have managed to flee into neighboring Chad—itself one of the world’s poorest nations??where the United Nations is currently rushing to settle them in camps before the May wet season makes vehicle transportation all but impossible. But another 700,000 refugees are still trapped in Darfar where they continue to be victimized by roving militias and strafed by Sudanese military jets...
...other panelists—“Ghosts of Rwanda” producer Greg Barker and Kennedy School Lecturer and Pulitzer Prize Winner Samantha Power—stressed institutional denial of the genocide and the reasons for the United Nations?? failure to intervene. Carr Professor of Human Rights Practice and Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy Michael Ignatieff moderated...
...however, criticize the United Nations??and the Bush administration—for not taking a more active stance on the current crisis in Haiti...