Thursday, June 28, 2012

White House opposes measure intended to isolate Sudanese warlord

The Obama administration opposes a congressional measure that would end U.S. foreign assistance to any country that plays host to the genocidal Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, an internationally sanctioned war criminal who has slaughtered scores of women and children.
The amendment, which was introduced last month by longtime human rights advocate Rep. Frank Wolf (R., Va.), would ax non-humanitarian aid to any country that permits Bashir to enter.
“For the administration to oppose this is beyond me,” Congressman Wolf said in an interview, noting that not a single staffer at the White House has responded to his multiple calls for action.
President Obama’s opposition is galvanizing a sizable grassroots network.
“People who are supportive of President Obama in general are starting to break ranks with him on this issue,” Rafael Medoff, director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, told the Free Beacon.
“It seems like anything that will ruffle the feathers of anybody is something the Obama administration doesn’t want to touch,” added Medoff, who recently petitioned the administration to fight the genocide in Sudan’s Darfur region by backing the Wolf amendment.
Medoff joined more than 70 international Holocaust experts in a letter addressed to National Security Council staffer Samantha Power that presses the White House to “send a clear message to the international community that Bashir, the world’s most notorious perpetrator of genocide, deserves to be treated as a pariah.”

Read more: http://freebeacon.com/obamas-sudan-shuffle/

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