The chapter on Sudan in the new "Doctors With Borders" report contains a stinging. detailed indictment of U.N. capitulation to Khartoum for the entire decade of the crisis. citing "Sudan as one of the most serious failures of the United Nations in defending human rights and mass starvation." After making little protest in 1986 when U.N. Development Program head Winston Prattley was ousted from Sudan for demanding accountability for relief efforts. the United Nations sat idly by for 2 years while almost no food moved. The chapter also chronicles the selfimposed impotence of the United Nations during the mass deportation of hundreds of thousands of Sudanese during 1991 and 1992. The General Assembly vote of December 1992. to ensure Sudan and the new special rapporteur for Sudan have been positive recent steps. Butas the largest single donor to U.N. coffersthe United States must press the United Nations to implement safe havens and demilitarized zones for true accountability in aid distribution.
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