Today’s New York Times finally puts Darfur in the position of prominence deserved by all out war and genocide–front and center. Without the U.N., rebels backed by nearby Chad and Eritrea, believe they have no choice but to fight and defend. Meanwhile the Sudanese government in Khartoum, which is always looking for reasons to reject pleas by the international community, sent the most powerful U.N. official in Sudan, packing.
Jan Pronk, U.N. envoy to Sudan, got booted out after he posted on his personal blog that the army was suffering defeats and low morale.
Looks like blogging isn’t so harmless after all. Is this the first blog debacle to directly alter the course of international diplomacy?
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