Hollywood actress, UN goodwill ambassador and humanitarian Angelina Jolie wants President Obama’s administration to take greater steps towards establishing peace in Sudan.
Acording to CNN, Jolie, in her role as the co-chair of the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, wrote piece for Newsweek magazine last Thursday, the day Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize stating how Obama’s administration has not yet announced any “serious moves to bring corrupt Sudanese leaders to justice.” The mother of six, said she is worried that the administration does not have a clear enough plan to improve the lives of the Sudanese people.
“I believe President Obama and his special envoy Scott Gration will do their best to bring peace to the region,” Jolie wrote.
“Their policy, though, raises a number of questions. How is the Obama administration’s approach to Sudan an evolution of justice? In addition, when the administration says it intends to work to ‘improve the lives of the people of Darfur,’ I would like to know what that means, besides the obvious point that their lives could hardly get worse.”
In the piece, headlined Justice Delayed Is Not Justice Denied Jolie suggests the administration “explore ways to bring [Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir] to justice.”
“This means bringing all permanent members of the U.N. Security Council on board to send the message that the international community will not tolerate mass atrocities,” Jolie wrote.
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