"Our view is we're going to get the events off, but we felt that we were not prepared to create a situation that, in fact,could begin to encroach on the field of play."

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

"So,we think this is going to create a very dire situation where some of us might think of it as genocide by other means rather than by bullets - killing these people slowly through starvation, disease and lack of sanitation,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.28