Sudan Opposes U.N. Troops in Darfur

[ECH1969]

Sudan's vice president told a visiting U.S. delegation that the country opposed a proposal to deploy international peacekeepers to Darfur, but was committed to negotiations to end tensions in the region, state media reported Monday.

The Security Council on Feb. 3 urged the United Nations to start planning to take over the mission. Annan has urged major powers to take part, saying an expanded force will need the kind of assets only a highly capable military can provide.

SUNA said Taha told the delegates that Sudan was committed to resolving the Darfur problem through peaceful negotiations, and blamed the rebels for procrastinating in the ongoing peace talks in Nigeria.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1642524

[AlamoDemoc]

1. Personally, I think the situation in Darfur

is an internal civil war...that said, I think the entire world community has to intervene while they consider the differences that transcend politics and internal conflict in that region and throughout. Lessens learned our past involvement in civil wars can be traced to Somalia, and no repeat of that by the international community would be well served in that region.

[applegrove]

3. It isn't internal civil war when women get raped and their villages

burned. That is ethnic cleansing. That is genocide. Sorry. Systematic civilian attacks means genocide.

[951-Riverside]

2. Bush didnt want international aid for Katrina either n/t