UN condemns latest violence in Darfur - CBC News

[applegrove]

UN condemns latest violence in Darfur
Last Updated Fri, 27 Jan 2006 19:17:03 EST
CBC News

"Thousands of people have been displaced by renewed fighting in Sudan's western region of Darfur.

INDEPTH: Sudan

The fighting is on the edge of west Darfur, where Sudan Liberation Army rebels are trying to take the government-held town of Golo.

A number of villages were burned last week and it is thought that the rebels may be retaliating against pro-government militias.

Thousands of people are fleeing the area, but the scale of the exodus is unclear because humanitarian workers have already been evacuated.

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan issued a statement on Friday condemning the latest violence. In part it said, Annan is "seriously concerned by the major escalation of violence in the Jebel Marra region of Darfur, particularly the heavy fighting in the Golo and Shearia areas that has forced humanitarian agencies to evacuate. He condemns the attack by Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) forces on Golo, and calls on all parties to immediately stop all hostility."

..... Snip"

http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2006/01/27/sudan060127.html

[DRoseDARs]

1. More empty words from the Do-Nothings... n/t

[applegrove]

2. UN doesn't have its own army. It has to rely on Nato & other groups

of armies.

This shows a need. For a professional fighting force under UN. For humanitarian action.

[DRoseDARs]

3. Have you noticed how many times the UN has had strong words for Sudan...

...and nothing else happened? Nothing. :shrug:

[applegrove]

4. They don't have an army. They cannot go in. Humanitarian workers -

which the UN has lots of, cannot go in until the area is secured. Them is the rules. the UN is dependant on Nato countries or China & Russia et all. African Union troops went in in a small number. It will take more than that.

It isn't up to the UN. They need someone with an Army to put forth aid in the form of a big enough military. Nobody has offered to put boots on the ground. Except African Union.

And only 5000 of those.

[applegrove]

5. Kofi Annan could very well be trying to build up support & pressure

on the West - to step up. Should have happened two years ago - but much of the west was busy with voluntary war and one real one (Afghanistan).

Despite Wolfowitz' retoric on Rwanda.. it seems the UN now has to build a case for humanitarian intervention.

Apparently all institutional knowledge was wiped out all around the world the day Katrina struck! Not just in the WH, Pentagon, Fema & Washington.

[Boojatta]

6. "African Union troops went in in a small number. It will take more than

that"

Then perhaps it's time to recruit more African Union troops.

[applegrove]

7. There is Uganda too. And other places. Those troops may be spread too

thin.

I'm thinking the Germans haven't been anywhere in a while.