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Ma perche' gli indyani dagli alti valori etici non fanno una parola sul Darfur?
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Donnie Darko Thursday, Jul. 29, 2004 at 1:04 PM |
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crisi umanitaria in darfur. ma qui su indy, nemmeno una mezza parola (vedere home page)
African Union plan peace force for Darfur
By David Blair, Africa Correspondent
(Filed: 29/07/2004)
The prospect of foreign troops deploying in Darfur moved closer yesterday when the African Union announced that it was planning to send peacekeepers to Sudan's war-torn region.
But the Khartoum regime rejected any outside military presence on its soil and vowed to fight if attacked.
Nigerian peacekeepers were deployed to Sierra Leone in August last year
The AU, a regional grouping of the continent's 53 countries, has broken with the tradition of solidarity between African governments by strongly criticising human rights abuses in Darfur, where up to one million people have been displaced and 50,000 killed.
Its observer team in the region has already documented numerous atrocities, including the burning alive of villagers by Arab gunmen from the Janjaweed militia.
But the AU's Peace and Security Council went further yesterday by asking the organisation's chairman to prepare a "comprehensive plan" that would "enhance the effectiveness" of its mission in Darfur.
An official statement added: "This includes the possibility of turning the mission into a full-fledged peacekeeping mission, with the requisite mandate and size."
The statement also brings the deployment of British and other western troops closer. African armies are poorly equipped and will almost certainly need foreign assistance.
No western power has promised any soldiers, although Tony Blair has not ruled out British involvement and the Army says a 5,000-strong brigade could be sent at short notice. President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria currently holds the AU's chairmanship. He has sent Gen Abdusalami Abubakar, a former Nigerian military ruler, to Sudan as his personal envoy.
Speaking in El Fasher, the capital of Northern Darfur, Gen Abubakar emphasised the responsibility of the AU, which was created last year to replace the discredited Organisation of African Unity, to deal with the crisis.
He described the conflict as "purely an African one" that "has to be resolved by the African Union".
But the Nigerian army, together with those of South Africa and Kenya, are the only forces in Africa capable of carrying out even the smallest peacekeeping mission. Western military and logistical help would still be needed if any African intervention in Darfur were to succeed.
The objective of peacekeeping troops would be to enforce agreements already made by Sudan's regime and two black African rebel groups fighting in Darfur.
They have concluded a shaky ceasefire and Khartoum pledged last month to disarm the Janjaweed and protect Darfur's civilian population.
But the rebels have walked out of more recent peace talks, calculating that the possibility of outside intervention has brought heavy pressure to bear on their enemy.
Sudan's regime gave an explicit warning that it would retaliate if foreign troops were sent. An extraordinary cabinet meeting held in Khartoum issued a statement "expressing its absolute denunciation of the deployment of [foreign] troops in Darfur".
The cabinet added: "Sudan is capable of solving its conflicts by itself."
Mustapha Osman Ismail, Sudan's foreign minister, said renewed fighting would erupt if foreign troops arrived.
But the AU already plans to deploy 300 troops to protect its observer mission in Darfur. Sudan's regime has consented to this move.
Sudan's sabre rattling is also likely to fade if peacekeepers are given United Nations backing, which is likely.
(Telegraph)
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atrocita' sudanesi
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Donnie Thursday, Jul. 29, 2004 at 1:08 PM |
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Villagers burned alive in Sudan atrocity
By David Blair, Africa Correspondent
(Filed: 28/07/2004)
One of the most savage atrocities yet recorded in Sudan was laid bare yesterday when it was reported that Janjaweed militia shackled villagers and burned them alive during a raid in the Darfur region.
Monitors from the African Union reported that on July 3 the black African village of Suleia was attacked "by militia elements believed to be Janjaweed".
The Arab raiders, mounted on horses and camels, "killed civilians, in some cases by chaining them and burning them alive".
"However, the team could not substantiate the allegation that Sudanese forces fought alongside the Janjaweed," said the report, which was seen by the Reuters news agency.
The document is particularly embarrassing for the Khartoum regime as it has expressed support for earlier findings of the African Union. Mustafa Ismail, Sudan's foreign minister, said at the weekend that a report which concluded that no genocide had taken place in Darfur was "very credible".
The African Union has traditionally turned a blind eye to atrocities committed by member states. Any criticism from that quarter carries far more weight as a result.
Mr Ismail said yesterday that Sudan would not sit by if foreign troops arrived. "If we are attacked we will not sit silent. We will retaliate, but we definitely hope we do not reach that situation."
Colin Powell, the US secretary of state, said talk in Britain and Australia of military intervention was "premature". But he added that support was building for a United Nations Security Council resolution that would impose sanctions on Khartoum if it failed to meet a deadline to halt the campaign of murder and rape prosecuted by the Janjaweed. A vote is expected this week.
The ethnic conflict has seen a million people driven from their homes and about 30,000 killed.
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Ormai siamo vaccinati
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solo propaganda Thursday, Jul. 29, 2004 at 2:50 PM |
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Sembra sia la stessa "sceneggiata" sui "cattivi" Serbi che
sterminavano quelli che non erano come loro gia' vista innumerevoli volte in Slovenia, in Croazia in Bosnia nel Kosovo in Macedonia.
Solo un menu' per per prepararre la pubblica opinione ad un'ulteriore intervento "umanitario" a suon di proiettili all'uranio.
Solo CAZZATE per cazzoni !!
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