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UN envoy: Darfur key to Sudan peace
| Actually, I'd say Khartoum is the key to Sudan peace. If Darfur was the only place on fire, then Darfur would be the key. But Bashir splits his time between oppressing people and putting down rebellions. You'd almost think the two were connected or something. |
 A senior UN envoy has said a landmark peace agreement ending Sudan's two-decade-old war in the south will crumble if violence in Darfur persists. Jan Pronk, the UN special envoy in Sudan, urged the UN Security Council on Friday to approve his request for 10,000 troops and 755 police to enforce the new north-south peace deal, which would change the structure of the Khartoum government and army.
| That would be point zero, I'd guess. Everything else that would happen would come after that. And nothing else will come until that's done... |
But he said: "I am convinced that without a solution in Darfur, the north-south will not remain a sustainable peace agreement." Pronk and UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan have urged the Security Council to adopt one resolution on the peacekeepers as well as the Darfur crisis, where pro-government militia have looted, killed and raped and made two million people homeless.
| I dunno. I think that, rather than peacekeepers like they have in DRC, an army of occupation might be more to the point. They obviously are incapable of keeping their own house in order. |
Posted by: Fred 2005-02-05 |
