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| UN says Darfur is now a low-intensity conflict |
| 2009-04-28 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] Violence in Sudan's Darfur region has subsided into a "low-intensity conflict," a U.N. envoy said on Monday, but the United States and its allies disagreed, according to diplomats. Briefing the U.N. Security Council, the joint U.N.-African Union special representative to Darfur, Rodolphe Adada, told the 15 member states that around 130-150 people were dying each month due to violence in Darfur, a region roughly the size of France. "The situation has changed from the period of intense hostilities in 2003-2004 when tens of thousands of people were killed," Adada told the council. "Today, in purely numerical terms it is a low-intensity conflict." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 What was it before? A war of harsh language? UN=worthless |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2009-04-28 11:53 |
| #4 my thoughts exactly Almost. The Nookie-for-food program must be running out of underage nookie. Of course they don't count 'Starvation' as 'Violence'. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2009-04-28 11:45 |
| #3 Must be no children left for the "peacekeepers" to molest. |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2009-04-28 11:27 |
| #2 That the Sudan government threw out most of the aid agencies helps a lot to deplete the Christian & Animist populations, too. Less people to eradicate, less 'Violence®'. Of course, that leaves the UN agencies as the 'only game in town' here. Could some form of collusion be occurring? Hmmmm... |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2009-04-28 08:49 |
| #1 That the people won't venture out of the refugee camps to look for food or firewood for fear of getting murdered by the Sudan government proxies means nothing, apparently. The ensuing starvation is 'not Violence®'. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2009-04-28 08:21 |