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| SUDAN: Playing the UN for Fools |
| 2005-05-17 |
| May 17, 2005: As of April 1, the number of Sudanese refugees now in camps in eastern Chad was 193,000. "Internally Displaced Persons" (IDPs, ie refugees still in Sudan) were estimated at 1.97 million people. Some 1.6 million (in Darfur or Chad) people received food aid during the month of April 2005. Approximately 2.1 million people in the area needed food during that month. That means that either security issues (eg, militia activity) or lack of logistic capacity kept 500,000 from receiving food shipments. One particular supply route as being particularly vulnerable: the main road connecting the towns of Nyala and Ed Daein in South Darfur. African Union (AU) peacekeepers can only escort one food convoy per week on this route. The AU force lacks sufficient ground and air transport to do much more. May 16, 2005: The government strategy of delay and obfuscation appears to be working. Non-African peacekeepers are being kept out of Darfur, and the threatening presence of Arab militias are keeping the two million non-Arab refugees from returning home. That means that the Arab tribes will keep the land they have stolen from the non-Arab tribes. The refugees will become the UNs problem. If the UN won't feed and care for them, the government will let them starve, or move off to neighboring countries. |
| Posted by:ed |
| #3 I'm sure the UN will jump right on this and schedule a conference in S. Africa and a luncheon in Paris to plan the next conference on how sternly to write the letter to the Sudanese government. In the meantime non-muslim people in Sudan starve to death as well as get killed and raped by 'moderate muslims'. But of course the false allegation of one Koran being flushed down a toilet is much more important then millions of deaths... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2005-05-17 19:11 |
| #2 mm...lol! |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-05-17 11:22 |
| #1 Can you play a bunch of fools for fools? |
| Posted by: mmurray821 2005-05-17 11:18 |