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How the UN keeps peace: Sudan, for example - 70,000 dead so far

Here’s what happens when you wait for the United Nations to keep peace and bring about order in the world.

In Rwanda, 800,000 citizens were slaughtered.  That was with UN personnel on the ground. 

In Sudan, currently, people are being slaughtered daily.  This despite UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan politely asking them to please stop, over tea just last week.  So far, only 70,000 citizens have been slaughtered.  17 more killed just yesterday—and this is during a “ceasefire agreement”. 

Good thing the UN isn’t “rushing to war”.  Maybe they’re still wrestling with a “plan for the peace” or an “exit strategy”.  Maybe they’re consulting with liberals. 

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP)—Fighting near a village in Sudan’s crisis-plagued Darfur region killed at least 17 people Monday, while helicopters rescued dozens of workers who fled into the bush to escape.

State Minister Ahmed Haroon said rebels attacked the strategic North Darfur town of Tawilla early Monday, killing 17 people and destroying the town’s hospital. He said an unknown number of people were injured. A statement by an aid organization said government planes also dropped bombs on the town.

UPDATE:  Reuters is reporting 30 dead today

KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudan said on Tuesday clashes with rebels in its Darfur region had killed more than 30 policemen, and denied accusations from aid workers that government planes had bombed a town captured by the rebels.

Rebels attacked and seized the town of Tawilla in North Darfur state on Monday, and officials said fighting was continuing as police and army struggled to regain control over the town, where about 30,000 refugees are encamped.

The Save the Children UK organization said about 30 of its workers were forced to flee on foot when a bomb landed about 50 meters (yards) from one of its feeding centers in the town.

Rebel commanders in North Darfur also said the town had been bombed, but Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail denied this. […]

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