Sunday, October 28, 2007
Darfur relief
what i have been asking myself over the past week or so is what can anyone do about Darfur. Personally i believe that the U.N should be doing the most intervention. Although i believe the U.N should intervene somehow i dont know what they should do. After reading an article from my news source The Australian, i found that U.N has taken some action in Darfur. In August of this past summer, they said they would send in around 26,000 hybrid United Nations and the African Union troops to Darfur in order to seize fire. I think this is a major step in the right direction. I do not know if they actually sent the troops but am interested to see if they are going to or have already. I think the U.N understands the amount of corruption in Darfur and is really focusing in on this human rights situation.
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so as of today, the African Union/UN hybrid mission in Darfur has inaugurated its first operational base in the town El Fasher. Eventually, it will be one of the largest UN peacekeeping missions in history with a compliation of 19,555 military and 6,432 police personelle from possibly 15 different countries. They have already begun conducting pre-deployment visits to check equipment etc. so really something is under way. I think the response time was atrocious but it is not going entierly unnoticed. at least not anymore. that was just a summary of an article from IRIN. if you want to read it for yourself:
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=75077
i also read something similar saying that it would be put into action in jan 2008
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7061066.stm
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