"Darfur Trembles as Peacekeepers' Exit Looms"
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/10/world/africa/10darfur.html?_r=2&oref=login&oref=slogin
"What happened in Rwanda, it will happen here," said Sheik Abdullah
Muhammad Ali, who fled here from a nearby village seeking the safety
that he hoped the presence of about 200 African Union peacekeepers
would bring. But the Sudanese government has asked the African Union
to quit Darfur rather than hand over its mission to the United
Nations. "If these soldiers leave," Sheik Ali said, "we will all be
slaughtered."
"Darfur: Waiting for the slaughter"
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/article1603856.ece
Rasha Ibrahim Adam and her children may be about to die - just as she
thought they had all escaped to safety.
The 38-year-old mother of four children is one of the latest to flee
the bombs from the Sudanese government that have dropped on their
homes. Today, she finds herself in one of the dusty, benighted refugee
camps that litter the region of Darfur. She sits in her once bright
red tob - a wrap-around dress - that has been faded by the sand-laden
wind that blows across al-Salaam camp on the edge of the town of
el-Fasher.
She was one of the 50,000 people who swelled the scorched camps for
the "internally displaced" in the past month - bringing to about 2.5
million the number of children, women and men now homeless in a
conflict that has dragged on for three years without an end seemingly
in sight. Until now, that is. Because an end is in sight for the
Darfur camps - where at least 300,000 black African farmers have been
slaughtered by the Khartoum government and its Arab proxies, the
Janjaweed militia, whose name means "devils on horseback". One of
those who died was Rasha's husband, Adam.
It could be an end so terrifying, it defies the imagination.
"Annan issues stark message to Security Council about impending
catastrophe in Darfur"
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=19789&Cr=Sudan&Cr1=Darfur
Mr. Annan said the UN and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) will
have to drastically scale back their humanitarian operations in Darfur
unless the security situation improves.
"Can we, in conscience, leave the people of Darfur to such a fate? Can
the international community, having not done enough for the people of
Rwanda in their time of need, just watch as this tragedy deepens?" he
asked.
"Food crisis looms in North Darfur"
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/44ebc5a1f83bc561ec2c739dd59de162.htm
On Wednesday, NRF rebels clashed with government forces south of
Tawilla. An Antonov plane and two helicopter gunships reportedly
bombed Dobo Al Umda Dobo and Dobo Al Madrasa town and the surrounding
villages. The number of casualties is unknown.
"If a United Nations force is not deployed soon, something much worse
is going to happen here," the SLM/A commander added.
"Rebels Say They May Abandon Darfur Pact"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/13/AR2006091301996.html
Abdulrahaman Abdallah, a commander of the rebel group's military
police, said that without a strong international force here, "the
government will go back to its strategy, which is genocide, and
inevitably we will go back to the bush."
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/10/world/africa/10darfur.html?_r=2&oref=login&oref=slogin
"What happened in Rwanda, it will happen here," said Sheik Abdullah
Muhammad Ali, who fled here from a nearby village seeking the safety
that he hoped the presence of about 200 African Union peacekeepers
would bring. But the Sudanese government has asked the African Union
to quit Darfur rather than hand over its mission to the United
Nations. "If these soldiers leave," Sheik Ali said, "we will all be
slaughtered."
"Darfur: Waiting for the slaughter"
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/article1603856.ece
Rasha Ibrahim Adam and her children may be about to die - just as she
thought they had all escaped to safety.
The 38-year-old mother of four children is one of the latest to flee
the bombs from the Sudanese government that have dropped on their
homes. Today, she finds herself in one of the dusty, benighted refugee
camps that litter the region of Darfur. She sits in her once bright
red tob - a wrap-around dress - that has been faded by the sand-laden
wind that blows across al-Salaam camp on the edge of the town of
el-Fasher.
She was one of the 50,000 people who swelled the scorched camps for
the "internally displaced" in the past month - bringing to about 2.5
million the number of children, women and men now homeless in a
conflict that has dragged on for three years without an end seemingly
in sight. Until now, that is. Because an end is in sight for the
Darfur camps - where at least 300,000 black African farmers have been
slaughtered by the Khartoum government and its Arab proxies, the
Janjaweed militia, whose name means "devils on horseback". One of
those who died was Rasha's husband, Adam.
It could be an end so terrifying, it defies the imagination.
"Annan issues stark message to Security Council about impending
catastrophe in Darfur"
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=19789&Cr=Sudan&Cr1=Darfur
Mr. Annan said the UN and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) will
have to drastically scale back their humanitarian operations in Darfur
unless the security situation improves.
"Can we, in conscience, leave the people of Darfur to such a fate? Can
the international community, having not done enough for the people of
Rwanda in their time of need, just watch as this tragedy deepens?" he
asked.
"Food crisis looms in North Darfur"
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/44ebc5a1f83bc561ec2c739dd59de162.htm
On Wednesday, NRF rebels clashed with government forces south of
Tawilla. An Antonov plane and two helicopter gunships reportedly
bombed Dobo Al Umda Dobo and Dobo Al Madrasa town and the surrounding
villages. The number of casualties is unknown.
"If a United Nations force is not deployed soon, something much worse
is going to happen here," the SLM/A commander added.
"Rebels Say They May Abandon Darfur Pact"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/13/AR2006091301996.html
Abdulrahaman Abdallah, a commander of the rebel group's military
police, said that without a strong international force here, "the
government will go back to its strategy, which is genocide, and
inevitably we will go back to the bush."
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