Community | March 17, 2009 | 4 comments

Darfur Killings Continue: Peacekeeper Shot Dead

source: http://english.aljazeera.net//news/africa/2009/03/2009317152754965334.html

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A peacekeeper with the joint UN-African Union force (Unamid) in Sudan's western Darfur region has been shot dead by unknown assailants, a spokesman for the mission says.

The attack on Tuesday was the second targeting international peacekeepers since the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Omar al-Bashir, the Sudanese president, on war crimes charges.

"Unamid peacekeepers coming back from a patrol in Nyala were ambushed by eight unidentified gunmen," Kemal Saiki, a spokesman, said.

"This was not a carjacking gone wrong. This was a cold-blooded ambush. They were waiting for us."

The soldier, whose nationality was not released, died after he was airlifted to the mission's headquarters in the North Darfur capital of Al-Fasher.

On March 10, four Unamid troops were wounded in another ambush near Geneina in West Darfur.

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4 comments // Darfur Killings Continue: Peacekeeper Shot Dead

  • awc1
  • bucketoftruth
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      bucketoftruth  

    • Whats fucked up about this whole issue is that most of the recent uptick in violence is directly related to the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant out for Sudanese president, Omar al-Bashir. Journalists, NGO's, aide organizations, everyone is being kicked out in a situation that could come to resemble the totally failed state of Mugabe's Zimbabwe.

      Some part of me wonders if the ICC actually thought through their insistence that sitting heads-of-state can be tried and convicted. Did they not consider the potential reaction of someone like al-Bashir? And if the UN was actually worth a shit it would be able to go into the Sudan and pluck al-Bashir out no problem. But then what happens? Is the UN prepared to appoint someone (another dictator)? Or would they try to hold elections? (HA!) Would they be willing to install a peacekeeping force? While I applaud the ICC's prosecution of people like al-Bashir, I have to question if they really actually thought about this...

    • 3 years ago
  • RepressThis
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      RepressThis  

    • howhispering, if it were only that easy. I'm curious to see how the ICC issued arrest warrant for Omar al-Bashir is going to play out political in the Darfur region. I hope this incident isn't going to be an indicationof what to expect.

      What do you Current users expect to happen next?

    • 3 years ago
  • howhispering
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