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 Send helicopters to Darfur
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Conor Foley
December 17, 2007 4:30 PM
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/conor_foley/2007/12...pters_to_darfur.html
This will be the shortest piece that I have ever written for Comment is free and it is really only to give a link to this site where you can sign an e-petition calling on the British government to pledge to send five helicopters to Darfur
Since the start of this year more than 100 aid workers have been kidnapped and 66 assaulted or raped, while over 60 aid convoys were ambushed and 100 vehicles hijacked. These attacks are coming from all sides, and it is wrong to portray the conflict in over-simplistic terms, but the international community cannot allow this appalling humanitarian catastrophe to continue
The UN security council unanimously decided to send a joint UN/African Union force to Darfur in July. The Sudanese authorities have, in principle, agreed to accept this force, but it remains dramatically under-resourced. In particular, without adequate air cover, it cannot do its job of protecting civilian lives. At the start of October an AU base was overrun by a Darfur rebel group who massacred the peacekeeping soldiers and stole their equipment
This petition is asking Gordon Brown to set an example to the international community by immediately providing five of the helicopters required. An alternative would be to pay for the deployment of helicopters by a non-Nato country such as India. Western leaders have made many verbal commitments to "do something" about Darfur. Now they need to match their words with deeds
The Guardian
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| Send helicopters to Darfur | Mohamed Omer | 12-18-07, 01:10 AM |
| Re: Send helicopters to Darfur | Mohamed Omer | 12-18-07, 02:27 AM |
| Re: Send helicopters to Darfur | Mohamed Omer | 12-18-07, 02:36 AM |
| Re: Send helicopters to Darfur | Mohamed Omer | 12-18-07, 02:47 AM |
| Re: Send helicopters to Darfur | Mohamed Omer | 12-18-07, 02:53 AM |
| Re: Send helicopters to Darfur | Mohamed Omer | 12-18-07, 03:23 AM |
| Re: Send helicopters to Darfur | Mohamed Omer | 12-18-07, 03:50 AM |
| Re: Send helicopters to Darfur | Mohamed Omer | 12-18-07, 03:55 AM |
| Re: Send helicopters to Darfur | Mohamed Omer | 12-18-07, 04:12 AM |
| Re: Send helicopters to Darfur | Mohamed Omer | 12-18-07, 04:53 AM |
| Re: Send helicopters to Darfur | Mohamed Omer | 12-18-07, 04:58 AM |
| Re: Send helicopters to Darfur | Mohamed Omer | 12-18-07, 04:52 PM |
| Re: Send helicopters to Darfur | Mohamed Omer | 12-18-07, 05:22 PM |
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