دارفـــور: مشروع قرار امريكى جديد يدعو لفرض المزيد من العقوبات على السودان

Quote: Rights group calls for speedy troop deployment in Sudan's Darfur ADDIS ABABA, May 8 (AFP) - A leading international rights group on Sunday urged African Union (AU) to hasten the deployment and increase the number of peacekeepers to Sudan's war-ravaged region of Darfur in order to help scale back a worsening humanitarian situation. New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said the current number of troops in the region was too low in the face of escalating conflict between government-backed militia called Janjaweed and rebels from minority tribes that has spawned humanitarian disaster. "The African Union's current force in Darfur remains too small, and the projected rate of deployment of more troops too slow to protect civilians and reverse ethnic cleansing in the western Sudanese region," HRW's African Director Peter Takirambudde told the AU in a letter addressed to its Peace and Security Council, a copy of which was obtained by AFP.