Jan Pronk is the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative in Sudan and he leads the UN mission there. Lately I’ve been very impressed by his efforts and the solutions he proposed. I agree with him on many things. I do however personally prefer the AU troops to handle the situation instead of UN troops. If that’s not possible and UN troops will inevitably end up taking over Darfur with Sudan’s consent, I would welcome it. I just hope al-Bashir and the UN will be able to handle the loony Sudanese Islamists and al-Qaeda when they declare their so called jihad against the “Zionist” UN troops and Bashir for becoming their puppet.
I swear to God, I sometimes wonder how the hell Zawahri passed his medicine exams and became a doctor. He doesn’t mind Muslim “blackies” getting killed in Darfur but he minds “Zionist” troops for trying to help ops I meant colonize. Oh well… To get a clear picture of Darfur’s developments and what needs to be done, read this entry in Jan Pronk’s blog. Three months are left before the AU troops leave. There’s a lot of work to be done in this time. Will Darfur be saved? Geee, I sure hope so. Meanwhile let’s just pray Iran or Israel don’t end up starting another world war because that sure ought to make things lovely!
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I see that Mr. Pronk’s blog does not accept comments. Kommisch, nah? I wonder why not?
The following excerpt captured my attention
“In my address to the Security Council I presented a ‘five points, three months’ plan for the period until the end of this year, in order to install a workable life support system for peace. First: bring all parties on board of the peace agreement. Do not exclude parties that so far did not sign the agreement from the peace process by demanding that they should first sign in order to allowed talking. Second: establish a truce between the parties that continue to fight despite the official cease fire. Third: reform the Cease Fire Commission. It should become fully representative and authoritative. It should address all violations of the cease fire. It should begin the process of zoning and demarcating the areas under control of the various parties. It should discuss the plan to stop and disarm the Janjaweed. Fourth: resume the discussion about the content of the Darfur Peace Agreement itself. Legally it is a good agreement; politically it has failed. The majority of the people in Darfur have lost faith in the agreement as it stands today. Without fully reopening the negotiations it should be possible to improve the text through consultations with in particular the Fur and with the displaced people.
My fifth point was the one I mentioned above: get off the collision course, both within Sudan as well as in the international debate. Use the Ramadan as a month of tranquility. Use the coming three months to reach a full consensus between the international community and Sudan by means of constructive talks rather than an exchange of accusations.
There is not much time left. The displaced people in the camps, the refugees across the border, the people living in no go areas that can not be reached by our relief workers, the villagers who continue to live in fear for renewed attacks by militia, Janjaweed, robbers as well as by government gun ships can not wait much longer.”
Thankx for sharing.
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