Monday, June 19, 2006

Real Peace In Sudan

Colin Thomas-Jensen


Colin Thomas-Jensen is the Research and Advocacy Officer for Africa for the International Crisis Group, the global conflict resolution organization.

Last month, four days after the Darfur Peace Agreement was signed, the desperate and angry residents of Kalma camp in South Darfur lashed out against the African Union (AU), the regional body charged with observing a failed 2004 ceasefire and brokering the latest deal. Demonstrators looted an AU police post and brutally killed an unarmed Sudanese translator. Anger at the peace deal and the forces behind it is not limited to Kalma. Similar post-agreement violence has erupted in numerous other squalid displacement camps across Darfur. Read more >>>

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