Sudan: Darfur Ambush Claims Five RDF Peacekeepers
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The New Times (Kigali)
10 July 2008
Posted to the web 10 July 2008
Kennedy Ndahiro
Darfur
Five members of the RDF serving under the hybrid AU/UN mission in Darfur (UNAMID) died yesterday when a convoy they were escorting fell into an ambush in Shangiya Tobaya, 40km south of El-Fasher in the Sudanese troubled area of Darfur.
RDF spokesman Major Jules Rutaremara told The New Times that 17 others are reported to have been wounded in what is the worst attack against the RDF peacekeepers since they were deployed to the troubled region.
The peacekeepers were part of a protection force that was escorting UNAMID observers which fell into the ambush by heavily armed men with over 40 vehicles mounted with heavy calibre anti-aircraft weapons.
"Our peacekeepers are ill equipped in a situation where they come under attack from heavily armed people," explained Maj. Rutaremara.
The spokesman was echoing existing concerns by many observers, including the UN, who have called on the international community for more and better equipment. Despite the tragedy, Rutaremara said that the RDF would continue with their mission.
"But our mission in Darfur will be marked with more vigilance and self defence," he noted.
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The death of the five brings the number of fatalities in war-torn Darfur to 15 since the troops were deployed there in 2004.
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Sad that gallant peacekeepers' lives continue to be lost in the Darfur conflict. Unfortunately, the situation is likely to be like that until and only when the international community says 'enough is enough' and send more and better equipped troops to support those already on the ground.
Gen Agwai has been placed between a rock and a hard place. Give him the manpower and resources so that he can deliver and bring up the much needed peace in an area that has known many days of suffering than of happiness.
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I think the inetrnational community is not bothered about the current Darfur crisis. No wonder they observed when a million innocent Rwandese were massacred in Rwanda in 1994.In Rwandese soldiers who lost their lives in sudan
What is happening in Sudan is really SAD.
The US and Britain are busy at the UN pushing for sanctions against MUGABE just because a few white people were forced out of their farms.
Let us just pray that God will help the people of Darfur and restore their peace.
Countries do act when they have INTERESTS (as for the case of western pressure in Zimbabwe) and never or act little when there is none.
THIS IS WHAT ZIMBABWE and SUDAN IS UP AGAINST? "Character Assination","Nation Destabilization" the Anglo Saxon Diaspora are Master of this game and they have perfected it to a fine art. The leaders in Sudan and Zimbawe are fighting a Hydra headed monster, and it is also a shape shifter. The scourge of the planet earth "The Anglo Saxon Dutch Diaspora" CHECK THESE OUT ON YOU TUBE and then write your article
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I think the inetrnational community is not bothered about the current Darfur crisis. No wonder they observed when a million innocent Rwandese were massacred in Rwanda in 1994.In tribute to all Rwandese soldiers who lost their lives in sudan
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It is very unfortunate that people comes from far away to try to help sudanese achieve some peace and are attacked by the same sudanese.