The East African (Nairobi)
7 January 2008
The success of the new United Nations-African Union hybrid force being deployed in Darfur will depend on its ability to overcome limitations that hobbled the original AU Mission in the region.
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The people of Sudan have been suffering for about thirty years from civl wars that started with southern Sudan war and, as that was about settled, the Darfur war was forced on the country. Both warring parties are definitely weary and will like to settle amicably but the foreign backers of the Darfur militants that are providing the ammunition and training are pushing the Darfur militants not to go for peaceful settlement. The plan of the foreign backers of the militants is to continue the war in order to continue to drain the economy of the Sudan government with the hope that the Sudan government could be forced into near bankrupcy and finally give up its rule in Darfur and southern Sudan so that it can be colonized and reduced to the situation in the DRC. It is estimated that about ten million civilians have been killed in the Congo since the assassination of Patrice Lumumba in 1961 but the total civilians killed in the Sudan is estimated at about 2.5 million. Civilian kilings are continuing in both countries but, paradoxically, the kilings in Sudan are seen as genocide whilst those in Congo are not. The same foreign manipulators are behind the wars in both countries for the sake of acquiring the natural resources from these countries free of charge or by looting.