U.N. Security Council Votes for New Sudan Peacekeeping Force
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The U.N. Security Council on Monday unanimously voted to send a 4,200-strong Ethiopian peacekeeping force to the disputed Sudanese territory of Abyei.
The force will monitor the withdrawal of north Sudan troops from Abyei as well as human rights in the region.
Khartoum forces occupied Abyei on May 21 and more than 100,000 people have since fled the territory mainly to southern Sudan. With fighting also flaring in the neighboring state of South Kordofan, the action has heightened tensions ahead of southern Sudan's declaration of independence on July 9.
27 June 2011, 18:41
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Here come the US's rent-a-cops, who last appeared in their role of liberating Somalia from its own people. If they are as successful in Sudan as they were in Somalia, the South is in real trouble. Well, you might say, at least they're not Israeli soldiers. In fact, you can see how important this mission is to the US and Israel by the fact that they use Ethiopians. That's one step above using Rwandans and Ugandans, who will be sent in once the Ethiopians get the situation stabilized. Like Mogadishu. The Ugandans and Rwandans have pushed out to control some sectors of Mogadishu, while their governments back home work on democratic development: how to suppress it.
