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2 U.N. peacekeepers killed in Darfur
[Updated at 7:48 a.m.] Two United Nations peacekeepers and a police officer were killed in an ambush in a camp for displaced people in Sudan's Darfur region, a U.N. representative told CNN Tuesday.
The two peacekeepers were armed; the police officer was not, said Kemal Saiki, a spokesman for the joint U.N. and African Union mission in the troubled region. Another five people were injured in the incident, three seriously.
They came under attack in North Darfur while the security unit was on patrol in the camp at about 11 p.m. Monday, Saiki said. One of the assailants was also killed.
It was unclear why the attack occurred.
The joint peacekeeping mission in Darfur is the world's largest at 20,000 authorized troops. Since it began in 2008, 33 peacekeepers have been killed.
Darfur is among the most dangerous areas of operation for U.N. personnel. The region remains a tinderbox. At least 300,000 people have been killed and 2.7 million others driven from their homes as a result of fighting between Sudanese rebel groups and the Khartoum government and its allied armed militia.
- CNN's James Partington contributed to the story.
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Africa is a waste of time money and human life.....let them kill each other....
You are the waste of life... Africa is more civilized than what CNN portrays.
LOL @ "The two PEACEKEEPERS were ARMED; the POLICE OFFICER was NOT".
"Darfur is among the most dangerous areas of operation for U.N. personnel." Then PLEASE tell me why they are called "peacekeepers". There is no peace to keep. Send them in to kick a$$ and take names, straighten out the dictatorial governments, enforce human rights, and feed the hungry, medicate the sick, etc.
Otherwise pack up your robin-egg blue helmets and go home.
YEAH JAMES BOND AND YOU SHOULD DRINK THE WATER OUT OF A P*SS HOLE
BOND I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE YOU SIGHTED IN MY SCOPE. FINGER ON YHE TRIGGER!
Unless you plan on going in and imposing order by force of arms (and open use of summary punishment) there really is no point. Do you plan on saving them this year? What about next year? The years after that? (And save them from what? Themselves?)
Some societies are just broken. Either leave them to their own devices and hope they smarten up, or go in and brutally suppress the broken society and force them to change their ways or die.
Doing anything less is only a salve for your ego. And a drain on your finances.
I really cannot believe the comments on here. I don’t understand how people that live in a civilized society could be so cold to people that are not at lucky as we are. These peacekeepers were protecting were protecting civlians from being slaughtered. The extremist in this region have been known to kill whole families including children. I can’t imagine the horrors the people face every day. My heart goes out to anyone living or working in this region.
As a while middleclass father, I would gladly pay taxes up the ass if the government would step in to stop what goes here. I would gladly pick up arms against people throwing babies on stakes in front of their mothers.
These 3 people should be considered hero’s and nothing less.
inewman:
Well said.
Agreed.