A displaced Sudanese girl stands in front of a peacekeeping soldier from the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur at a camp in northern Darfur. Zohra Bensemra / Reuters-LandovFrom Newsweek:
Two weeks ago at El Fasher airport in Darfur, I watched Sudanese soldiers load up an Antonov bomber, in full view of the U.N. plane I was seated inside. The recent headline-making comments of the outgoing U.N.-African Union force commander, Gen. Martin Luther Agwai, that the war in Darfur is "over," therefore strike me as overly optimistic. They bring to mind George W. Bush's similarly premature message of "mission accomplished" in Iraq, which was displayed on a banner aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln in 2003 behind the president's podium. As with Iraq, there is a long way to go before anyone involved in Darfur should be congratulating themselves.
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My Comment: I agree with Newsweek's assessment .... There is no compelling reason to believe that the present situation constitutes a permanent cessation of the war, as opposed to a temporary lull in fighting.
As long as the butchers who planned and implemented this genocide are still free, this conflict is far from over.
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