QUIST-ARCTON: Annan said U.N. peacekeepers must be sent to Darfur now, to help African troops there keep the peace.
They've now signed the Darfur Peace Agreement, so they've taken on the responsibility for implementation of that agreement.
The fact that now you have 200, 000 Sudanese Darfur refugees across the border in refugee camps in Chad, and 55, 000-plus Chadians now displaced, who say they're being attacked by the pro-Sudanese Janjaweed militia.
But there will be plenty of time to decide this later what Darfur's people most need right now is aid, and an end to the killing.
About 2.7m people are now crowding into overflowing makeshift camps in Darfur itself, and about another 300, 000 are in camps over the border in Chad.
Forty people a week are dying here in Mornei now and this is just one camp in Darfur.
Now, however, the nature of the conflict in Darfur has mutated, making the violence more unpredictable and widespread and the task of getting a lasting peace deal that much harder.
Libya has helped speed relief supplies to the region and now appears to have agreed to sponsor peace talks between the Darfur rebels and the Sudanese government.
While we have each participated in our own way in building an advocacy movement around Darfur, it has been the high-school and college students who have made Darfur a political issue too important to be ignored, and who are now preparing similar campaigns for Congo.
And so Darfur's camps have become giant prisons, holding almost two million people now.
We only had a tiny snapshot of what was happening, and I'm no expert, but as things look now without international pressure on all sides the suffering and the killing in Darfur will not end.
Now it was down to me to try to find out the truth about Darfur.
Now, this coming Sunday in Los Angeles, several groups are hosting a high-profile Darfur Observance Day.
The group might now regret their move into Chad, as in their absence there was a fresh Sudanese assault on Darfur.
Now, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recently called for an increased UN presence in Sudan, particularly in Darfur.
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