U.N. Official Says More Peacekeepers Needed
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Attempts to bring peace to Sudan’s Darfur region have failed, and a U.N. peacekeeping force of 12,000 to 20,000 troops is needed to stop the killings, the top U.N. official in Sudan said.
Jan Pronk gave his most pessimistic assessment yet to the U.N. Security Council. He said Arab militias were succeeding in an “ethnic cleansing” campaign, erasing village after village.
The U.N. is contemplating a peacekeeping force in Darfur, where the African Union has fielded a force of 7,000 with a limited mandate and scarce funds. But U.N. peacekeeping officials have not planned for the numbers of troops Pronk suggested.
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