Hans Rustad Våpenhvile og avvæpning av militsen kunne mediene forkynne etter at Colin Powell og Kofi Annan besøkte Darfour. Virkeligheten var en helt annen, kan Guardian fortelle. De ble bedratt.
The shell game that the Sudanese government played with the UN secretary general and the US secretary of state earlier this week when they went to Darfur was outrageous. Colin Powell was taken to what aid workers say is patently a show settlement for refugees, while the first, and more typical, camp that Kofi Annan tried to visit had been «re-located» overnight and was empty when he arrived. While the two visitors tried as best they could to evaluate the situation on the ground for themselves, Sudanese helicopter gunships and militia units attacked Darfur villages not all that far from their travel routes, according to reliable sources. This was in spite of a supposed ceasefire between government forces and the relatively small numbers of still active rebels, and is one reason why rebel negotiators did not turn up for planned peace talks in N’Djamena, the Chad capital, yesterday.
