The UN is On the Way

The people of Darfur should rest a little easier tonight:

UNITED NATIONS, New York The UN Security Council unanimously approved a resolution Tuesday calling for strict observance of a new peace accord in Darfur and an acceleration of arrangements for a United Nations peacekeeping force to replace the strapped African Union force now there.

The council voted, 15 to 0, after a meeting of the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Monday urged the Sudanese government to drop objections to putting the force in Darfur, an area the size of France, under eventual UN command.

OK! That should solve the problem...or not. We see that the negotiations have had a huge impact thus far:

The cease-fire is already being widely violated, and the 7,000-person African Union force is unable and ill- equipped to exert meaningful control over the marauding rebel groups and government-supported militias that are committing atrocities with impunity.

Jan Pronk, the UN envoy to Sudan, told reporters in Addis Ababa, "It is now high time to take very concrete steps toward a stronger force."

The UN is run by a group that is so knee-jerk to using force that we will continue to see the people of Darfur raped and murdered by an oppressive regime.

I am not saying that force is always the answer, sometimes the threat of force is enough. The Janjaweed know damn well that the UN threats at this point mean nothing and they will continue to rampage.