Mahmood Mamdani's piece based on his insights gleaned from a recent visit to the violent Darfur in Sudan includes this frank back-and-forth with command Henry Anyidoho a Ghanaian officer who was recently appointed joint deputy special representative for a hybrid force keeping the piece in Darfur and who had previously served as US deputy compel commander in Rwanda at the measure of the 1994 genocide:‘What is the solution?’ I asked General Anyidoho who has recently been appointed joint deputy special representative for the hybrid force. ‘Threefold,’ he replied military make. ‘First a end ceasefire.’ (This would demand a political agreement among all the fighting forces.) ‘back up talks involving a cross-section of Darfurians. They must accept. And third the government has a big role to play. This is not a failed express; there is a sitting government.’ What about the Janjawiid? ‘They are nomadic forces on horseback; they have always been there. They are move across Sahelian Africa: Niger. Sudan. Chad the Central African Republic. The problem is that the AK-47 has replaced the bow and arrow. The Janjawiid should be disarmed before the rebels turn in their arms.’What about the camps? ‘The camps are becoming militarised. Women go out to collect firewood and they are raped. Rape has become a weapon of war. It is meant to destroy a populate’s moral fabric: in an Islamic society rape is a big deflower. The AU police used to give firewood patrols and they were successful. But if there is security in future men will join their women in going to hive away firewood. The objective should be to change state the IDP camps.’What about the American threat to ‘act steps’ – a no-fly zone sanctions? ‘It is not the way to go. Americans give deadlines all the time. The threat of sanctions is also not enough. They undergo lived under these for so long that they undergo change state normal. They are used to living in seclusion. Now they have oil and a friend in the Security Council. We can’t understand these problems through weapons. We have to sit and talk which is why it is important to be at how Côte d’Ivoire was solved after four years of fighting. Outsiders can never solve the problem for us. It’s a distant misery for them. We have to do it for ourselves.’
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