New batch of Indian peacekeepers arrive in Sudan
January 15, 2010 (KHARTOUM) — A group of Indian Air Force arrived in Khartoum from New Delhi to join the ten thousand UN peacekeepers deployed in the African nation following a peace agreement signed since five years.
The United Nations Mission in Sudan is established by the United Nations Security Council in March 2005 to support the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed on January 2005 between the Government of Sudan and former rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement.
The Indian contingent consists of 196 personnel and includes six Mi-17 utility helicopters and will replace an aviation group based in Kadugli, South Kordofan State in central Sudan.
“Their role will be peacekeeping under UN charter 6, to carry troops and supplies from one place to another. We also have a medical detachment to help the casualties,” said Air Marshal T S Randhawa Director General (Inspection and Safety), IAF, who flagged off the contingent.
India, the UN’s third largest contributor of peacekeepers with 8,767 troops and police personnel, had already contributed air assets to the peacekeeping operations in Congo, which were very effectively used by the UN mission.
The UN last year said in October last year it had asked India to contribute helicopters for the hybrid peacekeeping mission in the restive Darfur region.
UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Alain Le Roy, during a visit to New Delhi told reporters that the Indian government is studying a demand to provide helicopters to Darfur mission.
“India has not yet committed the helicopters we requested for Sudan. They are, however, considering it,” he said.
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Dinka Boy
New batch of Indian peacekeepers arrive in Sudan
A group of Indian Air Force must monitor the immoral act of Criminal Bashier against of Darfurian. The Khartoum governmnet bomb Darfur recently and that is not acceptable.
Bashier must be taken to ICC for hang because the kiling of people of Darfur since 2003.
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Aduol Liet
New batch of Indian peacekeepers arrive in Sudan
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This is move but please U.N. don’t let Sudanese indictment killer seek for another relection that will be a bad Idea particular on the United Nation, I think it will make them too a shameful in the whole world. A person who can not even feel sorry for what he did to his people and he don’t respect the U.N. Body as a whole that person must be showing to him that, there is rule of law for International and Omar al Bashir must be arrest.
Omar al Bashir and his all members Idiots of National Congress Party must be held accountable to that genocide in Darfuri Regions and the United Nation also have to understand fully, Sudan Country is almost divide in to many oppositions governments leading by the Southern Sudanese people and this South part are capable if the U.N, Step in now strongly and quickly then, the Sudan government will not a week to be defeated and perhaps, we appeal to U.N. And many others friendship in the Western world to put their effort most effecitive than ever, because it is very Important one. We also need some Africa Nations to cooperates with the U.N. In order to help Sudanese citizens whom have been suffering in many decades and even now the Omar al Bashir government still continues killing innocents civilians in Darfuri Regions, because this Sudan dictatorship Omar al Bashir did not even satsified for what he have done so far and YES, U.N. please your help is very Importants to we Sudanese people and after Omar al Bashir gone then, we will be thanking them a lots for their outstanding work they did to Sudanese people.