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(CNN) -- Darfur rebels killed at least 12 peacekeepers at an African Union base in the deadliest attack yet on the peacekeeping force in its three-year mission, the AU said Sunday.
African Union peacekeeping soldiers guard an area near al-Salam camp in North Darfur, on September 5.
The overnight attack injured at least eight people and left some 25 AU peacekeepers missing, said AU spokesman Assane Ba.
AU officers told The Associated Press that 1,000 rebels from the Sudan Liberation Army stormed the AU base in the town of Haskanita.
"There is a war going on between the rebels and the government, and the AU is crunched in the middle," a senior AU officer who asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the issue told AP.
The bloody assault came about two months after the U.N. Security Council authorized a 26,000-member peacekeeping mission in Darfur, more than tripling the AU-led force there.
Sunday's attack followed an April shooting by unidentified gunmen that killed five Senegalese AU peacekeepers in Umbaro, in northwest Darfur near the border with Chad...
African Union peacekeeping soldiers guard an area near al-Salam camp in North Darfur, on September 5. The overnight attack injured at least eight people and left some 25 AU peacekeepers missing, said AU spokesman Assane Ba.AU officers told The Associated Press that 1,000 rebels from the Sudan Liberation Army stormed the AU base in the town of Haskanita.
"There is a war going on between the rebels and the government, and the AU is crunched in the middle," a senior AU officer who asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the issue told AP.
The bloody assault came about two months after the U.N. Security Council authorized a 26,000-member peacekeeping mission in Darfur, more than tripling the AU-led force there.
Sunday's attack followed an April shooting by unidentified gunmen that killed five Senegalese AU peacekeepers in Umbaro, in northwest Darfur near the border with Chad...
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Well what the hell can we do to prevent this,, people have tried everything, aid, money, appeasement, occupation, creating buffers.
Well the UN failed and left and the AU will be on its way back as well, well thats the end of Darfur. Let the @#$%^&* Rebels be left alone ot contiue leading there miserable, usless life.
The world can only try so much...
them!
