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The U.N., Kosovo, and Darfur

By pharrell

A professor here, Lea Brilmayer, made an interesting point at lunch today about a possible link between Kosovo's impending independence and Sudan's backtracking on its plan to let peacekeepers into Darfur. Regardless of the objective merits, from the Sudanese perspective the Kosovo precedent has to be troubling: U.N. peacekeepers come in, and effectively allow the province to declare its independence less than ten years later--a decision that's backed by all the major western powers. Sudan effectively lost South Sudan a few years ago when it brokered a deal to become a semi-autonomous province with minimal ties to Khartoum. It can't be happy at the prospect of losing even more territory as a consequence of international intervention in Darfur.

(Personally, I support international action in Darfur).

Full post as published by Harrell Blog on December 12, 2007 (boomark / email).