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Thursday, July 31, 2008 --- 20 days ago http://awearnessblog.com/2008/07/darfur-needs-helicopters.php
 As the United Nations Security Council prepares today to vote on renewing the mandate for peacekeeping troops in Darfur, the Save Darfur Coalition issued a report titled "Grounded: the International Community's Betrayal of UNAMID." According to the United Nations over 300,000 Darfurians have died and more than 2.2 million have been displaced since February 2003. Thomas Withington , an aviation expert who wrote the report and is acutely aware of the advantage of helicopters judiciously employed in the theatre to stave off genocide, came to the conclusion: "-- Of the 18 transport helicopters required by the force, not a single one has yet been offered; this compares to an estimated 350 such helicopters in use in Iraq. "-- The report identifies more than 20 countries with surplus aircraft that could be made available for the mission. "-- The six countries best placed to provide transport helicopters, Italy, Ukraine, India, Spain, Romania and the Czech Republic, between them have an estimated 71 helicopters available, four times the requirement. "-- NATO member states alone could jointly provide 104 such helicopters, almost six times the requirement." In other Darfur-related news China slammed a censure resolution by a bipartisan group of members of Congress for Beijing's human rights record. The full report on helicopters and Darfur can be downloaded here . [Image: BBC ] ... |
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