FARROW CALLS ON UN TROOPS FOR DARFUR

Last updated: Saturday, February 24, 2007

FARROW CALLS ON UN TROOPS FOR DARFUR

Actress MIA FARROW has urged the United Nations to send peacekeeping troops to the troubled Darfur region of Sudan.

Actress Mia Farrow spoke at the inaugural fundraiser for the Washington Area Next Generation Campaign held at the United States Holocaust Museum. Washington DC, USA - 01.02.07

Farrow is speaking out at the end of a two week tour of refugee camps in the wartorn area.

She insists the UN is reacting too slowly and should rush peacekeepers there immediately.

The UN has held back because traditionally it only deploys troops with the permission of the host government - and Sudan has rejected offers of assistance.

But Farrow says, "It is past time for the peacekeeping force to be deployed. What are they waiting for?

"In the face of such suffering, our moral mandate toward these people eclipses national sovereignty."

More than 200,000 people have been killed in Darfur since 2003 and hundreds of thousands of refugees have been forced to flee the country by militia.

Source: WENN

| Saturday, February 24, 2007

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FARROW CALLS ON UN TROOPS FOR DARFUR

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