U.N. Peacekeepers to Go To Sudan but Not Darfur
UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. Securi1y Council voted unanimously Thursday to authorize 10,700 peacekeepers for southern Sudan but remained deadlocked on any action for Darfur, in the west.
The peacekeepers are to monitor an agreement signed in January between the Khartoum government and rebels that ended a 21-year civil war that killed 2 million.
The council resolution, drafted by the United States, calls for as many as 10,000 military personnel and a civilian component of as many as 715 police officers. U.N. officials say it will take several months to get the force established there.
In their accord, the government and the Sudan People's Liberation Army militia agreed on political power-sharing and a division of oil revenue.
EUROPE
• AMSTERDAM -- A former Macedonian interior minister surrendered to the war crimes tribunal in The Hague to answer charges of ordering the killings of ethnic Albanians during a guerrilla insurgency in 2001, the tribunal said.
Ljube Boskovski, who has Macedonian and Croatian citizenship, flew from Zagreb, Croatia, on an early morning flight. The tribunal said he was transferred to its detention unit.
THE AMERICAS
• SANTIAGO, Chile -- The country's Supreme Court reinstated the immunity of ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet from prosecution in the 1974 car bombing assassination in Buenos Aires of Gen. Carlos Prats. Prats was Pinochet's predecessor as head of Chile's military.
Pinochet, 89, has been accused in almost 300 human rights case related to his 1973-90 rule, when the military repressed political opponents.
• GUATEMALA CITY -- U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld announced the lifting of a ban on $3.2 million in military aid to Guatemala, where the military has been accused of decades of human rights abuses.
President Oscar Berger assured Rumsfeld at a joint news conference that the military had been reformed. Rumsfeld said the U.S. government would monitor its actions.
Human rights groups oppose the lifting of the ban. They say the army is involved in corruption and is often linked to drug trafficking.
• TIJUANA, Mexico -- Police said they had arrested four drug cartel hit men who used acid-filled tubs to dissolve their victims' remains. They said the men, arrested late Tuesday in Tijuana, had confessed to carrying out at least 15 murders for the Arellano Felix drug cartel.
