The Secretary -General Ban Ki -moon deplored the attack occurred Monday in western Darfur that has killed three soldiers from the Rwandan Mission to the UN and the AU Darfur ( UNAMID ).
Monday , elements of the battalion of the force protection to UNAMID provided protection for civil engineers on a Mission site near the village of Nertiti in the region of Jebal Marra . They were then targeted by a score of unidentified assailants . After more than an hour of fighting, the attackers finally fled on a stolen 4×4 .
In addition to the three peacekeepers killed , a fourth soldier was seriously wounded. Taken to a hospital in UNAMID , in Nyala , South Darfur, it is still in critical condition.
The latest attack against UNAMID forces dates back to May 7 , when two Egyptian soldiers were killed and three others wounded in an ambush. Since deploying the mission in January 2008, 27 peacekeepers were killed .
In a statement released by his spokesperson , Ban Ki -moon deplored these attacks and urged the Sudanese government to continue its efforts to identify, arrest and bring to justice their perpetrators .
Earlier , the Deputy Joint Special Representative for UNAMID, Mohamed Yonis , said he was ” outraged by this cowardly act of senseless violence . Recalling that the attack on peacekeepers is a crime of war, he said that UNAMID would not let himself be intimidated and that it would continue ” carrying out its mandate of ensuring peace and security of people Darfur .
Since May, several UN officials in Sudan have worried about renewed violence in Darfur, including the resumption of fighting between government forces and rebel groups , despite the cease -fire reached in the framework of peace talks in Doha , the name of the Qatari capital where they take place since 2009.
In mid -June, the UN special representative for Darfur and Head of UNAMID , Ibrahim Gambari , had estimated before the Security Council that military confrontation would continue ” unless the international community fails to take remedial steps So require .
” Since fighting resumed in May, the civilian population has fled to the Chadian border . Between 10,000 and 50,000 people were displaced, ” he had added , urging the Council to encourage Member States to provide personnel and logistical resources additional to UNAMID.