Inside the U.N.'s failed Darfur mission

The U.N. sent in 20,000 peacekeepers with a single mission — to protect the region's civilians. They failed.

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(Image credit: (REUTERS/Albert Gonzalez Farran/UNAMID))

At 6:20 p.m. on March 24, 2013, a convoy of United Nations and African Union peacekeepers escorting three buses of displaced residents of Darfur to a peace conference was stopped by a group of uniformed men in a pair of Toyota Land Cruisers.

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