Amnesty International-Ghana on Sunday joined calls for the immediate deployment of a strong United Nations Peacekeeping force to protect life and property in the war ravaged Darfur region of Western Sudan.
Mr Prize F Y McApreko, Director, Amnesty International-Ghana said the international community must admit that no solution had been offered to the suffering of Darfur, adding, " on the contrary, things are getting worse".
Addressing a press conference in Accra on the Darfur situation, he noted, " What the people of Darfur need now is an international peace keeping force with the power to put a stop to the killings, raping and displacement.
Mr. McApreko stated that since the signing of the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) in May, this year that was not signed by two of the rebel groups, the political and security situation in Darfur had become more complex.
"There has been a marked escalation in clashes between the rebel groups that signed the agreement, with support from the Sudanese government and the Janjawid militias on one hand and the rebel groups that did not sign the DPA on the other hand".
He noted that the situation had made it impossible for millions of displaced people to return to their homes as human rights violations, including violence against women continued unabated.
Humanitarian aid agencies are faced with growing obstacle to the provision of essential relief supplies and support.
Mr McApreko said the Darfur situation had led to grave new human rights crisis in eastern regions of Chad, a crisis whose origins are intrinsically linked to the long on-going human-made tragedy in neighbouring Darfur.
He stated that the Sudanese government was doing little to resolve the volatile situation as it had reneged on its responsibility and promise to bring the Janjawid under control and had not held them accountable for the devastation they had wrought in Darfur.
“The government of Chad, faced with a challenge to its own survival, has virtually abdicated the responsibility for protecting the civilian population in the eastern areas bordering Chad".
Since 2003, Darfur in Western Sudan has been embroiled in a deadly conflict, resulting in the killing of some 85,000 civilians and more than 200,000 dying from war-related causes.
More than two million people have been displaced and live in displaced-persons camps in Sudan or in refugee camps in Chad with over 3.5 million people reliant on international aid.
Despite the signing of peace agreement, the violence in Western Darfur is on the rise each day.
Although governments are quick to call for an end to the violence, they are rather slow to act, UN resolution have not been implemented and six rounds of peace talks over almost two years had failed to resolve the crisis.
The mandate of the under-resourced African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) to protect civilians effectively expires at the close of September 2006.
It is therefore extremely important that no peacekeeping gap or protection vacuum is allowed to emerge in Darfur.