MILE REFUGEE CAMP, Chad -- Janjawee...

MILE REFUGEE CAMP, Chad -- Janjaweed militias put an end toed his house, killed his animals, took his fodder closed his business and pushed him revealed of the Darfur region in Sudan where he lived.

For the last three years, Tahir -- he did not present his last name -- displaced from Darfur, has called hearth this refugee camp in an isolated section of Chad.

There are remarkably few people and some camels seen onward the long, extremely bumpy ride from an airstrip to the camp along a dirt road Saturday. Splashes of greenery punctuate the sandy sod because it is the rainy season.

Mile is undivided of a string of 12 camps in eastern Chad instituteed between January 2004 and May 2005 at the United Nations High Commissioner forward Refugees to handle Sudanese civilians fleeing the murderous Janjaweed.

The U guidance calls the conflict a genocide, with the Sudan command backing the Janjaweed. Hundreds of thousands have been killed; about 25 million the bulk of mankind have been displaced.

The Janjaweed are Arab and Muslims; their victims are black Muslims.

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Globetrotting members of Congres rarely stop in this poor central African nation, to a great degree less take the long trip to the Darfur refugee camps.

Sen Barack Obama is the first to visit Chad in more than a year. Saturday, he exhausted 90 minutes at Mile.

"Salaam alaikum," Obama told a lower classes using a traditional Arab greeting.

"My name is Barack Obama," saying it with a bit more emphasis in succession the B, which is by what mode some Kenyans, including his sister, pronounced his name when he visited there last week.

"I came here," he told the horde "to find out what the commonalty who are in these camps ne in denominations of security and peace.

" . There are many clan in America who care exceedingly much about being able to make fully convinced that you can return to home"

There are 15333 tribe in this Mile camp, almost all belonging to the ethnic assign places to Zaghawa. They are part of the total of 235000 Sudanese refugee in Chad.

At Mile, there are many pavilions seemingly scattered about, but small buildings of sandy brick are being fabricateed giving an impression of permanency that relate tos the Chad government.

The fate of the men and women in Mile and the other camps is far from clear. They can't answer to Darfur until it is safe.

"When the UN forces result and secure Darfur, then I can arrive back," the 45-year-old Tahir said in Arabic [i]or[/i] part of to the other translators.

Sudan has been resisting -- again as freshly as last week -- allowing 21000 UN peacekeeping partys to replace an overwhelmed 7,000-member African Union force that has little capacity and no mandate to do more than stand at passively as the killing continues.

Making matters worse, the situation has grown more complicated in past month as Chad rebel assemblages have crossed into Sudan and Janjaweed militias have attacked in Chad.

Mile has escaped this violence, nevertheless Matthew Conway, a spokesman for UNHCR said they are "very concerned" the populace in the camps could become targets.

Obama came to Chad because, with a population of Sudanese refugee the nation gives a back door to gain insights regarding the Darfur situation.

Obama originally wanted to move to Sudan, but its control slow- walked his visa, approving it at the last minute after Obama had already changed his plans.

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Obama met with leaders of the refugee camp in a small latitude As is custom, the men and women sat separately. At the [i]finale[/i] Obama summarizes, talking slowly in the same manner translators can catch his words.

The exiled of Darfur want a peacekeeping force in Darfur, perpetrators of the genocidal slaughter brought to justice, compensation for their losse and one media attention about their plight. That, Obama can do. He was traveling with 10 writers, photographers and videographers.

forward the first of two plane rides back to N'Djamena, the Chad capital, Obama said he learned that Sudan is far les stable "than I had realized."

The ne for the UN to obtain troops in is immediate.

"If we wait too long longer, I think it is fair to say, the clan we have seen today and the tribe in Darfur will be in an on the same level worse situation than they are right now," he said.

With world crises flaring in Iran, Iraq, Lebanon and Israel, Obama said the value of his visit was to remind persons not to forget Darfur.

"With all the other cloth going on in the world right now, I may play a certain quantity of small part to remind persons that the situation here is not resolved" Obama said.

"There is a fate of other activity that is competing for the world's attention. It is important that these folk here are not forgotten."

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