U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan was due to meet Mr. Bashir this weekend. But his chances of persuading the president to change his mind seem negligible. It's not that Mr. Bashir has any principled objection to "colonialist" peacekeepers; he has already accepted a 10,000-strong U.N. deployment in Sudan's south as part of a previous peace agreement. It's simply that Mr. Bashir has calculated that he can snub the international community with impunity. As well as ruling out peacekeepers for Darfur, Mr. Bashir has recently imposed a two-day suspension on most Western aid efforts in Darfur and is blockading humanitarian access to the victims of another crisis in Sudan's east. His fighters are exporting instability to neighboring Chad. And he has missed a deadline in the Darfur peace deal for submitting a timetable for disarming the genocidal janjaweed militia.

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