"If U.N. troops enter Darfur, we would like to move the same day and pitch our tents in Darfur," said Osman Iman Osman, a refugee leader in Oure Cassoni camp, 3 miles from the border.
"Our country is very valuable to us, it's better than here."
While refugees were united in their support for a U.N. mission, all were adamant they wanted only Western troops.
"We don't want African troops, we only want U.N. soldiers," said Amna Adam Khamis, a 70-year-old refugee. "We can't trust AU troops as they are the same as the government of Sudan. I am optimistic, but if they are African I am pessimistic."
Pointing at a Western TV reporter, Amna added: "We want people the same design, the same colour, as you."
Most refugees appear to be under the impression that a U.N. force would be composed of Western troops, not the more likely scenario of African soldiers under foreign command.
"We were educated in Arabic and imagined we were Arab people But when we had problems, no one from the Arab world came to help us," Izelden Khater, a young refugee told Reuters.
"When we came here in 2004 we found white people with tents and medicines and blankets. They said they were humanitarians, that is why we believe them, that they have come to make peace for us."
DEEP SCARS
The refugees are united in their desire to return home, but are still deeply traumatised by their experiences. Touma, a young refugee woman held against her will in a Janjaweed camp, broke down in tears as, three years on, she told her story.
"I had my child on my back and was running. The Janjaweed hit me and I fell. They took the baby off my back and killed the baby," she said.
"They took me to their camp, I spent three months there. I did their cooking and washing and took care of their animals. Every night 10 or 11 men would come to rape me -- I would cry but nobody would come."
As the violence in Darfur has slowly spread across the border, the United Nations is now considering troops sending into Chad as well.
Seid Ibrahim Mustafa, the former sultan of Dar Sila, an area which has been plagued by inter-ethnic violence similar to that in Darfur, said troops should have come sooner.
"We've been asking for an international force for a long time," he said. "How long are we going to wait? There's too much bureaucracy. We doubt this force will come quickly, but our wish is that it comes soon, so at least we can think of peace."
