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 New Sudan’s Communities urges UN’s Annan to ensure CPA enforcement
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New Sudan’s Communities urges UN’s Annan to ensure CPA enforcement
Thursday 26 October 2006.
TO: United Nations Secretary General, Mr. Kofi Annan UN Headquarters, 304 E 45th Street, New York NY 10017, USA
FROM: New Sudan’s Communities Worldwide. Dominion Building, Level 9, 533 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne 3000, Victoria Australia.
Your Excellency,
Though you certainly may have on your desk some serious matters to attend to such as the implementation of the Security Council Resolution number 1718, pertaining to the current Pyongyang’s nuclear standoff with the rest of the world, and also Tehran’s nonconformist trend in regards to its nuclear ambition, we urgently request you to instantly tackle the plight of the marginalized Sudanese people, principally at this ominous moment, when our country, Sudan is threatened with atrophy and is visibly inching towards another civil war with the sad prospect of dreadful agony and possibly a repeat of genocide in the country. This precarious circumstance is evidently the sole creation of the current government of Sudan, led by the National Congress Party (NCP) of President Omar Hassan Al Bashir, the party that has brought unprecedented desolation and sufferings to the people of this great African Nation.
Your Excellency
We are sturdily convinced that the despotic regime in Khartoum does not possess a blueprint for resolving Sudan’s problems and they do not have the will either. Omar Al Bashir is not sincere in his rhetoric utterances on commitment to durable peace in Sudan. The government notwithstanding its public claim and declaration of working for peaceful resolution of the country’s multiple problems, still conscripts and drills private armies and maintains huge militia forces both in South Sudan and Darfur for continuing its proxy wars. The Sudan’s Military Intelligence Services are directly involved in executing covert operations including murders in South Sudan on the ticket of the Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels and encouraging various armed tribal groups to create state of pandemonium across the board in South Sudan in an attempt to render the government in Juba insecure and unstable for the remaining five years leading to the scheduled referendum in 2011. There have also been numerous instances of clear violations of ceasefire by the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF).
The Deputy Secretary General of the National Congress Party in his capacity as the official spokesman of the Party has recently threatened to cancel the CPA if foreign forces moved into Darfur without the consent of the government of Sudan. The position of SPLM and the government of South Sudan in addition to most political parties in North are unequivocal on the question of the role of UN in Darfur. All are unanimous in their support for the deployment of UN forces in Darfur because the government of Sudan has failed to provide security to the Darfurians whose rights are being grossly abused by both the notorious janjaweed militiamen and Sudan military that carries sporadic air sorties of carpet bombardment on civilian targets in Darfur. The NCP has now shifted to employing the language of intimidation and blackmailing, to pressurize its junior Partner (SPLM) in the government to resist the contemplated UN force deployment in Darfur.
Your Excellency
We would like to draw your attention to the attitude of the government in Khartoum in relations to the realization of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). There is clearly lack of will and spirit on the part of President Omar Al Bashir and his National Congress Party to fully implement the agreement as expected. The marginalized people in the country have indubitably come to conclude that the tyrannical regime has neither the resolve nor the desire to comply with its obligation in executing the fundamental clauses in the CPA document. The points below are pertinent for your perusal:
(1) The Abyei Border Commission Report: This Report was prepared by a panel of foreign experts including members, both from the government of Sudan and Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Movement (SPLM), in compliance with the terms of the CPA. The Abyei region was originally part of South Sudan, and inhabited by the indigenous Dinka ethnic group, before and after Independence of the country in 1956. The Commission’s report recommended that Abyei is part of South Sudan, Omar Al Bashir was expected to endorse the report and implement it accordingly, but he rejected to comply with it, and the only reason is that Abyei is an oil region. Hence Khartoum is interested in the oil and intends to keep the area as part of northern Sudan.
(2) The demarcation of the boundaries between the South and north based on the 1956 colonial configuration. The regime in Khartoum has persistently ignored the repeated calls for the demarcation of the boundary line between the South and the North. For South Sudan to have precise data and numbers of its citizens living within its own borders, there must be a clear territorial delineation of that region. Omar Al Bashir has brazenly rejected to meet the terms of the CPA. We believe that through your good offices, the regime in Khartoum would be made to see sense and accept the demarcation process to take effect.
(3) The Petroleum Commission and the unfair distribution of the Oil Revenues. The National Congress Party has so far refrained from committing itself to forming the petroleum Commission. This body is expected to be charged with ensuring transparency in an equitable distribution and sharing of the oil revenues between the regime in the North and the government of South Sudan. Among other functions, it would supervise the awarding of contracts to prospective foreign companies intending to invest in the petroleum industry in Sudan. Regrettably, Khartoum is overwhelmed by greed and ill intention against the government of South Sudan; consequently the Commission has yet to be named. Palpably the NCP Party is profoundly engrossed in a calculated strategy to thwart the CPA, in order to go revert to war with an erroneous belief that this would quash the Naivasha Agreement and the 2011 Referandum. Khartoum lacks moral rectitude to initiate an evenhanded approach in dealing with the government of South Sudan.
(4) The Ratification of the Constitution of each of the ten Southern States. The rejection by the Ministry of Justice to ratify the constitution of each of the ten states in South Sudan is a well-calculated and deliberate act of ill intention. It is not an isolated incident but an overall gross conspiratorial scheme of the National Congress Party to wreck the CPA. The Ministry of Justice in Khartoum reaffirmed that he would only endorse the documents and issue certificates of compatibility, if the clauses making references to the boundaries of those states in addition to the 2011 Referendum were deleted from those Constitutions. There is now a wrangle between the Federal Ministry of Justice in Khartoum and the Ministry of Justice and Legal Affairs in the government of South Sudan.
(5) Bowdlerization of the Press, Detention of journalists and summary executions of the Regime’s Opponents.
It is upsetting that the government of Sudan, which is controlled by the National Congress Party of Omar Al Bashir, blatantly disregards the freedom of the press. The government’s Security Establishment conducts routine censorships and confiscating newspapers right from the publication centers for allegedly printing subversive and antigovernment articles. Journalists run the risk of being detained and subjected to extreme physical degradation treatment in jails. The same government that claims to be democratic carries out all these horrendous practices. Manifestly the government of Sudan is not democratic, albeit they claim to be one. The government detains hundreds of the regime’s opponents incommunicado with out access to defense lawyers. Family members are not allowed to see their loved ones. There are incessant disappearances of political activists and persons suspected of being opposed to the regime’s repressive rule. Selected murders in Khartoum and elsewhere in the country are commonplace occurrences. After execution, their corpses are either damped in the River Nile or discovered in morgues. Such Gestapo-type of practice must be deplored and condemned by all peace loving nations of the world. This is an apparent breach of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), signed between the National Congress Party and the SPLM last year as well as a contravention of the Interim National Constitution of the country.
Finally, we would like to accentuate that we rest assured in the hope that The UN is fully cognizant of its role of promoting peace and security in the international amphitheater, however we strongly urge the World Body to demonstrate its inherent responsibilities and live up to the pinnacle of expectations towards the people of Sudan. The UN had stood watching on the sidelines with folded arms when Khartoum committed the genocide in South Sudan within the last two decades resulting in more than 2.5 million souls dead and over six million displaced. Darfur has become the next theatre of grueling war and the World Body has failed to bring the government of Sudan to order. We therefore strongly urge the UN to adopt the following measures:
[1] Ensure the instantaneous implementation of the Security Council resolution 1706 without Khartoum’s consent, as the regime in the country has repeatedly ignored to recognise the authority of the UN on the Darfur question.
[2] Form a committee under the UN Representative for Sudan to activate the
work of the Assessment and Evaluation Committee (AEC), structured under the CPA, and to propel the implementation process forward as soon as possible.
[3] Urge the government in Khartoum to refrain from promoting ethnic cleansing in South Sudan, undermining of the CPA and halt all covert and subversive acts including cold blood murder activities being carried on by the regime’s secret services operatives in the autonomous region of South Sudan in the Name of the Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and to relinquish its control of the LRA as a tool of destabilisation of South Sudan.
[4] Press Khartoum to stop the escalation of violence and allow unimpeded
access to the delivery of Humanitarian aid to the people of Darfur, and also to put to an end to the rampant rape extravaganza being conducted by both the Janjaweed and the government regular forces.
[5] Urge the regime in Khartoum to stop forced relocation of Internal Displaced
Persons (IDPS) in the future. The government is still bulldozing IDPS camps forcing many people out of their shelters. The IDPS are forced live without the basic necessities of life such as shelter, food, water, and medical supplies. In August of this year 12,000 were forced out of their camps after the authorities in Khartoum demolished their settlements.
[6] Inform and persuade both Russia and China who are permanent members of
the UN Security Council to desist from arming the tyrannical government in Khartoum with qualitative weapons, as those arms are in turn used for mass killings. Apparently these two countries have the track record of being part and of the mayhem in Sudan through their constant backing of the most brutal and repressive regime on the African Continent.
Thank You.
CC: (1) The Honourable George W. Bush President of the United States of America. The White House, Washington DC 20500
(2) Mr. Manuel Barroso European Union President
(3) Mr.Tony Blair The British Prime Minister, 10 Downing Street London.
(4) Mr. Daniel Yifru, Director, Peace and Security
IGAD
(5) Ambassador Wang Guangya, President of the Security Council and China’s Permanent Representative to the UN.
(6) African Union Commission Chairman Alpha Oumar Konare
(7) South African President Mr. Thabo Mbeki President of the Republic of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa.
( Ambassador Sir Emyr Jones Parry
UK Permanent UN Representative
One Dag Hammarskjöld, 28th Floor.885 Second Avenue, New York
NY 10017
(9) UN Under Secretary for Humanitarian affairs (OCHA) Mr. Jan Egeland
(10) Ambassador M. Jean-Marc de LA Sabliere
France Permanent UN Representative
One Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza
245 East 47th Street, 44th Floor
New York, NY 10017
(11) Ambassador Mr. Sergey Lavrov
Russian Permanent UN Representative
136 East 67th Street, New York, NY 10017
(12) Pope Benedictus XVI
Vatican City, Rome.
(13) Mr. Jan Pronk
Special UN Representative of the Secretary-General
United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS)
P O Box 5013, Grand Central Station
New York, NY 10163-5013
(14) President of South Sudan
Lt. Salva Kir Mayardit
Commandar-in-Chief of SPLA,
South Sudan, Juba
(15) Honourable James Wani Igga
Speaker, South Sudan Legislative Assembly, Juba
(16) Omar Hassan Al Bashir
President of the Republic of Sudan
Republican Palace, Khartoum, Sudan.
(17) SPLM members of Parliament in the National Assembly
Khartoum, Sudan.
(1 Advisors to the President of the Republic
Republican Palace, Khartoum Sudan.
We the concerned parties hereby append our signatures:
1 Sisto Olur (Norway), 2.Peter Karlo (USA), 3 Rose Oduho (USA), 4 Peter Lokarlo (Australia), 5 Babiro Gbamisi (Canada), 6 Victoria Achut (Australia), 7 Ajok Wek Athian (UK), 8 Alex Kenyi, 9 Sabrino Majok Majok (Canada), 10.Samuel Wani Bringa (USA), 11 William Zacharia (Canada), 12.Kwai Malak kwai (USA), 13.Bor Gatwech Kuany (Australia, VIC). 14.Lual Jok Alaak, 15.Atem Martino Kunjok (Canada), 16.Silvestro Akara (USA), 17.James Garang, 18.Sunday Taabu, 19.David Mai Tang (USA), 20.Luak Jok Alaak (Australia), 21.Lostief Lomude (Denmark), 22.Ajok W. Athian (UK), 23.Lual A Atak (UK), 24.Kuol W. Athian (UK), 25.Tong A. Atak (UK), 26.Deng W. Athian (UK), 27.Akuol P. Macar (UK), 28.Athian W. Athian (UK), 29.Ayak D. Akuei (UK), 30.Athieng W. Athian (UK), 31.Mogga SJ (Norway), 31.Akok Manyuat Madut, 33.Ngong Akok Madingdit, 34.Awan Ater (USA), 35.Sebit Lukuk (Australia), 36.Thabor Ding (USA), 37.Mareng Chuor Deng, 38.White Joshua Walla (USA), 39.Daniel Mayan (USA), 40.Jurdeng Maluil Deng Lojac (USA), 41.Albiros Yatta (USA), 42.Isaac Gang, 43.Marror Michael Liech (Canada), 44.Ngor Ngor Kuany, 45.hearty Ritti (USA), 46.Deng Leng, 47.Arkangelo Wolachueil, 48.Simon mayiik de Nyok, 49.John Piu, 50.David Choat, 51.Machien J. Luoi (USA), 52.Manut Kuek (Australia), 53.Aluet Malith Jal (Australia), 54.James Majok Ater (Australia), 55.Manon Dut (Australia), 56.Malok Bol Akot (Australia), 57.Martin Yai Aleu Yai (Nairobi), 58.Joseph Liya Henry, 59.Peter Ugodo (Canada), 60.George Omoro, 61.K. Deng, 62.Tor Yik Minyjiak, 63.Larco Lomayat (USA), 64.Lado Jurkin (USA), 65.Dhoal Wicthiel (USA) , 66.Peter Both (Canada), 67.Aniek Tong Atak (UK), 68.Angok Agoth Atem (USA), 69.Kuach L Deng (USA), 70.Johnson Tut (Canada), 71.Jimmy B. Mulla (USA), 72.Anthony Deng Deng Guruk (USA), 73.Anida Magaya, 74.Kuel Aguer Kuel (Juba, South Sudan), 75.Noel Lubang Barnaba (USA), 76.George Oromo (USA), 77.K. Deng (USA), 78.Pierre Atilio Ekwa (USA), 79.Flora G. Kasmiro (USA), 80.Giir Biar (USA), 81.Lawrence Mogga, 82.Jada Yengkopiong (Australia), 83.Domach Wal Ruach (USA), 84.Mading Mading (USA), 85.Matthew Lako Konga (USA.), 86.Samuel Ciricho Loliwa (USA), 87.Nelson Ungang (USA), 88.Stephen Yang (Canada), 89.Santino Ayom Bol Wek (Australia), 90. Gatluak Kuenywar, 91. Sebit Khor Biel Gai, 92. Charles Anteros (Canada), 93. Acuil Akol Piok (Canada).
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