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DARFUR community
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Press Release
The people of Darfur in United States Appeal for Peace in Darfur Region Western Sudan Where Three Million People at Risk The people of Darfur in the United States will be Demonstration and Hunger Strike on Tuesday June 1, 2004 between 11:00am 8:00pm, in 47 st and 1 Ave front of the United Nation Building New York City. The Hunger Strike is in solidarity with the millions of starved, oppressed, and displaced and refugees' children women and elder civilian Darfurians. In the Greater Darfur Region of Western Sudan that represents approximately one fifth of both Sudan's geographic area (510,888 sq. km) and Sudan's population about seven million is teetering on the verge of mass starvation. An estimated three (3) million people in Darfur are consi dered at eminent risk of humanitarian catastrophe as the situation continues to deteriorate. Over one million black Darfurians have been forcibly exiled from their homes through a systematic strategy of scorched-earth destruction, by the Sudan's government continuous aerial bombardment and it's sponsored marauding militias (Janjawiet) raiding on Black African villages killing, burning of villages and crops, #####ng of houses and shops. Compounded by the longstanding prevention and manipulation of access for aid workers and food supplies, alludes to strategy of systematic and deliberate starvation being enforced by the government of Sudan and its security forces. Between January 2003 and May 2004 nearly 10,000 people have been brutally murdered, 130,000 refugees have fled to neighboring Chad are living in an extreme danger of spiraling humanitarian crisis. More than 950,000 livestock that have been lost or perished. High levels of malnutrition and catastrophic mortality rates among the displaced are caused by the especially harsh living conditions. We must not ignore the horrific human rights abuses occurring right now within the lands of Darfur. The Darfur People Union in United States is appealing to all those who are in a position to assist to act expediently to call on the Sudanese Government, the United States and United Nations Security Council to take immediate steps to: 1) An immediate abolition of all hostilities by all armed combatants of the Republic of Sudan, the Sudan Liberation Army, Justice and Equality Movement, paramilitary, and or militia groups (Janjawiet). 2) Immediate installation of international peace-keeping forces and U.N. peace observers to maintain order and compliance of cease-fire by all sides. 3) The Sudanese government and opposition groups must permit and assist international humanitarian/human rights NGOs and staff in both providing medical care, food relief to displaced persons within the territorial confines of Sudan, and allowing for thorough examination of the humanitarian needs by human rights workers. 4) The immediate inclusion of the Darfur region populations and movements therein in a revised and expanded peace protocol for the resolution of the conflict in Sudan. 5) Sudanese government must assure that displaced populations from the Darfur region must be assisted in resettlement in their place of origin without regard to persons or populations presently domiciled on land abandoned due to conditions of war. The right of return must be extended to the Darfur refugees in Chad. 6) The government of Sudan must provide a resettlement plan for alternative living space for alien/non-native stateless populations, presently occupying land belonging to Darfurians displaced by the conflict. Any viable relocation scheme must not deprive indigenous Darfurian populations of their arable or pastoral land, water rights, or urban space, nor should these populations due to an existing state of enmity be settled near or adjacent to Darfurians.
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