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 Re: تواصل بيانات منظمة العفو الدولية ضد الحكومة السودانية فاضحة زيف ادعاءا (Re: intehazy)
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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
PRESS RELEASE
AI Index: AFR 54/026/2003 (Public)
News Service No: 104
28 April 2003
Sudan: Crisis in Darfur - urgent need for international commission of
inquiry and monitoring
As the situation in Darfur, western Sudan, worsens Amnesty International
is calling for Darfur to be included in the human rights monitoring set up
under the Sudan peace process. In addition, an independent international
commission of inquiry should be sent to Darfur to investigate the
deteriorating situation.
"At a time when peace talks are taking place to end a 20-year
conflict which has caused two million deaths and 4.5 million displaced
persons, the international community must not watch in silence while the
choice of a military solution for human rights problems drags another area
of Sudan into disaster," the organization said.
Over the past few years nomad groups from the area have killed
hundreds of civilians from sedentary agricultural groups in Darfur, such as
the Fur, Zaghawa and Masalit, burning homes and #####ng cattle and goats.
In the latest tragic incident on 23 April, armed members of nomad
groups, some of whom were wearing uniforms and said to be members of a
government militia, attacked men around the mosque at the market of Mulli
in West Darfur, 15 kilometres south of the state capital Geneina. They
killed some 55 people, wounded at least 20 and looted or killed domestic
animals.
On Friday, 25 April a demonstration in Geneina, protesting at the
killings and the failure to arrest those responsible, burnt the governor’s
office; the security forces killed one demonstrator and arrested a number
of people including Munira Abdel Rahman Bahr al-Din, sister of the Sultan
of the Masalit, who reportedly led the demonstration. At least one
policeman was also killed.
Thousands of villagers have reportedly fled their villages since 11
April after attacks by government forces and government-organized Arab
militias fighting against the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA - formed in
February by members of sedentary groups in the region) in the area of
Kutum, in North Darfur. There are reports of food supplies growing short,
but as a result of the military presence in the area, it is extremely
difficult to get information about those who have fled their villages. Now
Kutum is under curfew from sunrise to sunset, telephones are cut and
checkpoints have been set up on the roads in the area.
On 25 April the SLA attacked the military airport at El Fasher the
capital of North Darfur, reportedly damaging two Antonovs and four Apache
helicopters.
"A conflict, which no one wants and which could be solved by clear
recommendations and human rights protection mechanisms, must not be allowed
to escalate," said Amnesty International. "The international community must
act!"
Amnesty International’s delegates visited El Fasher in January 2003
and discussed the situation with representatives of the Sudan Government,
people from villages which had suffered attacks and local lawyers. Amnesty
International subsequently called on the Sudan Government in February to
set up an independent commission of inquiry and implement its
recommendations. The call was widely welcomed by people in Darfur and
outside.
However, this opportunity to clarify the complex factors which have
led to the present deteriorating situation and to identify human rights
mechanisms to protect the people was lost.
"The people of Sudan should not suffer more war with more human
rights abuse and suffering. A speedy and impartial international inquiry
into the complex causes of the crisis, which can make authoritative
recommendations in line with human rights principles to end it, could bring
an immediate cease fire."
An independent international Commission of Inquiry could be set up by
the African Union or the United Nations General Assembly or Security
Council. The investigation should be properly resourced and members of the
commission should be independent with a good knowledge of the region and
its problems. All authorities concerned should be obliged to cooperate
fully with the investigation, and grant it free access to people, places
and documents it wishes to examine. Its findings should be made public and
recommendations implemented.
In the context of the peace talks the Sudan Government agreed to
allow an independent international Commission of Inquiry to be set up to
investigate abductions and accusations of slavery in the context of the
civil war.
"Serious independent inquiries can find out the complex factors which
have caused human rights abuses in the region and suggest human rights
mechanisms to solve them," Amnesty International said.
Background
Although at first the Sudan Government seemed to seek a peaceful solution
to the situation in Darfur - the Sudan National Assembly set up an
emergency committee on Darfur and a consultative assembly of citizens of
Darfur made recommendations to solve the conflict peacefully - at the end
of March the government said demands by the Sudan Liberation Army (formed
by sedentary groups in the region) were too high and it had decided to
solve the conflict by military means.
In April, after intense lobbying by the Sudan government, the UN
Commission on Human Rights voted against the mandate of the Special
Rapporteur on the Sudan who reported to the UN on the human rights
situation in Sudan and whose reports raised the deteriorating situation in
Darfur. The loss of the UN Special Rapporteur further jeopardises outside
monitoring of human rights violations in Sudan.
Peace negotiations are continuing in Kenya under the auspices of the
Inter Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) and international
mediators. But Darfur, in northern Sudan, is not included in the peace
talks, nor in the monitoring which is to accompany the peace.
Public Document
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For more information please call Amnesty International's press office in
London, UK, on +44 20 7413 5566
Amnesty International, 1 Easton St., London WC1X 0DW. web:
http://www.amnesty.org
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| تواصل بيانات منظمة العفو الدولية ضد الحكومة السودانية فاضحة زيف ادعاءاتها | intehazy | 04-15-03, 08:28 PM |
 Re: تواصل بيانات منظمة العفو الدولية ضد الحكومة السودانية فاضحة زيف ادعاءا | altahir_2 | 04-15-03, 08:39 PM |
 Re: تواصل بيانات منظمة العفو الدولية ضد الحكومة السودانية فاضحة زيف ادعاءا | sharnobi | 04-15-03, 10:07 PM |
| Re: تواصل بيانات منظمة العفو الدولية ضد الحكومة السودانية فاضحة زيف ادعاءا | فتحي البحيري | 04-16-03, 10:37 AM |
| Re: تواصل بيانات منظمة العفو الدولية ضد الحكومة السودانية فاضحة زيف ادعاءا | intehazy | 04-17-03, 05:03 AM |
| Re: تواصل بيانات منظمة العفو الدولية ضد الحكومة السودانية فاضحة زيف ادعاءا | intehazy | 04-17-03, 05:05 AM |
 Re: تواصل بيانات منظمة العفو الدولية ضد الحكومة السودانية فاضحة زيف ادعاءا | sari_alail | 04-17-03, 03:41 PM |
| Re: تواصل بيانات منظمة العفو الدولية ضد الحكومة السودانية فاضحة زيف ادعاءا | intehazy | 04-17-03, 06:11 PM |
 Re: تواصل بيانات منظمة العفو الدولية ضد الحكومة السودانية فاضحة زيف ادعاءا | sari_alail | 04-17-03, 08:55 PM |
| Re: تواصل بيانات منظمة العفو الدولية ضد الحكومة السودانية فاضحة زيف ادعاءا | intehazy | 04-24-03, 00:03 AM |
| Re: تواصل بيانات منظمة العفو الدولية ضد الحكومة السودانية فاضحة زيف ادعاءا | intehazy | 04-24-03, 00:04 AM |
| Re: تواصل بيانات منظمة العفو الدولية ضد الحكومة السودانية فاضحة زيف ادعاءا | mo | 04-24-03, 04:19 AM |
| Re: تواصل بيانات منظمة العفو الدولية ضد الحكومة السودانية فاضحة زيف ادعاءا | intehazy | 04-30-03, 06:31 AM |
| Re: تواصل بيانات منظمة العفو الدولية ضد الحكومة السودانية فاضحة زيف ادعاءا | intehazy | 04-30-03, 10:06 AM |
| Re: تواصل بيانات منظمة العفو الدولية ضد الحكومة السودانية فاضحة زيف ادعاءا | intehazy | 05-09-03, 08:00 PM |
| Re: تواصل بيانات منظمة العفو الدولية ضد الحكومة السودانية فاضحة زيف ادعاءا | intehazy | 05-22-03, 05:09 PM |
| Re: تواصل بيانات منظمة العفو الدولية ضد الحكومة السودانية فاضحة زيف ادعاءا | فتحي البحيري | 05-22-03, 05:41 PM |
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