يوميات الثورة السودانية – الجزء الثانى

Quote: (Kampala). Ground and aerial attacks continues in Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile states against the Sudanese citizens, as documented in this new report from the rebels’ relief agency. After two years of conflict, over one million Sudanese citizens are living in fear, without in shelter, food and clean water. Any negotiation attempt has so far failed. This second report from the Sudan Relief and Rehabilitation Agency (SRRA), the relief wing of the Sudan people's liberation Movement/Army-North (SPLM/A-N), documents the humanitarian and human rights consequences of the atrocious attacks committed by the Government forces in the rebels’ territories of Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile states in the period of January-July 2013. Indiscriminate aerial bombardment against civilians, their villages and farms is having atrocious effects on the lives of the Sudanese population. The Sudan forces conducted 284 air strikes during January-June 2013, more than one a day. Half a million people are internally displaced and over 200,000 sought refuge in the neighboring countries. The Government continues to block access to humanitarian agencies on the ground and it is refusing to sign a cessation of hostilities proposed by the SPLM-N last August 2012 for aid to reach the population. Calls from the United Nations have been ignored. Following the failed April 2013 direct political and humanitarian talks between the parties in Addis Ababa, there have been no announcements of a next round. Air and land corridors for aid to the over one million Sudanese citizens trapped in the conflict zones are vital. People live in desperate conditions and food is scarce, more so after another harvesting season has been missed. ‘There is a huge humanitarian crisis looming in the two areas that requires immediate attention and response by national and international humanitarian actors to alleviate this appalling situation’, says Philip Neroun, Director of the SRRA. ‘The SRRA appeals to the UN Security Council, the Chairman of IGAD, the chair of AUHIP, the United nations, the African Union and the international community at large to press the Government of Sudan to lift restrictions on delivery of food and allow UN agencies and independent international organizations immediate free and unhindered access to the needy civilians in South Kordofan and Blue Nile States to stave off mass starvation and save lives’, says Neroun.