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 Re: آن الاوان لجرد حساب للمنظمات المتاجرة بدم (Re: هشام هباني)
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US NGOs to seek solution to Darfur conflict
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News and Press Release
Source
PANAPress
Posted
9 Dec 2004
Originally published
9 Dec 2004
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A coalition of US based non-governmental organisations meet in Washington Friday to discuss what they described as lack of progress in addressing the ongoing crisis in Darfur, Sudan.
The NGO's to meet under the umbrella of the International Crisis Group at the National Press Club, said they would compare the Darfur crisis with the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, where over 800,00 people were slaughtered in 100 days.
Darfur, located in the western region of Sudan, continues to be embroiled in a vicious conflict where at least 70,000 people are believed to have died since violence erupted in February 2003, according to the UN.
Over 1.2 million people have been driven from their homes and 200,000 have sought refuge in neighbouring Chad, causing strain to the north African country's limited resources.
According to international humanitarian aid agencies, another 800,000 people are said to be beyond the reach of humanitarian agencies
"Each day, civilians face the possibility of mass killings, torture, rape, destruction of villages, theft and other human rights abuses," says the coalition
On 9 September 2004, Secretary of State Colin Powell declared the abuses being committed in Darfur as genocide.
This followed the earlier passage of a resolution in the US Congress that also labelled the Darfur killings a genocide.
"In the roughly 100 days since Powell's declaration hundreds more have been killed, tortured and displaced while the Sudanese government has stalled effective action under the guise of negotiating with various sectors of the international community," claimed the NGOs.
But the Sudanese government, who partly attributing the crisis to the scramble for limited resources between pastoralist communities and their farming neighbours, dispute the figures released by the UN and agencies, saying the matter is being blown out of proportion.
Sudan has been under intense pressure to stop the crisis in Darfur.
The crisis featured prominently at last month's UN Security Council meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, attended by among others UN secretary-general Kofi Annan, among others.
The security council meeting, convened to discuss the conflict in southern Sudan, urged the Sudanese Government and the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) to fast-track the signing of peace, noting that it would help end the Darfur conflict.
Pan African News Agency
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