Fear runs high in west Sudan despite cease-fire

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Fear runs high in west Sudan despite cease-fire

    Fear runs high in west Sudan despite cease-fire
    Friday, April 9, 2004 Posted: 11:41 AM EDT (1541 GMT)



    A Sudanese woman picks up seeds dropped by U.N. World Food Programme aircraft in January. The food is to help refugees returning after a cease-fire in the country's decades-long civil war.
    KUTUM, Sudan (Reuters) -- Sudan's government says it was trying to disarm Arab militias who have rampaged through west Sudan, but residents here said Friday they still feared attacks even when gathering wood.
    "Young girls can't leave the camp. We are scared to send them out. They rape them. We can't send the young men out because they will kill the men," said Fatma, an African villager clutching her infant, in a camp on the edge of Kutum.
    Just a few miles from town, armed members of the Janjaweed militias, who have looted and burned African villages over the last year, watched from their camels unperturbed as a government convoy passed by.
    The government signed a 45-day cease-fire Thursday with two rebel groups in the west who took up arms a year ago saying Khartoum had neglected the impoverished region. The United Nations says the conflict has affected a million people.
    But aid workers said one of Khartoum's biggest challenges was to end the scorched-earth campaign of the lawless, mounted militias. They added that a food crisis was in the making unless the displaced felt safe enough to return to their land.
    "The question is: will the government be able to control the militias, and will they be willing to voluntarily hand their weapons over when you are dealing with such a vast area and the government has such limited resources?" said a Western aid worker in Kutum who asked not to be identified.
    Residents accuse the government of arming the Arab militias to pillage African villages, a charge Khartoum dismisses. Analysts say the militias have taken on a life of their own -- loot ing, raping and killing at random.
    Crackdown
    "The problem is the word Janjaweed has become a coverall for so many things. There are militias that are outside the rule of law, and this is one of the things we are going to crack down on," Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail told Reuters as he passed the camel-riding militiamen on his way to Kutum.
    The U.N. has said a Rwanda-style genocide could be in the making in the Darfur area and international military force may be needed -- a suggestion Khartoum rejects.
    Ismail said the government was sending auxiliary units to help the shattered security forces in Darfur re-establish the rule of law.
    Thursday's cease-fire deal included offering access for relief groups.
    "We have free access along a number of corridors. Certain areas, in which we have concerns, we still have not been granted permission to travel to," said Glyn Taylor from the U.N. office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs for Sudan.
    He told aid representatives and government officials in Al-Fashir, capital of North Darfur state, that displaced people would only return when they felt safe.
    "Should this not happen and should they not be able to engage in agricultural activity before the rains then we will be looking at a severe food security situation over the next 12 months," he said.
    Back in Kutum, camp residents gathered round the foreign minister telling him they needed water and medicine. But they also told visitors that it was too dangerous for them to leave the camp.
    "There is a police station inside the camp, so we are not attacked inside the camp. But if we leave the camp for any reason we are attacked," said one African woman, saying one woman gathering wood was seized by the Janjaweed Thursday.








                  

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U.N. mission heading to Sudan (Re: nadus2000)

    KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) -- Sudan will welcome a high-level United Nations mission later this month to assess humanitarian needs in the troubled western Darfur region and cooperate in the delivery of aid, a government minister said Sunday.

    Humanitarian Affairs Minister Ibrahim Hamid made the announcement after a meeting with representatives of the United Nations and other nongovernmental organizations in Khartoum.

    "We have agreed to cooperate and work together in accordance with the principles of the United Nations," Hamid said. "We have also agreed on setting up a committee to work out an emergency relief program for Darfur."

    Hamid said the government is committed to the relief of the people affected by the fighting that started in February 2003.

    The 10-member team led by Jan Egeland, U.N. undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs, will visit each of the three regions of Darfur from April 18 to 21, during a 45-day cease-fire signed Thursday by the government and rebels to allow humanitarian agencies into the area and provide a window to reach a peace agreement.

    Thousands of people have been killed and more than 860,000 others forced to flee their homes in Darfur, an impoverished region of Sudan that borders Chad, since two main rebel groups took up arms in February 2003 to fight for a share in power and wealth.

    U.N. officials and human rights groups have said Arab militia groups, reportedly with Sudanese government backing, are engaged in "ethnic cleansing" against Africans in Darfur. The two rebel groups, along with refugees, have accused the government of bombing and attacking civilians.

    The government has denied the allegations.

    Sunday, President Omar el-Bashir flew to Chad, where President Idriss Deby and his team of mediators have been helping forge a deal between the two sides, leading to the cease-fire.

    "The president thanked President Deby for the success of the round of the peace talks and stressed the commitment of the Sudanese government to implement the agreement, concerning the humanitarian assistance, the cease-fire and the comprehensive political settlement for the Darfur question," Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail told reporters after the president's return.

    Meanwhile, Sudanese security forces released 59 people detained in North Darfur state as part of the implementation of the cease-fire agreement and a gesture toward helping the peace efforts, the official Sudan Media Center reported.
                  


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