مظاهرة كبرى أمام مجلس الأمن تنديدا بعمليات القتل في دارفور+جبال النوبة

Rally for International Action in Sudan

What: Rally for International Action in Sudan
When and where: Monday, June 27th, 2011 12pm-4pm
In front of the United Nations
East 47th St between 1st + 2nd Avenues
Contact:
Motasim Adam, [email protected]
Sharon Silber, [email protected],
ON MONDAY JUNE 27 from 12-4, Sudanese diaspora from around the United States including Nuba people and Darfuris whose friends and relatives have been targeted by Sudanese armed forces will stand in Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza to call attention to the unfolding genocide in the Nuba mountains, the ongoing genocide in Darfur, the government military seizure of Abyei, and the assault on free expression and justice throughout Sudan. They will be joined by other Sudanese and American activists from the tri-state area.

On Sunday June 5, 2011, the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) entered the city of Kadugli (population approx. 100,000) with heavy war equipment including tanks. The city of Kadugli is now a ghost town except for government troops who continue to loot and burn homes, and attacks have been launched in other towns in South Kordofan with house to house searches and killings throughout South Kordofan. It is clear that the Sudanese government, under the leadership of indicted President Omar al-Bashir, has begun a campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing in the South Kordofan region of Sudan. Additionally, in May 2011, the SAF violently seized Abyei, displacing 100,000 civilians and killing many in the region.

Meanwhile, the people of Darfur struggle to survive a conflict that now commands little international attention, despite the continuation of deliberate attacks on civilians and indiscriminate aerial bombings. Renewed attacks since January 2011 have resulted in scores of civilian casualties, destruction and #####ng of property, and the displacement of up to 90,000 people. And increasingly, those speaking up for the victims are targeted themselves.

The rally will call for the following actions in Sudan.
• End all attacks in Sudan that violate international humanitarian law, including deliberate attacks on civilians and indiscriminate aerial bombings; and hold all those responsible to account, regardless of rank.
• Extend the UNMIS mandate: The Sudanese government is attempting to end the 2005 UNMIS mandate but UNMIS presence is clearly needed after July 9th
• Fulfill obligations to cooperate with the ICC, including surrendering to the court those subject to ICC arrest warrants, such as President al-Bashir and imposed governor and indicted war criminal Ahmed Haroun.
• No-Fly Zone: The immediate imposition of a No Fly Zone in Nuba Mountains/South Kordofan States and in the Darfur region is needed to protect civilians from bombings.
• Call on the Sudanese government to ensure unfettered access by UNAMID peacekeepers and humanitarian actors to all parts of Sudan including those most affected by conflict.
• Protection of Darfur/South Kordofan/Abyei: The immediate demand is for the disarmament of the dangerous Popular Defense Force (PDF) in Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan, withdrawal of SAF from Abyei area, and removal of Sudanese government militias and proxies in Darfur.
• End the harassment, detention and torture of journalists, human rights workers, and activists, and call for their immediate release.
• End the Sudanese government policy of dismantling IDP camps in Darfur and of deliberately preventing food, water and medical supplies to reach civilians as a weapon of war in Darfur, S. Korfofan and all affected areas of Sudan.

We hope that by standing in front of the United Nations with families of the victims, the international community will finally hold to account the Sudanese government which has in the last 2 decades committed 4 genocides, one in South Sudan in the 1980s-2005, one in the Nuba mountains in the 1980s and 1990s, one in Darfur from 2003 until the present, and now a second time in the Nuba mountains and Abyei. Collectively, these crimes have resulted in the deaths of nearly 3 million people, the largest state-sponsored ethnic killing since WWII.