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Re: نساء مقاتلات من دارفور يشاركن في المفاوضات للمرة الاولى (Re: Deng)
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AN APPEAL TO THE LEADERS OF DARFUR
AN APPEAL TO THE LEADERS OF DARFUR
Darfurian Leaders: :
Assalamu Alikum Warhamt Allah Wabarakatu, In-Sha-Allah Taybyeen...Masa-allah 3yny barda ...What a . When I look around, I see my family in your faces and I know I belong. When I look around I see Darfur in . ,a certain place that may give me a distinct identity and travels deeper to embrace the whole and affirm .Therefore, I know I belong. When I look at you, I see no distinction based on what tribe you may belong to or which part of Darfur you may come from. When I see Darfurians in the refugee camps through the eyes of a journalist or a broadcaster or a news anchor or a photographer or an aid worker, I see my people and all those place, tribal and ethnic distinctions melt away. So, we are all Darfurian and our .
Standing here today among my people I should be rejoicing but my heart is full of agony. As a Darfurian woman, I feel I have been betrayed. When I hear the call for battling and fighting each other, the noise growing louder than the call for peace, unity and reconciliation, I feel betrayed. When I hear the stories of Darfurian women being expelled to bordering countries or forcefully displaced leaving their homes and dignity behind because Darfurians can no longer resolve their conflicts peacefully and affirm their unity, I must say as a Darfurian woman, I feel betrayed. When I hear the stories of my mothers and sisters related on-line or on newspapers or video clips and how they are continuously being subjected to .
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Thousands and thousands of appalling stories and traumas beyond comprehension happen to our mothers, sisters and daughters as we gather here today to appeal and call on our unity. Yet, we dare to continue to fight each other, to cluster in separate groups, forging countless battles against our unity, to continue to disgrace our women and children, to render them widows and orphans, to dispel all their .I must say, as a Darfurian woman, I have been betrayed. Women and children of Darfur deserve better .
We Darfurians may be a sector of and I quote the last vice-president, Dr. Garang, “the marginalized of the marginalized" but we, the Darfurians, certainly have the right to call for justice and equality. And when our voices are not heard, it is conceivable why we may resort to extreme measures to affirm those ,perhaps, build a sustainable peace accord for the sake of our people, we must favor reconciliation, peace and unity. That is our noble cause… That is what we need to fight for: Our unity and, ultimately, our rights. If we, the Darfurians, cannot unite in times of turmoil and extreme suffering, embrace our grievances as one, stand in solidarity and unionism, we shall forever remain at conflict. It is now that we unite, embrace one cause or never. Therefore, for our daughters, let us unite; for our mothers, let us unite; for our sisters let us unite. For our future as Darfurians, let us unite. Let us embrace one another in unity. For a prosperous Darfur, let us think, live and embrace unity. For a unified Darfur where we Darfurians of all ethnicities live in dignity and harmony thus affirming our unity and celebrating our .
Women and children of Darfur shall wait no more. Women and children of Darfur shall live in fear and despair no more. Because to you--you, Darfurian leaders--that women and children of Darfur appeal today. It is in you--Darfurian leaders--that women and children of Darfur take pride in gaurding their dignity and honor. It is in your unity as one Darfurian, that they seek refuge and salvation from their cruel reality. And it is in your reconciliation that they will be able to heel, to forget, to realize that their ultimate sacrifices didn’t go in vain. Let us join as one. Let us unite today. And collectively, we shall fight for justice and equality through unity, peace and reconciliation. So women and children of Darfur can heel, can bury their wounds and betrayals of the present and embrace their future. So that their hearts .
Darfur Baladna in kuna bany halba walla zag’awa, in kuna barty walla dagu, in kuna foor walla masalyeet ....
Ghada Adam Abdelmoumin Member of the Board of Directors .
http://www.darfurrehab.org/news/appeal.html
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