الصليب الأحمر يحذر من خطورة الأوضاع الإنسانية في دارفور

اعلنت اللجنة الدولية للصليب الاحمر امس ان الوضع في دارفور خطير وان هناك احتياجات غذائية هائلة لم تتم تلبيتها. وقال مسئول الاعلام في مكتب الصليب الاحمر في الخرطوم فاسيلي فاديف ان «الوضع الانساني خطير واحتياجات السكان المنكوبين كبيرة وملحة ولا تستطيع المنظمات الانسانية العاملة في دارفور تلبيتها كلها».


وأكد فاديف ان منظمته «على استعداد لزيادة عملياتها بشكل كبير في دارفور»، ولكنه قال انه لا يستطيع «في هذه المرحلة ان يعطي اي رقم حول زيادة محتملة للعمليات».


واضاف ان زيادة حجم عمليات الصليب الاحمر محل دراسة «مع الهلال الاحمر السوداني ومع السلطات المحلية والفدرالية». وأشار فاديف الى ان العمليات والموارد المطلوبة يجب ان تكون ملائمة لتغطية الاحتياجات الانسانية في هذه المنطقة.


وأكد ان الوصول الى السكان المتضررين في دارفور اصبح اكثر سهولة منذ منتصف فبراير الماضي ونجحت اللجنة الدولية للصليب الاحمر في الوصول الى عشرات الالاف من النازحين.


وأوضح انه خلال الشهرين الاخيرين قدم الصليب الاحمر الدولي بالتعاون مع الهلال الاحمر السوداني مساعدات عينية من بينها بصفة خاصة خيام الى اكثر من 42 الف نازح ووفر مياه شرب الى 72 الف شخص من النازحين والسكان الذين ظلوا في قراهم واستفاد من ذلك اعضاء القبائل العربية الذين تضرروا من النزاع. وقال فاديف ان الصليب الاحمر يقوم حاليا ببرنامج رعاية صحية وتوفير مياه شرب في كتم والفاشر في شمال دارفور.


كما اطلقت اللجنة الدولية للصليب الاحمر برنامج اعادة تأهيل لتحسين الشروط الصحية في عدة منشآت صحية كما قدمت كمية كبيرة من الادوية والمعدات الطبية للمستشفيات في نيالا والفاشر.


ووزع الصليب الاحمر مساعدات غير غذائية مثل اغطية الخيام والملابس واغطية النوم. كما ارسلت المنظمة فرقا من الجراحين لمساندة الاطباء المحليين. وقال فاديف ان منظمته تقوم بلم شمل العائلات التي تسبب النزاع في تفريق افرادها.


وأوضح انه في معسكرات النازحين احصت اللجنة الدولية للصليب الاحمر بالتعاون مع الهلال الاحمر السوداني عشرات الاطفال الذين انفصلوا عن اهاليهم. وأكد ان مئات النازحين توجهوا الى اللجنة الدولية للصليب الاحمر والى الهلال الاحمر ليطلبوا منهم مساعدتهم في معرفة مكان اقربائهم الذين فرقهم النزاع.


وأسفر نزاع دارفور منذ اندلاعه في فبراير 2003 عن سقوط 10 الاف قتيل ونزوح قرابة 700 الف شخص من بينهم مائة الف تقريبا لجاؤا الى دولة تشاد المجاورة. ويطالب متمردو دارفور بالتنمية الاقتصادية لمنطقتهم التي يعتبرون انها «مهمشة». أ. ف. ب

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

Public Statement



AI Index: AFR 54/044/2004 (Public)
News Service No: 111
30 April 2004


Sudan: Government must stop human rights and humanitarian disaster
in
Darfur


Only immediate action can prevent the killing and forced displacement
of
thousands more people in Sudan", said Amnesty International, as the
ceasefire agreement continues to be breached.

Since the ceasefire between the government and the armed
opposition
groups the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) and the Justice and Equality
Movement (JEM), came into effect on April 12, civilians continue to
suffer
human rights abuses and are in a desperate humanitarian situation.

"Attacks on villages continue; indiscriminate and deliberate
killings
of civilians continue; #####ng continues and rapes continue. Most
detainees
imprisoned because of the conflict have not been released. The African
Union monitors designated to investigate every ceasefire violation are
not
yet in place", said Amnesty International.

Most villages in Darfur have now been destroyed and the
population
hardly dares to leave the displacement camps. The Janjawid
(government-supported militia) block the roads and even invade the
camps.
In Ardamata camp for displaced people near al-Jeneina town, Janjawid
are
reported to enter openly and choose women to rape.

Furthermore, the conflict is in danger of spreading. On 28 April
Sudanese planes bombed Kolbus village in Chad and the Janjawid attacked
refugees and Chadian civilians across the border.

"This is not an unavoidable ethnic conflict. It is a tragedy
deliberately created by the government's support for the Janjawid and
fuelled by total impunity for grave violations of human rights", said
Amnesty International.

"Two time-bombs are ticking in Sudan in a countdown to disaster:
the
approaching rainy season, which means that by June many areas may be
cut
off from food and medical supplies from outside; and the danger that a
complete collapse of the ceasefire will lead to an escalation of
violations," said Amnesty International.

"Unless the international community put maximum pressure to
ensure
that the government militia are disarmed and removed from the region
the
conflict will worsen and spread. Beyond the safeguards for the
protection
of civilians specified in the ceasefire agreement, the international
community must also insist that human rights observers are deployed."

Amnesty International called for ceasefire monitors, including
human
rights monitors, to be swiftly deployed in sufficient numbers to ensure
the
ceasefire’s implementation and to investigate violations and for the
Janjawid militias to be disarmed and withdrawn to areas where they
could
not abuse the civilian population.

Background Information
Over the past few years thousands of civilians in Darfur, western Sudan
have been killed or wounded by armed nomadic groups. Their homes have
been
burnt and herds stolen. The Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) and the Justice
and
Equality Movement (JEM) took up arms against the government in February
2003, because of what they perceived as the lack of government
protection
for their people and the marginalisation and underdevelopment of the
region.

Since then, the Sudan government appears to have given free rein
to
the nomadic militias known as the Janjawid to kill and abduct
civilians,
mainly from the agricultural ethnic groups, and destroy their property.
More than 800,000 people have fled from their burnt villages and most
have
taken refuge in towns in Darfur, while more than 120,000 have crossed
the
border into Chad. More than 10,000 have been killed in attacks.

On 8 April 2004 the government of Sudan and the SLA and the JEM
signed a ceasefire agreement that was due to come into effect on 12
April.
It is due to run for 45 days, renewable for an additional 45 days not
later
than 21 days before the expiry of the Agreement. Under article 2 of the
Agreement, each party shall:
Refrain from any recruitment operations;
Refrain from any military action, and any reconnaissance operations;
Refrain from any act of violence or any other abuse of the civilian
populations
Disengage and refrain from any deployment, movement or action which
could extend the territory under its control or which could lead to
a
resumption of hostilities
Ensure humanitarian access.

A Cease-fire Commission is to be set up; all prisoners of war and
"all other persons detained because of the armed conflict in Darfur"
are to
be freed and "[t]he parties shall ensure that all armed groups under
their
control comply with this Agreement. The forces of armed opposition
should
be assembled in clearly identified sites. The Sudanese Government shall
commit itself to neutralize the armed militias".