تحول الإعتصام لإضراب عن الطعام يوم السبت (القاهرة)

Cairo 16:44hours
11th November 2005
Nevine Al Seidi
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Sudanese Refugees, stranded in Cairo, go on a Hunger Strike

Sudanese refugees , stranded in Cairo awaiting placement by the UNHCR decided to start a hunger strike starting from Saturday, the 12th November. After the peace agreement of last June between the Sudanese Government and People's Liberation Army, the Cairo office of UNHCR decided to close the Sudanese file and repatriate asylum seekers back home. Refugees have been camping for the past 44 days in open air, in a park outside the UNHCR in Mohandesseen, Cairo, in protest.

For more than a six weeks, the Sudanese Refugees living in limbo without financial aid or hope of rescue, have been camping in the park of Mustafa Mahmoud Mosque, outside the office of the UNHCR in Cairo. They demand their files to be handled for placement. During the sit-in, they lost six lives, three of which were babies, due to the harshness of life conditions in the cold winter of Cairo. While the Egyptian security police tried to rough-handle those and stop international and domestic media from covering the strike, Sudanese campers would not budge before a promise from the UN office to re-open the Sudanese file for placement. About 15000 Sudanese from the four corners of the Sudan are seeking asylum drom Cairo; Not just Christian Southerners, but Darfur people in the West, Beja people (MUSLIMS)in the East, and opposition f(MUSLIMS BY BIRTH) from the North. Since 1995, more than two million refugees from Cairo received placement in Canada, the US, Finland, Australia nd Egypt. Refugees fleeing a civil war that stretched for 20 years plus confirm that persecution, arbitrary detention, torture and murder awaits them back home. They describe the military coup that brought Omar El Bashir's government to power as " The Black Coup". They accept no 'decorative' peace treaty where the autocratic radical and 'illigitimate' government is a party. Refugees belonging to various opposition parties and who are basically Muslims and Arabs refuse the rule of Islam in the Sudan.

The 3000 people gathering in the park in Mofandesseen today have submitted a formal request to Kofi Anan who is yet to visit them, though in Cairo. They demand their basic human rights as they are fleeing for their life. They need the re-opening of their file, security from forced repatriation to the Sudan, and financial support that has disappeared or was never received for some.To them, the conditions that displaced 4.5 million Sudanese and killed over two million are true today as it were before the peace treaty. XXX

تحول الإعتصام لإضراب عن الطعام يوم السبت (القاهرة)

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