Sudan crisis .... (by: Debmey & Serphim)

Seraphim

WHO seeks urgent action to avert Sudan crisis
Child death rate triple that of humanitarian emergency



(CNN) -- Millions of men, women and children may die in the Darfur region of Sudan unless there is an immediate outpouring of international aid, the World Health Organization warned Wednesday.

"A significant increase in disease and death is inevitable without a rapid increase in external help," the WHO said in a written statement. "The catastrophe can only be prevented through an urgent scaling up of the current international response."

The urgent appeal came one day before donor nations were to meet in Geneva to formulate their response to the Sudan crisis.

The crisis in Darfur began after fighting erupted early last year between the Sudanese government, allied militias and rebel groups.

Government-backed Arab militias are carrying out "scorched earth" attacks against black African communities of Darfur, according to the United Nations. The U.N. estimates some 30,000 have been killed in the campaign of ethnic cleansing.

U.N. Emergency Coordinator Jan Egeland last week called the situation in Darfur "the biggest humanitarian drama of our time."

"This is the most dramatic race against the clock that we have anywhere in the world at the moment," he said. "If we lose, hundreds of thousands of women and children, mostly, will perish."

Sudan has been embroiled in a 21-year civil war.

Its government and main rebel group last week signed historic agreements, paving the way for a final deal to end the more than two decades of civil war. Details of that pact will be negotiated later this month. But that agreement did not address the conflict in Darfur.

More than 1.2 million of the 6.7 million inhabitants of the three western states in the Darfur region have been displaced from their villages and homes, and 2 million people have been affected, the WHO said.

"In at least one instance, the child mortality rate rose to three times higher than the international threshold for a humanitarian emergency (two deaths per 10, 000 under-five children per day)," the United Nations agency said.

Ministers and officials from donor nations were to meet Thursday in Geneva to formulate their response to the crisis.

"Bold and decisive action is needed now," the statement said.

"WHO estimates that a humanitarian crisis can only be prevented through a rapid scaling up in the response -- especially during the next three months. WHO now seeks $7.6 million for the health response in Darfur as part of $30 million needed for health work throughout Sudan, to help the government coordinate the response of the health sector and tackle disease outbreaks, improve sanitation, respond to public health needs and improve access to medical care."

"Death and disease spiral upwards when there is inadequate food, unsafe water, improper sanitation and shelter, widespread violence, lack of public health inputs like vaccinations and insufficient access to medical care. These are the realities of the current crisis in Darfur," said WHO Director-General Lee Jong-wook.

"The world must not stand by as conflict is compounded by rising rates of death that could be prevented through concerted action."


  




It's finally time for the UN to give serious thoughts about this matter and doing their job about this matter.The way it's continuing in Sudan,it's getting worse and actually it's more disastrous if compared to the incidents in the Middle East. Hope the Sudan government will change and stop their evil ways.

Debmey

www.hrw.org/reports/2004/sudan0404/

news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/ -/1/hi/world/africa/3607739.stm

www.cin.org/archives/cinjub/199903/0020.html

www.canoe.ca/SlaveTrail/home.html

www.rutherford.org/articles_db/ commentary.asp?record_id=72

http://www.ict.org.il/articles/articledet.cfm?articleid=33

[ Last edited by DARSITA on 9-6-2004 at 11:35 AM ]

It is very unfortunate to see how some could make judgement not based on humanitarian basis but on religious affiliation. Even more astounding is when it tries to rewrite the truth & history.

Debmey

Thats their idea of Muslim brotherhood and solidarity as we can clearly see on cari.
You will also notice that Sudan was never called into account for gross human rights violation over the past 20 years at any OIC summit, not even when they are killing fellow Muslims.
Also notice that Muslims at large never complained and did nothing for the Iraqis while Saddam was oppressing, raping, torturing Muslims for decades. He killed more Muslims than anyone alive today. Have yu seen the mass graves of Iraq?

peace

kid

AP: Sudan: Rebels Responsible for Violence

News Article by AP posted on April 28, 2004 at 09:56:21: EST (-5 GMT)

Stung by charges that his government is fomenting ethnic cleansing in western Sudan, the humanitarian affairs minister came to see the evidence for himself - looted grain silos, scorched farmland, huts burned to heaps of black clay, and accounts of hundreds of thousands made homeless.

But left unanswered was the question of who is to blame for the tragedy and looming famine in the Iraq-sized province of Darfur - the Arab-dominated government in Khartoum, or the rebels it claims are threatening Sudan's stability with their campaign for autonomy?

The Darfur disaster has emerged as a delicate peace, brokered by Western and African diplomats, is taking root in another of Sudan's conflict zones - a 21-year civil war broadly defined as pitting the Muslim north against the Christian and animist south.

In Darfur, which is almost completely Muslim, the division is between African and Arab.

Human rights groups say the government is giving air support to the Arab tribal militias in Darfur. The government says the tribesmen are defending themselves against autonomy-seeking rebels, but denies aiding them.

The government signed a 45-day cease-fire with the rebels on April 8, and during his visit last week, Humanitarian Affairs Minister Ibrahim Hamid appealed to international relief groups to help. Sudanese officials said U.N. human rights investigators who arrived in the country last week would have free access to Darfur.

To Hamid, villagers described fleeing from armed horsemen who burned and looted their homes. They said they didn't know who the attackers were, but out of the earshot of Hamid's entourage, an African tribal chief blamed ``janajaweed'' - tribal militias.

The chief, who requested anonymity, did not say whether he believed the government was backing the janajaweed.

Human rights groups accuse the government of bombing villages before janajaweed raids and providing helicopter reconnaissance afterward. New York-based Human Rights Watch calls it ``a strategy of ethnic-based murder, rape and forcible displacement of civilians in Darfur.''

Last week it said it had documented dozens of janajaweed attacks supported by government forces. It described an operation in which troops allegedly worked with janajaweed to detain 136 African men whom the militias later massacred.

A U.N. report leaked last week accused Sudanese forces of raping non-Arab women and girls and bombing civilians in what may amount to crimes against humanity.

West Darfur Governor Adam Sulieman has said any atrocities are the work of ``bandits, outlaws and rebels.''

In a TV interview last week, Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail said the janajaweed ``took up arms to defend themselves'' against rebel attacks.

But while denying the government was backing the janajaweed, he said it ``may have turned a blind eye toward the militias ... because those militias are targeting the rebellion.''

The rebels accuse the government of neglecting impoverished Darfur, long an arena for clashes between African farmers and Arab herdsmen over grazing areas.

``What started as a tribal conflict turned into something else. In this very area, 70 villages and nomads camps were burned down, an unspecified number of persons killed, some 23 institutions were destroyed, 2,700 pupils and students interrupted their schooling. Now after people have come back, there is little we can offer them,'' Hussein Hassan Sharaf, a teacher, said at a public meeting organized for Hamid's visit in Baidha, near the border with Chad.

Some 70,000 of Baidha's 78,000 people have fled into Chad. Some who have returned since the cease-fire are in desperate need, local officials said.

``Our request is simple, we want plastic sheets, seeds and food that will take us up to the harvest season,'' said Sultan Saad Abdul Rahaman, chief of the Masalit, the second largest African tribe in Darfur.

Visiting the Mukjar area, with a population of 123,000, minister Hamid was told rebels had attacked three times since October, making it impossible to harvest crops.

Some 51,000 people, mostly women, fled to camps around Mukjar, Hamid was told.

``When I came here, I saw women crawling on their knees to pick up grain from the ground,'' said Ahmed Sabah Rizzigallah, deputy director of a Kuwaiti organization that was the only foreign aid group working in the area.

Debmey

Aha! at least yu recognise what is happening after being cornered by Debmey.

kid

Originally posted by Debmey at 29-4-2004 01:00 PM:
Aha! at least yu recognise what is happening after being cornered by Debmey.

Do you realise what is the content of the above article?

Debmey

Genocide in Sudan.

Why didn't yu complain to Msian govt for supporting GOS?

Originally posted by Debmey at 2004-4-29 01:29 PM:
Genocide in Sudan.

Why didn't yu complain to Msian govt for supporting GOS?

I like this opinion  by C. Bal Krishna published by  The Hindu in 2002, especially the last two paragraphs;)

"The decision to invest in the development of Sudan's oil sector has opened an important opportunity for India in Africa.

To set aside such an opportunity on account of human rights considerations or any alleged terrorist history might be a big mistake. Civil wars are no good anywhere and the one in Sudan will end sooner than later. So it is time for ONGC Videsh to go ahead with its venture."

http://www.hinduonnet.com/2002/07/08/stories/2002070800471000.htm

"India must learn to make a distinction between smoke and a fire. It has to make an independent evaluation of such countries and not just go by the labelling indulged in by the sole superpower."

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Debmey

In that case then yu muslim boys shouldn't complain when US invests in Israel or anyhwere too. Anyway, I don't support Bal Krishna's stand, it is one that has no moral bearings and if yu carry that stand, yu cannot be a muslim and neither can you even pretend to stand on moral high grounds and condemn anyone.

peace

I wonder if our government would stage rally calling for donations & aid. ;)

a muslim gov helping non muslims in another muslim country...?

yeahhh pls raise your pillows tonight and hope to dream.

Originally posted by whitepig at 2004-6-3 04:17 PM:
a muslim gov helping non muslims in another muslim country...?

yeahhh pls raise your pillows tonight and hope to dream.

Well, since you have clearly run out of points in  the other topics in this forum ~ one last resort at Islam bashing would be Sudan ~ at least  its easier to point fingers at especially when Sudan is rarely being reported in the media ~ western or eastern.

I stand for  fairness & justice ~ whether Muslim govt or non-Muslim government. If there are indeed atrocities committed, by all means make as much noise about it as possible ~ splash pictures and video footages around the globe so that everyone will know. Bring it to the UN. Air them on TV, print them in newspapers. Demand for justice.

We are all human and human beings don't deserve to be oppressed by fellow human beings ~ no matter what religion, ethnicity, political block etc etc they are.

Meanwhile, lets read this. If what is said is not true, then bring forth your evidence. All the time, the case against Sudan has been coming from Christian NGOs  and almost no-one else. One tends to get a bit suspicious about this. What is the agenda?



http://www.sudani.co.za/Peace%20 ... %20in%20Darfour.htm

[ Last edited by KENNKID on 3-6-2004 at 04:37 PM ]

The link is not reachable...

Originally posted by Adm_Cheng_Ho at 2004-6-3 04:36 PM:
The link is not reachable...

Pls try again

AHAHAHA....Sudan Embassy in South Africa

I would like to point out, this crisis spans 2 region in Darfur namely South Darfur & West Darfur. Both provinces consists of Blacks regardless they are Muslims, Christians or Atheists.

This is a case of racial intolerance & inequality.

kid

Originally posted by Adm_Cheng_Ho at 3-6-2004 05:09 PM:
I would like to point out, this crisis spans 2 region in Darfur namely South Darfur & West Darfur. Both provinces consists of Blacks regardless they are Muslims, Christians or Atheists.

This ...

Correct!... Darfur consist of Muslim, Christian and Atheist, why some people very hard to understand that the conflict is regional conflict? And label them as black african is not really correct, because some of the Darfur tribes are Arabs mixed. This is the conflict between central government and the Darfur rebel due to regional/territory conflict.. not religion!

BTW the south conflict has ended, they signed peace agreement with central government, they would share the power of the government soon, so this is a good sign of cooperation from the government of Sudan...correcto?

kid

Originally posted by whitepig at 3-6-2004 04:17 PM:
a muslim gov helping non muslims in another muslim country...?

yeahhh pls raise your pillows tonight and hope to dream.

Not correct.. Darfur consist of Muslim, Christian and Atheist

kid

Originally posted by Adm_Cheng_Ho at 3-6-2004 05:03 PM:
AHAHAHA....Sudan Embassy in South Africa

What's up with Sudan embassy in South Africa?