SLM leader calls for humanitarian intervention in Darfur
March 24, 2009 (PARIS) — The leader a Darfur rebel movement appealed today for an international humanitarian intervention in western Sudan to relief the war affected population after the expulsion of 13 aid group early this month.
He pointed out that the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the different camps refuse to deal with the Sudanese government workers who replace the 13 foreign non-governmental organizations that Khartoum expelled on 4 and 5 March accusing them of cooperation with the ICC, legal and administrative reasons.
“The IDPs cannot trust or deal with people sent by the same government that orchestratedstheir killing and suffering on daily basis and since 2003, he said. The presence of the foreign aid groups “reassured them and provided them some security” he added.
After huge international pressures Sudan allowed the NGOs to operate in Darfur in 2004, after barring the UN staff in the country from providing any help to the millions of displaced during one year where many atrocities and crimes had been committed.
Nur said that Sudanese government with the absence of international aid worker can now “apply the final solution to erase the traces of their cause or expel them from their lands once for all.”
The expulsion of the 13 foreign groups who distribute the humanitarian aid provided by the WFP and manage it in various sectors (food aid, health and nutrition, non-food items and shelter, and water, sanitation, and hygiene) created a gab that Sudan has pledged to meet through the sudanization of the humanitarian activities.
Darfur IDPs also say that pro-government militia are now deployed many camps and they fear to be attacked by them. Since the ICC arrest warrant for President Al-Bashir many attacks have been reported against aid workers and the peacekeepers.
Also Hussein Abu Sharati the spokesperson of Darfur IDPs told Sudan Tribune today that Darfur camps are facing now three major problems, the lack of security, gap of food distribution and lack of health and medical services.
He said armed militiamen killed yesterday one of child from the camp of Hassa Hissa, in western Darfur. He added that the absence of a “neutral body” would encourage the janjaweed to resume their deadly attacks on the civilians.
He also added there are now more than 400 cases of Cholera and Meningitis in the different camps.
Ahmed Hussein Adam, the spokesperson of the rebel Justice and Equality Movement told Sudan Tribune yesterday that four children had died at the Shangil Tobaya camp in North Darfur over the last couple of days due to the malnutrition.
Abu Sharati also confirmed the death and added that within one week “you could hear a lot of such news” because the situation is very bad in the camps.
The Sudanese government and the UN said today they agreed on a two moths plan to bridge the gaps created by the forced departure of 13 NGOs from Darfur.
Some 4.7 million people rely on humanitarian aid in Darfur, where the United Nations runs its largest aid operation in the world with the help of aid groups. The joint Sudan UN assessment published today said four of the expelled non-governmental organizations (NGOs) served some 1.1 million people.
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Logic
SLM leader calls for humanitarian intervention in Darfur
The whole world (most of the third world) was saying this could happen if an arrest warrant was issued but the Super Powers didn’t want to listen.
Whether Bashir is right or wrong for expelling these agencies, it was explained that the situation could get worse if this ICC nonsense was allowed to go on.
And now you have your answer, instead of the so called internationl community pressuring all sides to embrace negotiations they instead opted to pressure one side of the conflict… this is what you get when you corner a mad dog like Bashir.
This proves all along that the so called internationl community was not interested in peace but rather regime change at the expense of Darfurian lives.
Although much of what we’ll hear in the news will indicate that Bashir is at fault for putting Darfuri lives at risk but the responsibility belongs to all who chose regime change instead of balanced pressure.
In all this Bashir is equally as guilty (unless he fills the aid gap) but many of us knew what he could do, if the West decided to get rid of him regardless of the trouble it will bring.