UN marks ordeal of abducted foreign aid worker in Darfur
August 25, 2010 (KHARTOUM) – The United Nations’ Humanitarian Coordinator on Wednesday marked the 100th day of captivity for the Samaritan’s Purse female staff member held in Darfur, urging the Sudanese authorities to secure her release and ensure safe environment for aid workers in Darfur.
“On this sad occasion” says the UN’s statement “the Humanitarian Coordinator calls upon the Government of Sudan and state authorities to continue to work hard to secure the safe release of our humanitarian colleague who was abducted on 18 May, with a view to countering the negative effect that this incident has on the humanitarian community as a whole.”
She is the only foreigner currently held hostage in the restive region of Darfur where a high incidence of kidnappings of foreign workers has been observed since March 2009 when the International Criminal Court (ICC) charged President Al-Bashir with war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed in the region.
Speaking of her ordeal in a satellite telephone call to AFP on July 26, the abducted woman said that her situation was a “nightmare.”
“I am not safe now. I don’t have clean water, the situation changed very quickly into a nightmare. There are 20 men around me now,” the woman told AFP.
The UN’s statement further called on the humanitarian community and national authorities “to work closely together for a safe environment for civilians and humanitarian aid workers in Darfur.”
UN’s chief Ban Ki-Moon warned on August 17 that the increasing number of kidnappings of foreign aid workers “contributed to a worsening of the situation” in Darfur region.
The Darfur conflict erupted in 2003 when certain ethnic groups took up arms against the Sudanese government, accusing it of neglecting the region. The rebellion prompted the government to launch a counterinsurgency operation that killed more than 300.000 people and displaced more than 2 million, according to UN estimates.
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DASODIKO
UN marks ordeal of abducted foreign aid worker in Darfur
UN’s chief Ban Ki-Moon warned on August 17 that the increasing number of kidnappings of foreign aid workers “contributed to a worsening of the situation” in Darfur region.
And this is what the Governemnt of Sudan wants to achieve on last resorts of its genocide plan. Its men to stave the IDPs to death because Bashir, the Wali of South Darfur Kasha and his cousin Abdalla Masaar on their daily talks repeats; Why they wnat to save them while we wnat them dead????
The Governemnt of Sudan and its Arab Janjaweeds are the one who kidnapped American AID worker as pressure to Obama adminstration over its position on South Sudan referandum and Darfur genocide that is committed by Bahsir.
Ask me Mr. International Community about Islamic gvoernemnt in Khartoum!! We Sudanese know them very close. No verbal pressure will avail on them only and only the use of force. They always repeat on Sudan TV who ever hate our behaviors should use only the force to moves us or crush him.
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UN marks ordeal of abducted foreign aid worker in Darfur
The only language Khartoum understands is the language they themselves use, but not soft talk and diplomacy, therefore Ban Ki moon is wasting his time and efforts when he is appealing to the conscience of radical Jihadist to release the Humanitarian Aid worker