South Darfur governor accuse UNAMID of complicity with IDP’s
August 25, 2010 (KHARTOUM) – The governor of South Darfur Abdel-Hameed Kasha accused the African Union-United Nations mission in Darfur (UNAMID) of non-cooperation with the government in resolving the situation in Kalma IDP camp which witnessed violence clashes last month between those who support peace talks and those who oppose it.
The governor said that UNAMID has failed to assist the government in clearing out the camp or conduct patrols to gather weapons and arrest the wanted individuals or even surrender the corpses of those who perished to bury.
Sudan wants UNAMID to hand over six people to face trial over their role in the clashes. However, the peacekeeping force want guarantees that they will be treated in accordance with international and humanitarian laws before they take such a step.
Kasha blasted the mission saying that some of its elements are discouraging the camp residents from leaving the camp for relocation by threatening to deny them from receiving their food rations.
“We will enter the camp whether UNAMID likes it or not,” he warned and threatened to respond swiftly to any resistance.
This month, the South Darfur governor revealed that he is working to relocate the residents of Kalma in two camps with a capacity of 25 to 30 thousand people, equipped with all basic services.
But the outgoing UN humanitarian chief John Holmes warned that the Sudanese authorities must not forcibly move the IDP’s.
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South Darfur governor accuse UNAMID of complicity with IDP’s
Meanwhile the UNAMID chief shows an ambiguous position on Kalma issue, the governor of south Darfur continuously forge ever ending baseless accusations against it .Aiming to shape up internal and international opinion against the mission then, to sending it out Darfur. So when does UNAMID learn the lessons and act properly to stop this cheap, clear propaganda.
The genocide regime governor, to satisfy his boss in Khartoum will spare no effort to enter forcibly the IDPs camps and disperse the residents in the nature uncovered under mercy of atrocious janjaweed,
it worth to mention that, relocation of IDPs in new camps imply hypocrite plan to deny their right to return back to their original village, currently under occupation by new settlers brought from abroad owing to change the demography of Darfur people, in a flagrant denial to historical rights to ancestral land.
The Darfur son should son not stay silent face to this ignoble attempts of Mussa kasha to confiscate the land and Hawakeer by relocate the IDPs eternally in new sites. For UNAMID, it should honor it obligation towards these vulnerable and work to grantee their normal undeniable rights to go back to their indigenous villages.