South Darfur state accuses UNAMID of aiding rebels
April 12, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – A website with close links to Sudan’s security agency accused the African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) of providing rebel groups with material support in its insurgency campaign against the central government in Khartoum.
It also alleged that the chief of staff of the Uganda Peoples Defense Force (UPDF) met recently with the leader of the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) Abdel-Wahid Al-Nur in Kampala and offered full military support.
The SLM is one of two major factions fighting the Sudanese army in Darfur.
Relations between the Sudan and Uganda have soured for some time over Uganda’s support for South Sudan’s secession and its warning to president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir not to visit because of its obligation to execute the arrest warrant against him issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC). Bashir is accused of committing war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in Darfur – allegations he denies.
Recently, Uganda claimed that Sudan has refused to grant visas to its police officers serving as part of the peacekeeping mission in Darfur.
SMC further reported that UNAMID gave another rebel group the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) supplies of fuel to their fighters stationed East of She’riya in South Darfur. The peacekeeping force conceals that by saying that unknown men looted their vehicles, the report says.
Furthermore, the report claims, UNAMID uses its evacuation helicopters to help rebel groups and encourages Darfuris to flee their homes and join IDP camps to extend the duration of the crisis.
The source warned UNAMID not to exceed its mandate and stick to its Status of Force Agreement (SOFA).
UNAMID has more than 17,700 troops – part of over 23,000 military personnel – on the ground in Darfur, a remote and arid region on Sudan’s western flank.
At least 300,000 people have been killed in Darfur and 1.8 million people forced to flee their homes since non-Arab rebels first rose up against the Arab-dominated Khartoum regime in 2003, the United Nations says.
The government says the figures of deaths are exaggerated, putting the figure closer to to 10,000.
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Hero
South Darfur state accuses UNAMID of aiding rebels
Time’s up!Stop crying and give them their right and there will be peace if you need it.Otherwise stop blaming the UNAMID for your own making.I bet the clock is ticking toward the downfall of the disgrace regime in Khartoum.No escaped inside, unless every region within the larger Sudan takes its rightful share.
Cibaipiath Junub Sudan
South Darfur state accuses UNAMID of aiding rebels
Who is South Darfur State? Is it not Sudan Army forces and Khartuom NCP Government accusing UNAMID? Report is fabricated and very useless to read and digest.
DASODIKO
South Darfur state accuses UNAMID of aiding rebels
Its time for the Africans to help their brothers in South Sudan and Darfur to bring back the Africa stolen heritage and land. So what Uganda helped Sudanese Africans; Arabs had been helping their Sudanese Arabs for almost 50 years time until we Africans lost 3 millions African souls South Sudan, Darfur , Blue Nile, Nuba Mountains and Eastern Sudan. Baaaaaaaaa, will keep on crying its just the beginning maggots.