சூடானில் கொல செய்தவர்கள் அல்லாஹூ அக்பர் என்று கத்தினார்கள்
Five on trial in Sudan over U.S. diplomat killing
KHARTOUM (AFP) -- Five Islamists, wearing shackles and religious dress, went on trial in Khartoum on Sunday over the killing of a U.S. diplomat and his driver on charges that would see them hanged if found guilty.
The court sat for about 30 minutes amid a heavy presence of riot police and a highly charged atmosphere that saw the defendants spit at two Western female journalists while their supporters shouted ""Down Down USA"" and ""Allah Akhbar.""
John Granville, 33, who worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and his 40-year-old Sudanese driver Abdel Rahman Abbas were shot dead in their car before dawn on New Year's Day.
His murder sent shockwaves through the sizeable Western community in Khartoum, a city usually considered one of the safest in Africa.
Before a packed courtroom, prosecutor Mohamed al-Mustafa described the defendants as religious fundamentalists and accused them of murder and weapons possession, saying they plotted to attack people celebrating the New Year.
Mustafa charged that the men held a meeting in Atbara, in northern Sudan, then rented a house in the capital's twin city of Omdurman and bought weapons in preparation for their attack.
On the evening of December 31, they drove around looking for victims until they found Granville and his driver, he said. They shot them with a pistol and escaped in a second getaway vehicle to Atbara, he charged.
Wearing traditional white gowns and religious caps, the bearded suspects chatted among themselves in the dock while the prosecutor was speaking.
The defense lawyer asked the judge for the trial to take place in a larger courtroom so that relatives of the accused and journalists, some of whom were not able to find seats in the packed chamber, could attend.
Defense lawyer Adel Abdul Gani told AFP the court would meet again on September 11, when the investigator in the case would present his report.
He said the judge would only ask the defendants to enter a plea once the prosecutor has made his case.
U.S. Embassy personnel and an American lawyer, who addressed the judge through a translator, were also in the courtroom. As they left, men in the corridor outside shouted ""we are against you"" and ""down, down USA"".
Among the suspects is a son of the head of Ansar al-Sunna, a pacifist Muslim sect in Sudan that has no political affiliation but has links to the orthodox Wahhabi sect dominant in Saudi Arabia.
As they walked through the court compound, one suspect spat in the face of a Western woman reporter. As they headed up the stairs, in their shackles, they sprayed spit down on to the heads of the woman and another colleague.
According to the United Nations, up to 300,000 people have died and more than 2.2 million have fled their homes since the conflict between the Arab regime and ethnic rebels erupted in 2003. Sudan says 10,000 have been killed.
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Wednesday, September 03, 2008
Friday, August 29, 2008
டார்பரில் அகதிகளாக இருக்கும் முஸ்லீம்கள் மீது தாக்குதலில் 27 முஸ்லீம்கள் கொலை
அரபு முஸ்லீம்கள் ஆளும் சூடான் அரசு துருப்புகள், அகதிகளாக இருக்கும் கருப்பின முஸ்லீம்களது அகதி முகாமை தாக்கியதில் 27 முஸ்லீம்கள் கொல்லப்பட்டார்கள்.
At least 27 reported dead after arms raid by Sudanese troops on aid camp
In this section »
Resentment lingers among Hillary's supportersIraq hails deal for pullout by 2011 but US says no date setGirl strapped with explosives gives herself up in IraqPhysical and mental scars from the past haunt Zardari as power beckonsTensions rise in Kashmir as police kill three protestersAmbassador insists 'mutual benefits' underpin relationships with AfricaSudanese president Bashir: denies genocide chargesSUDAN: HEAVY GUNFIRE was reported in Darfur's most volatile aid camp yesterday as Sudanese troops seized weapons in an operation that left as many as 27 people dead, according to aid workers and rebel commanders. ROB CRILLY in Nairobi reports.
Fighting erupted after about 70 government vehicles surrounded Kalma camp early in the morning.
Sudanese armed forces have made repeated raids on the camp to seize weapons.
Aid workers believe the government is desperate to close the volatile camp because its residents are sympathetic to rebel factions.
Abakr Suleiman, a tribal leader, told Reuters: "I am inside the camp Kalma. Now there is still shooting. There is heavy shooting.
"They came into the camp and killed people. There are houses burning."
Aid sources said the death toll had reached 27 with as many as 60 injured before the clashes subsided. However, estimates varied wildly and there has not yet been any independent verification of the figures.
Ameerah Haq, United Nations humanitarian co-ordinator, said she was concerned about the reports. "Such actions severely threaten the safety and security of civilians who have a right to protection under international humanitarian law," she said.
"The United Nations urges restraint and calls for the immediate establishment of a humanitarian corridor so that the injured may be evacuated."
An official with the joint United Nations and African Union peacekeeping force said a patrol was on its way to Kalma, close to Nyala, the capital of South Darfur.
More than 200,000 people have died during five years of conflict with a further 2.5 million forced to flee their homes. Many now live in sprawling aid camps which have grown to the size of cities. They are supposed to offer a haven from the violence but many are riddled with violence.
Kalma is known as one of the biggest and most volatile. It houses a mishmash of Darfur's tribes who frequently organise against each other. The camp is awash with guns and armed factions. As a result, humanitarian agencies are wary of operating among its simple lean-tos and often withdraw their staff altogether.
Yesterday, a rebel commander said the attack was part of an attempt to close the camp and disperse its residents to remove a centre of dissent.
"This morning security forces surrounded Kalma camp and demanded that every IDP (internally displaced person) leave," said Ahmed Abdel Shafie, a commander in the rebel Sudan Liberation Army. "Later, they opened fire on the eastern side of the camp. There were many casualties."
The Sudanese president, Omar al-Bashir, denies accusations that his forces are engaged in genocide in Darfur.
Judges at the International Criminal Court are currently considering whether to issue a warrant for his arrest.
Last month the court's prosecutor lodged evidence on 10 counts of genocide, murder and crimes against humanity.
Since then President Bashir has launched a diplomatic campaign building support to block any indictments. The African Union and Arab League have both warned against sending the Sudanese leader to The Hague to face trial, saying it could hinder attempts to find peace.
Djibril Bassole, a new joint mediator appointed by the UN and AU, was due to arrive in Khartoum last night as part of the latest move to try to end the conflict.
Violence in Darfur began in 2003 when rebel groups complaining of discrimination against black Africans began attacking government targets.
© 2008 The Irish Times
At least 27 reported dead after arms raid by Sudanese troops on aid camp
In this section »
Resentment lingers among Hillary's supportersIraq hails deal for pullout by 2011 but US says no date setGirl strapped with explosives gives herself up in IraqPhysical and mental scars from the past haunt Zardari as power beckonsTensions rise in Kashmir as police kill three protestersAmbassador insists 'mutual benefits' underpin relationships with AfricaSudanese president Bashir: denies genocide chargesSUDAN: HEAVY GUNFIRE was reported in Darfur's most volatile aid camp yesterday as Sudanese troops seized weapons in an operation that left as many as 27 people dead, according to aid workers and rebel commanders. ROB CRILLY in Nairobi reports.
Fighting erupted after about 70 government vehicles surrounded Kalma camp early in the morning.
Sudanese armed forces have made repeated raids on the camp to seize weapons.
Aid workers believe the government is desperate to close the volatile camp because its residents are sympathetic to rebel factions.
Abakr Suleiman, a tribal leader, told Reuters: "I am inside the camp Kalma. Now there is still shooting. There is heavy shooting.
"They came into the camp and killed people. There are houses burning."
Aid sources said the death toll had reached 27 with as many as 60 injured before the clashes subsided. However, estimates varied wildly and there has not yet been any independent verification of the figures.
Ameerah Haq, United Nations humanitarian co-ordinator, said she was concerned about the reports. "Such actions severely threaten the safety and security of civilians who have a right to protection under international humanitarian law," she said.
"The United Nations urges restraint and calls for the immediate establishment of a humanitarian corridor so that the injured may be evacuated."
An official with the joint United Nations and African Union peacekeeping force said a patrol was on its way to Kalma, close to Nyala, the capital of South Darfur.
More than 200,000 people have died during five years of conflict with a further 2.5 million forced to flee their homes. Many now live in sprawling aid camps which have grown to the size of cities. They are supposed to offer a haven from the violence but many are riddled with violence.
Kalma is known as one of the biggest and most volatile. It houses a mishmash of Darfur's tribes who frequently organise against each other. The camp is awash with guns and armed factions. As a result, humanitarian agencies are wary of operating among its simple lean-tos and often withdraw their staff altogether.
Yesterday, a rebel commander said the attack was part of an attempt to close the camp and disperse its residents to remove a centre of dissent.
"This morning security forces surrounded Kalma camp and demanded that every IDP (internally displaced person) leave," said Ahmed Abdel Shafie, a commander in the rebel Sudan Liberation Army. "Later, they opened fire on the eastern side of the camp. There were many casualties."
The Sudanese president, Omar al-Bashir, denies accusations that his forces are engaged in genocide in Darfur.
Judges at the International Criminal Court are currently considering whether to issue a warrant for his arrest.
Last month the court's prosecutor lodged evidence on 10 counts of genocide, murder and crimes against humanity.
Since then President Bashir has launched a diplomatic campaign building support to block any indictments. The African Union and Arab League have both warned against sending the Sudanese leader to The Hague to face trial, saying it could hinder attempts to find peace.
Djibril Bassole, a new joint mediator appointed by the UN and AU, was due to arrive in Khartoum last night as part of the latest move to try to end the conflict.
Violence in Darfur began in 2003 when rebel groups complaining of discrimination against black Africans began attacking government targets.
© 2008 The Irish Times
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
லட்சக்கணக்கான கருப்பினத்தவரை ஜிகாத் மூலம் கொன்ற அரபு சூடான் அதிபர் அல் பஷீர் மீது ஐநா இனப்படுகொலை குற்றச்சாட்ட்டு
சூடானின் அதிபர் அல் பஷீர் அரபு ஜாதிகளில் ஒன்றான ஜாலி ஜாதியை சேர்ந்தவர். ஜாதிபெருமை, அரபு இனப்பெருமை மிக்க இவர் சூடானில் காலம் காலமாக வாழ்ந்துவந்த கருப்பினத்தவர்களை டார்பர் பகுதியில் கொன்றொழித்து அவர்களை நிலங்களை பிடுங்க அரசாங்கத்தின் மூலமாகவே முயன்று லட்சக்கணக்கான கருப்பினத்தவரை ஜிகாது மூலம் கொன்றதாக ஐநா இவர் மீது இனப்படுகொலை குற்றச்சாட்டு கூறியுள்ளது.
Beshir: military man of defiance
By Jennie Matthew, AFP Published:Jul 14, 2008
As an individual, as a member of the Jaali tribe, as a military officer and as head of state, he is intensely proud.
KHARTOUM - Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir, the first sitting ruler named for war crimes by the International Criminal Court, is a fiery and defiant professional soldier who seized power 19 years ago in a coup.
His rule of Africa’s biggest country, torn apart by war for much of its half century of independence, has been marked by Islamist resurgence, conflict and peace with the south, collision with the West and bitter war in Darfur.
"As an individual, as a member of the Jaali tribe, as a military officer and as head of state, he is intensely proud," said Sudan analyst Alex de Waal.
"When he feels humiliated, he is prone to angry outbursts marked by extreme rhetorical excess. His language becomes replete with exhortations to avenge insult and betrayal and crush the cowards and traitors."
ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has accused Beshir of masterminding a genocidal campaign to try to wipe out three ethnic groups, calling for an arrest warrant for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur.
Beshir refuses to cooperate with the ICC or surrender officials wanted for alleged war crimes. He told United Nations (UN) ambassadors last month that a "vicious campaign" against Sudan had tarnished its image, heritage and values.
Beshir, 64, toppled a three-year-old democratically elected government in a bloodless coup on June 30, 1989, backed by the National Islamic Front party of his now sidelined former mentor Hassan al-Turabi.
He declared a nationwide state of emergency, suspended the constitution, dismissed parliament and disbanded all political parties.
His regime then introduced Sudan to a more radical brand of Islam and elements of Sharia law, alienating Christians and animists in the south and many in the northern Arab elite who grew up under British rule.
Beshir and Turabi established the Popular Defence Forces, which deployed in the south to fight Jihad or holy war against the "infidels", raising the stakes in what dragged into Africa’s longest running civil war until a 2005 peace deal.
Yet in promulgating a power-sharing constitution with the former rebels that opened a path to democratic transformation in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) Beshir surprised even his staunchest critics.
Born in 1944 into a rural family in Hoshe Bannaga, an Arab heartland 100 kilometres north of Khartoum, Omar Hassan al-Beshir joined the military at a young age.
He rose quickly through the ranks and served with the Egyptian army in the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. He went on to serve as military attache in the United Arab Emirates, garrison commander and as head of an armoured parachute brigade.
In 1988, at the height of the civil war between the Khartoum government and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, he was appointed commander of the eighth brigade, stationed in the south and considered poorly equipped.
The posting brought him face-to-face with the conflict at a time of huge dissatisfaction in the military, particularly among officers, with the rule of then prime minister Sadiq al-Mahdi. A year later, he led a mutiny.
He and Turabi ruled through a Revolutionary Command Council and the National Salvation government, after Beshir purged nearly all the top military brass.
In 1993, he dissolved the RCC and declared himself president before being "elected" for the first time in a 1996 election widely denounced as fraudulent.
In Sudan’s last election in 2000, which was boycotted by the opposition, Beshir won another term with 89.5 percent of the vote.
His government sheltered Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden for five years in the 1990s where the Western world’s most wanted man consolidated his terror network’s operations.
Much of his presidency was marked by the devastating north-south conflict in which more than 1.5 million people were killed over 21 years until the 2005 peace deal.
Sudan began exporting oil in 1999 and despite sanctions imposed by the United States, Khartoum has enjoyed an infrastructure and housing construction boom fuelled by Arab, Chinese, Indian and Malaysian investment.
Sudan has been on the US list of state sponsors of terrorism since 1993. Yet despite the CPA, conflict in Darfur has turned the regime into a pariah.
The United States says genocide is taking place in Darfur where government troops and Arab militias have fought an increasingly fractured and complicated war with splintering ethnic rebel groups clamouring for power and resources.
The United Nations says up to 300,000 people have died from the combined effects of war, famine and disease and more than 2.2 million fled their homes in the five-year conflict. Beshir’s regime says 10,000 have been killed.
Beshir: military man of defiance
By Jennie Matthew, AFP Published:Jul 14, 2008
As an individual, as a member of the Jaali tribe, as a military officer and as head of state, he is intensely proud.
KHARTOUM - Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir, the first sitting ruler named for war crimes by the International Criminal Court, is a fiery and defiant professional soldier who seized power 19 years ago in a coup.
His rule of Africa’s biggest country, torn apart by war for much of its half century of independence, has been marked by Islamist resurgence, conflict and peace with the south, collision with the West and bitter war in Darfur.
"As an individual, as a member of the Jaali tribe, as a military officer and as head of state, he is intensely proud," said Sudan analyst Alex de Waal.
"When he feels humiliated, he is prone to angry outbursts marked by extreme rhetorical excess. His language becomes replete with exhortations to avenge insult and betrayal and crush the cowards and traitors."
ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has accused Beshir of masterminding a genocidal campaign to try to wipe out three ethnic groups, calling for an arrest warrant for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur.
Beshir refuses to cooperate with the ICC or surrender officials wanted for alleged war crimes. He told United Nations (UN) ambassadors last month that a "vicious campaign" against Sudan had tarnished its image, heritage and values.
Beshir, 64, toppled a three-year-old democratically elected government in a bloodless coup on June 30, 1989, backed by the National Islamic Front party of his now sidelined former mentor Hassan al-Turabi.
He declared a nationwide state of emergency, suspended the constitution, dismissed parliament and disbanded all political parties.
His regime then introduced Sudan to a more radical brand of Islam and elements of Sharia law, alienating Christians and animists in the south and many in the northern Arab elite who grew up under British rule.
Beshir and Turabi established the Popular Defence Forces, which deployed in the south to fight Jihad or holy war against the "infidels", raising the stakes in what dragged into Africa’s longest running civil war until a 2005 peace deal.
Yet in promulgating a power-sharing constitution with the former rebels that opened a path to democratic transformation in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) Beshir surprised even his staunchest critics.
Born in 1944 into a rural family in Hoshe Bannaga, an Arab heartland 100 kilometres north of Khartoum, Omar Hassan al-Beshir joined the military at a young age.
He rose quickly through the ranks and served with the Egyptian army in the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. He went on to serve as military attache in the United Arab Emirates, garrison commander and as head of an armoured parachute brigade.
In 1988, at the height of the civil war between the Khartoum government and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, he was appointed commander of the eighth brigade, stationed in the south and considered poorly equipped.
The posting brought him face-to-face with the conflict at a time of huge dissatisfaction in the military, particularly among officers, with the rule of then prime minister Sadiq al-Mahdi. A year later, he led a mutiny.
He and Turabi ruled through a Revolutionary Command Council and the National Salvation government, after Beshir purged nearly all the top military brass.
In 1993, he dissolved the RCC and declared himself president before being "elected" for the first time in a 1996 election widely denounced as fraudulent.
In Sudan’s last election in 2000, which was boycotted by the opposition, Beshir won another term with 89.5 percent of the vote.
His government sheltered Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden for five years in the 1990s where the Western world’s most wanted man consolidated his terror network’s operations.
Much of his presidency was marked by the devastating north-south conflict in which more than 1.5 million people were killed over 21 years until the 2005 peace deal.
Sudan began exporting oil in 1999 and despite sanctions imposed by the United States, Khartoum has enjoyed an infrastructure and housing construction boom fuelled by Arab, Chinese, Indian and Malaysian investment.
Sudan has been on the US list of state sponsors of terrorism since 1993. Yet despite the CPA, conflict in Darfur has turned the regime into a pariah.
The United States says genocide is taking place in Darfur where government troops and Arab militias have fought an increasingly fractured and complicated war with splintering ethnic rebel groups clamouring for power and resources.
The United Nations says up to 300,000 people have died from the combined effects of war, famine and disease and more than 2.2 million fled their homes in the five-year conflict. Beshir’s regime says 10,000 have been killed.
Friday, March 28, 2008
அரபு கொலைவெறிக்கூட்டத்தின் வாக்குமூலம்
கருப்பின முஸ்லீம்களை கொல்லுவதற்கும், கற்பழிப்பதற்கும், அவர்களது வீடுகளிலிருந்து துரத்துவதற்கும் அரபு முஸ்லீம்களை தயார் செய்ததும், அவர்களுக்கு ஆயுதங்கள் உதவி செய்வதும் சூடானின் அரபு இஸ்லாமிய அரசே என்று சூடான் அரசிடம் உதவி பெற்றவர்களே தெரிவித்துள்ளனர்.
We were armed by Sudan, say Darfur killers
By Nima El Bagir
Last Updated: 2:37am GMT 16/03/2008
Adjusting his camouflage turban, the commander pointed at the weapons and vehicles inside his camp in Sudan's war-torn region of Darfur.
Telegraph TV: Preview of 'Unreported World: Meet the Janjaweed'
"All the hardware that we have - where did we get it from?" said Mohammed Hamdan. "Do you think we just magicked it out of the air? It belongs to the government."
President Omar Hassan al-Bashir has always
denied any link with the Janjaweed
With those words, he destroyed a myth carefully crafted by Sudan's regime.
Hamdan commands hundreds of gunmen from the notorious Janjaweed militia, which human rights groups blame for countless atrocities in Darfur's civil war.
President Omar al-Bashir's Arab-dominated regime has always denied any link with the Janjaweed.
Instead, Mr Bashir has denounced them as "bandits and thieves" and denied giving them any arms or supplies.
Yet Hamdan spoke near a Toyota Land Cruiser, mounted with a heavy machinegun, and his fighters were armed with mortars, anti-aircraft guns and Kalashnikov rifles. "The weapons, the cars, all that you see, we got it from the government," he said.
This support was given in direct breach of United Nations Resolution 1556, passed in July 2004, which gave Sudan's regime 30 days to disarm the Janjaweed and bring their leaders to justice.
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Hamdan, 31, has been named by Human Rights Watch as a Janjaweed commander.
From his camp near the town of Um Al-Qura in Southern Darfur province, he now claims to control 20,000 gunmen. These Arab fighters were originally armed and raised by Khartoum to fight Darfur's black African rebels.
The Khartoum regime might disown them now, but Hamdan said that his orders came directly from Mr Bashir.
He claimed to have met the president twice in September 2006. "They asked for a meeting with us," he said. "There were two places that had fallen to the rebels: Um Sidir and Kiryari [in Northern Darfur]. After they fell, they called upon us - of course as part of the army - to go to the northern areas. We asked for the hardware that you now see with us. And they provided us with cars and weaponry, and we moved to the northern area."
He claimed that both meetings took place in the presence of Abdul Rahim Mohammed Hussein, Sudan's defence minister. "One meeting with the president was in his home, and the other was in the armed forces' headquarters," said Hamdan.
Using the weapons supplied by the regime, he managed to block a rebel assault into Northern Darfur in 2006. He was then entrusted with securing Southern Darfur province against the insurgents.
He had his first contact with the regime at the outset of Darfur's war in 2003. Hamdan said he was personally recruited to fight the rebels. "There was a general call to arms, to the entirety of Sudan after the rebellion began," he said. "The Sudanese government then specifically came to us."
He added that Sudan's regular army "sent officers to us who signed people up and trained us". Hamdan was trained at a camp west of Nyala, the provincial capital of Southern Darfur.
He was instructed alongside regular soldiers at an official military training centre. Hamdan produced his snakeskin wallet and took out a Sudanese army identity card. One of his followers, whom he described as his chief of staff, also produced one.
Each contained the Arabic words: "Identity for Officers and Soldiers, Armed Forces Commission for Intelligence and Security." There was an identity number, a photograph, and a hologram of the Sudanese armed forces insignia.
Hamdan rejected the label Janjaweed, which translates as "devils on horseback" for the mounted raids typical of the militia. He does not deny that other Arab fighters committed atrocities in Darfur, only his own guilt.
"We only fought against the rebels," he said. "In fact, there were times when we would receive orders to take part in operations in civilian areas." Hamdan said he always refused to obey these orders.
Others would disagree. The African Union, an alliance of all 53 countries on the continent, has sent a team of observers to Darfur. According to one of their reports, Hamdan was one of three Janjaweed commanders who led an attack on the village of Adwah on Nov 30, 2004, in which women were beaten and raped and more than 200 people killed.
Now that Hamdan has disclosed his relationship with the regime, the central question is whether Khartoum will maintain its bluster and denial.
Unreported World: Meet the Janjaweed will be shown on Friday at 7.35pm on Channel 4.
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The Darfur Disaster
Darfur's civil war, which began in 2003, has claimed about 300,000 lives, from violence, starvation or disease.
• At least two million people have fled their homes - one third of the population. The fighting has spread into Chad and the Central African Republic.
• The war began as a conflict between black African rebels and Sudan's Arab-dominated regime.
• The authorities recruited the Janjaweed militia from Darfur's Arab tribes and turned them loose on African villages.
• The war has now become more chaotic, with the rebels fighting among themselves and increasingly turning to banditry.
We were armed by Sudan, say Darfur killers
By Nima El Bagir
Last Updated: 2:37am GMT 16/03/2008
Adjusting his camouflage turban, the commander pointed at the weapons and vehicles inside his camp in Sudan's war-torn region of Darfur.
Telegraph TV: Preview of 'Unreported World: Meet the Janjaweed'
"All the hardware that we have - where did we get it from?" said Mohammed Hamdan. "Do you think we just magicked it out of the air? It belongs to the government."
President Omar Hassan al-Bashir has always
denied any link with the Janjaweed
With those words, he destroyed a myth carefully crafted by Sudan's regime.
Hamdan commands hundreds of gunmen from the notorious Janjaweed militia, which human rights groups blame for countless atrocities in Darfur's civil war.
President Omar al-Bashir's Arab-dominated regime has always denied any link with the Janjaweed.
Instead, Mr Bashir has denounced them as "bandits and thieves" and denied giving them any arms or supplies.
Yet Hamdan spoke near a Toyota Land Cruiser, mounted with a heavy machinegun, and his fighters were armed with mortars, anti-aircraft guns and Kalashnikov rifles. "The weapons, the cars, all that you see, we got it from the government," he said.
This support was given in direct breach of United Nations Resolution 1556, passed in July 2004, which gave Sudan's regime 30 days to disarm the Janjaweed and bring their leaders to justice.
advertisement
Hamdan, 31, has been named by Human Rights Watch as a Janjaweed commander.
From his camp near the town of Um Al-Qura in Southern Darfur province, he now claims to control 20,000 gunmen. These Arab fighters were originally armed and raised by Khartoum to fight Darfur's black African rebels.
The Khartoum regime might disown them now, but Hamdan said that his orders came directly from Mr Bashir.
He claimed to have met the president twice in September 2006. "They asked for a meeting with us," he said. "There were two places that had fallen to the rebels: Um Sidir and Kiryari [in Northern Darfur]. After they fell, they called upon us - of course as part of the army - to go to the northern areas. We asked for the hardware that you now see with us. And they provided us with cars and weaponry, and we moved to the northern area."
He claimed that both meetings took place in the presence of Abdul Rahim Mohammed Hussein, Sudan's defence minister. "One meeting with the president was in his home, and the other was in the armed forces' headquarters," said Hamdan.
Using the weapons supplied by the regime, he managed to block a rebel assault into Northern Darfur in 2006. He was then entrusted with securing Southern Darfur province against the insurgents.
He had his first contact with the regime at the outset of Darfur's war in 2003. Hamdan said he was personally recruited to fight the rebels. "There was a general call to arms, to the entirety of Sudan after the rebellion began," he said. "The Sudanese government then specifically came to us."
He added that Sudan's regular army "sent officers to us who signed people up and trained us". Hamdan was trained at a camp west of Nyala, the provincial capital of Southern Darfur.
He was instructed alongside regular soldiers at an official military training centre. Hamdan produced his snakeskin wallet and took out a Sudanese army identity card. One of his followers, whom he described as his chief of staff, also produced one.
Each contained the Arabic words: "Identity for Officers and Soldiers, Armed Forces Commission for Intelligence and Security." There was an identity number, a photograph, and a hologram of the Sudanese armed forces insignia.
Hamdan rejected the label Janjaweed, which translates as "devils on horseback" for the mounted raids typical of the militia. He does not deny that other Arab fighters committed atrocities in Darfur, only his own guilt.
"We only fought against the rebels," he said. "In fact, there were times when we would receive orders to take part in operations in civilian areas." Hamdan said he always refused to obey these orders.
Others would disagree. The African Union, an alliance of all 53 countries on the continent, has sent a team of observers to Darfur. According to one of their reports, Hamdan was one of three Janjaweed commanders who led an attack on the village of Adwah on Nov 30, 2004, in which women were beaten and raped and more than 200 people killed.
Now that Hamdan has disclosed his relationship with the regime, the central question is whether Khartoum will maintain its bluster and denial.
Unreported World: Meet the Janjaweed will be shown on Friday at 7.35pm on Channel 4.
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The Darfur Disaster
Darfur's civil war, which began in 2003, has claimed about 300,000 lives, from violence, starvation or disease.
• At least two million people have fled their homes - one third of the population. The fighting has spread into Chad and the Central African Republic.
• The war began as a conflict between black African rebels and Sudan's Arab-dominated regime.
• The authorities recruited the Janjaweed militia from Darfur's Arab tribes and turned them loose on African villages.
• The war has now become more chaotic, with the rebels fighting among themselves and increasingly turning to banditry.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
கருப்பின முஸ்லீம்களை அழிக்க எங்களுக்கு சூடானின் இஸ்லாமிய அரபு அரசுதான் ஆயுதங்கள் வழங்கியது: ஜஞ்சாவீது தலைவர் ஒப்புதல்
கருப்பின முஸ்லீம்களை அழிக்க எங்களுக்கு சூடானின் இஸ்லாமிய அரபு அரசுதான் ஆயுதங்கள் வழங்கியது: ஜஞ்சாவீது தலைவர் ஒப்புதல்
We were armed by Sudan, say Darfur killers
By Nima El Bagir
Last Updated: 1:53am GMT 12/03/2008
Adjusting his camouflage turban, the commander pointed at the weapons and vehicles inside his camp in Sudan's war-torn region of Darfur.
President Omar Hassan al-Bashir has always
denied any link with the Janjaweed
With those words, he destroyed a myth carefully crafted by Sudan's regime.
Hamdan commands hundreds of gunmen from the notorious Janjaweed militia, which human rights groups blame for countless atrocities in Darfur's civil war.
President Omar al-Bashir's Arab-dominated regime has always denied any link with the Janjaweed.
Instead, Mr Bashir has denounced them as "bandits and thieves" and denied giving them any arms or supplies.
Yet Hamdan spoke near a Toyota Land Cruiser, mounted with a heavy machinegun, and his fighters were armed with mortars, anti-aircraft guns and Kalashnikov rifles. "The weapons, the cars, all that you see, we got it from the government," he said.
This support was given in direct breach of United Nations Resolution 1556, passed in July 2004, which gave Sudan's regime 30 days to disarm the Janjaweed and bring their leaders to justice.
Hamdan, 31, has been named by Human Rights Watch as a Janjaweed commander.
From his camp near the town of Um Al-Qura in Southern Darfur province, he now claims to control 20,000 gunmen. These Arab fighters were originally armed and raised by Khartoum to fight Darfur's black African rebels.
The Khartoum regime might disown them now, but Hamdan said that his orders came directly from Mr Bashir.
He claimed to have met the president twice in September 2006. "They asked for a meeting with us," he said. "There were two places that had fallen to the rebels: Um Sidir and Kiryari [in Northern Darfur]. After they fell, they called upon us - of course as part of the army - to go to the northern areas. We asked for the hardware that you now see with us. And they provided us with cars and weaponry, and we moved to the northern area."
He claimed that both meetings took place in the presence of Abdul Rahim Mohammed Hussein, Sudan's defence minister. "One meeting with the president was in his home, and the other was in the armed forces' headquarters," said Hamdan.
Using the weapons supplied by the regime, he managed to block a rebel assault into Northern Darfur in 2006. He was then entrusted with securing Southern Darfur province against the insurgents.
He had his first contact with the regime at the outset of Darfur's war in 2003. Hamdan said he was personally recruited to fight the rebels. "There was a general call to arms, to the entirety of Sudan after the rebellion began," he said. "The Sudanese government then specifically came to us."
He added that Sudan's regular army "sent officers to us who signed people up and trained us". Hamdan was trained at a camp west of Nyala, the provincial capital of Southern Darfur.
He was instructed alongside regular soldiers at an official military training centre. Hamdan produced his snakeskin wallet and took out a Sudanese army identity card. One of his followers, whom he described as his chief of staff, also produced one.
Each contained the Arabic words: "Identity for Officers and Soldiers, Armed Forces Commission for Intelligence and Security." There was an identity number, a photograph, and a hologram of the Sudanese armed forces insignia.
Hamdan rejected the label Janjaweed, which translates as "devils on horseback" for the mounted raids typical of the militia. He does not deny that other Arab fighters committed atrocities in Darfur, only his own guilt.
"We only fought against the rebels," he said. "In fact, there were times when we would receive orders to take part in operations in civilian areas." Hamdan said he always refused to obey these orders.
Others would disagree. The African Union, an alliance of all 53 countries on the continent, has sent a team of observers to Darfur. According to one of their reports, Hamdan was one of three Janjaweed commanders who led an attack on the village of Adwah on Nov 30, 2004, in which women were beaten and raped and more than 200 people killed.
Now that Hamdan has disclosed his relationship with the regime, the central question is whether Khartoum will maintain its bluster and denial.
Unreported World: Meet the Janjaweed will be shown on Friday at 7.35pm on Channel 4.
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The Darfur Disaster
Darfur's civil war, which began in 2003, has claimed about 300,000 lives, from violence, starvation or disease.
• At least two million people have fled their homes - one third of the population. The fighting has spread into Chad and the Central African Republic.
• The war began as a conflict between black African rebels and Sudan's Arab-dominated regime.
• The authorities recruited the Janjaweed militia from Darfur's Arab tribes and turned them loose on African villages.
• The war has now become more chaotic, with the rebels fighting among themselves and increasingly turning to banditry.
We were armed by Sudan, say Darfur killers
By Nima El Bagir
Last Updated: 1:53am GMT 12/03/2008
Adjusting his camouflage turban, the commander pointed at the weapons and vehicles inside his camp in Sudan's war-torn region of Darfur.
President Omar Hassan al-Bashir has always
denied any link with the Janjaweed
With those words, he destroyed a myth carefully crafted by Sudan's regime.
Hamdan commands hundreds of gunmen from the notorious Janjaweed militia, which human rights groups blame for countless atrocities in Darfur's civil war.
President Omar al-Bashir's Arab-dominated regime has always denied any link with the Janjaweed.
Instead, Mr Bashir has denounced them as "bandits and thieves" and denied giving them any arms or supplies.
Yet Hamdan spoke near a Toyota Land Cruiser, mounted with a heavy machinegun, and his fighters were armed with mortars, anti-aircraft guns and Kalashnikov rifles. "The weapons, the cars, all that you see, we got it from the government," he said.
This support was given in direct breach of United Nations Resolution 1556, passed in July 2004, which gave Sudan's regime 30 days to disarm the Janjaweed and bring their leaders to justice.
Hamdan, 31, has been named by Human Rights Watch as a Janjaweed commander.
From his camp near the town of Um Al-Qura in Southern Darfur province, he now claims to control 20,000 gunmen. These Arab fighters were originally armed and raised by Khartoum to fight Darfur's black African rebels.
The Khartoum regime might disown them now, but Hamdan said that his orders came directly from Mr Bashir.
He claimed to have met the president twice in September 2006. "They asked for a meeting with us," he said. "There were two places that had fallen to the rebels: Um Sidir and Kiryari [in Northern Darfur]. After they fell, they called upon us - of course as part of the army - to go to the northern areas. We asked for the hardware that you now see with us. And they provided us with cars and weaponry, and we moved to the northern area."
He claimed that both meetings took place in the presence of Abdul Rahim Mohammed Hussein, Sudan's defence minister. "One meeting with the president was in his home, and the other was in the armed forces' headquarters," said Hamdan.
Using the weapons supplied by the regime, he managed to block a rebel assault into Northern Darfur in 2006. He was then entrusted with securing Southern Darfur province against the insurgents.
He had his first contact with the regime at the outset of Darfur's war in 2003. Hamdan said he was personally recruited to fight the rebels. "There was a general call to arms, to the entirety of Sudan after the rebellion began," he said. "The Sudanese government then specifically came to us."
He added that Sudan's regular army "sent officers to us who signed people up and trained us". Hamdan was trained at a camp west of Nyala, the provincial capital of Southern Darfur.
He was instructed alongside regular soldiers at an official military training centre. Hamdan produced his snakeskin wallet and took out a Sudanese army identity card. One of his followers, whom he described as his chief of staff, also produced one.
Each contained the Arabic words: "Identity for Officers and Soldiers, Armed Forces Commission for Intelligence and Security." There was an identity number, a photograph, and a hologram of the Sudanese armed forces insignia.
Hamdan rejected the label Janjaweed, which translates as "devils on horseback" for the mounted raids typical of the militia. He does not deny that other Arab fighters committed atrocities in Darfur, only his own guilt.
"We only fought against the rebels," he said. "In fact, there were times when we would receive orders to take part in operations in civilian areas." Hamdan said he always refused to obey these orders.
Others would disagree. The African Union, an alliance of all 53 countries on the continent, has sent a team of observers to Darfur. According to one of their reports, Hamdan was one of three Janjaweed commanders who led an attack on the village of Adwah on Nov 30, 2004, in which women were beaten and raped and more than 200 people killed.
Now that Hamdan has disclosed his relationship with the regime, the central question is whether Khartoum will maintain its bluster and denial.
Unreported World: Meet the Janjaweed will be shown on Friday at 7.35pm on Channel 4.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Darfur Disaster
Darfur's civil war, which began in 2003, has claimed about 300,000 lives, from violence, starvation or disease.
• At least two million people have fled their homes - one third of the population. The fighting has spread into Chad and the Central African Republic.
• The war began as a conflict between black African rebels and Sudan's Arab-dominated regime.
• The authorities recruited the Janjaweed militia from Darfur's Arab tribes and turned them loose on African villages.
• The war has now become more chaotic, with the rebels fighting among themselves and increasingly turning to banditry.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
10 வயது கருப்பின டார்பர் முஸ்லீம் சிறுமியை கூட்டாக கற்பழித்த அரபு வெறியர்கள்.
அரபு இனவெறியையும் அரபு ஜாதிவெறியையும் கண்டிப்போம்.
Darfuris return to charred homes after attack
Wed 13 Feb 2008, 2:23 GMT
[-] Text [+] By Opheera McDoom
SIRBA, Sudan (Reuters) - The stench of burning hung in the air of Sirba, a town in West Darfur, as its inhabitants returned home to find their belongings in a charred pile, their animals dead and their food gone.
Sudan said it attacked the three remote West Darfur towns of Sirba, Abu Surouj and Suleia to force the Darfur rebel Justice and Equality Movement out of the area and reopen roads connecting the population to the outside world, closed since JEM occupied the area in December.
A third of Sirba's straw huts were burned and the market looted. Animals lay dead in the sandy streets. Dust-covered children swung off scorched branches watching as aid workers, journalists and United Nations-African Union peacekeepers inspected the damage on Tuesday.
"They killed my husband," said Kultoum Abdallah, 30, left without a home or breadwinner to care for her three children.
"I have nothing to eat, what should I do?" she pleaded, breaking into sobs and hiding her face in her bright blue robe. She spent two days in the bush after militias on horse and camelback looted, raped and burned.
Local leader Abakr Suleiman Ibrahim said 10 girls were raped by militiamen, one as young as 10 years old. He estimated that 3,000 people were missing.
Haroun Esam Yehia said he saw the militia, known locally as Janjaweed, burn his home. "I still don't know where two of my sons are," he said. They are 15 and 12 years old.
FACTS DISPUTED
A humanitarian team had brought tents for some who lost their homes, and a first instalment of food for 5,000 people as well as jerry cans and plastic sheeting arrived on U.N. trucks.
Residents and the governor of West Darfur said militias had killed 45-47 people in the attack and burned their houses. Both said the Sudanese army, which entered later, had not touched them. They said the dead were buried in mass graves.
Residents argued fiercely with army and security officials over what had happened during Friday's attacks.
The army said it was fighting JEM, whose members had hidden among the population dressed in civilian clothes. They showed dozens of rifles, heavy weapons and Israeli-made guns they said they found in houses in the town which had burned in an exchange of fire.
They said they also found two cars belonging to an international aid group with JEM's logo written on them, full of empty bullet shells.
But they denied any links to the militia.
"These criminal gangs hear of an impending operation and take advantage of this," said senior army officer Abdel Salam Abdel Hamid, adding papers and identity cards they found inside the town were proof of JEM's presence.
Many of those killed were men. In Sirba on Tuesday mostly women, the elderly and children had returned to the town. JEM logos and slogans were scrawled over the town's buildings.
Residents said JEM had no permanent presence in the town, saying they painted the logos in December but never came back.
"Dr. Khalil (JEM leader) did not kill one person when he came," Ibrahim said. "Why did the government arm these Janjaweed?"
But he wanted more Sudanese army forces to come and protect them against all armed groups -- militias or rebels.
"We are scared of anyone who has guns but the government."
While the facts are disputed, what is clear is that the world's largest aid operation will have more work as civilians continue to be caught in the crossfire of Darfur's revolt, now approaching its fifth anniversary.
International experts estimate that 200,000 people have died and 2.5 million have been driven from their homes since mostly non-Arab rebels took up arms in early 2003 accusing central government of neglect.
Washington calls the violence genocide, a charge Khartoum rejects. It blames Western media for exaggerating the conflict. Numerous peace efforts have failed because of rebel divisions and continuing clashes.
(Editing by Janet Lawrence)
Darfuris return to charred homes after attack
Wed 13 Feb 2008, 2:23 GMT
[-] Text [+] By Opheera McDoom
SIRBA, Sudan (Reuters) - The stench of burning hung in the air of Sirba, a town in West Darfur, as its inhabitants returned home to find their belongings in a charred pile, their animals dead and their food gone.
Sudan said it attacked the three remote West Darfur towns of Sirba, Abu Surouj and Suleia to force the Darfur rebel Justice and Equality Movement out of the area and reopen roads connecting the population to the outside world, closed since JEM occupied the area in December.
A third of Sirba's straw huts were burned and the market looted. Animals lay dead in the sandy streets. Dust-covered children swung off scorched branches watching as aid workers, journalists and United Nations-African Union peacekeepers inspected the damage on Tuesday.
"They killed my husband," said Kultoum Abdallah, 30, left without a home or breadwinner to care for her three children.
"I have nothing to eat, what should I do?" she pleaded, breaking into sobs and hiding her face in her bright blue robe. She spent two days in the bush after militias on horse and camelback looted, raped and burned.
Local leader Abakr Suleiman Ibrahim said 10 girls were raped by militiamen, one as young as 10 years old. He estimated that 3,000 people were missing.
Haroun Esam Yehia said he saw the militia, known locally as Janjaweed, burn his home. "I still don't know where two of my sons are," he said. They are 15 and 12 years old.
FACTS DISPUTED
A humanitarian team had brought tents for some who lost their homes, and a first instalment of food for 5,000 people as well as jerry cans and plastic sheeting arrived on U.N. trucks.
Residents and the governor of West Darfur said militias had killed 45-47 people in the attack and burned their houses. Both said the Sudanese army, which entered later, had not touched them. They said the dead were buried in mass graves.
Residents argued fiercely with army and security officials over what had happened during Friday's attacks.
The army said it was fighting JEM, whose members had hidden among the population dressed in civilian clothes. They showed dozens of rifles, heavy weapons and Israeli-made guns they said they found in houses in the town which had burned in an exchange of fire.
They said they also found two cars belonging to an international aid group with JEM's logo written on them, full of empty bullet shells.
But they denied any links to the militia.
"These criminal gangs hear of an impending operation and take advantage of this," said senior army officer Abdel Salam Abdel Hamid, adding papers and identity cards they found inside the town were proof of JEM's presence.
Many of those killed were men. In Sirba on Tuesday mostly women, the elderly and children had returned to the town. JEM logos and slogans were scrawled over the town's buildings.
Residents said JEM had no permanent presence in the town, saying they painted the logos in December but never came back.
"Dr. Khalil (JEM leader) did not kill one person when he came," Ibrahim said. "Why did the government arm these Janjaweed?"
But he wanted more Sudanese army forces to come and protect them against all armed groups -- militias or rebels.
"We are scared of anyone who has guns but the government."
While the facts are disputed, what is clear is that the world's largest aid operation will have more work as civilians continue to be caught in the crossfire of Darfur's revolt, now approaching its fifth anniversary.
International experts estimate that 200,000 people have died and 2.5 million have been driven from their homes since mostly non-Arab rebels took up arms in early 2003 accusing central government of neglect.
Washington calls the violence genocide, a charge Khartoum rejects. It blames Western media for exaggerating the conflict. Numerous peace efforts have failed because of rebel divisions and continuing clashes.
(Editing by Janet Lawrence)
Monday, February 11, 2008
இன்று: அரபு முஸ்லிம்கள் டார்பரிலிருந்து 12000 கருப்பின முஸ்லீம்களை துரத்தியுள்ளனர்-
ஜஞ்சாவீது என்ற பெயரில் சூடானின் அரபு இஸ்லாமிய அரசு டார்பரில் உள்ள கருப்பின முஸ்லீம்களை துரத்தியுள்ளது. இன்று மட்டுமே 12000 பேர் சாட் நாட்டுக்கு துரத்தப்பட்டுள்ளதாக செய்திகள் தெரிவிக்கின்றன.
12,000 flee Darfur for Chad
AFP Published:Feb 11, 2008
A town in Sudan’s Darfur region stands deserted
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GENEVA - Some 12,000 people from Sudan’s Darfur region have crossed the border into neighbouring Chad after heavy bombardments and armed attacks by the Janjawid militia, the United Nations (UN) refugee agency said today.
The refugees have fled to the Birak region of southeastern Chad after attacks on Friday and Saturday by the Sudanese army and the Janjawid militia, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) spokeswoman Helene Caux told AFP.
Eastern Chad remains highly volatile after recent fighting between Chadian government and rebel forces, which led the UNHCR to evacuate staff from the country and thousands of Chadians to cross to neighbouring Cameroon, she said.
However, the fresh refugees from Darfur “have been through the worst already,” she added.
Her colleague Catherine Huck, who runs UNHCR’s operations in the Chadian eastern town of Abeche, stressed the difficulties that recent unrest in Chad itself have created for aid workers.
Last weekend saw rebels enter Njdamena and surround the presidential palace before retreating, leaving at least 160 people dead.
“We are already operating in an environment where security is spiralling downwards, where the supply line from NDjamena is cut after recent fighting, and where our field offices are running short of fuel,” Huck said in a statement.
“Getting newly arrived refugees away from the border into camps, is a real challenge,” she added.
The UNHCR is sending an assessment team to the region and hopes to move people by truck to existing camps for Darfur refugees today or tomorrow, she said.
Some 30,000 Darfur refugees already live in two camps in the Guereda area in eastern Chad, while a further 58,000 refugees are in three camps around Iriba.
Once safely in the camps, the newly arrived refugees will be given sleeping mats, blankets, jerry cans and kitchen sets, the UNHCR said.
The Sudanese army on Saturday confirmed its troops had carried out military operations in western Darfur and regained control of three communities, pushing out rebels to Chad.
“Army forces carried out large-scale operations combing the areas of Abu Suruj, Serba and Salia,” army spokesman Othman Mohammed al-Agbash told the official news agency SUNA, referring to areas in western Darfur.
The Justice and Equality Movement rebels said that Sudanese troops backed by Janjaweed militia had attacked the three communities north of Geneina, the capital of West Darfur, killing dozens of civilians on Friday.
JEM commander Abdel Aziz Nur al-Asher told AFP by telephone then that soldiers with 65 vehicles, backed by air support, launched the first attack alongside 600 Janjaweed fighters on camels.
He later said Sirba and Salia, also north of Geneina, had also come under attack, with Antonov fixed wing aircraft and combat helicopters taking part.
The latest unrest comes after a senior UN official warned on Friday that a reported proxy war between Sudan and Chad through rebel groups on each side of their border threatened to destabilise the region and lead to a wider conflict.
12,000 flee Darfur for Chad
AFP Published:Feb 11, 2008
A town in Sudan’s Darfur region stands deserted
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GENEVA - Some 12,000 people from Sudan’s Darfur region have crossed the border into neighbouring Chad after heavy bombardments and armed attacks by the Janjawid militia, the United Nations (UN) refugee agency said today.
The refugees have fled to the Birak region of southeastern Chad after attacks on Friday and Saturday by the Sudanese army and the Janjawid militia, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) spokeswoman Helene Caux told AFP.
Eastern Chad remains highly volatile after recent fighting between Chadian government and rebel forces, which led the UNHCR to evacuate staff from the country and thousands of Chadians to cross to neighbouring Cameroon, she said.
However, the fresh refugees from Darfur “have been through the worst already,” she added.
Her colleague Catherine Huck, who runs UNHCR’s operations in the Chadian eastern town of Abeche, stressed the difficulties that recent unrest in Chad itself have created for aid workers.
Last weekend saw rebels enter Njdamena and surround the presidential palace before retreating, leaving at least 160 people dead.
“We are already operating in an environment where security is spiralling downwards, where the supply line from NDjamena is cut after recent fighting, and where our field offices are running short of fuel,” Huck said in a statement.
“Getting newly arrived refugees away from the border into camps, is a real challenge,” she added.
The UNHCR is sending an assessment team to the region and hopes to move people by truck to existing camps for Darfur refugees today or tomorrow, she said.
Some 30,000 Darfur refugees already live in two camps in the Guereda area in eastern Chad, while a further 58,000 refugees are in three camps around Iriba.
Once safely in the camps, the newly arrived refugees will be given sleeping mats, blankets, jerry cans and kitchen sets, the UNHCR said.
The Sudanese army on Saturday confirmed its troops had carried out military operations in western Darfur and regained control of three communities, pushing out rebels to Chad.
“Army forces carried out large-scale operations combing the areas of Abu Suruj, Serba and Salia,” army spokesman Othman Mohammed al-Agbash told the official news agency SUNA, referring to areas in western Darfur.
The Justice and Equality Movement rebels said that Sudanese troops backed by Janjaweed militia had attacked the three communities north of Geneina, the capital of West Darfur, killing dozens of civilians on Friday.
JEM commander Abdel Aziz Nur al-Asher told AFP by telephone then that soldiers with 65 vehicles, backed by air support, launched the first attack alongside 600 Janjaweed fighters on camels.
He later said Sirba and Salia, also north of Geneina, had also come under attack, with Antonov fixed wing aircraft and combat helicopters taking part.
The latest unrest comes after a senior UN official warned on Friday that a reported proxy war between Sudan and Chad through rebel groups on each side of their border threatened to destabilise the region and lead to a wider conflict.
கருப்பின முஸ்லீம்களை கற்பழித்து கொல்லும் அரபு முஸ்லீம்கள்
இந்த 12 வயதான சிறுமி, அரபு முஸ்லீம்களால் டார்பர் பகுதியில் கற்பழிக்கப்பட்டவர்.
U.N. Envoy: Darfur Faces New Dangers Amid Chad Unrest
U.N. special envoy to Darfur Jan Eliasson painted a bleak picture of the war-torn Sudanese region Friday, warning that rebel groups had made only limited progress toward peace talks. In an interview, Eliasson details the latest developments in Darfur and explains how unrest in neighboring Chad may further inflame the crisis.
JIM LEHRER: Finally tonight, an update on Darfur, and to Margaret Warner.
MARGARET WARNER: It's been out of the headlines of late, but the conflict in the Darfur region of western Sudan continues to rage.
The toll: at least 200,000 dead, and 2.5 million forced from their homes.
Five years of fighting has pitted local black villagers and rebel commanders against Sudanese government forces and their proxy fighters, the mostly Arab Janjaweed militias.
The victims have been primarily civilians, driven from their villages, then intimidated -- and the women raped -- whenever they venture outside their refugee camps. The U.S. has called the killings of civilians "genocide."
The situation is now further complicated by a civil war in neighboring Chad, where hundreds of thousands of Darfurians are in refugee camps.
Today, the U.N. Security Council received an update from its special envoy for Darfur, veteran Swedish diplomat and former U.N. General Assembly President Jan Eliasson. He joins us from the U.N.
And, Mr. Ambassador, thank you for being with us.
JAN ELIASSON, U.N. Special Envoy to Darfur: Thank you for inviting me.
MARGARET WARNER: The update you presented today to the Security Council was pretty grim. You said at one point the situation is "veering out of control." How so?
JAN ELIASSON: Well, we have made some progress in getting the movements to consolidate. There were maybe anywhere between 10 and 20 movements to deal with earlier. Now we have five groupings.
MARGARET WARNER: These are the rebels?
JAN ELIASSON: Of the rebels, right, of the movements, resistance movements. But now the latest development on the ground has led to a very deteriorating security situation. And, of course, the events in Chad are also complicating our work severely.
MARGARET WARNER: Well, today, there was, of course, this attack that seemed to follow the old pattern. It was in western Darfur on two towns. According to witnesses, you had the Sudanese government helicopters and the Janjaweed militias on the ground working together to drive these people out.
But in general, have those systematic atrocities continued at the same pace? Or are the deaths now more attributed to malnutrition and other conditions like that?
Jan Eliasson
U.N. Special Envoy, Darfur
The problems of today are tribal clashes. And the problem of today is the anger, frustration, and desperation in the camps, with two million people in the camps waiting to go back to their homes.
Tribal clashes
JAN ELIASSON: The mass killings of 2003 to 2005 are behind us. These matters have to be pursued in different other ways.
The problems of today are tribal clashes. And the problem of today is the anger, frustration, and desperation in the camps, with two million people in the camps waiting to go back to their homes, and, lastly, the fact that many of the villages are taken over by people who do not own this land.
So we have, I would say, great dangers ahead if we don't deal with the political issues and deal with the root causes.
But what is today's most troubling matter is the fact that you have not only the fighting in western Darfur that you just referred to, but you also have, ever since November, incursions across the border of Chad and Sudan, and that has a direct effect on the whole climate in this area.
MARGARET WARNER: Now, how does the Chad, Sudan -- how do those tensions exacerbate the situation in Darfur? Explain that.
JAN ELIASSON: If you look at the borderline between Chad and Sudan, it's just one line. It's drawn up in Berlin, 1885. It doesn't take into account the fact that the tribal and ethnic lines go across those borders.
That means that the so-called Zaghawa tribe also has a great part of their population in Chad. And there have been competition and rivalry and negative developments in the relationship between Chad and Sudan.
And this means that you always -- you have had very destabilizing factor all the time at the borderline. And I have come to the conclusion, and so has Salim Salim, my co-negotiator from African Union, that you will not have peace in Darfur without a normalization between Chad and Sudan.
Jan Eliasson
U.N. Special Envoy, Darfur
If the people of Darfur see that the police come into the camps, if they see that their villages will have protection, then they will be able to return. Then they will see that the international community is on their side.
Political stalemate?
MARGARET WARNER: Now, let's go back to the brief you've been carrying, which is to try to get a political agreement within Darfur. You said today the prospects for that look quite dim, at least in the near or medium term. Explain why.
JAN ELIASSON: We want to have the unity among the movements, perhaps in terms of -- not in terms of them unifying as organizations, but at least unifying on the positions for the talks and identifying a negotiation team.
Out of the five movements with whom we are dealing, two are ready to go, but three are in doubt, and one or two has very serious reservations about the process.
For them to come to the negotiation table without a unified position is, of course, very, very difficult.
MARGARET WARNER: Now, the U.N. last July had authorized a peacekeeping force of some 26,000, yet, by your own account, there are still only 9,000 on the ground. What is the hang-up there?
JAN ELIASSON: Well, I am very sorry to see that this deployment is so slow. There have been several difficulties, and we now have only, as you said, 9,000 and expect to have 20,000 soldiers, peacekeepers, deployed this year, plus, which is very important, 5,000 police.
We need those forces on the ground very soon. We want all the nations now to really use their influence to make sure that we get a quick deployment and that these peacekeepers are in place, because they also provide to the population of Darfur a sense of security.
If the people of Darfur see that the police come into the camps, if they see that their villages will have protection, then they will be able to return. Then they will see that the international community is on their side.
So for me and Salim Salim, to put it very simply, we are waiting as impatiently as many people in the rest of the world do.
MARGARET WARNER: So is the problem that the international community isn't contributing the forces and the equipment that's needed or that the Sudanese government won't let them in?
JAN ELIASSON: It's been a combination of two, of the different factors. One, that certain nationalities have not been accepted, and I feel that is very deplorable, since once you are part of a U.N. or African Union force, you should forget about nationality.
But, secondly, also, some powers, some countries have been reluctant in contributing, particularly we need aerial transport capacity. We need helicopters, and these have not come forward.
So it's a combination of different factors, plus, of course, to move so many people to Darfur with very little infrastructure, roads, and places to stay and the need for water, it's a very difficult exercise.
But we have to speed it up, because it's politically extremely significant and, from a human perspective, absolutely necessary.
Jan Eliasson
U.N. Special Envoy, Darfur
All nations have to use their influence, and hopefully the governments themselves will draw the conclusion that it is in their enlightened self-interest to normalize relations.
Immediate peace needed
MARGARET WARNER: Now, you've laid out what all the problems are. What's the single most important thing that the U.N. should do right now if the parties aren't really ready to talk?
JAN ELIASSON: Well, I think we have to put the emphasis now on creating an environment, a climate which is conducive, which is positive for the talks. And that means we have to deal with this very, very difficult situation around Chad and Sudan.
I think all nations have to use their influence, and hopefully the governments themselves will draw the conclusion that it is in their enlightened self-interest to normalize relations. It's very damaging to both of them to have these ongoing incursions and hostility between Chad and Sudan.
Secondly, I think we need to have a cessation of hostilities immediately. What is going on now in western Darfur while we speak is horrible, and the situation can easily run out of control.
Once we then have the increasing deployment of peacekeepers on the ground, we can instill a sense of security among the population, a belief in the international presence and belief in the negotiations that we aim to start.
But I must admit it's a pretty dim picture now.
MARGARET WARNER: Are you going to stick with this?
JAN ELIASSON: Well, we will have to -- we have to do everything to bring about peace in Darfur. I was out there just three weeks ago. And normally I've seen the horrible conditions in the camps. That was bad enough.
But this time I went to areas which were under control of movements, and I was extremely depressed. You know, the women had to go two to three hours to get water, and it's typical it was the women who had to carry it.
The children had gray faces. And the school where I went, they had 12 or 13 books for the whole school, for 300 children. The market had only onions, no food that I could see. Horrible conditions, abject poverty.
And we have to understand that this peace is need for the development of Darfur. It has been a neglected province of the Sudan, and they have to get back on the road. They have gone through the most horrible nightmares.
And we have to, all of us, do everything we can to bring back normalcy and peace to the people of Darfur.
MARGARET WARNER: Ambassador Jan Eliasson, thank you so much.
JAN ELIASSON: Thank you.
JIM LEHRER: Ambassador Eliasson will take your questions about all of this in our online Insider Forum. To participate, just go to our Web site at PBS.org.
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
ஆயிஷாவை பற்றி புத்தகம் எழுதிய எகிப்து முஸ்லீம்களுக்கு 40 கசையடிகளும் சிறையும்
ஆயிஷாவை பற்றி புத்தகம் எழுதிய இரண்டு எகிப்து முஸ்லீம்களுக்கு 40 கசையடிகளும் சிறையும் தண்டனையாக வழங்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.
Sudan jails two Egyptians for blasphemy
Tuesday 18 December 2007 02:30. Printer-Friendly version Comments...
December 17, 2007 (KHARTOUM) — A Khartoum court has sentenced two Egyptians to six months in prison for marketing a book that is deemed offensive to Aisha, one of Prophet Mohammed’s wives, local press reported on Monday.
Abdel Fattah Abdel Raouf and Mahrous Mohammed Abdel Aziz were sentenced on Sunday under article 125 of Sudan’s penal code, the same section under which U.K. teacher Gillian Gibbons was convicted after allowing her class to name a teddy bear Mohammed, the daily Al-Rai al-Am reported.
Justice Minister Mohammed Ali al-Mardhi said Dec. 11 following the pair’s arrest that they were guilty of bringing over the book entitled "Aisha, mother of believers, devoured her sons" from bookseller and publisher Madbouli in Egypt and selling it in Sudan.
"The book contains blasphemous passages and particularly despicable offenses to the prophet and to the mother of believers," as Aisha is often called, Mardhi said at the time.
Under article 125, the two could have faced 40 lashes and a fine, as well as the jail sentence.
On Nov. 29, Gillian Gibbons was sentenced to 15 days in prison for insulting religion but after spending eight days in custody, she was pardoned by Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir following the mediation of two U.K. Muslim peers.
(AFP)
Sudan jails two Egyptians for blasphemy
Tuesday 18 December 2007 02:30. Printer-Friendly version Comments...
December 17, 2007 (KHARTOUM) — A Khartoum court has sentenced two Egyptians to six months in prison for marketing a book that is deemed offensive to Aisha, one of Prophet Mohammed’s wives, local press reported on Monday.
Abdel Fattah Abdel Raouf and Mahrous Mohammed Abdel Aziz were sentenced on Sunday under article 125 of Sudan’s penal code, the same section under which U.K. teacher Gillian Gibbons was convicted after allowing her class to name a teddy bear Mohammed, the daily Al-Rai al-Am reported.
Justice Minister Mohammed Ali al-Mardhi said Dec. 11 following the pair’s arrest that they were guilty of bringing over the book entitled "Aisha, mother of believers, devoured her sons" from bookseller and publisher Madbouli in Egypt and selling it in Sudan.
"The book contains blasphemous passages and particularly despicable offenses to the prophet and to the mother of believers," as Aisha is often called, Mardhi said at the time.
Under article 125, the two could have faced 40 lashes and a fine, as well as the jail sentence.
On Nov. 29, Gillian Gibbons was sentenced to 15 days in prison for insulting religion but after spending eight days in custody, she was pardoned by Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir following the mediation of two U.K. Muslim peers.
(AFP)
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
பெண்குறியை நறுக்குவது இஸ்லாமிய மார்க்க நெறி- சூடான் அறிஞர்கள் அறிவிப்பு
2002இல் சூடானில் நடந்த மாநாட்டில் பெண்களின் பெண்குறிகளை நறுக்கிவிடுவது இஸ்லாமிய நடைமுறை என்று ஏற்றுக்கொண்டு அதனை சட்டபூர்வமாக்கவேண்டும் என்று கூறுகிறது.
அதனை இந்த கட்டுரை விமர்சிக்கிறது.
Africa: Sudanese Women - Towards Ending Violence and Discrimination
Fahamu (Oxford)
OPINION
22 November 2007
Posted to the web 23 November 2007
Manal Abdelhalim
Manal Abdelhalim reflects on the Sudan's progress towards ending violence and discrimination against women, within the context of the protocol.
The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on Women in Africa is considered as one of the important women's rights protection instruments at regional level. It emphasize on women in conflict, women refugees, displaced, women under severe poverty and harmful practices. This article will reflect that the ratification of the protocol is crucial for Sudanese women because it highlights on the present situation on the Sudanese women.
Education- equal opportunity: the dream of millions of the girls' child
While the article 12 of the protocol stated that "eliminate of all forms of discrimination against women and guarantee equal opportunity and access in the sphere of education and training" educational opportunities for women and girls are very limited, the rate of enrollment ranges between 86% in Khartoum state and between 21% and 30% in other states, particularly Darfur state. Dropout rates amongst girls in primary school are high. The curriculum is gender biased and does not consider the cultural diversity; it perpetrates stereotyping roles of women. The illiteracy rate amongst women is also very high.
FGM: from "prohibition" to "legislation"
Sudan is among 28 African countries which are heavily practicing the female circumcision/ FGM. It had been prohibited by Sudan's penal code from 1946 (during colonial era) until 1983, the most sever form of female circumcision, infibulations, was prohibited by penal code. The offense was punishable by imprisonment of maximum five years and / or a fine. The law was initially enacted under British colonial rule and was ratified again in 1957 and 1974; this provision was apparently repealed with the promulgation of the 1983 penal code which included no provision on infibulations. The 1991 penal code also contains no provisions explicitly prohibiting F.C.
In 1981, a national workshop was held on F.C [1] issues and solid strategies were recommended and were set. The major achievement of the 1981 conference was the establishment of the Sudanese National Committee for the Eradication of Female Circumcision (SNCEFC); it was established by decree of the Minster of the interior and social welfare in 1984. The committee was eventually replaced by Eradication of Traditional Harmful Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children (ETHP). However, the state has taken backward steps from its commitment. Regarding the injection of F.C. information within the educational curricula, it was meant to be introduced at primary school level (8thclass), and secondary school (1st and 2nd class). But the idea was widely resisted by the General Assembly members; accordingly, the textbook was withdrawn in 1999, and then resumed in 2000.
May conference on FGM: the wrong end of the rope
In May 2002, a large conference was held by the Women's College of Omdurman Islamic University and sponsored by the Ministry of Guidance and Endowment. It was attended by physicians, scientists, religious leaders and NGO representatives. The main outcome of the conference was an official change of attitude towards "legalizations" of FGM as part of Islamic practice" and it was concluded that "the state [has] to encourage such a recommendation".
Civil society and women organizations and some human rights organizations have to reorganize themselves to reshape an effective advocacy plans and to lobby the government's concerned bodies for law initiation. Protocol articles on harmful traditional practices can be used as strong instrument in their advocacy plan.
Relevant Links
Conflict, Peace and Security
Women and Gender
Political participation- 2008 election can make a difference
Women's participation in Politics is minimal and meager. Up to date the rate of women ministers at federal levels is only 6.8% compared to the male rate at states level, which stands at 8.6%.[2] The rate of women in parliament is 19.7% and until 2003 the participation of women in higher ranks of public service in different government bodies did not exceed 11%. The number of women in senior civil service posts in Khartoum was 343 out of a total of 1642 posts. In the states, the number is 3241 posts out of 10448 posts. There were only 67 female judges in Sudan, 2 ambassadors and 17 diplomats. In the public sector, women's participation is 35% and in the private sector it is 10% in the state of Khartoum. Although women participate by 80% in agricultural operations, their calculated contribution in the national economy is only 26%. This is as well as and despite the effort they exert in performing household duties; which is not considered work [3].
The signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), DPA AND EPA are providing a solid base for women to lobby the States Parties for effective representation and participation of women at all levels of decision-making. Sudanese women rights bottleneck: access to justice /access to law: The promotion of women's legal rights is affected by the lack of legal awareness, inaccessibility and lack of availability of legal services for women. Legislation is drenched in technical language to the point that it excludes laypersons from understanding and exercising their rights. Furthermore, prevalence of discriminatory laws and Acts restricts women, cripples their status and restricts their freedom and mobility.[4] Examples of these laws include the Labor Law, Nationality Law, Criminal Act, the Public Orders Law, Land Ownership, Personal Status Law and Customary Laws, amongst others.
Africa: Sudanese Women - Towards Ending Violence and Discrimination
(Page 2 of 2)
According to the Nationality Act, Sudanese women who have children born to a non-Sudanese father have no right to claim Sudanese nationalities for their children.[5] The Public Orders Law for Khartoum state 1996 raised controversial discussions and dialogue about its articles that control the freedom and mobility of women. Each State has its own law and there are no great differences in their contents. Article 7 forbids mixed dance and does not allow women to dance in front of men. Article 9 specifies one door and ten seats allocated for women on public transport. Article 16 sets the age at which a woman may manage her own hair dressing shop at 35 years of age. Article 18 prohibits men from practicing tailor work for women except after obtaining approval from local authorities. Although Sharia law should only apply to Muslim citizens, women belonging to other religions have to adopt an Islamic dress code. This includes the requirement for women to cover their heads with veils and prosecutions for those found brewing alcohol. Women are often convicted and their business merchandise confiscated.
Women in conflict: ending all forms of sexual violence
Sudan has been hardly attested by long civil wars and conflicts, accordingly women's situations have been altered to cope with the war situation. They are the most affected by armed conflicts; they always end up shouldering the burden of loss of family members, displacement, fragmentation, identity crisis, insecurity and end up heading households. Also, their accessibility to food, shelter, resources, markets and income becomes increasingly limited. Sudanese women's efforts to contribute in the Sudan Peace talks and negotiations have been largely sidelined. The prevailing situation (atrocities committed against women and girls) resulted from the latest conflict in Darfur and has created a wide spectrum of issues; yet, women are not powerless or victims to their circumstance. On the contrary, they are heads of households and community keepers; they struggle to keep their families, communities and their identity in tact to surpass any armed struggle.
It is great opportunity and it is a high time for Sudanese women to take the privileges and opportunities created by the existence of new peace settlement by the AU and the UN, particularly in Darfur to advocate for the protocol ratification.
More orientation is needed
Since the adoption of the protocol in 2003, very little efforts have taken place to diffuse the protocol's content and lobbying for ratification. The first orientation session has been held by Mutawinat group following the adoption of the protocol. The objective of the session was to orient the civil society groups in Sudan by the existence of the protocol as well as to reveal the government attitudes towards the protocol.
Zienab Abbas (Sudanese women's right activist participated on stages of the negotiations that the protocol has passed), according to Mrs. Zienab "the protocol was exhausted extensive consultations, discussions and brainstorming, before its formulation so this why the protocol considered as a comprehensive and human rights document for African women". "Unlike the CEDAW the protocol emphasized on harmful practices and for the first time FGM to be singled out as one of the most harmful practice in Africa. One of the most privileges of the protocol is considering the situation of women during war and conflicts, women refugee, displaced, women under severe poverty"
Mrs. Aisha Abuelgasim (Ministry of social planning Advisor) revealed the preliminary official reactions to the protocol; the government tends to make some reservations on the following articles:
Article no. 20-(b) (a widow shall automatically become the guardian and custodian of her children, after the death of her husband, unless this is contrary to the interests and the welfare of the children). The reason of conservation is that item contradicts with personal status matters law, 1991.
Article no. 7-(a) (Separation, divorce or annulment of as marriage shall...).
Article no. 14 (State parties shall ensure that the right to health of women including sexual and reproductive health is respected and promoted .....) Article no. 6 (State parties shall ensure that women and men enjoy equal rights and are regarded as equal partners in marriage.
According to Aisha the government did not submit a detailed justifications for such reservations but in generally the reason given is that these items are either contradicting with the prevailing laws or with Shari'a principles.
Relevant Links
Conflict, Peace and Security
Women and Gender
One step forward
SOAWR has played a great role to push the ratification issue in Sudan during the January 2006 summit. In collaboration with SIHA and several Sudanese organizations SOAWR hosted a well attended symposium on the Protocol addressing the Protocol's various articles from an Islamic perspective. As an immediate outcome of the meeting, Sudan was red-carded with the Minister of Health receiving the card for President Bashir. Sudanese organizations also circulated a petition calling on the Sudanese government to deposit its instrument of ratification. SIHA also became a member of SOAWR and committed to expanding the campaign's reach to its members in Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Somaliland and the Sudan. More recently, SIHA has participated on a joint SOAWR/Oxfam GB Workshop to Review the Governance and Transparency Funding Bid. As a result a country strategy (2008-2012) has been developed as one step towards advocating for ratification and making the Protocol widely popular in the Sudan. The main aim of the strategic plan is to take advantage of new political and supportive atmosphere of the first general election, by 2008, following the signing of CPA, and to secure ratification by 2009.
Manal Abdelhalim is programme director of the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA)
அதனை இந்த கட்டுரை விமர்சிக்கிறது.
Africa: Sudanese Women - Towards Ending Violence and Discrimination
Fahamu (Oxford)
OPINION
22 November 2007
Posted to the web 23 November 2007
Manal Abdelhalim
Manal Abdelhalim reflects on the Sudan's progress towards ending violence and discrimination against women, within the context of the protocol.
The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on Women in Africa is considered as one of the important women's rights protection instruments at regional level. It emphasize on women in conflict, women refugees, displaced, women under severe poverty and harmful practices. This article will reflect that the ratification of the protocol is crucial for Sudanese women because it highlights on the present situation on the Sudanese women.
Education- equal opportunity: the dream of millions of the girls' child
While the article 12 of the protocol stated that "eliminate of all forms of discrimination against women and guarantee equal opportunity and access in the sphere of education and training" educational opportunities for women and girls are very limited, the rate of enrollment ranges between 86% in Khartoum state and between 21% and 30% in other states, particularly Darfur state. Dropout rates amongst girls in primary school are high. The curriculum is gender biased and does not consider the cultural diversity; it perpetrates stereotyping roles of women. The illiteracy rate amongst women is also very high.
FGM: from "prohibition" to "legislation"
Sudan is among 28 African countries which are heavily practicing the female circumcision/ FGM. It had been prohibited by Sudan's penal code from 1946 (during colonial era) until 1983, the most sever form of female circumcision, infibulations, was prohibited by penal code. The offense was punishable by imprisonment of maximum five years and / or a fine. The law was initially enacted under British colonial rule and was ratified again in 1957 and 1974; this provision was apparently repealed with the promulgation of the 1983 penal code which included no provision on infibulations. The 1991 penal code also contains no provisions explicitly prohibiting F.C.
In 1981, a national workshop was held on F.C [1] issues and solid strategies were recommended and were set. The major achievement of the 1981 conference was the establishment of the Sudanese National Committee for the Eradication of Female Circumcision (SNCEFC); it was established by decree of the Minster of the interior and social welfare in 1984. The committee was eventually replaced by Eradication of Traditional Harmful Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children (ETHP). However, the state has taken backward steps from its commitment. Regarding the injection of F.C. information within the educational curricula, it was meant to be introduced at primary school level (8thclass), and secondary school (1st and 2nd class). But the idea was widely resisted by the General Assembly members; accordingly, the textbook was withdrawn in 1999, and then resumed in 2000.
May conference on FGM: the wrong end of the rope
In May 2002, a large conference was held by the Women's College of Omdurman Islamic University and sponsored by the Ministry of Guidance and Endowment. It was attended by physicians, scientists, religious leaders and NGO representatives. The main outcome of the conference was an official change of attitude towards "legalizations" of FGM as part of Islamic practice" and it was concluded that "the state [has] to encourage such a recommendation".
Civil society and women organizations and some human rights organizations have to reorganize themselves to reshape an effective advocacy plans and to lobby the government's concerned bodies for law initiation. Protocol articles on harmful traditional practices can be used as strong instrument in their advocacy plan.
Relevant Links
Conflict, Peace and Security
Women and Gender
Political participation- 2008 election can make a difference
Women's participation in Politics is minimal and meager. Up to date the rate of women ministers at federal levels is only 6.8% compared to the male rate at states level, which stands at 8.6%.[2] The rate of women in parliament is 19.7% and until 2003 the participation of women in higher ranks of public service in different government bodies did not exceed 11%. The number of women in senior civil service posts in Khartoum was 343 out of a total of 1642 posts. In the states, the number is 3241 posts out of 10448 posts. There were only 67 female judges in Sudan, 2 ambassadors and 17 diplomats. In the public sector, women's participation is 35% and in the private sector it is 10% in the state of Khartoum. Although women participate by 80% in agricultural operations, their calculated contribution in the national economy is only 26%. This is as well as and despite the effort they exert in performing household duties; which is not considered work [3].
The signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), DPA AND EPA are providing a solid base for women to lobby the States Parties for effective representation and participation of women at all levels of decision-making. Sudanese women rights bottleneck: access to justice /access to law: The promotion of women's legal rights is affected by the lack of legal awareness, inaccessibility and lack of availability of legal services for women. Legislation is drenched in technical language to the point that it excludes laypersons from understanding and exercising their rights. Furthermore, prevalence of discriminatory laws and Acts restricts women, cripples their status and restricts their freedom and mobility.[4] Examples of these laws include the Labor Law, Nationality Law, Criminal Act, the Public Orders Law, Land Ownership, Personal Status Law and Customary Laws, amongst others.
Africa: Sudanese Women - Towards Ending Violence and Discrimination
(Page 2 of 2)
According to the Nationality Act, Sudanese women who have children born to a non-Sudanese father have no right to claim Sudanese nationalities for their children.[5] The Public Orders Law for Khartoum state 1996 raised controversial discussions and dialogue about its articles that control the freedom and mobility of women. Each State has its own law and there are no great differences in their contents. Article 7 forbids mixed dance and does not allow women to dance in front of men. Article 9 specifies one door and ten seats allocated for women on public transport. Article 16 sets the age at which a woman may manage her own hair dressing shop at 35 years of age. Article 18 prohibits men from practicing tailor work for women except after obtaining approval from local authorities. Although Sharia law should only apply to Muslim citizens, women belonging to other religions have to adopt an Islamic dress code. This includes the requirement for women to cover their heads with veils and prosecutions for those found brewing alcohol. Women are often convicted and their business merchandise confiscated.
Women in conflict: ending all forms of sexual violence
Sudan has been hardly attested by long civil wars and conflicts, accordingly women's situations have been altered to cope with the war situation. They are the most affected by armed conflicts; they always end up shouldering the burden of loss of family members, displacement, fragmentation, identity crisis, insecurity and end up heading households. Also, their accessibility to food, shelter, resources, markets and income becomes increasingly limited. Sudanese women's efforts to contribute in the Sudan Peace talks and negotiations have been largely sidelined. The prevailing situation (atrocities committed against women and girls) resulted from the latest conflict in Darfur and has created a wide spectrum of issues; yet, women are not powerless or victims to their circumstance. On the contrary, they are heads of households and community keepers; they struggle to keep their families, communities and their identity in tact to surpass any armed struggle.
It is great opportunity and it is a high time for Sudanese women to take the privileges and opportunities created by the existence of new peace settlement by the AU and the UN, particularly in Darfur to advocate for the protocol ratification.
More orientation is needed
Since the adoption of the protocol in 2003, very little efforts have taken place to diffuse the protocol's content and lobbying for ratification. The first orientation session has been held by Mutawinat group following the adoption of the protocol. The objective of the session was to orient the civil society groups in Sudan by the existence of the protocol as well as to reveal the government attitudes towards the protocol.
Zienab Abbas (Sudanese women's right activist participated on stages of the negotiations that the protocol has passed), according to Mrs. Zienab "the protocol was exhausted extensive consultations, discussions and brainstorming, before its formulation so this why the protocol considered as a comprehensive and human rights document for African women". "Unlike the CEDAW the protocol emphasized on harmful practices and for the first time FGM to be singled out as one of the most harmful practice in Africa. One of the most privileges of the protocol is considering the situation of women during war and conflicts, women refugee, displaced, women under severe poverty"
Mrs. Aisha Abuelgasim (Ministry of social planning Advisor) revealed the preliminary official reactions to the protocol; the government tends to make some reservations on the following articles:
Article no. 20-(b) (a widow shall automatically become the guardian and custodian of her children, after the death of her husband, unless this is contrary to the interests and the welfare of the children). The reason of conservation is that item contradicts with personal status matters law, 1991.
Article no. 7-(a) (Separation, divorce or annulment of as marriage shall...).
Article no. 14 (State parties shall ensure that the right to health of women including sexual and reproductive health is respected and promoted .....) Article no. 6 (State parties shall ensure that women and men enjoy equal rights and are regarded as equal partners in marriage.
According to Aisha the government did not submit a detailed justifications for such reservations but in generally the reason given is that these items are either contradicting with the prevailing laws or with Shari'a principles.
Relevant Links
Conflict, Peace and Security
Women and Gender
One step forward
SOAWR has played a great role to push the ratification issue in Sudan during the January 2006 summit. In collaboration with SIHA and several Sudanese organizations SOAWR hosted a well attended symposium on the Protocol addressing the Protocol's various articles from an Islamic perspective. As an immediate outcome of the meeting, Sudan was red-carded with the Minister of Health receiving the card for President Bashir. Sudanese organizations also circulated a petition calling on the Sudanese government to deposit its instrument of ratification. SIHA also became a member of SOAWR and committed to expanding the campaign's reach to its members in Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Somaliland and the Sudan. More recently, SIHA has participated on a joint SOAWR/Oxfam GB Workshop to Review the Governance and Transparency Funding Bid. As a result a country strategy (2008-2012) has been developed as one step towards advocating for ratification and making the Protocol widely popular in the Sudan. The main aim of the strategic plan is to take advantage of new political and supportive atmosphere of the first general election, by 2008, following the signing of CPA, and to secure ratification by 2009.
Manal Abdelhalim is programme director of the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA)
Friday, October 19, 2007
டார்பர் கருப்பின அகதி முகாம் மீது சூடானின் இஸ்லாமிய அரபு அரசு குண்டு வீச்சு
அப்துல் வாஹித் முகம்மது நூர் என்ற டார்பர் கருப்பினத்தவர்களது தலைவர் சூடானின் அரபு அரசாங்க துருப்புகள் கருப்பினத்தவரது அகதி முகாம்களின் மீது குண்டு வீசி தாக்குதல் நடத்தின என்று தெரிவித்துள்ளார்.
டார்பரின் பல பகுதிகளிலிருந்து துரத்தப்பட்ட கருப்பின மக்கள் தங்கியிருக்கும் மிகப்பெரிய அகதி முகாம் மீது சூடான் அரசு குண்டு வீசியுள்ளது.
இதுவரை 200, 000 கருப்பினத்தவர்கள் சூடானின் இஸ்லாமிய அரபு அரசால் கொல்லப்பட்டுள்ளனர். சுமார் 20 மில்லியன் மக்கள் அகதிகளாக சொந்த இடங்களிலிருந்து துரத்தப்பட்டுள்ளனர்.
Sudanese forces shelling Darfur refugee camp: rebel chief
Fri Oct 19, 6:54 AM ET
NAIROBI (AFP) - An exiled Darfur rebel chief said on Friday that Sudanese government forces were shelling the largest refugee camp in Darfur.
Abdel Wahid Mohammed Nur, a chief instigator of the Darfur rebellion, said the forces had descended on Kalma camp, 17 kilometres (11 miles) from the South Darfur capital Nyala.
"This is happening as we speak. The government of Sudan is using artillery against the people in the camp," Nur told AFP by phone from Paris, where he is exiled.
Nur said he had received information about the attack on Kalma, the largest camp in Darfur, from his field commanders.
"The strategy is the following: kill, rape, burn, put people in concentration camps. This is the regime's final solution," added Nur, who founded the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) which has since splintered into several factions.
Nur, whose military influence has faded in the recent months but is regarded as influential by the Darfur civilian population, called for action to halt the killing in Darfur.
"I am calling on the international community to stop the genocide against my people. What is happening is really very sad (and) everybody is turning a blind eye.
"We need urgent action and the solution is not going to come from Libya," Nur added.
Final settlement talks between Darfur's myriad rebel groups and Khartoum are scheduled to kick off on October 27 in Libya, in a bid to end the conflict that has raged since February 2003.
Acccording to the UN at least 200,000 people have been killed and more than two million displaced in the conflict that has spawned what aid groups describe as the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
டார்பரின் பல பகுதிகளிலிருந்து துரத்தப்பட்ட கருப்பின மக்கள் தங்கியிருக்கும் மிகப்பெரிய அகதி முகாம் மீது சூடான் அரசு குண்டு வீசியுள்ளது.
இதுவரை 200, 000 கருப்பினத்தவர்கள் சூடானின் இஸ்லாமிய அரபு அரசால் கொல்லப்பட்டுள்ளனர். சுமார் 20 மில்லியன் மக்கள் அகதிகளாக சொந்த இடங்களிலிருந்து துரத்தப்பட்டுள்ளனர்.
Sudanese forces shelling Darfur refugee camp: rebel chief
Fri Oct 19, 6:54 AM ET
NAIROBI (AFP) - An exiled Darfur rebel chief said on Friday that Sudanese government forces were shelling the largest refugee camp in Darfur.
Abdel Wahid Mohammed Nur, a chief instigator of the Darfur rebellion, said the forces had descended on Kalma camp, 17 kilometres (11 miles) from the South Darfur capital Nyala.
"This is happening as we speak. The government of Sudan is using artillery against the people in the camp," Nur told AFP by phone from Paris, where he is exiled.
Nur said he had received information about the attack on Kalma, the largest camp in Darfur, from his field commanders.
"The strategy is the following: kill, rape, burn, put people in concentration camps. This is the regime's final solution," added Nur, who founded the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) which has since splintered into several factions.
Nur, whose military influence has faded in the recent months but is regarded as influential by the Darfur civilian population, called for action to halt the killing in Darfur.
"I am calling on the international community to stop the genocide against my people. What is happening is really very sad (and) everybody is turning a blind eye.
"We need urgent action and the solution is not going to come from Libya," Nur added.
Final settlement talks between Darfur's myriad rebel groups and Khartoum are scheduled to kick off on October 27 in Libya, in a bid to end the conflict that has raged since February 2003.
Acccording to the UN at least 200,000 people have been killed and more than two million displaced in the conflict that has spawned what aid groups describe as the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
Thursday, August 16, 2007
அரபுகளுக்கிடையான சாதி சண்டையில் 140 பேர் மரணத்துக்குபிறகு ஒப்பந்தம்
டார்பரில் கருப்பினத்தவர்களள துரத்திவிட்டு காலியாக்கிய நிலத்தை யார் ஆக்கிரமிப்பது என்ற சண்டையில் இரண்டு அரபு சாதியினர் கடுமையாக ஒருவரை ஒருவர் தாக்கிக்கொண்டனர். இதில் 140 பேர்கள் கொல்லப்பட்டபின்னால், சூடான் அரசு இந்த இரண்டு அரபு ஜாதிகளுக்குள் மத்தியஸ்தம் செய்து வைத்திருக்கிறது.
Darfur Arab tribes sign pact after clashes kill 140
Sun Aug 12, 2007 10:10AM EDT
By Simon Apiku
KHARTOUM, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Rival Darfur Arab tribes have signed a truce after more than 140 people died in clashes, an official and tribal leaders said on Sunday.
"It's an agreement to cease hostilities," Mohammed Ahmed Hassan, a Terjem tribal leader, told Reuters of the deal his tribe signed with the Rizeigat on Saturday.
"If the Rizeigat adhere to and respect the agreement, the Terjem will not violate it," he said.
Both are Arab tribes in South Darfur state. Fighting has continued on and off for months between them, but a reconciliation deal signed in February fell apart in July.
Ali Hassan, a Rizeigat tribal leader, said his group was committed to the truce. "We are going around trying to explain it to our people," he said.
Most of the casualties of the fighting were Terjem.
"Around 145 of our people were killed between July 30 and August 8," said Mohammed Ahmed Hassan, adding that 40 people with serious injuries were still in hospital in Nyala, the capital of South Darfur State.
"We have buried them in mass graves," he added. He said the Rizeigat had superior firepower.
South Darfur's Labour Minister Abdul Rahman al-Zein has previously said three Rizeigat were killed in the clashes.
Each tribe blamed the other for starting the fighting.
The Terjem are a sedentary farming tribe while the Rizeigat are nomadic cattle herders. The latest problems began as the Rizeigat moved north in their seasonal migration, passing close to Terjem territory. The Terjem say the cattle eat their crops.
"The Terjem tell them you cannot pass through here," said Zein. "The government will deploy forces in the trouble spots to ensure compliance."
Ali Hassan declined to comment on the numbers killed.
Fighting over land and resources had been going on in Darfur for decades, before the region's revolt broke out in early 2003. The conflict has led to a proliferation of weapons, making tribal clashes even deadlier.
International experts estimate 200,000 people have been killed and 2.5 million driven from their homes in the fighting in Darfur, where mostly non-Arab rebels took up arms in early 2003, accusing Khartoum of neglecting their arid region.
Khartoum says only 9,000 people have died in the violence.
Darfur Arab tribes sign pact after clashes kill 140
Sun Aug 12, 2007 10:10AM EDT
By Simon Apiku
KHARTOUM, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Rival Darfur Arab tribes have signed a truce after more than 140 people died in clashes, an official and tribal leaders said on Sunday.
"It's an agreement to cease hostilities," Mohammed Ahmed Hassan, a Terjem tribal leader, told Reuters of the deal his tribe signed with the Rizeigat on Saturday.
"If the Rizeigat adhere to and respect the agreement, the Terjem will not violate it," he said.
Both are Arab tribes in South Darfur state. Fighting has continued on and off for months between them, but a reconciliation deal signed in February fell apart in July.
Ali Hassan, a Rizeigat tribal leader, said his group was committed to the truce. "We are going around trying to explain it to our people," he said.
Most of the casualties of the fighting were Terjem.
"Around 145 of our people were killed between July 30 and August 8," said Mohammed Ahmed Hassan, adding that 40 people with serious injuries were still in hospital in Nyala, the capital of South Darfur State.
"We have buried them in mass graves," he added. He said the Rizeigat had superior firepower.
South Darfur's Labour Minister Abdul Rahman al-Zein has previously said three Rizeigat were killed in the clashes.
Each tribe blamed the other for starting the fighting.
The Terjem are a sedentary farming tribe while the Rizeigat are nomadic cattle herders. The latest problems began as the Rizeigat moved north in their seasonal migration, passing close to Terjem territory. The Terjem say the cattle eat their crops.
"The Terjem tell them you cannot pass through here," said Zein. "The government will deploy forces in the trouble spots to ensure compliance."
Ali Hassan declined to comment on the numbers killed.
Fighting over land and resources had been going on in Darfur for decades, before the region's revolt broke out in early 2003. The conflict has led to a proliferation of weapons, making tribal clashes even deadlier.
International experts estimate 200,000 people have been killed and 2.5 million driven from their homes in the fighting in Darfur, where mostly non-Arab rebels took up arms in early 2003, accusing Khartoum of neglecting their arid region.
Khartoum says only 9,000 people have died in the violence.
Monday, August 06, 2007
சூடானில் இருக்கும் இஸ்லாமிய அடிமைமுறை தேச ஒற்றுமைக்கு பங்கம்
சூடானில் அரபுகள் கருப்பினத்தவரை அடிமைகளாக வைத்திருப்பதும், தெற்கு சூடானில் இருக்கும் கிறிஸ்துவ கருப்பினத்தவர் மீது தாக்குதல்கள் தொடுப்பதும் சூடான் ஒற்றுமைக்கு பங்கம் விளைவிக்கிறது என்று கூறுகிறார்
Slavery a threat to Sudan unity
SLAVE RAIDING since the 19th century continued to be part of the modern history of relations between the people of the North and South Sudan. As time went on and political life developed, this practice of slavery finds expression in different forms and shape.
Political oppression and religious segregation in Sudan remind the population of the slavery experienced by different generations.
More often than not, this has created bitterness and hatred — not helpful for unity and peaceful co-existence.
During the just concluded war, there were accusations from Southern Sudanese against the governments of the Sudan for allowing slave raiding to re-emerge in the country. Indeed, groups such as the Christian Solidarity International confirmed the existence of the practice in the Sudan. CSI went further and participated in slave redemptions — the act of buying and setting free those raided and sold.
Memories of the traumatic experiences lives on with us and it is not going to be forgotten in the next four years or so when the expected referendum for deciding for Unity or Separation will be conducted.
Thus, those who believe that unity of the country is the best option and will vote for it during the referendum, need to grapple with the painful and often suppressed reality of slavery, oppression and religious segregation in the Sudan’s modern history.
Let us open this wound understanding and healing to help us together to chart a healthier path for our country.
Hakim Tiberius
Juba, South Sudan
Slavery a threat to Sudan unity
SLAVE RAIDING since the 19th century continued to be part of the modern history of relations between the people of the North and South Sudan. As time went on and political life developed, this practice of slavery finds expression in different forms and shape.
Political oppression and religious segregation in Sudan remind the population of the slavery experienced by different generations.
More often than not, this has created bitterness and hatred — not helpful for unity and peaceful co-existence.
During the just concluded war, there were accusations from Southern Sudanese against the governments of the Sudan for allowing slave raiding to re-emerge in the country. Indeed, groups such as the Christian Solidarity International confirmed the existence of the practice in the Sudan. CSI went further and participated in slave redemptions — the act of buying and setting free those raided and sold.
Memories of the traumatic experiences lives on with us and it is not going to be forgotten in the next four years or so when the expected referendum for deciding for Unity or Separation will be conducted.
Thus, those who believe that unity of the country is the best option and will vote for it during the referendum, need to grapple with the painful and often suppressed reality of slavery, oppression and religious segregation in the Sudan’s modern history.
Let us open this wound understanding and healing to help us together to chart a healthier path for our country.
Hakim Tiberius
Juba, South Sudan
Monday, July 30, 2007
டார்பரில் இன்னும் 25000 கருப்பினத்தவர் வீடுகளிலிருந்து துரத்தப்பட்டுள்ளனர்
வடக்கு டார்பரில் சூடானின் விமானங்கள் குண்டு வீசுவதாலும் ஜஞ்சாவீது அரபு படை துரத்துவதாலும் அங்குள்ள கருப்பின முஸ்லீம் மக்கள் அகதிகள் முகாமுக்கு வந்த வண்ணம் உள்ளனர்
இன்னும் 25000 பேர் அகதியாக ஆனதாக ஐக்கிய நாடுகள் சபை அறிக்கை கூறுகிறது
இதுவரை 200000 கருப்பின முஸ்லீம்களை சூடான் நாட்டு அரபு அரசு கொன்றிருப்பதாக கணக்கிடப்பட்டுள்ளது.
சூடான் அரசோ இதுவரை 9000 கருப்பினத்தவரையே கொன்றிருப்பதாக கூறுகிறது. எண்ணிக்கையை அதிகரித்து ஐக்கிய நாடுகள் சபை கூறுவதாக சூடான் அரபு அரசு குற்றம் சாட்டுகிறது.
25,000 more Darfuris flee homes, strain camps - UN
Wednesday 25 July 2007 03:30.
July 24, 2007 (KHARTOUM) — Violence and insecurity in Darfur has forced 25,000 more people from their homes and is straining the capacity of camps swollen with refugees fleeing conflict in western Sudan, the U.N. said in a report on Tuesday.
Darfur refugees are seen at Goz Amir camp in eastern Chad, December 22, 2006. (Reuters)"Aerial bombings by the military continued to be reported in North Darfur up to late June while clashes between the military and rebel factions continued to be reported ... in various locations," the United Nations said in a statement.
The report said in May and June a further 25,000 people fled their homes, bringing the number of camp residents in Darfur to 2.2 million.
The United Nations said there are more than 200,000 Darfuri refugees in neighbouring Chad and 140,000 Chadians displaced by the Darfur conflict, which has bled across the border.
"A very visible consequence of the increasing pace of displacement is the increasing population of IDP camps — many of which can no longer absorb new arrivals," the report said.
The report said one aid agency was asked to leave Kutum in North Darfur and that the number of aid workers in Darfur had fallen to 12,300, down 2,400 from a year ago. Access to those affected fell to 68 percent from 78 percent last year.
"At the same time the caseload of conflict-affected populations has increased by more than half a million, to 4.2 million, it said.
The report was issued on the same day U.N. and African Union Darfur envoys issued invitations to rebel factions to meet in Tanzania and negotiate a unified position ahead of peace talks with the government.
In a joint statement U.N. Darfur envoy Jan Eliasson and his counterpart Salim Ahmed Salim said the August 3-5 meeting in Arusha will focus on "ensuring a speedy, negotiated and sustainable settlement of the Darfur conflict, including the format and venue of and participation in the negotiations."
The envoys did not say which of the more than dozen rebel factions had been sent invitations, describing them only as "leading personalities of the non-signatory movements to the Darfur Peace Agreement."
Only one of three negotiating factions signed a peace deal in the Nigerian capital Abuja in May 2006. The rebels further factionalized following the deal.
In more than four years of rape, murder and looting, international experts say 200,000 people have died. Khartoum puts the death toll at 9,000, blaming Western media for exaggerating the conflict.
(Reuters)
இன்னும் 25000 பேர் அகதியாக ஆனதாக ஐக்கிய நாடுகள் சபை அறிக்கை கூறுகிறது
இதுவரை 200000 கருப்பின முஸ்லீம்களை சூடான் நாட்டு அரபு அரசு கொன்றிருப்பதாக கணக்கிடப்பட்டுள்ளது.
சூடான் அரசோ இதுவரை 9000 கருப்பினத்தவரையே கொன்றிருப்பதாக கூறுகிறது. எண்ணிக்கையை அதிகரித்து ஐக்கிய நாடுகள் சபை கூறுவதாக சூடான் அரபு அரசு குற்றம் சாட்டுகிறது.
25,000 more Darfuris flee homes, strain camps - UN
Wednesday 25 July 2007 03:30.
July 24, 2007 (KHARTOUM) — Violence and insecurity in Darfur has forced 25,000 more people from their homes and is straining the capacity of camps swollen with refugees fleeing conflict in western Sudan, the U.N. said in a report on Tuesday.
Darfur refugees are seen at Goz Amir camp in eastern Chad, December 22, 2006. (Reuters)"Aerial bombings by the military continued to be reported in North Darfur up to late June while clashes between the military and rebel factions continued to be reported ... in various locations," the United Nations said in a statement.
The report said in May and June a further 25,000 people fled their homes, bringing the number of camp residents in Darfur to 2.2 million.
The United Nations said there are more than 200,000 Darfuri refugees in neighbouring Chad and 140,000 Chadians displaced by the Darfur conflict, which has bled across the border.
"A very visible consequence of the increasing pace of displacement is the increasing population of IDP camps — many of which can no longer absorb new arrivals," the report said.
The report said one aid agency was asked to leave Kutum in North Darfur and that the number of aid workers in Darfur had fallen to 12,300, down 2,400 from a year ago. Access to those affected fell to 68 percent from 78 percent last year.
"At the same time the caseload of conflict-affected populations has increased by more than half a million, to 4.2 million, it said.
The report was issued on the same day U.N. and African Union Darfur envoys issued invitations to rebel factions to meet in Tanzania and negotiate a unified position ahead of peace talks with the government.
In a joint statement U.N. Darfur envoy Jan Eliasson and his counterpart Salim Ahmed Salim said the August 3-5 meeting in Arusha will focus on "ensuring a speedy, negotiated and sustainable settlement of the Darfur conflict, including the format and venue of and participation in the negotiations."
The envoys did not say which of the more than dozen rebel factions had been sent invitations, describing them only as "leading personalities of the non-signatory movements to the Darfur Peace Agreement."
Only one of three negotiating factions signed a peace deal in the Nigerian capital Abuja in May 2006. The rebels further factionalized following the deal.
In more than four years of rape, murder and looting, international experts say 200,000 people have died. Khartoum puts the death toll at 9,000, blaming Western media for exaggerating the conflict.
(Reuters)
தாங்கள் கருப்பின மக்களை கொல்வதற்கு யூதர்களே காரணம் - சூடான்
தாங்கள் கருப்பின மக்களை டார்பரிலிருந்து துரத்துவதற்கும், கொல்வதற்கும் யூதர்களே காரணம் என்று சூடான் அரசு தெரிவித்துள்ளது.
கருப்பின மக்களுக்கு 24 யூத அமைப்புகள் உதவுவதாகவும், அதனாலேயே இன்னும் தொடர்ந்து அங்கு போர் நடைபெறுகிறது என்றும் சூடானின் பாதுகாப்பு அமைச்சர் அப்துல் ரஹிம் முகம்மது உசேன் தெரிவித்தார்.
Sudan: Jews behind Darfur conflict
Sudanese defense minister says '24 Jewish organizations fueling conflict in Darfur'
Yaakov Lappin Published: 07.29.07, 20:29 / Israel News
Sudan's defense minister, Abdel Rahim Mohamed Hussein, has accused "24 Jewish organizations" of "fueling the conflict in Darfur" last week in an interview with a Saudi newspaper.
Hussein was interviewed during an official state-visit to the Saudi kingdom last week.
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A journalist from Saudi Arabia's Okaz newspaper asked Hussein: "Some people are talking about the penetration of Jewish organizations in Darfur and that there is no conflict there?"
"The Darfur issue is being fuelled by 24 Jewish organizations, who are making the largest amount of noise over the issue, and using the Holocaust in their campaigning," the Sudanese defense minister replied.
Hussein added that the Darfur conflict was driven by "friction between farmers and herders and shepherds. Among the biggest problems is that of water, which is used to exploit the differences and fuel the conflict."
"Are these Jewish groups supporting (the rebels) financially?," the interviewer from Okaz asked Hussein.
"Yes, they provide political and material support through their control over the media and across American and British circles," Hussein said, adding that Jewish groups were using "all means to fuel these conflicts."
He added that Western reports of 200,000 people dying in Sudan were false, and said: "We talk about 9,000 dead as a result of either government or rebel actions."
'We came to Israel to look for a better place'
Several days ago, Sudan's Interior Minister, Zubair Bashir Taha, lashed out at Sudanese refuees who had sought asylum in Israel, and accused "Isaeli authorities of encouraging the Sudanese refugees to come to their country."
He added that his ministry was "very confused" by Sudanese citizens who came to Israel."
The Sudan Tribune quoted a Sudanese refugee as telling al-Jazeera television: "We were surprised when we came here. We met good people, who welcomed us and gave us food. We feel that we are extremely happy. We hope that the Israeli government would find a solution for us and our children. We came here to look for a better place."
Meanwhile, in the US, a number of Jewish organizations have attempted to raise awareness over the plight of Sudanese citizens who face mass killings and ethnic cleansing from the Sudanese government. Some 20 Jewish organizations joined the 'Save Darfur Coalition,' along with other religious communities and American civil rights groups.
கருப்பின மக்களுக்கு 24 யூத அமைப்புகள் உதவுவதாகவும், அதனாலேயே இன்னும் தொடர்ந்து அங்கு போர் நடைபெறுகிறது என்றும் சூடானின் பாதுகாப்பு அமைச்சர் அப்துல் ரஹிம் முகம்மது உசேன் தெரிவித்தார்.
Sudan: Jews behind Darfur conflict
Sudanese defense minister says '24 Jewish organizations fueling conflict in Darfur'
Yaakov Lappin Published: 07.29.07, 20:29 / Israel News
Sudan's defense minister, Abdel Rahim Mohamed Hussein, has accused "24 Jewish organizations" of "fueling the conflict in Darfur" last week in an interview with a Saudi newspaper.
Hussein was interviewed during an official state-visit to the Saudi kingdom last week.
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A journalist from Saudi Arabia's Okaz newspaper asked Hussein: "Some people are talking about the penetration of Jewish organizations in Darfur and that there is no conflict there?"
"The Darfur issue is being fuelled by 24 Jewish organizations, who are making the largest amount of noise over the issue, and using the Holocaust in their campaigning," the Sudanese defense minister replied.
Hussein added that the Darfur conflict was driven by "friction between farmers and herders and shepherds. Among the biggest problems is that of water, which is used to exploit the differences and fuel the conflict."
"Are these Jewish groups supporting (the rebels) financially?," the interviewer from Okaz asked Hussein.
"Yes, they provide political and material support through their control over the media and across American and British circles," Hussein said, adding that Jewish groups were using "all means to fuel these conflicts."
He added that Western reports of 200,000 people dying in Sudan were false, and said: "We talk about 9,000 dead as a result of either government or rebel actions."
'We came to Israel to look for a better place'
Several days ago, Sudan's Interior Minister, Zubair Bashir Taha, lashed out at Sudanese refuees who had sought asylum in Israel, and accused "Isaeli authorities of encouraging the Sudanese refugees to come to their country."
He added that his ministry was "very confused" by Sudanese citizens who came to Israel."
The Sudan Tribune quoted a Sudanese refugee as telling al-Jazeera television: "We were surprised when we came here. We met good people, who welcomed us and gave us food. We feel that we are extremely happy. We hope that the Israeli government would find a solution for us and our children. We came here to look for a better place."
Meanwhile, in the US, a number of Jewish organizations have attempted to raise awareness over the plight of Sudanese citizens who face mass killings and ethnic cleansing from the Sudanese government. Some 20 Jewish organizations joined the 'Save Darfur Coalition,' along with other religious communities and American civil rights groups.
Friday, July 27, 2007
டார்பரில் இரண்டு அரபு ஜாதிகள் அடித்துக்கொண்டதில் 16 பேர் பலி
சூடான் டார்பரில் இரண்டு அரபு ஜாதிகள் அடித்துக்கொண்டதில் 16 பேர் பலியானார்கள். கருப்பின முஸ்லீம்களை துரத்திவிட்டு டார்பரை அரபு ஜாதிகள் ஆக்கிரமித்து வருவது தெரிந்ததே.
அதில் இரண்டு அரபு ஜாதிகள் ரிஜிகத் அபாலா என்ற அரபு ஜாதியும், டோர்ஜம் என்ற அரபு ஜாதியும் போரிட்டுக்கொண்டன.
சூடான் அரசு டார்பரில் இருக்கும் கருப்பினத்தவரை துரத்துவதற்கும் கொல்வதற்கும் உருவாக்கிய ஜாஞ்சவீது என்ற அரபு படைக்கு ஆளெடுபப்து ரிஜிகத் அபாலா அரபு ஜாதியிடமிருந்தே.
16 people killed as tribal clashes erupt in Darfur
Thursday 26 July 2007 06:15.
July 25, 2007 (AL-FASHER) — At least 16 people were killed and 20 wounded in a clash between rival Arab tribes in the war-torn Darfur region of western Sudan, local authorities said on Wednesday.
Rzigat Aballa tribesmen fell on a band of Torjum nomads in South Darfur province killing nine, the authorities told reporters, without specifying what day the clash took place.
The tribes, at odds over grazing rights and livestock raiding, have violated a February truce seven times, most dramatically in April when Rzigat tribesmen killed 62 Torjam in their villages.
Darfur came to world attention in 2003 when rebels took up arms against the government to protest at their region’s marginalisation.
The government combatted the rebellion with camel-riding Janjaweed militia, many from the Rzigat Aballa tribe, who have since been accused of atrocities and genocide.
International aid organisations are struggling to address the humanitarian crisis in Darfur, but have been impeded by the widespread violence.
"In the past two weeks, nine food convoys have been attacked by gunmen across Darfur," said Kenro Oshidari, the World Food Programme’s (WFP) Sudan representative.
"WFP staff and contractors are being stopped at gunpoint, dragged out of their vehicles and robbed with alarming frequency," he said, adding that 18 food convoys have been attacked this year, with six vehicles stolen.
Ten WFP staff have been either detained or abducted.
The attacks have prompted the United Nations to declare the road between Nyala, the capital of South Darfur, and Kass town, where fighting between Torjam and Rzigat Aballa has taken place, a "no-go" zone for staff.
WFP’s operation in Darfur feeds two million people a month.
About 200,000 people have been killed and 2.5 million displaced in the Darfur conflict, according to UN estimates. Some sources say the death toll is much higher.
(AFP)
அதில் இரண்டு அரபு ஜாதிகள் ரிஜிகத் அபாலா என்ற அரபு ஜாதியும், டோர்ஜம் என்ற அரபு ஜாதியும் போரிட்டுக்கொண்டன.
சூடான் அரசு டார்பரில் இருக்கும் கருப்பினத்தவரை துரத்துவதற்கும் கொல்வதற்கும் உருவாக்கிய ஜாஞ்சவீது என்ற அரபு படைக்கு ஆளெடுபப்து ரிஜிகத் அபாலா அரபு ஜாதியிடமிருந்தே.
16 people killed as tribal clashes erupt in Darfur
Thursday 26 July 2007 06:15.
July 25, 2007 (AL-FASHER) — At least 16 people were killed and 20 wounded in a clash between rival Arab tribes in the war-torn Darfur region of western Sudan, local authorities said on Wednesday.
Rzigat Aballa tribesmen fell on a band of Torjum nomads in South Darfur province killing nine, the authorities told reporters, without specifying what day the clash took place.
The tribes, at odds over grazing rights and livestock raiding, have violated a February truce seven times, most dramatically in April when Rzigat tribesmen killed 62 Torjam in their villages.
Darfur came to world attention in 2003 when rebels took up arms against the government to protest at their region’s marginalisation.
The government combatted the rebellion with camel-riding Janjaweed militia, many from the Rzigat Aballa tribe, who have since been accused of atrocities and genocide.
International aid organisations are struggling to address the humanitarian crisis in Darfur, but have been impeded by the widespread violence.
"In the past two weeks, nine food convoys have been attacked by gunmen across Darfur," said Kenro Oshidari, the World Food Programme’s (WFP) Sudan representative.
"WFP staff and contractors are being stopped at gunpoint, dragged out of their vehicles and robbed with alarming frequency," he said, adding that 18 food convoys have been attacked this year, with six vehicles stolen.
Ten WFP staff have been either detained or abducted.
The attacks have prompted the United Nations to declare the road between Nyala, the capital of South Darfur, and Kass town, where fighting between Torjam and Rzigat Aballa has taken place, a "no-go" zone for staff.
WFP’s operation in Darfur feeds two million people a month.
About 200,000 people have been killed and 2.5 million displaced in the Darfur conflict, according to UN estimates. Some sources say the death toll is much higher.
(AFP)
Friday, July 20, 2007
இஸ்லாமுக்கு மதம் மாறாததால் NBA வீரருக்கு விசா ரத்து
இஸ்லாமுக்கு மதம் மாறாததால் NBA வீரருக்கு சூடான் அரசு விசா ரத்து செய்ததால், அவர் ஐந்து வருடங்கள் சூடானிலேயே தங்க நேரிட்டது.
என்.பி.ஏவில் பெரிய ஸ்டாராக இருந்த மானுட்டே போல் சூடானுக்கு திரும்பினார். அங்கு அவருக்கு விளையாட்டு மந்திரி பதவி தருவார்கள் என்று நினைத்திருந்தார். நடந்ததோ வேறு. அவர் இஸ்லாமுக்கு மதம் மாற வேண்டும் என்று சூடான் அரசாங்கம் அவரை நிர்ப்பந்தித்தது. போல் மறுத்தார். அதனால், அவரது விசா ரத்து செய்யப்பட்டது. இருப்பினும் அவர் இஸ்லாமுக்கு மதம் மாற முடியாது என்று பிடிவாதமாக இருந்திருக்கிறார்.
தற்போது தனது எல்லா செல்வங்களையும் தானமாக கொடுத்துவிட்டதனால், பிறரது தயவில் வாழ்ந்து வருகிறார்.
Former basketball player is still a big man for his people
By CANDACE BUCKNER
The Kansas City Star
Former NBA player Manute Bol has to duck to get through most doorways, and his home in Olathe is no exception. Bol is now living in the Kansas City area because it is the cultural capital for people of southern Sudanese descent in this country.
Manute of Olathe
Manute Bol is used to the stares.
Bol, who once caused a stir in the NBA with his 7-foot-7 frame, walks slowly, almost painfully, through Terminal C at Kansas City International Airport. He is still recovering from a car accident in 2004 that nearly killed him.
Bol is the second one to exit Flight 1751. Because the airport wasn’t made for men this tall, he must duck his head to walk into the busy terminal.
Midwestern manners are abandoned. People follow his every awkward step.
“What’s he doing in town here?” asks Randy Culp, a business traveler.
He lives here.
Manute Bol moved to Olathe because of his people, and all great chiefs take care of their people.
Kansas City is the cultural capital for those of southern Sudanese descent living in America, a place where decisions are made on everything from beauty pageants to ideas to aid their homeland.
“Every time they do something,” Bol says, “they have to do it here, because Kansas City is supportive.”
Bol, 44, has lived here since July 7 and has instantly become an easily recognizable celebrity in the area. Besides his NBA fame, Bol has long been a leading voice for the crisis in southern Sudan. Genocide and civil war have ravaged his home country. And although the charitable cause is popular now, Bol was funding thousands of refugees as far back as the early 1990s. Even after he retired, Bol took part in several publicity stunts — like becoming the world’s tallest jockey, boxer and hockey player — to raise money for Sudan.
Lual Akoon, a member of the expanding Kansas City Sudanese community, says leaders like Bol are called beny, which means “chief.”
His millions may be gone, but Bol still carries the weight of the community on his back. Even if that back can barely carry him.
“Manute is a guy who loves where the people are,” Akoon says. “Manute means a lot to us now. More than ever.”
•••
The big man made a big name for himself in 1985 when he became the tallest player and first African to be drafted into the NBA. During that season, he set a rookie record for 397 blocked shots. Bol was instantly a hit back home and popular among the Sudanese community in America. He carried an entourage before he was even drafted.
“He likes to be surrounded by a lot of people — that’s part of his upbringing,” Bol’s cousin Ed Bona says. “But that has a price.
“Some of them are friends; some of them are hangers-on. That’s the nature of the entourage. Some people care for you, and some people just want to be there.”
Although Bol afforded himself many of the spoils of the American dream, during his offseasons he traveled to Sudanese refugee camps. He donated his own money — reportedly $3.5 million while he was in the NBA.
Bol could have simply retired and been remembered for his towering presence had his homeland not needed him so much.
“A lot of people know me, not because I’m tall or that I’m a basketball player,” Bol says, “but what I did for my country.”
•••
Bol is a long way from his NBA fame and fortune.
In 1995, Bol returned to his country under the belief that he would become the minister of sport, but that position was contingent on Bol, a Christian, converting to Islam. He refused, so the government revoked his visa, and Bol was stranded in Sudan for nearly five years.
When Bol, who has four children from a previous marriage, was released, his NBA fortune was gone. Still, he moved to Connecticut with his second wife, Ajok, and son, Bol, and spent his days as one of the most visible advocates for the Sudanese cause
Then in June 2004, Bol was a passenger in a speeding taxi. The driver was drunk and slammed into a highway guardrail. The impact killed the driver and mangled Bol, who was ejected from his seat. Bol suffered broken bones in his neck, extensive hand and wrist injuries and a dislocated knee. He was hospitalized for more than a month, and until last September needed a cane to walk.
“At first I thought, ‘Why me, God? I thought I helped a lot of people,’ ” Bol says. “But I still made it, because God did it for me. I don’t complain, because I’m alive and I’m walking.”
In a twist of fate, the man who spent so much helping others would need the money he once gave away. However, friends such as former Golden State Warriors teammate Chris Mullin organized a fund-raiser to pay Bol’s medical bills. Bol lives mostly off money from the fund-raiser and his speaking engagements — from people who care about him.
“He’s a generous person,” Bona says. “But the irony with him is the people who help him are not the south Sudanese people. It’s his good friends from America.”
•••
Bol likes everything about the two-story home he is renting in Olathe. The four bedrooms, three baths and finished basement. But especially the quiet cul-de-sac it rests near. The neighborhood keeps his Ajok happy.
The house is already set up and decorated with Ajok’s touch. A framed picture of Bol in a generic NBA uniform, the only open display of his former lifestyle, hangs on the family-room wall. His home is always packed. Just last weekend, many friends and family filled the rooms when Kansas City was host of the Miss South Sudan beauty pageant. Even with his crippled hands, Bol barbecued chicken for the remaining guests later in the week.
He still gets calls for speaking engagements and plans to travel later this summer to Nairobi. There’s little he is able to give these days, but Bol remains a man of the people.
“I have to help my people,” Bol says. “I love my people.”
என்.பி.ஏவில் பெரிய ஸ்டாராக இருந்த மானுட்டே போல் சூடானுக்கு திரும்பினார். அங்கு அவருக்கு விளையாட்டு மந்திரி பதவி தருவார்கள் என்று நினைத்திருந்தார். நடந்ததோ வேறு. அவர் இஸ்லாமுக்கு மதம் மாற வேண்டும் என்று சூடான் அரசாங்கம் அவரை நிர்ப்பந்தித்தது. போல் மறுத்தார். அதனால், அவரது விசா ரத்து செய்யப்பட்டது. இருப்பினும் அவர் இஸ்லாமுக்கு மதம் மாற முடியாது என்று பிடிவாதமாக இருந்திருக்கிறார்.
தற்போது தனது எல்லா செல்வங்களையும் தானமாக கொடுத்துவிட்டதனால், பிறரது தயவில் வாழ்ந்து வருகிறார்.
Former basketball player is still a big man for his people
By CANDACE BUCKNER
The Kansas City Star
Former NBA player Manute Bol has to duck to get through most doorways, and his home in Olathe is no exception. Bol is now living in the Kansas City area because it is the cultural capital for people of southern Sudanese descent in this country.
Manute of Olathe
Manute Bol is used to the stares.
Bol, who once caused a stir in the NBA with his 7-foot-7 frame, walks slowly, almost painfully, through Terminal C at Kansas City International Airport. He is still recovering from a car accident in 2004 that nearly killed him.
Bol is the second one to exit Flight 1751. Because the airport wasn’t made for men this tall, he must duck his head to walk into the busy terminal.
Midwestern manners are abandoned. People follow his every awkward step.
“What’s he doing in town here?” asks Randy Culp, a business traveler.
He lives here.
Manute Bol moved to Olathe because of his people, and all great chiefs take care of their people.
Kansas City is the cultural capital for those of southern Sudanese descent living in America, a place where decisions are made on everything from beauty pageants to ideas to aid their homeland.
“Every time they do something,” Bol says, “they have to do it here, because Kansas City is supportive.”
Bol, 44, has lived here since July 7 and has instantly become an easily recognizable celebrity in the area. Besides his NBA fame, Bol has long been a leading voice for the crisis in southern Sudan. Genocide and civil war have ravaged his home country. And although the charitable cause is popular now, Bol was funding thousands of refugees as far back as the early 1990s. Even after he retired, Bol took part in several publicity stunts — like becoming the world’s tallest jockey, boxer and hockey player — to raise money for Sudan.
Lual Akoon, a member of the expanding Kansas City Sudanese community, says leaders like Bol are called beny, which means “chief.”
His millions may be gone, but Bol still carries the weight of the community on his back. Even if that back can barely carry him.
“Manute is a guy who loves where the people are,” Akoon says. “Manute means a lot to us now. More than ever.”
•••
The big man made a big name for himself in 1985 when he became the tallest player and first African to be drafted into the NBA. During that season, he set a rookie record for 397 blocked shots. Bol was instantly a hit back home and popular among the Sudanese community in America. He carried an entourage before he was even drafted.
“He likes to be surrounded by a lot of people — that’s part of his upbringing,” Bol’s cousin Ed Bona says. “But that has a price.
“Some of them are friends; some of them are hangers-on. That’s the nature of the entourage. Some people care for you, and some people just want to be there.”
Although Bol afforded himself many of the spoils of the American dream, during his offseasons he traveled to Sudanese refugee camps. He donated his own money — reportedly $3.5 million while he was in the NBA.
Bol could have simply retired and been remembered for his towering presence had his homeland not needed him so much.
“A lot of people know me, not because I’m tall or that I’m a basketball player,” Bol says, “but what I did for my country.”
•••
Bol is a long way from his NBA fame and fortune.
In 1995, Bol returned to his country under the belief that he would become the minister of sport, but that position was contingent on Bol, a Christian, converting to Islam. He refused, so the government revoked his visa, and Bol was stranded in Sudan for nearly five years.
When Bol, who has four children from a previous marriage, was released, his NBA fortune was gone. Still, he moved to Connecticut with his second wife, Ajok, and son, Bol, and spent his days as one of the most visible advocates for the Sudanese cause
Then in June 2004, Bol was a passenger in a speeding taxi. The driver was drunk and slammed into a highway guardrail. The impact killed the driver and mangled Bol, who was ejected from his seat. Bol suffered broken bones in his neck, extensive hand and wrist injuries and a dislocated knee. He was hospitalized for more than a month, and until last September needed a cane to walk.
“At first I thought, ‘Why me, God? I thought I helped a lot of people,’ ” Bol says. “But I still made it, because God did it for me. I don’t complain, because I’m alive and I’m walking.”
In a twist of fate, the man who spent so much helping others would need the money he once gave away. However, friends such as former Golden State Warriors teammate Chris Mullin organized a fund-raiser to pay Bol’s medical bills. Bol lives mostly off money from the fund-raiser and his speaking engagements — from people who care about him.
“He’s a generous person,” Bona says. “But the irony with him is the people who help him are not the south Sudanese people. It’s his good friends from America.”
•••
Bol likes everything about the two-story home he is renting in Olathe. The four bedrooms, three baths and finished basement. But especially the quiet cul-de-sac it rests near. The neighborhood keeps his Ajok happy.
The house is already set up and decorated with Ajok’s touch. A framed picture of Bol in a generic NBA uniform, the only open display of his former lifestyle, hangs on the family-room wall. His home is always packed. Just last weekend, many friends and family filled the rooms when Kansas City was host of the Miss South Sudan beauty pageant. Even with his crippled hands, Bol barbecued chicken for the remaining guests later in the week.
He still gets calls for speaking engagements and plans to travel later this summer to Nairobi. There’s little he is able to give these days, but Bol remains a man of the people.
“I have to help my people,” Bol says. “I love my people.”
Friday, June 22, 2007
டார்பருக்கு செல்லும் ஐநா உணவு வண்டிகள் மீது சூடான் தாக்குதல்
டார்பருக்கு உணவு கொண்டு செல்லும் உணவு வண்டிகள் மீது சூடானும் சூடான் உருவாக்கி வைத்திருக்கும் ஜஞாவீத் போராளிகளும் தாக்குதல் நடத்துகிறார்கள்.
டார்பரில் இருக்கும் கருப்பின மக்களை துரத்திவிட்டு அங்கு அரபுகளை கொண்டு நிரப்ப சூடானின் இஸ்லாமிய அரசு வெகுகாலமாக முய்ற்சி செய்துவருகிறது.
Sudan: UN Mission Reports Continuing Attacks On Aid Convoys in Darfur
UN News Service (New York)
21 June 2007
Posted to the web 21 June 2007
The United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) reports that attacks are continuing on humanitarian convoys operated by international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the country's strife-torn Darfur region.
On Tuesday, an unknown armed man shot at a vehicle in South Darfur hired by an international NGO, while in West Darfur, two men stopped an international NGO convoy made up of two vehicles with five staff members, and robbed them of personal effects and communication equipment.
Also in West Darfur, an international NGO vehicle with four staff members was carjacked on Tuesday. All staff members were rescued by Government police, UNMIS said.
Meanwhile, the Mission also reports that Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sudan, Tayé-Brook Zerihoun today concluded a two-day visit to the capitals of the three Darfur States.
During the trips to Nyala, El Geneina and El Fasher, he met with UN staff to brief them on the recent agreement on the deployment of a hybrid operation in Darfur and on the coordination of UN support to the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) in preparation for the hybrid operation.
Mr. Zerihoun also met with local Government officials to discuss the security and humanitarian situation in Darfur and recent political developments.
Last week, the Sudanese Government announced its acceptance of a proposal for a hybrid UN-AU peacekeeping operation to be deployed in Darfur, where more than 200,000 people have been killed and at least 2 million others displaced since clashes erupted in 2003 between Government forces, allied Janjaweed militias and rebel groups.
டார்பரில் இருக்கும் கருப்பின மக்களை துரத்திவிட்டு அங்கு அரபுகளை கொண்டு நிரப்ப சூடானின் இஸ்லாமிய அரசு வெகுகாலமாக முய்ற்சி செய்துவருகிறது.
Sudan: UN Mission Reports Continuing Attacks On Aid Convoys in Darfur
UN News Service (New York)
21 June 2007
Posted to the web 21 June 2007
The United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) reports that attacks are continuing on humanitarian convoys operated by international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the country's strife-torn Darfur region.
On Tuesday, an unknown armed man shot at a vehicle in South Darfur hired by an international NGO, while in West Darfur, two men stopped an international NGO convoy made up of two vehicles with five staff members, and robbed them of personal effects and communication equipment.
Also in West Darfur, an international NGO vehicle with four staff members was carjacked on Tuesday. All staff members were rescued by Government police, UNMIS said.
Meanwhile, the Mission also reports that Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sudan, Tayé-Brook Zerihoun today concluded a two-day visit to the capitals of the three Darfur States.
During the trips to Nyala, El Geneina and El Fasher, he met with UN staff to brief them on the recent agreement on the deployment of a hybrid operation in Darfur and on the coordination of UN support to the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) in preparation for the hybrid operation.
Mr. Zerihoun also met with local Government officials to discuss the security and humanitarian situation in Darfur and recent political developments.
Last week, the Sudanese Government announced its acceptance of a proposal for a hybrid UN-AU peacekeeping operation to be deployed in Darfur, where more than 200,000 people have been killed and at least 2 million others displaced since clashes erupted in 2003 between Government forces, allied Janjaweed militias and rebel groups.
Thursday, June 21, 2007
குழந்தைகள் அடிமைகளாய் வாழ்வதை தடுப்போம்
பாகிஸ்தான், அமீரகம், சூடான், டார்பர், மௌரிட்டானியா ஆகிய நாடுகளில் இன்னமும் பரவலாக இருக்கும் அடிமை முறையின் கீழ் கோடிக்கணக்கான மக்கள் துயருருகிறார்கள்.
இதில் ஏராளமானவர்கள் குழந்தைகளே.
அமீரகத்தில் ஒட்டக ஓட்டிகளாகவும், பாகிஸ்தானில் கொத்தடிமைகளாகவும், மௌரிட்டானியாவில் நிரந்தர அடிமைகளாகவும் சூடானில் சுதந்திர மனிதர்கள் புதிதாக பிடிக்கப்பட்டு அடிமைகளாக்கப்படுவதாலும், கோடிக்கணக்கான மக்கள் அடிமைகளாக வாழ்கிறார்கள்.
பெரும்பாலானவை இஸ்லாமிய நாடுகள் என்பது ஆச்சரியமானதும் வருத்தத்துக்குரியதுமாகும்.
பிபிஸி
Monday, 27 May, 2002, 11:26 GMT 12:26 UK
Millions 'forced into slavery'
Children are victims of slave traffickers
The number of people forced into slavery around the world has risen to 27 million, according to a report published by an international human rights group.
The study - released to coincide with a special UN session on slavery - says millions of girls working as domestic servants are forced into sexual slavery.
The trafficking of child camel jockeys to the United Arab Emirates, bonded labour in Pakistan and forced labour in Sudan are also highlighted.
Slavery is fuelled by "poverty, vulnerability and lack of political will", Anti-Slavery International says.
Forced labour
Last week, the US endorsed a report drawn up by an international group of "eminent persons" which concluded that slavery existed in Sudan.
Slavery
Sudan: Between 5,000 and 14,000 abducted since 1983
Millions of girls forced into domestic service worldwide
Hundreds of boys trafficked to the Gulf to race camels
(Source: Anti-Slavery International)
The report recommended that the Sudanese President, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, take the lead by launching an anti-slavery campaign and calling for the release of all slaves.
The Sudanese Government comes in for criticism from Anti-Slavery International, which accuses it of "failing to take adequate steps to end raiding and slavery".
Between 5,000 and 14,000 people are said by the group to have been abducted into forced labour in Sudan since 1983.
There are also problems of forced labour in Mauritania where, the London-based rights group says, little has been done to secure the release of slaves or punish those who use them despite the abolition of slavery in 1981.
In Brazil, the report says, more than 1,000 people were rescued from forced labour last year, but many more remain enslaved on Amazonian estates.
The report says that in Pakistan, particularly in Sindh province, many women, children and men are forced to accept landlords' cash advances and work all day long for no wages.
Sex work
Many of those who are forcibly employed across the world are children.
Anti-slavery activists say millions of girls working as domestic servants are denied freedom and education and are vulnerable to abuse. Many are forced into sex work.
Boys are also victims. The report estimates that every year hundreds of boys, aged between four and 10, are trafficked from South Asia to the United Arab Emirates and other Gulf states to race camels, a dangerous sport.
Saturday, April 07, 2007
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