Bashir Visits Darfur After Banning Aide Agencies?!
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Jonny
Mar 9, 2009, 6:28:56 PM3/9/09
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Al-Butcher has the nerve to vist the very people he is deliberately
denying assistance just because he has been charged with human rights
crimes? What exactly is this supposed to do? Convince that world of
your innocence by submitting your people to more pain and suffering?
How do such people come to power, really?
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Bashir Visits Darfur After Banning Aide Agencies
Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir, who was indicted by the
International Criminal Court (ICC) earlier this week, visited the war-
ravaged Darfur region today, accompanied by the top United Nations
official for Sudan among other members of the diplomatic corps.
During the visit to the capital of North Darfur, El Fasher, where the
hybrid African Union-UN peacekeeping operation in the region (UNAMID)
is based, the President addressed the local population at a rally.
The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Sudan
Ashraf Qazi arrived in El Fasher with Mr. Bashir, who the ICC has
issued an arrest warrant against for war crimes and crimes against
humanity committed in the western region of Sudan.
Since the ICC made its decision, several humanitarian agencies, aiding
some 4.7 million people in Darfur, have been barred from working in
the region by Khartoum.
"The Government of Sudan's order suspending 16 non-governmental
organizations (NGOs) will have devastating implications for the
citizens of Darfur," said a joint statement issued by six UN agencies,
including UN Children"s Fund (UNICEF) and UN High Commissioner for
Refugees (UNHCR).
"Aid operations in North Sudan, the largest humanitarian emergency in
the world costing over $2 billion annually, will be irrevocably
damaged," read the statement.
Meanwhile UNAMID reported that the security situation in Darfur
remains relatively calm with the exception of an increase in banditry
in El Geneina, West Darfur.
The UNAMID force and police continue to conduct their normal
activities throughout the region and over the past 24 hours the blue
helmets conducted 25 confidence-building patrols, seven escort
convoys, 11 night patrols covering 40 villages/IDP camps, and 87
police patrols in and around camps for internally displaced persons
(IDPs).
On 6 March, UNAMID Police Commissioner Micheal Fryer led a night
patrol to Zam Zam IDP camp, where he met the Umda, a traditional
leader.
An estimated 300,000 people have died in Darfur, either through direct
combat or because of disease, malnutrition or reduced life expectancy,
over the past five years in Darfur, where rebels have been fighting
Government forces and allied Arab militiamen, known as the Janjaweed,
since 2003.
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source - All Africa
denying assistance just because he has been charged with human rights
crimes? What exactly is this supposed to do? Convince that world of
your innocence by submitting your people to more pain and suffering?
How do such people come to power, really?
-----------------------------
Bashir Visits Darfur After Banning Aide Agencies
Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir, who was indicted by the
International Criminal Court (ICC) earlier this week, visited the war-
ravaged Darfur region today, accompanied by the top United Nations
official for Sudan among other members of the diplomatic corps.
During the visit to the capital of North Darfur, El Fasher, where the
hybrid African Union-UN peacekeeping operation in the region (UNAMID)
is based, the President addressed the local population at a rally.
The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Sudan
Ashraf Qazi arrived in El Fasher with Mr. Bashir, who the ICC has
issued an arrest warrant against for war crimes and crimes against
humanity committed in the western region of Sudan.
Since the ICC made its decision, several humanitarian agencies, aiding
some 4.7 million people in Darfur, have been barred from working in
the region by Khartoum.
"The Government of Sudan's order suspending 16 non-governmental
organizations (NGOs) will have devastating implications for the
citizens of Darfur," said a joint statement issued by six UN agencies,
including UN Children"s Fund (UNICEF) and UN High Commissioner for
Refugees (UNHCR).
"Aid operations in North Sudan, the largest humanitarian emergency in
the world costing over $2 billion annually, will be irrevocably
damaged," read the statement.
Meanwhile UNAMID reported that the security situation in Darfur
remains relatively calm with the exception of an increase in banditry
in El Geneina, West Darfur.
The UNAMID force and police continue to conduct their normal
activities throughout the region and over the past 24 hours the blue
helmets conducted 25 confidence-building patrols, seven escort
convoys, 11 night patrols covering 40 villages/IDP camps, and 87
police patrols in and around camps for internally displaced persons
(IDPs).
On 6 March, UNAMID Police Commissioner Micheal Fryer led a night
patrol to Zam Zam IDP camp, where he met the Umda, a traditional
leader.
An estimated 300,000 people have died in Darfur, either through direct
combat or because of disease, malnutrition or reduced life expectancy,
over the past five years in Darfur, where rebels have been fighting
Government forces and allied Arab militiamen, known as the Janjaweed,
since 2003.
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source - All Africa
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