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Civil Society forum, Sudan and South Sudan, May 2013
The first session of the Civil Society Forum on Sudan and South Sudan convened in Addis Ababa on 21-23 January 2013. The second session in Addis Ababa on 16-18 May 2013. The Third session in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, January 20 - 22 nd, 2014. This event was organised by Darfur Relief and Documentation Centre in collaboration with the African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies, Darfur Bar Association, Human Rights Institute of South Africa and South Sudan Human Rights Society for Advocacy. The Forum adopted 11 (eleven) resolutions addressing an array of issues in Sudan and Republic of South Sudan.
In July 2004, DRDC observed that: "Two criminal aspects underpin the ethnic cleansing in the Darfur region viz.
a) The premeditated and systematic mass killing and physical destruction – in whole or in part – of the indigenous African tribes of Darfur such as the Fur,
Massaleet and Zaghawa because of their ethnic and/or tribal backgrounds; and
b) The appropriation of the victims’ land, the confiscation of their livestock and other material wealth and in some cases for extortion of money for protection
by the militia groups in the absence of government authority."
“The roots of Darfur’s crisis lie in a history of neglect of the Sudanese peripheries, dating from colonial times and continuing during the years of Sudan’s independence. The crisis in Darfur is a manifestation of Sudan’s inequitable distribution of wealth and power"
“The government doesn’t have an understanding of what it means when women say repeatedly to different people: ‘We are being raped. We are being beaten. We are being brutalized. We are fearful.’ I do not think the people we talked to tonight understand. Ms. Graça Mandela-Machel, Concluding Press Conference, Khartoum, 4”th October 2007.
“Many of the people that we met with in Chad are giving up hope in the belief that the responsibility to protect doesn’t seem to have any meaning
or relevance in their lives and in addressing the situation in Darfur.”Professor Jody Williams, 1997 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, comments on her Mission Report on Darfur,16 March 2000.
“This report demonstrates, beyond all doubt, that the last two years have been little short of hell on earth for our fellow human beings in Darfur.
And despite the attention the Council has paid to this crisis, that hell continues today.”
"This is ethnic cleansing, this is the world's greatest humanitarian crisis, and I don't know why the world isn't doing more about it."
15 March 2014
Sudan Human Rights and Humanitarian Bulletin
1 to 15 March 2014
General Observations
The first two weeks of March 2014 witnessed some of the most violent clashes between the Darfur insurgent groups and the government security forces and militiamen. Both the Sudan Liberation Movement-Abdel Wahid Nur (SLM-AW) and the SLM-Minni Minnawi (SLM-MM) were involved in the fighting. The conflict in Darfur also witnessed a new development with increased military operations by supporters of long-time Janjaweed leader and government ally Shiekh Musa Hilal, against government forces and the civilian populations. The military activities of this undeclared rebel group are significant as its leader, Musa Hilal, is known for his atrocious acts against civilians in Darfur. Because of his key role in organizing and leading Janjaweed attacks against civilians during the early years of the conflict, the UN Security Council placed on him travel restrictions and financial sanctions under Chapter VII of the UN Charter (Resolution 1672/2006)....
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08 March 2014
Letter to H.E. Ambassador Manuel Tomas Lubisse
H.E. Ambassador Manuel Tomas Lubisse
Permanent Representative to the African Union and UNECA
Chairperson, AU Peace and Security Council for March 2014
Embassy of Mozambique
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Geneva, March 8, 2014
Re: The Way Forward for Peace in Sudan
Dear Ambassador Lubisse,
The Darfur Relief and Documentation Centre (DRDC) has the great honor in submitting this letter to you and to members of the African Union Peace and Security Council (AUPSC) in anticipation of the meeting between the AUPSC and the African Union High-Level Implementation Panel (AUHIP) mediation team headed by President Thabo Mbeki. This crucial meeting is meant to address the failed political negotiations between the government of Sudan (GoS) and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement–North (SPLM-N) on the situation in South Kordofan and the Blue Nile States.
In this regard, DRDC is pleased to inform you that during the last three sessions of the Civil Society Forum on Sudan and South Sudan, which were convened by DRDC in Addis Ababa in January and May 2013 as well as in January 2014, hundreds of activists from Sudan, South Sudan and Africa in addition to Sudan-focused civil society groups from the Arab World and Western Europe expressed their full support for the important work of AUPSC vis a vis the situation in Sudan...
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