Protect the people of Darfur - UN peacekeepers now
Hen | 09.09.2006 14:01
Protect the people of Darfur - UN peacekeepers now
Since 2003 over 85,000 civilians have been killed in Darfur and more than 200,000 have died as a result of the conflict. The ongoing violence has forced over two million people from their homes and into camps, where they continue to be at risk from attacks by armed groups. Fallout from the civil war between armed resistance groups the Sudanese Liberation Army (SLA) and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), and Sudanese Government forces abetted by the Janjawid militia, has inflicted untold misery on the civilian population.
On 28 July 2006, the UN Secretary-General recommended a UN peacekeeping force be established in Darfur with a mandate to protect civilians. This force would replace the current African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS), whose mandate is due to expire at the end of December 2006. The coming weeks will be critical in ensuring that there is no “peacekeeping gap” between these forces.
The UN Security Council must now implement Resolution 1706, ensuring the immediate deployment of a UN peacekeeping force which will be able to protect civilians..
Write immediately to the Ambassadors of countries who are either members of the Security Council, or are able to influence them, to urge the immediate implementation of UNSC Resolution 1706 on Darfur. Please consider writing this letter by hand, or alternatively use the "print letter" function.
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/actions_details.asp?ActionID=162
Please send appeals, by post or fax, to the Sudanese government, to arrive as quickly as possible, in English or Arabic or your own language
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/actions_details.asp?ActionID=165
Since 2003 over 85,000 civilians have been killed in Darfur and more than 200,000 have died as a result of the conflict. The ongoing violence has forced over two million people from their homes and into camps, where they continue to be at risk from attacks by armed groups. Fallout from the civil war between armed resistance groups the Sudanese Liberation Army (SLA) and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), and Sudanese Government forces abetted by the Janjawid militia, has inflicted untold misery on the civilian population.
On 28 July 2006, the UN Secretary-General recommended a UN peacekeeping force be established in Darfur with a mandate to protect civilians. This force would replace the current African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS), whose mandate is due to expire at the end of December 2006. The coming weeks will be critical in ensuring that there is no “peacekeeping gap” between these forces.
The UN Security Council must now implement Resolution 1706, ensuring the immediate deployment of a UN peacekeeping force which will be able to protect civilians..
Write immediately to the Ambassadors of countries who are either members of the Security Council, or are able to influence them, to urge the immediate implementation of UNSC Resolution 1706 on Darfur. Please consider writing this letter by hand, or alternatively use the "print letter" function.
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/actions_details.asp?ActionID=162 Please send appeals, by post or fax, to the Sudanese government, to arrive as quickly as possible, in English or Arabic or your own language
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/actions_details.asp?ActionID=165
Hen
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No imperialist troops in Sudan!
11.09.2006 23:16
Imperialist intervention has never brought peace and security for poor or African people; why should things be any different in Sudan? Imperialist intervention, either direct or through armed proxies, is always for the purpose of colonising or dominating the invaded lands, to dominate economically the banks, financial institutions and state resources for the benefit and enrichment of the imperialist countries. Civilian lives won't be saved - bombing Sudan [with cluster bombs, depleted uranium shells, cruise missiles, white phosphorus, etc as in Iraq] will result in the deaths of thousands of civilans, and with no hospitals or medicines or water or food to cushion the blows, millions will die over many years. No doubt Amnesty will describe this as a 'mistake' or 'blunder', rather than as 'terrorism' which it surely will be. Amnesty and co. reserve their harshest criticisms for those fighting against imperialism.
Calling for 'UN troops' is a call for more imperialist brutality. The JEM and SLA are actually armed by France, Israel, Britain and the US via neighbouring African states, such as Eritrea and Chad. Why? No war for oil, thank you. And no more 'missionaries' like Amnesty, justifying a racist ideology and system, imperialism, under the cover of humanitarianism!
It's no wonder in any case when you see how much Amnesty executives are paid annually, or where they get their funding. They benefit from the profits of imperialist exploitation of the rst of the oppressed world and so defend it and its goals, if not its methods.
Chudi Nkem