Sudan and Darfur

[padisha emperor]

What do you think about this war ?



I had a speech about Suda, and it is quite disturbing for a hope.


Sudan was independnat in 1956, but then, a civil war was between the north - ethny : "arabians", even if they're black - and the south - "blacks" - . Oil is in the south, and since the antiquity, since the Old Egypt, the south and north Sudan don't like themselves.
The English colonisation here make that the country was quite cutted in 2 parts, but the war between "arabians" and "blacks" was not possible. But it also make a stronger separation between the 2 ethnies.

And when Sudan became independant, then was a war.
The war was from 1956 to 1972, when Ethiopia made an accord between North and South.
But in 1983, again the war, and until 2005 : january, the 9th, 2005, peace treaty between North and South.

And then, war in Darfur.
The ethny in Darfur - the Furs - is not the same than in North.

They want their independance, and the North - Karthoum - refuse.
The North sent the Jaujawdis, who kill the people of Darfurs.

An UN commission, with Cassese, an Italian, was sent in Darfur, to see if a Genocide was committed here.
Conclusion :
It is not a genocide, becasue the North - Army and also their jaujawdis - dion't kill becasue the others are Furs, but "only " becasue they're ennemies.

But the hostile intention is the same than the one during a genocide.
So, it is a Crime against Humanity.
so, the UN security council (UNSC) should have to traduce Sudan to the International Penal Court.

But.......here are the problems :
in the UNSC there is Algeria and PAkistan, who are muslims, and they 'll probably vote against this idea, to support Sudan, a muslim country.

Russia will maybe vote against too, - and then veto - because they don't like the interferences in a sovereign country'as affairs...


But there is also CHINA :

IN south Sudan, there is a lot of oil.
Before, 2 countries exploited this oil : a canadian company - Diamant (or Diamond,if the name is english) - and a chinese company.
Canada call back it company, because the public opinion of Canada was against an exploitation in Suand, where civil wars and lot of poors are - simplification of the canadian opinion, but it is a little bit like this - .
But the chinese oil Co. is still here, so, CHINA would probably vote against becasue China need the sudanese oil.


So, an UN intervention would be really not sure.


USA and France are for an intervention...
But with some vetos, it would be hard.

 

[Said1]

But the chinese oil Co. is still here, so, CHINA would probably vote against becasue China need the sudanese oil.

Wouldn't this lead you to believe China wouldn't oppose UN intervention? Unless they have something else in mind.

 

[waltky]

Rape as a weapon of war...

Rape reaches 'epic proportions' in South Sudan's civil war
Mar 25,`17 -- After months of being raped by her rebel captors in the middle of South Sudan's civil war, the young woman became pregnant. Held in a muddy pit, sometimes chained to other prisoners, she later watched her hair fall out and her weight plummet. But the child was a spark of life.

And so she named him Barack Obama, she explains, now free. "I still have hope," she says, caressing the baby's cheek with a finger. "I just don't even know where to start." The slender 23-year-old is one of thousands of rape victims in South Sudan's three-year-old conflict, which has created one of the world's largest humanitarian crises. Sexual violence has reached "epic proportions," says the U.N. Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan. Reported incidents of sexual or gender-based violence rose 60 percent last year. Seventy percent of women sheltering in U.N. camps in the capital, Juba, had been raped since the conflict began, according to a U.N. humanitarian survey conducted in December.

Mundri, a city of 47,000 people in Amadi state, has been called the epicenter of the problem. Aid organizations blame it on the recent increase in fighting here between rebels and government troops, the latest shift of the war in an already devastated nation. The young woman didn't expect to become embroiled in South Sudan's conflict. "I just came back to visit my home and I lost my dreams," she said in an interview earlier this month. "If I talk about it, I just cry." She had been visiting her family in the summer of 2015, with plans to return to school in the capital, Juba. She never made it back.

Instead, she was abducted by rebels loyal to an opposition group calling itself MTN, after a popular African telephone company. Their catch phrase riffs on the company's slogan, taunting: "We're everywhere you go." The rebels burst through the door of her mother's hut, firing their weapons and shouting, she said. They were searching for her uncle, who'd been accused of conspiring with government forces. "They beat my grandfather and aunt and then said if they couldn't find my uncle they'll take me instead," she said. "I told them I'd rather die than go with them." But the rebels dragged her into the bush and brought her to their headquarters, where she was charged, tried and convicted for her uncle's "crimes."

For the next 16 months, she was forced to live in large, muddy pits infested with snakes, she said. Subsisting on only vegetables, she wasted away. "I'm not attractive anymore," she says now, tugging at the waistband of her baggy pants. Shifting around in a plastic chair outside a coffee shop, she shyly adjusted her headscarf, covering what little hair she has left. She said she was released in December because she became ill. "They told me to get medicine and then changed their minds and told me to leave and never come back," she said.

Mundri has many such stories. According to a recent Inter-Agency assessment by international and local organizations focused on gender-based violence, 29 rape cases were reported in Mundri between August and October. Local organizations say the number is likely double that, but most incidents go unreported because of stigma surrounding rape. "Realistically, it's more like over 50 cases," said James Labadia, founder of MAYA, a local aid organization that focuses on women's empowerment. He has been working with rape survivors for several years but said things have never been so dire. "The end of 2016 was the worst quarter I've ever seen," he said.

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Granny says, "Oh, dem po' chill'uns - whatever will dey do?...

Among South Sudan's refugees, thousands of stranded children
Jun 16,`17 -- Bakita Juma doesn't like to think about her dead parents because it makes her cry. The slender teenager would rather focus on the woman whom aid officials recently chose to raise her and her siblings on a small piece of earth in what has become the world's largest refugee settlement.

Bakita says she likes her new mother. As for her two younger siblings, it is impossible to tell. One of the consequences of South Sudan's civil war has been the thousands of children fleeing without parents or guardians, without documentation, often with nothing but treasured possessions like a saucepan or a chicken. It is a humbling sight, even for veteran aid workers who have seen it all.

The children, referred to as unaccompanied minors, pose serious challenges for aid workers who quickly have to figure out what to do with them when they cross the border. Even when the children show maturity far beyond their years, they still need the care of foster parents who are vetted on many grounds, including a clear sense of kinship. "We have foster banks where we identify potential foster parents and we train them on their roles and responsibilities, on children's rights," said Richard Talagwa, a child protection specialist with World Vision in Uganda.

Unaccompanied or separated children play and draw on the floor of a World Vision tent as they wait for child protection specialists to evaluate their situations at the Imvepi reception center, where newly arrived refugees are processed before being allocated plots of land in nearby Bidi Bidi refugee settlement, in northern Uganda. One of the consequences of South Sudan's civil war has been the thousands of unaccompanied or separated children fleeing without parents or guardians, of which it is estimated around 9,000 have crossed into Uganda since July.​

He said they aim to match children with foster parents who have good character and speak the same language, because "when people are from the same tribe they will always ensure that they take care of their children who come from the same community." Over 10,500 children have arrived with strangers or relatives who are not their parents and now live in the Bidi Bidi and Imvepi refugee settlements in northern Uganda, according to World Vision, which has put more than 3,000 of them into foster care. The rest have been reunited with family, Talagwa said.

The 15-year-old Bakita and her foster mother, 40-year-old Anyeji Doki, are both ethnic Bari, a minority group in South Sudan with high numbers sheltering in Uganda. Both escaped clashes between government forces and rebels, and share a history of loss and separation that is all too common among refugees. Bakita's father was killed at the start of the conflict in December 2013, when fighting erupted between rival members of the presidential guard in the capital, Juba. After her mother was killed in 2016, the children went to live with the family of her uncle. But the children were separated from the family during violence in March, and they fled south to Uganda with strangers they met on the way.

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UN says aid to 9 million Syrian children is in peril
Jun 16,`17 -- The U.N. children's agency is warning that a critical funding shortfall is threatening aid to 9 million Syrian children, both in their country and among the refugees in neighboring states.

UNICEF says the $220 million budget gap to its Syria relief programs is the worst it has faced since the war started. It appealed for $1.4 billion in 2017 to provide relief and education to children orphaned, displaced, wounded, or otherwise affected by the Syria war.

A UNICEF statement on Friday says that "without an injection of new funds, some critical and lifesaving activities ... are at a serious risk of being cut off, with grave consequences for Syrian children."

It says nearly 6 million children are in need in Syria and another 2.5 million require assistance in neighboring countries.

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