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EDICOLA / KIOSK | LADINBolzano/Bozen, Göttingen, Berlin, 18. September 2006
The Society for Threatened Peoples International (GfbV) has
asked the United Nations (UN) for support in Darfur. In view of
the "Global Day for Darfur" (16-18.9.2006) and the opening day
of the second session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva,
the GfbV has appealed for a peace-keeping force with a "strong
mandate" to be sent to the West Sudanese region. If necessary a
peace-keeping force with a strong mandate has to be sent in this
region even against the will of the Sudanese government. That is
the only way to stop the genocide against the black African,
Muslim population of West Sudan. According to the estimates of
the GfbV-International and the international movement "Save
Darfur", which the GfbV is also promoting actively, about 400,000
people have already been killed during this genocide.
At a press conference the GfbV presented a human rights report on
the genocide in Darfur, which tabulates numerous detailed cases
that clearly document the violations of the following articles of
the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime
of Genocide of 9 December 1948:
- Article II a), Killing members of the group [through bombing,
single killings and massacres];
- Article II b), Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members
of the group [through torture and rape];
- Article II c), Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions
of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in
whole or in part [by destroying the existential means (villages,
fields, poisoning wells), expulsion and abduction, refusal of
famine relief, inadequate security in refugee camps, deaths of
those fleeing, attacks on employees of relief
organisations].
Time is pressing since Sudan's President General Omar Hassan Al
Bashir has declared that he will force the troops of the African
Union (AMIS) out of Darfur, so that, on October 1, one of his
10,500 men strong military forces can march into this region. The
GfbV fears that, consequently, a new wave of mass murder will
affect the civilian population in West Sudan. Over two million
people have to vegetate in refugee camps far away from their
homes being threatened by starvation and cholera. Meanwhile, the
Sudanese air force has recommenced the civilian bombings using
Russian Antonov planes.
The GfbV would like to recall the failure of the United Nations,
the international community, the European Union, and the previous
German government, as hundreds of thousands were killed in the
genocides in Bosnia and Ruanda. As in the aftermath of the
Holocaust, it was said "Never again". That is why the GfbV begs
the media and the general public to overcome the indifference,
and to stand more vigorously for the people in Darfur. The GfbV
demands the International Court of Justice at The Hague (ICC) to
bring charges against the war criminals, as well as the immediate
withdrawal of the Sudanese army and the disarmament of the Arab
militia and the unconditional opening up of the Darfur region for
relief organisations, journalists and human rights experts.
Moreover, the GfbV draws everyone's attention to the fact that
the regime of General Al Bashir is responsible for the deaths of
more than half a million people in the Nuba region, and that two
million Africans have become victims of his arbitrary rule.