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------Original message------ From: jeanne mcgill <[email protected]> To: "Elisabeth Janaina" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 1:39:16 PM GMT-0400 Subject: *Sudan’s War on Humanity* *Bashir’s illegal bombings, criminal atrocities and reign of terror demand immediate international intervention.* * * (NEW YORK, October 23, 2012) On September 25, in the early morning, the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and Government-backed Arab militia forces attacked the Hashaba area of North Darfur. During three days, they massacred more than one hundred-eighty civilians including women and children, severely beating, torturing and injuring another two hundred-fifty people. The attackers arrived in forty-four heavily armed, four-wheel-drive vehicles and pick-up trucks, and on more than one hundred horses and camels, all supported by intense Sudan Air Force bombardment and gunfire from helicopters. (Ibrahim, 2012) “Without warning, an Antonov bomber, two MIG fighter jets and two SAF armed helicopters started firing at us. People tried to run away, all going in different directions on foot, but the SAF militia on horseback chased them and murdered them. Most of the people were killed as they were working inside a mine,” an eyewitness reports to the Darfur People’s Association of New York. “The Antonov aircraft dropped four bombs on the local market as the Government militia burned five villages and engaged in widespread looting in the region; one thousand livestock were stolen, and local farms were destroyed.” More than twelve thousand people fled from Hashaba, displaced without water, food or shelter. (Radio Dabanga, 2012) According to the eyewitness, the injured were left to die from this barbaric attack. Dead bodies remain unburied to date. Weeks later, on October 17, UNAMID peacekeepers went to investigate the massacre. On the way from Kutum to Hashaba at an Arab Militia checkpoint, they too were attacked. One peacekeeper from South Africa was murdered and two others were injured, forcing the UNAMID peacekeepers to retreat without having investigated the massacre and the ongoing genocide. (AllAfrica, 2012) (Ibrahim, 2012) In just a three-month period, from August to October, 2012, the Sudan Government Armed Forces, its Militia, and its Air Force have killed over six hundred twenty-seven civilians, including women and children, and injured, tortured or abducted another four hundred thirty-six, in spite of the “Doha Peace Agreement for Darfur” which was never implemented by Bashir. Additionally, two hundred-sixty women and children were reported abducted and missing during the same time period, while another ninety-seven were reported severely beaten and raped. The total of reported murdered, injured, tortured or abducted Darfur civilians is more than one thousand three hundred people, with thirty-two thousand displaced, all in just three months in Darfur. (Reeves, The Avalanche of Violence Continues to Accelerate in Darfur, 2012) (Radio Dabanga, 2012) This does not take into account the unreported atrocities, or the refugees that have died at the camps from disease and starvation. Nor does it take into account the ongoing aerial bombardments and massacres perpetrated by the Government of Sudan against targeted populations in Nuba Mountains, Blue Nile and Abyei to date. The Government of Sudan has expelled international humanitarian organizations from the refugee camps, and blocked all humanitarian aid, starving the targeted populations of these non-Arab Black Africans. Atrocity crimes in Darfur are dramatically increasing. The international community has a responsibility to protect the civilians not only in Darfur, but throughout Sudan from “ethnic cleansing” by the Bashir Regime. Wanted for 'Genocide', ‘War Crimes’ and 'Crimes against Humanity' by the ICC, warrants issued in 2009 and 2010 (Human Rights Watch), Bashir has been orchestrating these atrocities against Africans in Sudan since his coup in 1989. The UN Secretary-General’s report, entitled, “Implementing the Responsibility to Protect (RtoP)”, and the General Assembly Resolution (63/308. The responsibility to protect) focus on “the responsibility of the international community to take timely and decisive action to prevent and halt genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes and crimes against humanity, when a State is failing to protect its own populations.” (Protect) Khartoum’s illegal bombings, criminal atrocities and reign of terror demand immediate intervention. “Acquiescence by the international community is unconscionable and tantamount to collaboration,” states Al Sutton MD, Founder, New York-based African Freedom Coalition, Inc. (AFC). “Air defense against Sudan’s bombing of civilians is now imperative, be it by creating a ‘No-Fly Zone’, by providing anti-aircraft weapons, by destroying Sudan’s offensive aerial assets, or by providing armed escort planes to create a humanitarian air corridor.” Andrew Natsios, Statesman; Gerard Prunier, Ph.D.; Eric Reeves, Ph.D.; The Baroness Cox; John Prendergast; Madeleine Albright, former U.S. Secretary of State; Dr. Samuel Totten, and sixty-five other renowned scholars, also speak to air defense. Andrew Natsios, former Special Envoy to Sudan, in a recent *Washington Post *writes: “…The only way to end the North’s bullying …Providing anti-aircraft weapons could have broad support… the risks of not acting are greater than those of further intervention.” (Natsios) Gerard Prunier, Ph.D., renowned scholar on Sudan, states: …under the pretext of ‘restoring order’, the NCP (Sudan) regime has started a full-fledged war against a whole segment of its population. The constructive approach for this crisis is the feasibility of creating a No-Fly Zone, preventing Khartoum’s air force from bombing the civilians-…the possibility of using the American base in Djibouti as a point of departure should at least be studied; …we have seen in Libya that airplanes can knock down artillery forces. So the No-Fly Zone maybe could be extended for further benefits.” (Prunier PhD) Eric Reeves, Ph.D., acclaimed Sudan Analyst, Scholar and Researcher, considers: “…attacking Khartoum’s military aircraft on the ground, if those aircraft have been implicated in bombing civilians and humanitarians. The U.S. should then demand, as a condition for halting these serial attacks, an end to hostilities in South Kordofan, and an opening of humanitarian access.” (Reeves) The Baroness Cox, Founder and CEO of Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (HART) advocates: “…a ‘No Fly Zone’ to be put into effect to protect the peoples of Nuba Mountains (Southern Kordofan) and Blue Nile from constant aerial bombardment – and also to prevent Sudan bombing across the border into South Sudan. It is long overdue – and would do more than anything else to halt the death of countless civilians and the displacement of over half a million people in Sudan and a further quarter of a million into South Sudan – many of whom are suffering and dying in camps without adequate essential supplies.” (Cox) John Prendergast, Co-founder of Enough Project, seeks: “…accelerated decisions regarding how to protect Nuba, Blue Nile, and Darfuri populations from air attacks, looking at options such as a No-Fly-Zone, or destruction of offensive aerial assets. Time is of the essence and besieged civilian populations…require immediate protection.” “Air defense removes the air advantage of the Sudan government and creates a level playing field and stalemate, which would interrupt the unilateral destruction by the Bashir regime, and accelerate a peaceful end to the conflict.” (Prendergast) Dr. Samuel Totten, Professor Emeritus, and author of *Genocide by Attrition: Nuba Mountains, Sudan* (2012), and sixty-five other scholars wrote to President Obama: “Establish a land and air humanitarian corridor through which aid can be delivered without interference or hindrance from Sudanese security, military or other forces or proxies…Secure arrangements with the SPLM-N for the airlifting of these supplies…Keep armed escort planes on standby for the protection of aid delivery planes if necessary.” (Dr. Samuel Totten, et al)” Madeleine Albright, former U.S. Secretary of State, who has taken courageous stances, describes the timely and useful benefits of intervention as a deterrent to genocide in a recent interview with John Prendergast: “Looking back, both Bosnia and Kosovo provide interesting case studies of how to mobilize the U.S. government, NATO, and the world community to implement a humanitarian intervention.” (Albright) “For too long, the world has stood by in the face of atrocities. The responsibility to protect is a commitment to act.” (Adams) We must not sit silent; it is time to act. Let right be done*.* ### *Works Cited* *Human Rights Watch.* (2010, April 26). Retrieved October 1, 2012, from Sudan: ICC Warrant for Al-Bashir on Genocide: http://www.hrw.org/news/2010/07/13/sudan-icc-warrant-al-bashir-genocide *Radio Dabanga*. (2012, October 19). Retrieved from Radio Dabanga. Diseases kill at least 50 in Darfur camps: http://www.radiodabanga.org/node/37238 Adams, S. (2012, August 27). *Global Centre For The Responsibility To Protect.* Retrieved August 26, 2012, from The Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies: http://globalr2p.org/ Albright, M. (2012, July 25). Former US Secretary of State,. (J. Prendergast, Interviewer) Washington DC: Enough Project Post. AllAfrica. (2012, October 18). *South Africa: National Defence Force Patrols Caught in Ambush Whilst Conducting Patrol and Escort Duties in Sudan.* Retrieved 2012, from ALL AFRICA FREE HEADLINES: http://allafrica.com/stories/201210220801.html Asante, M. (2012, March 1-7). Arab Racism Raises Its Head in Sudan. *New York Amsterdam News, 103 No. 9*, pp. 13, 34. Brennen, K. (2012, January 6). *White House Permits Defense Exports to South Sudan.* Retrieved October 8, 2012, from Defense News: http://www.defensenews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2012201060303 Cox, T. B. (2012, August 22). Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust. *Personal Correspondance*. London. Dr. Samuel Totten, et al. (2012, August 26). *Operation Broken Silence.*Retrieved from Genocide Expert Letter to Obama Administration Officials Concerning Sudan: http://www.operationbrokensilence.org/2012/08/genocide-scholar-letter-to-obama-administration-officials-concerning-sudan/ Ibrahim, H. M. (2012). *Darfur People’s Association of New York, Foreign Relations Secretary.* New York: Personal Correspondence . Miller, J. R. (2012, September 27). *Fox News.* Retrieved September 30, 2012, from Foxnew.com: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/09/27/bombing-by-sudanese-government-at-bustling-marketplace-kills-1-injures-6/?test=latestnewsEND2 Mukasa, H. (2012, April 30). *Omar Bashir renews support for Kony.*Retrieved September 22, 2012, from New Vision, Uganda's Leading Daily: http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/630703-omar-bashir-renews-support-for-kony.html Natsios, A. (2012, May). To Stop the War on South Sudan, the U.S. Should Send Weapons. *The Washington Post*. Prendergast, J. (October 2011). Congressional Testimony, House Representatives Subcommittee Africa, Global Health, Human Rights. *A Comprehensive Assessment of US Policy Toward Sudan*, (pp. 38-43). Washington DC. Protect, I. C. (2012, August 26). *An Introduction to the Responsibility to Protect*. Retrieved August 25, 2012, from . http://responsibilitytoprotect.org Prunier PhD, G. (October 2011). Congressional Testimony, House Representatives Subcommittee Africa, Global Health, Human Rights. *A Comprehensive Assessment of US Policy of Sudan*, (pp. 26-36). Washington DC. RadioDabanga. (2012, October 19). *Radio Dabanga.* Retrieved from Radio Dabanga News, More than 12.000 fled Hashaba: http://www.radiodabanga.org/node/3723 Reeves, E. (2011, June 22). *Genocide in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan.*Retrieved August 24, 2012, from Dissent Magazine: http://dissentmagazine.org/atw.php?id=479 Reeves, E. (2012, October 11). *The Avalanche of Violence Continues to Accelerate in Darfur*. 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