JEM calls for UNAMID’s chief to resign

The Justice and Equality Movement has demanded that the head of the UN/African Union mission in Darfur Ibrahim Gambari resigns immediately over his ‘failure to provide security and fully protect civilians in Darfur’. The movement says under Gambari’s leadership, seven displaced people were shot dead during last week’s protests in Kabkabiya, eyewitnesses said four were shot by UNAMID. ‘Gambari has failed in UNAMID’s mandate as civilians are still regularly killed in Darfur, whether from continuous aerial bombardment or government sponsored militias. Darfuri families are newly displaced on a daily basis,’ said Ahmed Hussein Adam, JEM foreign relations secretary. The secretary added that there is no protection as stipulated by the mandate of UN Security Council under which the peacekeeping mission operates. Adam called on the UNSC to immediately dismiss Gambari if he does not resign first, for his overall failure to protect civilians in Darfur as was evident in Kabkabiya.He also demands that an international commission carries out an independent investigation into the events in Kabkabiya.