‘No humanity in North Darfur at all’: civil societies

Leading figures of civil society organisations in North Darfur have condemned the killings, kidnappings, and displacement of thousands of civilians as well as the burning and looting of their properties during the past few days, which happened “under the nose of the federal and local governments and Unamid”. The leaders described their condemnations in a memorandum addressed to President Omar Al Bashir, the state governor and its legislature, and the Parliament. They presented the memorandum to the Deputy Governor in El Fasher on Thursday. The signatories said “there is no humanity at all” seeing the acts against civilians in Darfur. One of the signatories of the memorandum, El Sadig Gadi Malit, told Radio Dabanga that they hold the central government, the state, and the armed movements responsible for the violence. They also hold Unamid and other international organisations responsible for the deterioration of the security and humanitarian situations. He added that the civil society organisations demanded in the memorandum the immediate cessation of hostilities as well as the immediate treatment of the humanitarian situation in North Darfur. Another demand was to halt all the looting, abductions, and burning carried out by militias. “All parties must sit down at the negotiating table to reach a peaceful solution.” File photo (archive Radio Dabanga) Related: ‘More protection against violence’: North Darfur’s displaced (28 March 2014)