Thousands of people fleeing E. Jebel Marra to Darfur camps
Thousands of people displaced from East Jebel Marra are fleeing toward the camps of El Fasher, Tawila and Shangil Tobaya. Hundreds of families reaching the camps have included some cases of fatigue and severe fatigue as a result of the long days spent on the perilous journey. They left after their villages were burned and their property destroyed by aerial bombardment and ground offensive by the army. Local activists told Radio Dabanga that hundreds of families that have reached the camps in Tawila, Shangil Tobaya and El Fasher are living in the open without shelter or food. The activists spoke over Radio Dabanga appealing to the international community, humanitarian organizations and UNAMID to act immediately to save the refugees who arrived to these areas. They further appealed to the UN Security Council to establish an international commission of inquiry into crimes and forced displacement that has occurred in East Jebel Marra. A rebel faction thought to have controlled the area said that it had no forces in the area during the offensive. The Sudan Liberation Movement led by Abdel Wahid Al Nur said that its forces were absent from the areas devastated in the offensive. The movement’s spokesman Ahmed Ibrahim described what happened in East Jebel Marra as genocide. He said that civilians in these areas were targeted deliberately, systematically, and in a planned way, through extensive bombing of their villages to ashes. The rebel spokesman appealed to the UN Security Council to move to save the civilians whom he said are trapped without services, without anyone working to rescue them. Likewise, the Justice and Equality Movement strongly condemned what it described as silence on the part of the leadership of the UN-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) and the international community about the horrible crimes and serious violations against civilians in Darfur in general and in East Jebel Marra in particular. The JEM spokesman Ahmed Hussein Adam renewed the movement’s appeal to the UN Security Council to carry out his duty and powers in accordance with Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations to stop the genocide and the ongoing ethnic cleansing in Darfur.
Thousands of people displaced from East Jebel Marra are fleeing toward the camps of El Fasher, Tawila and Shangil Tobaya. Hundreds of families reaching the camps have included some cases of fatigue and severe fatigue as a result of the long days spent on the perilous journey. They left after their villages were burned and their property destroyed by aerial bombardment and ground offensive by the army.
Local activists told Radio Dabanga that hundreds of families that have reached the camps in Tawila, Shangil Tobaya and El Fasher are living in the open without shelter or food. The activists spoke over Radio Dabanga appealing to the international community, humanitarian organizations and UNAMID to act immediately to save the refugees who arrived to these areas. They further appealed to the UN Security Council to establish an international commission of inquiry into crimes and forced displacement that has occurred in East Jebel Marra.
A rebel faction thought to have controlled the area said that it had no forces in the area during the offensive. The Sudan Liberation Movement led by Abdel Wahid Al Nur said that its forces were absent from the areas devastated in the offensive. The movement’s spokesman Ahmed Ibrahim described what happened in East Jebel Marra as genocide. He said that civilians in these areas were targeted deliberately, systematically, and in a planned way, through extensive bombing of their villages to ashes. The rebel spokesman appealed to the UN Security Council to move to save the civilians whom he said are trapped without services, without anyone working to rescue them.
Likewise, the Justice and Equality Movement strongly condemned what it described as silence on the part of the leadership of the UN-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) and the international community about the horrible crimes and serious violations against civilians in Darfur in general and in East Jebel Marra in particular. The JEM spokesman Ahmed Hussein Adam renewed the movement’s appeal to the UN Security Council to carry out his duty and powers in accordance with Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations to stop the genocide and the ongoing ethnic cleansing in Darfur.
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