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Darfur and Sudan
Eric Reeves
Issue 10, Spring 2012 "The United Nations continues with its cynical policy of 'see no evil, hear no evil, report no evil' in Darfur. This institutional corruption, and active distortion of the truth, works to exacerbate massive human suffering and continuing destruction - with the growing risk that Darfur will be entirely eclipsed and engulfed in catastrophic violence."
"In an interview with Radio Dabanga (May 20, 2012), the spokesman for the UN/African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), Christopher Cycmanick, "described the security situation in Darfur as 'relatively calm'... Let us for the moment take Mr. Cycmanick at his word, and ask just what 'normal' now means in Darfur - and how his appraisal of 'security' conditions comports with events reported over the past several months. For he surely speaks with the authority of his boss, UNAMID Joint Special Representative Ibrahim Gambari.
"...Here it seems reasonable to recall as well the comments of former UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan, Georg Charpentier, who offered a similarly optimistic assessment of Darfur last year: 'We are seeing a trend of decreasing overall violent incidents in Darfur' (January 20, 2011).
"In fact, Charpentier's comments comported rather poorly with a range of facts, including a nearly contemporaneous statement from UNAMID reported by Reuters on January 27, 2011:
UNAMID spokesman Kemal Saiki confirmed the [civilian] bombing [near Shangil Tobay] was by 'the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) air force.' Later on... a group of 200 Sudanese government soldiers in 40 vehicles arrived at UNAMID's camp in the nearby settlement of Shangil Tobay. The soldiers surrounded the team site's exit as well as the adjacent makeshift camp, where thousands of civilians recently displaced by the December 2010 clashes have settled... The SAF commander at the scene then threatened to burn down the makeshift camp and UNAMID team site, if the peacekeepers continued to interfere." (Reuters/Khartoum)
Source: Reeves, Eric (May 25, 2012). Excerpted from H-Genocide@H-net.msu.edu. See http://www.sudanreeves.org/?p=3165
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