COMPLICITY BY USA, BRITAIN, FRANCE AND EVERY OTHER DEVELOPED COUNTRY ~ HAS ITS CONSEQUENCES
There are Consequences of Ignorance. Below are some developments in a part of the world that we people of the developed countries and our leaders have let slide. At some point people will take their lack of freedom into their own hands. How can we denounce them when our complicity is so denounce-able?
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The United Nations World Food Program announced that it will cut half its food supplies to the people of Darfur because of a lack of funds and relentless attacks on its convoys.
Millions of Darfuris depend on this food supply. Without it, they will be pushed even closer to the knife-sharp edge of starvation.
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BREAKING NEWS:
Then, just today, heavy fighting broke out between JEM and the Sudanese army near Khartoum. They infiltrated significantly into Korfodan, the province between Khartoum and Darfur, and then launched their attacks. This is the first time JEM has attacked outside of Darfur. A JEM spokesperson said its aim was to topple the Sudanese governmen. Khartoum says that it successfully repulsed the attacks but also imposed a curew on the city; it also said that it would no longer engage in peace talks with JEM and would respond militarily.
The attacks were condemned by both UN chief Ban Ki-Moon and Salva Kiir of the SPLM.
The Sudanese Governemnt accused the Chad of backing the attack and formally broke off relations with the Chadian government. Reports of fresh fighting have been reported along the Sudan/Chad border.
Click here for photographs of the aftermath of the attack.
From Sabina Carlson of www.standnow.org
Since last Friday, the regime security forces raided many homes in Khartoum and arrested many Darfuri people, some of them televised on Sudan-TV as POWs although they were snatched from their homes before Movement fighters entered Khartoum because the regime declared all Darfurians in Khartoum are a legitimate target for the regime. Our voices are needed to be heard loudly, and we need to mobilize human rights organizations to call for the safety of our people in Khartoum. We need to make sure that those detainees are treated according to International Law. Please. Any individual or organization. Take action for the sake of those innocent civilians who are only taking care of their families and don't know anything about Movements. Rahama Deffallah >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Sudan Repels Rebel Attack on Capital Washington Post / May 11, 2008 By Stephanie McCrummen NAIROBI - Darfur rebels launched an unprecedented attack on the Sudanese capital of Khartoum yesterday, crossing hundreds of miles of desert in an attempt to overthrow the government of President Omar Bashir, according to Sudanese officials and the rebels. Sudanese officials immediately accused neighboring Chad of backing the rebels. The Sudanese government has waged a brutal, five-year campaign against several rebel groups and civilians in the country's western Darfur region. For the most part, the fighting has been confined to that area. But the rebel Justice and Equality Movement has frequently vowed to take the war to the capital, which has been spared the fighting that has devastated other parts of the country in recent decades. Yesterday, the rebel group said that the attack was not over and that it had received "internal support," an assertion echoed by a US source in the region who had received reports that Sudanese soldiers had joined the rebels along with other indications of fresh divisions within Bashir's government. If confirmed, the reports would represent a far more troubling prospect than a rebel attack, which analysts have long said would be doomed against Sudan's military. Besides being highly unpopular across Sudan - where just about every region outside Khartoum complains of being oppressed and neglected by a government flush with oil money - Bashir has struggled to maintain political alliances within his inner circle and has crushed nascent coup plots in recent years. Bashir contends with the questionable loyalties of a Sudanese Army army dominated by soldiers from Darfur, where his government has drawn international condemnation for the violence. "The facts on the ground suggest there is something internal," said the US official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of security concerns. "We don't know the extent of what it is or how far it has gone." Bashir, who has ruled Sudan since 1989, was in Saudi Arabia. The attack marked the first time in decades that fighting has breached Khartoum, a sprawling, sand-blown city of donkey carts and new avant-garde hotels on the banks of the Nile. Yesterday evening, the sound of heavy fighting came from Omdurman, a suburb just across the river from Khartoum, and helicopters and army trucks headed toward the area, according to a Reuters reporter in the capital. Earlier in the day, the rebels said they had taken control of Omdurman and would not relent until they had pushed into the center of Khartoum. "The international community has failed to protect our people, and now we are in a position to do it," said Tahir Elfaki, of the Justice and Equality Movement, speaking from a London airport. Copyright 2008 Globe Newspaper Company |
Map locates Khartoum and Omdurman, SUdan where rebels threaten government forces; 1c x 5 1/2 inches; 46 mm x 140; with ; Artist; ETA 4 p.m. ; 1c x 5 1/2 inches; 46.5 mm x 139.7 mm
In this image from Sudan TV, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir in a televised address Sunday May 11, 2008, wearing military fatigues said "I would like to assure people that everything is now under control, the rebel forces have been totally destroyed." Sudan severed relations with Chad on Sunday, accusing it of supporting fighters who assaulted the capital the night before and warned that a top Darfur rebel leader was hiding somewhere in the city. (AP Photo/Sudan TV)
A injured man who was detained by government forces in Khartoum is seen in this image taken from Sudan TV on Sunday May 11, 2008. Hundreds of rebels from the war-ravaged Darfur area clashed with Sudanese security forces on the doorstep of the capital Khartoum Saturday in a dramatic widening of the five-year old conflict. It was the first foray by a rebel group once confined to Sudan's western Darfur region into the seat of the Sudanese government. (AP Photo/Sudan TV)Sudan cuts ties with Chad
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Sudan severed ties with Chad Sunday, accusing its neighbor of backing a rebel assault on the capital and raising the possibility of new border clashes that could worsen Darfur's humanitarian crisis.
A curfew was lifted in Sudan's capital but residents hunkered inside and security remained tight a day after the government repulsed an unprecedented assault on Khartoum by Darfur rebels.
In the capital's twin city of Omdurman, frightened residents emerged slowly to find buildings pockmarked with bullet holes and streets littered with charred cars. Women draped in flowered gowns stepped around huge armored personnel carriers, inspecting the damage. The city's main market was closed and residents milled around on side streets, staying off main roads lined with checkpoints.
"We were worried at first, that Khartoum may again be unsafe," said Hatem, a 45-year-old Omdurman resident who would not give his last name, fearing government reprisal. "We are extremely cautious."
"Police are searching for rebels on the run and are pestering us for IDs," he said.
A curfew was lifted in Khartoum but not in Omdurman, where police told state media that more than 300 rebels were arrested and many more had tossed away their camouflage uniforms to blend in with urban civilians.
State television paraded images of captured and bloodied fighters, including the body of a man it said was an aide to a top rebel leader. Army generals received congratulations in the streets and women praised them with traditional ululating screams.
But a leader of Darfur's Justice and Equality Movement, which carried out Saturday's attack, said his fighters were still in Omdurman and would ultimately bring down the Khartoum regime.
"The government didn't finish us off," JEM commander Suleiman Sandal told The Associated Press by telephone. He said he was in Omdurman. The call was interrupted several times as Sandal dictated orders to his fighters.
"We are dealing with all this military force with all our might," he said. "This was just practice. We promise to hit Khartoum one more time unless the (Darfur) issue is resolved," Sandal said.
For the first time ever, state TV broadcast a file photo of JEM leader Khalil Ibrahim, asking citizens to call a special hotline if they saw him. The government also announced a reward of $122 million for information leading to the Ibrahim's capture. By comparison, Washington has set a $25 million bounty on Osama bin Laden.
Sandal said Khalil was still commanding rebel fighters inside Omdurman.
"He is among us," Sandal said.
Saturday's daring attack was the closest Darfur rebels have ever come to Sudan's seat of government, hundreds of miles from their bases in the far west of the country.
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir declared Chad to blame, and immediately cut ties with the neighboring country.
"These forces come from Chad who trained them ... We hold the Chadian regime fully responsible for what happened," al-Bashir said in a televised address, wearing military fatigues. "We have no choice but to sever relations."
Al-Bashir said he reserved the right to retaliate against Chad's "outlaw regime," raising the specter of a border war between the two countries who have long traded accusations over support for each others' rebels.
In February, Chadian rebels launched a failed assault on Chad's capital, and the country's president accused Sudan of supporting and arming the rebels. The Sudanese government denied any involvement, and the two later signed a peace agreement.
Sandal called JEM a national movement and denied that Chad was helping his group in its drive toward Khartoum.
Saturday night's assault — the first rebel offensive anywhere near the capital — puts greater pressure on the Sudanese government to deal with the situation in Darfur, where more than 200,000 people have died and 2.5 million have been chased from their homes since 2003. Sudan denies backing the janjaweed militia of Arab nomads accused of the worst atrocities in the conflict.
The instability on Sudan's western border has already spilled over into neighboring Chad, where the flow of rebels and refugees — many of whom share the same tribal lineage — over the remote border has destabilized both countries and strained relations.
Sudanese Interior Minister Ibrahim Hamed warned villagers on the Sudan-Chad border to beware of possible retaliatory attacks, and U.N. officials said security teams in Darfur were closely monitoring developments.
Any further clashes along the frontier would have grave consequences for the already ravaged Darfur region.
"This (attack) was an adventure... It complicates the situation in Darfur, considering that the attack put civilians in danger. It may lead the government to stop negotiations" with the rebels, said Mudawi Ibrahim, a Sudanese human rights activist who works in Darfur.
The attack weakened the rebels, who lost many fighters, and could lead to increased government support for Chadian rebels, he said.
Ibrahim had to call off a trip to Darfur with U.N. and European diplomats because of the security situation. "It will be hugely negative for humanitarian work," he said.
The JEM has become one of the most effective rebel movements in Darfur, where ethnic Africans took up arms against the government in 2003 to protest discrimination. In the last year it has expanded its operations into the neighboring province of Kordofan, even attacking oil installations.
El Deeb contributed from Cairo, Egypt.
A rebel vehicle is seen in flames after clashes with Sudanese government security forces in Khartoum in this image taken from Sudan TV on Sunday May 11, 2008. Hundreds of rebels from the war-ravaged Darfur area clashed with Sudanese security forces on the doorstep of the capital Khartoum Saturday in a dramatic widening of the five-year old conflict. It was the first foray by a rebel group once confined to Sudan's western Darfur region into the seat of the Sudanese government. (AP Photo/Sudan TV)
Members of the security forces walk past burned-out vehicles and damaged buildings in Khartoum's twin city of Omdurman, the scene of a rebel assault Saturday night, in Sudan Sunday, May 11, 2008. Sudan severed relations with Chad on Sunday, accusing it of supporting fighters who assaulted the capital the night before, and warned that a top Darfur rebel leader was hiding somewhere in the city. (AP Photo/Abd Raouf)
A Sudanese tank sits in position in Khartoum's twin city of Omdurman, the scene of a rebel assault Saturday night, in Sudan Sunday, May 11, 2008. Sudan severed relations with Chad on Sunday, accusing it of supporting fighters who assaulted the capital the night before, and warned that a top Darfur rebel leader was hiding somewhere in the city. (AP Photo/Abd Raouf)
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