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 Re: Student Newsletter for Darfur (Re: Roada)
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http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAFR541392004
Sudan: Arms trade fuelling human rights abuse in Darfur
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>"The helicopter pilots deliberately and indiscriminately attacked
the informal internally displaced persons' settlement knowing very well that
there were innocent civilians."
>African Union Commission Ceasefire Violation report on the attack in
Hashaba and Gallab Villages on 26 August 2004
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>"The only thing in abundance in Darfur is weapons. It’s easier to
get a Kalashnikov than a loaf of bread."
>Jan Egeland, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, 1 July 2004
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>Amnesty International today revealed details of the uncontrolled arms
exports that have fuelled massive human rights abuses in Sudan, including
the killing, rape, torture and displacement of more than a million civilians
since the Darfur conflict began in February 2003.
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>"Governments must stop turning a blind eye to the immediate and
long term consequences of this totally irresponsible trade. They must ensure
that the UN Security Council imposes a mandatory and rigorously monitored
arms embargo on all parties to the conflict in Sudan including the
government’s armed forces. The embargo should aim to stop all exports of
arms that are likely to be used to commit human rights violations,"
said Elizabeth Hodgkin, Amnesty International's Sudan researcher.
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>At a news conference in Nairobi ahead of this week‘s meeting of the UN
Security Council in the same city, Amnesty International delegates presented
a report identifying the main types of arms sent to Sudan and the
governments that have deliberately or unwittingly allowed them to be sent.
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>The report, Sudan: Arming the perpetrators of grave abuses in Darfur
shows how Sudanese government forces and their militia allies have used such
arms for grave human rights violations, war crimes and crimes against
humanity.
>(Full report online at
http://amnesty-news.c.topica.com/maacRMSabbLbsbb0hkRb/ )
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>"Two Antonov aeroplanes, five helicopters and two MIGs attacked our
village at around 6am. Five tanks came into town. The attack lasted until
7pm...Eighteen men and two children from our family were killed when
fleeing." Testimony given to Amnesty International in May 2004 by Aziza
Abdel Jaber Mohammed and her half sister Zahra Adam Arja on the attack of
Kornoy in North Darfur in December 2003.
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>Based on the testimony of hundreds of survivors gathered by Amnesty
International as well as commercial documents, UN arms trade data and other
sources - the report’s main findings include:
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>- Military aircraft and components sold to Sudan from the Russian
Federation, China and Belarus, with helicopter spare parts from Lithuania,
despite repeated use of such aircraft to bomb villages and support ground
attacks on civilians;
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>- Tanks, military vehicles and artillery transferred to Sudan from
Belarus, Russia and Poland, even though such equipment has been used to help
launch indiscriminate and direct attacks on civilians;
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>- Grenades, rifles, pistols, ammunition and other small arms and light
weapons exported to Sudan from many countries, but mainly China, France,
Iran and Saudi Arabia;
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>- The recent involvement of arms brokering companies from the UK and
Ireland attempting to provide large numbers of Antonov aircraft and military
vehicles from Ukraine and pistols from Brazil;
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>- Military training and cooperation offered by Belarus, India, Malaysia
and Russia.
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>"Some governments such as Bulgaria, Lithuania and the UK have
already begun to take action to halt the arms flows to Sudan, and the
European Union has imposed an embargo, but other governments show no sign of
wanting to turn off the tap that is fuelling these atrocities", said
Brian Wood, Amnesty International's research manager on the arms and
security trade
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>Amnesty International is appealing to the UN Security Council to impose
a mandatory arms embargo to halt exports of arms likely to be used to commit
human rights violations. The embargo should be accompanied by rigorous UN
monitoring both inside and outside Sudan.
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>The organization is calling on all states mentioned in the report to
take immediate concrete steps to suspend all transfers of those types of
arms and related logistical and security supplies that are being used for
grave human rights violations in Sudan.
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>To prevent the arms trade from contributing to such disasters, Amnesty
International is also campaigning for all states to establish much more
rigorous controls on conventional arms, including the establishment of an
Arms Trade Treaty which would prohibit arms exports to those likely to use
them to violate international human rights and humanitarian law.
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| Student Newsletter for Darfur | Roada | 11-29-04, 04:31 PM |
| Re: Student Newsletter for Darfur | Roada | 11-29-04, 04:36 PM |
| Re: Student Newsletter for Darfur | Roada | 11-29-04, 04:42 PM |
| Re: Student Newsletter for Darfur | ShiningStar | 11-29-04, 04:45 PM |
| Re: Student Newsletter for Darfur | Roada | 11-29-04, 05:08 PM |
| Re: Student Newsletter for Darfur | Roada | 11-29-04, 04:55 PM |
| Re: Student Newsletter for Darfur | Roada | 11-29-04, 04:57 PM |
| Re: Student Newsletter for Darfur | Roada | 11-29-04, 05:00 PM |
 Re: Student Newsletter for Darfur | إيمان أحمد | 11-29-04, 09:53 PM |
 Re: Student Newsletter for Darfur | إيمان أحمد | 11-29-04, 09:57 PM |
 Re: Student Newsletter for Darfur | malamih | 11-29-04, 10:26 PM |
| Re: Student Newsletter for Darfur | shawgi badri | 11-30-04, 09:04 AM |
| Re: Student Newsletter for Darfur | nada ali | 11-30-04, 01:54 PM |
| Re: Student Newsletter for Darfur | Roada | 12-01-04, 06:33 PM |
| Re: Student Newsletter for Darfur | Roada | 12-01-04, 06:47 PM |
| Re: Student Newsletter for Darfur | سماح سيد ادريس | 12-01-04, 07:00 PM |
| Re: Student Newsletter for Darfur | Roada | 12-01-04, 07:00 PM |
| Re: Student Newsletter for Darfur | Roada | 12-01-04, 07:23 PM |
| Re: Student Newsletter for Darfur | Roada | 12-01-04, 07:49 PM |
| Re: Student Newsletter for Darfur | Mohamed Suleiman | 12-01-04, 10:00 PM |
| Re: Student Newsletter for Darfur | Roada | 12-02-04, 07:18 PM |
| Re: Student Newsletter for Darfur | برهان تاج الدين | 12-03-04, 04:44 AM |
| Re: Student Newsletter for Darfur | هاشم نوريت | 12-03-04, 10:01 AM |
| Re: Student Newsletter for Darfur | Roada | 12-21-04, 05:46 PM |
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