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Darfur Displaced People and Refugees Union by Dr. Mohammed Ali Mustafa
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Darfur Displaced People and Refugees Union

Date: February 19th 2009

Mr.Djibril Bassole

AU/UN Chief Mediator for Darfur

Subject : Legitimate Plights of Darfur Displaced people and Refugees

Dear Sir:

    With the great respect and humility Darfur Displaced people and Refugees Union writes you this letter to express its deep appreciation to the efforts exerted by you and your Joint Mediation Support Team to have a peaceful and amicable settlement for the conflict in the war ravaged region of Darfur. Darfur Displaced People and Refugees Union is a legitimate body elected by a general conference attended by more than 370 delegates representing 56 IDP camps and all 13 refugees camps in Eastern Tachad , in addition to youth , women , native administration and other civil society actors . The conference was held in July 2008 in Wadi Hawor of North Darfur State. The conference fully mandated the Union to represent and speak on behalf of Darfur IDP and refugees in all local, regional and international forums, public rallies, embracing meetings and gatherings that attempt to resolve the problem of the region and to claim for their legitimate demands

    Darfur Displaced People and Refugees Union convicts that there is no military solution to such intractable problem , so it welcomes every step that leads to the spread   of peace and the renunciation of the violence in the region . But at the same time it reiterates to all conflicting parties and mediators, that any attempt or deal that does not accommodate the legitimate rights of the IDP and refugees or forsaking them and focus only on bilateral solution, fire extinguishing and security tiding will end to nothing but the same farce and moribund “so called” Darfur Peace Agreement signed in Abuja in 2006, which acts to prolong the protracted wars in Darfur, that need not to be reprised again. Secure peace and stability can not be realized in the region to the extend that IDP and Refugees dismantle their camps voluntarily and return home, unless the values of equity and accountability been recognized and the environment of impunity ended in the region. In this Regards, it is a high time for all parties to recognize the existence of abuses and atrocities committed by the Government of National Conference Party against the Darfurians (a premise that was already conceded by the government) to the level that infuriated all people in the region. To surmount such intractable problem, first of all the government must apologize to the peoples of Darfur with clear and unequivocal words, and then all  parties involved   in the peace process grantee the fulfillment of the following requirements :

(1) -Indictment of all those who participated in complicity to

      Commit serious crimes and atrocities against the defenseless

      Civilians in the region

(2)-  Respect of all historic rights that govern the communal

      Ownership of lands by tribes (Hwakir) and resettle the owners to

      Their ancestral lands with the recognized historic, geographic

       And administrative territories, after expelling all those

         Foreigners whom the government of National Conference Party

      Brought them to defend its regime. Such step must be followed

      By immediate review of the procedures of issuance of nationality

      Documents and measures of eligibility used during the period of  

      The conflict in the region.

    (3)       - Disarmament of the Janjaweed and all other proxy militia allied

       with the Government of    National Conference Party who were

       accused to be responsible for serious crimes committed in the

       region .

(4)  - To remove the injustice in soul- standing and bitter years of   

        lead, payment of   blood money  to the families of those whom

       had been killed by Janjaweed, proxy militia ,government army  

       and by indiscriminate bombardment of the government air forces

       is essential

(5)  - Compensation of all the  victims and war ravaged civilians of

         Darfur region , both individually and collectively for their

        material losses and moral suffering of war  plagues

(6)  - Compensation of the victims of   raping, injured and  disabled,

       materially and    morally and reintegrate them in the community

(7)  - Compensation of the school teachers who volunteered to teach the

       children of  Displaced people and Refugees under hard conditions

       and with out having adequate remuneration, as well as other

        categories of those who volunteered to serve the displaced and

       refugees

(8)  - Construction of a house for each   family displaced or a  

       refugee of Darfur people affected her home because of the war

       in the region , such house should build with sold materials

        and specified measures

(9)  - Provision of a lump some amount of money to every IDP and

       Refugee family to assist them to kick-off   their lives after

       their repatriation .

(10) - Provision of  training opportunities for sons and daughters of

       Darfur waste education who had been deprived from education

       during the war time.

(11) - Provision of employment opportunities for Darfur people who

       have been affected by the war and went out of production

(12) - Provision of free of charge educational and health care

       services to all people of Darfur and to exempt them from

       tuition fees at all stages of study

(13) - Reconstruction and rehabilitation of Darfur Region  to create

       A dignified means of life and to rebuild the villages and to

       rehabilitate the essential public institutions such as

       educational , health, water sources and electricity.

14) -   Allocation of specific proportion of the national revenues from

       The federal budget to produce an affirmative action and to

       improve the quality of the life in the region ,and to elevate

       the region to the stage that reached by the relatively well-off

       Sudanese Regions ,in addition to establishment of  a well paved

       roads and railways to link the region with its cities and with

       the national capital and neighboring countries .

(15) - Release of all detainees and prisoners of Darfur region, who had

       been convicted Because   of Darfur crisis

(16) - Refrain from any action that would impede the flow of

        humanitarian aid to the region or to harm the people of Dafur.

(17) - Creation of an effective mechanism trusted by the displaced and

       refugees to cater for their repatriation to their villages. with

       out existence of such mechanism, any attempt to repatriate them

       as if bringing them  to the risk of imminent death.                     

  (18)   -      To ensure implementation of any agreement reached by

      the conflicting parties and to avoid procrastination

      and the loss of the rights of the displaced persons

      and refugees , any peace accord agreed upon must be

       safeguarded by implementation mechanisms and specific

       time tables .

Dr. Mohammed Ali Mustafa

Secretary General for Darfur Displaced People and Refugees Union