Carina Gibson
March 23, 2009
10:09 pm
In Darfur, many men, women and children are dying from lack of nutrition, shelter, and medications. People lay scattered across many camps around Sudan, slowly dying from various disease and malnutrition. Many aids groups and organizations have been expelled from Sudan. President Omar Hassan al-Bashir has ordered the removal of these groups because of his suspicion of their collaboration with the International Criminal Court, which has issued a warrant for his arrest on several war charges. Because of his ruthless orders, over a dozen aids group organizations are not allowed in to help provide food and sanitation in order to keep these people alive in the camps. Clinics around the country have been left empty as the aids workers were ordered out immediately. Bashir promises that local aid groups, as well as the World Food Program and United Nations agencies will help fill the gap. Not much progress has been made with the promises of local Sudanese Aid. The United Nations relies on these private organizations [the ones that were expelled] in order to help carry out their larger goals. With the expulsion of their means of help, the people of Sudan have even less care to rely on. Also, in order to help fill the large gaps of missing care in Sudan, they had to abandon many clinics and hospitals in other hard-hit areas. The Sudanese government has suspected the collaboration of these aids organizations with the International Criminal Court. Despite immense pressure by Western nations to allow the aids workers to go back in to help, Sudanese officials argue that there will be no change.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/23/world/africa/23darfur.html?_r=1&ref=world
2 comments:
I think this situation is really quite unfortunate. I have been following the developments in Darfur for some time now, and clearly the conflict is not getting much better. Expelling aid groups will only ensure that maximum suffering will still continue for those caught up in the midst of the conflict.
I agree that separating people and basically exiling them from other people will make them suffer more because it will remind them even more of their suffering instead of them trying to live a normal life and trying to forget about their suffering.
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