Forces are systematically destroying crops and waterholes, dropping bombs on villages, killing indiscriminately, abusing women, maiming infants and arresting, en masse, whole groups of civilians, who are driven away in trucks to unknown destinations.
Humanitarian aid has been blocked for 11 months.
The number of displaced has reached 350,000. The death toll is unknown, yet at least 75 deaths were reported to local governments within the lat 7 days. (http://ocfordarfur.wordpress.com/)
Mass sexual violence
"A mother of seven watched from a hiding place in the mountains as soldiers raped local women. “There were many ladies,” she said. “Some were injured. Some were killed and buried.”
Government soldiers raped the mother, aunt, and sister of a young woman from El Taice: “I saw my aunt being raped. We were in the mountain together, and they came and took her. She was raped near the mountain…afterward they took her to Kadugli.” The young woman’s mother told her that she had been raped by 11 soldiers. “When my mother came home, she could not even sit down.” "
An end to Impunity - time for the UN to act
"Impunity for crimes during the Darfur war has allowed Sudan to continue committing grave abuses against its own citizens in Darfur and elsewhere, Human Rights Watch said.... The international response to ongoing violence and human rights violations in the two states has been muted."
The UN Security Council’s May 2 resolution, urging for access for humanitarian aid, is not enough.
It must now actively condemn the arbitrary attacks on civilians, and call for further investigation into human rights abuses and violations of IHL, currently occurring on a mass scale.
Source: http://reliefweb.int/node/494361
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