The Darfur Report
Part I
Mobilisation for Peace, Protection of Women’s
Rights in Darfur
Report of the Technical Mission to Darfur,
Sudan, 16 October 2005
Public Lecture
Respublica Litereria - RL Vol XIII No 555 MMXIX
Costantinos Berhutesfa
Costantinos, PhD
Former Chairperson of the AU Anti-Corruption
Advisory Board &
Professor of Public
Policy & Sustainable Institutional Reforms
Abstract
A high-level technical team travel to Darfur as part of a strategic
action to advocate giving voice to the women of Darfur, and enable them to be
part of the solutions, to assert their rights and contribute to the search for
peace within the AU mandate. Data collection methodologies focused on
participatory, affordable, easy to understand and useful techniques. One of
Africa’s largest landmass inhabited by a kaleidoscope of shades and colours, it
is one of Africa’s impoverished, but well-endowed nations. Eternally nourished
by the Nile and the wealth generated by petroleum reserves, Sudan could have
been one of the success stories of Africa, rendering it a conflict ridden
landscape since independence.
The atrocities in
Darfur are all too evident to demand any major explanation and too terrifying
and menacing to believe - murder, rape, beating and bigotry are common in
Darfur by heavily armed militias. In some of the accounts Government soldiers
and police are implicated in participation and often abetting this horror. It
is indeed difficult to zero in a
figure of the number dead under the hands of the perpetrators. While the accurate figure may
never be unknown in the foreseeable future, estimates have stated that 300,000
have died since the start of the Darfur conflict. The story is
repeatedly the same as if the prescriptions for rape has
been commandeered and organised by a central organs carefully synergised for
maximum impact. Using case-digests, the report presents the systematic nature
of the human insecurity in Darfur and the analysis and discussion part presents
that current discussions and
analyses of rape and violence against women, racism, human displacement and
crises in Darfur are generally are marked by several analytical limitations.
The Darfur violence and human displacement amounting to close to two
million people needs urgent solution by all stakeholders. The GoS bears the
primary responsibility to resolve the unprecedented human impasse in the most
humane way. The AU has undertaken the task of monitoring the cease-fire and
peace, providing security and protection to humanitarian missions, and through
the Abuja Peace Talks, finding lasting solutions for the problem. Towards this
end, it must continue work to ensure human security. The UN and NGOs must deliver
gender-sensitive relief and development services at all levels. Human rights
groups: must continue to systematically collect, collate, analyse and document
information that can and must be communicated to the GoS, AU, and UN… The UN Security Council take action on human
security to binding in its resolution both to the Sudanese government and the
combatants.
Key words: Darfur, Sudan, ‘genocide’, GBV,
VAW, IDPs, CIVPOL, Janjaweed, Wali, Bashir
See paper here or https://www.academia.edu/39709884/AU_Technical_Mission_-_Darfur_Human_Right_Report_-_Oct_16_2005_RL_Vol_XIII_No_555_MMXIX
Costantinos
Berhutesfa Costantinos, PhD, Team Leader
Nana Pratt, PhD & Joseph Tumushambe, PhD Team Member
AU Darfur Technical Mission
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