Genocide in Sudan DARFUR´S FRIENDS

(It is a NGO that fights for the peace and against the dictatorships)

HELP! HELP! HELP!

Give us your hand, our race is your human race

This is an open letter, directed to all the leaders of democratic governments, humanitarian organizations and all the good people of the human society.

We would like to remind that:

A PART FROM IRAQ AND PALESTINE THERE ARE OTHER PEOPLES SUFFERING, BUT SILENTLY, BECAUSE THEIR HANGMEN NEITHER PHOTOGRAPH THEIR VICTIMS NOR ALLOW ANY JOURNALIST TO ENTER THE ZONE, BECAUSE THEY ARE COMMITTING AN ETHNIC CLEANSING. The regime of the dictator Omar Al-Bashir uses religion to remain in power, it accuses its opponents of being enemies of Islam but in reality it is a hypocritical, racist and criminal regime which supports the Arab fascist militias ( their motto is the Arabic blood) that is trying to eliminate the indigenous Darfur tribes and arabize (make the area be of people of arab descent only) all the zones of the region, I mean arabization and not islamization, because all the Darfur indigenous tribes are Moslems.

The African tribes ZAGAWA, FUR, MASSALIT... of Darfur (Sudan) have already buried more than 30.000 dead (the majority of them were children, women and disabled) (1), more than 600.000 are exiled in the Neighboring countries (2) and more than 2.000.000 of them made homeless(3), because the arab militia "Janjaweed" which gets support from the racist dictator, Omar Al-Bashir, regime has burnt 60 % of their villages (according to the UNO) (4). In addition, the army constantly bombards their huts and together with the Arab militia attack the unarmed civilian population, kidnap and rape women and children. Do you need more reasons to support them, listen to their weeping and feel their grieves?

What could be done before it is too late?

The Darfur´s Friends Association does not believe in military intervention to solve Darfur's problem, since it harms, even more, those who live in extreme misery and would also harms the rest of the innocent Sudanese. Nevertheless, we propose the following:

1. More international humanitarian agencies are needed in Darfur because the civil population displeased inside and the refugees outside the country need to be helped swiftly, since many people are dying of hanger and diseases, moreover the rainy season has arrived. Due to the bad road conditions in the Country and in the Darfur region in particular, and sometimes without any roads at all, it is and will be very difficult to communicate with the displaced peoples.

The racist and dictatorial regime of Omar Al-Bashir not only doesn’t do anything to help the displaced and the refugees of Darfur, but rather puts obstacles to prevent the humanitarian organizations from entering the zone (5). Therefore, this shows the negligence and the indifference of the dictator and its government with regard to Darfur. This is nothing but a confirmation of the reality we have been trying to make known to the world, namely, that the government of Sudan is directly responsible of all the continual atrocities being committed against the people of Darfur.

While the whole world media support the people of Darfur, the television of the regime of the dictator Omar Al-Bashir which can be tuned in here is dedicated to praising the dictator and launches false images on the Sudanese reality and waste time in recitals of Arabic poems, singing and dancing and fills the rest of time with Egyptian movies and other celebrations; meanwhile one of the major catastrophes on earth and the major current genocide in the world are precisely taking place in this country (in Darfur).

Nevertheless, the dictator focuses the attention on the richest Sudanese people and reproduces "thousand and one night tales " in the public television to entertain those who have TV, dish, cars...(people of the northern Sudan), isn’t this attitude of the dictatorial regime of Sudan hypocritically obscene? Besides, they constantly say "brothers" to the south because this is only happening after the signature of the "peace" agreement between the dictator and Dr. John Garang, the leader of the southern guerrilla (SPLM/A).

2. Darfur should be declared exclusion zone for the aviation of Omar Al-Bashir’s regime (as it was in the Iraqi Kurdistan zone) in order to protect the civilians and prevent further genocide against the people.

3. The UN and the countries who export arms to Sudan should declare a weapons embargo against the regime but NOT a commercial embargo so as not to harm the Sudanese population like what happened in Irak and Libya for several years.

4. The accounts of the dictator Omar Al-Bashir and his collaborators abroad should be frozen and investigated.

5. The dictator, Omar Al-Bashir and all his collaborators (especially against the leaders of the Arabic militia, "Janjaweed") should be arrested and brought to justice at the International Court for Human Rights for crimes against humanity for the atrocities they have committed and are committing, the ethnic cleansing in Darfur.

6. A peace conference where no Sudanese region is excluded should be Summoned, since Sudan is not just divided into north and south, but into south, west, east, center and north. The current peace agreements between the dictator regime of Omar Al-Bashir and the principal guerrilla of the south of Sudan (the SPLM/A) suspend the war like activities in the south but do not guarantee a lasting peace for the whole country. This is because the west (Darfur) is still in flames and in the East the embers of the war are still alive under the ashes. All the disadvantaged regions of Sudan claim justice, not only the south, so there must be equality in the treatment, in the political participation in the central government and in the distribution of the income and resources of the country for all the regions, otherwise there will always be some rebellious group in some disadvantaged zone raising the flag of justice.

(1) In May 1991, members of the Zagawa people of Darfur submitted a memorandum to Omer Bashir, head of state, on the massacres that the Zagawa suffered in the areas of Khazan Jadid, Argod, Mawarit and Um Katok.
(2) CBS Washington, April 29, 2004.
(3) High Commissioner Ruud Lubber says 600.000 refugees are in exile (VOA, May 20, 2004).
(4) UN News Service (New York), May 17, 2004.
(5) AL-FASHIR, NORTHERN DARFUR, 19 Apr 2004 (IRIN)
(6) US Dept of state ,April 28, 2004.
(7) CNN, May 13, 2004.
(8) AFP, May 9, 2004.
(9) In May 1991, members of the Zagawa people of Darfur submitted a memorandum to Omer Bashir, head of state, on the massacres that the Zagawa suffered

Bushara Ahmed Gumaa will be speaking at the Forum in Barcelona on the 25th of June at 5:00 pm

He is the President of Darfur´s Friends Association (DFA)
E-mail: darfurs_friends@yahoo.es
Phone : 34-619197385, 34-914681983
C / Arboleda, 14, oficina 141, 28031 Madrid, Spain

Madrid, June 10, 2004