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Sudanese say no to threat of intervention
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-08-05 00:20

Tens of thousands of Sudanese marched on the U.N. headquarters in Khartoum Wednesday in protest at the possibility of Western military intervention to combat a humanitarian crisis in the western region of Darfur.


Over 100,000 Sudanese protesters in Khartoum Wednesday, Aug 4, 2004 march to the office of the United Nations in Khartoum to protest a UN security council resolution that gives Sudan 30 days to stop the violence of Arab militia in Darfur province. [AP]

Khartoum faces the threat of unspecified international sanctions if it does not show within 30 days that it is serious about disarming and prosecuting Janjaweed militia who have helped displace more than 1 million people in Darfur.

The U.N. envoy to Sudan stressed Wednesday that the U.N. Security Council, which set the deadline, was not looking for a full solution to the crisis within that timeframe but proof of "substantial progress" toward security.

"There was some misunderstanding here in Khartoum that the council asked for a full solution of the conflict (in that period). That is impossible," envoy Jan Pronk told the BBC.

In Addis Ababa, a spokesman for the African Union (AU) said the organization would boost the number of troops it would deploy in Darfur to protect truce monitors from 300 to 2,000, once the head of the AU's security body approved the proposal.

Protesters in Khartoum, many from organized pro-government groups but including many ordinary citizens, carried anti-American banners and chanted slogans attacking U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan for his close alignment with U.S. policy.

"Annan, Annan, shame, shame," they shouted. "Annan, Annan, you coward. We will not be ruled by the Americans."

The organizers said at least 35,000 people took part in the protest -- in line with independent assessments of the crowd.


Hundreds of Sudanese women march from the Sudanese foreign ministry to the UN headquarters in Khartoum Wednesday, July 28, 2004 to protest the threat of foreign intervention into the country's Darfur region. The group handed a memo of protest to the UN resident representative to Sudan. [AP]

The AU troop initiative, which was discussed and put forward by ministers in the AU's 15-member Peace and Security Council that includes Sudan, now awaits the signature of South African President Thabo Mbeki, the current head of the security body, AU spokesman Adam Thiam said.

The proposal was also discussed at the 53-member AU summit in Addis Ababa last month, and would also aim to broaden the original mandate of the AU force to include a peacekeeping role as well as protecting truce monitors in Darfur.

There are 96 unarmed AU observers in Darfur, and Sudan has reluctantly agreed to an armed force to protect them.

Hundreds of thousands of people have abandoned their homes in Darfur, mostly for fear of the Janjaweed, which the government has used as auxiliaries to try to suppress a rebellion by settled non-Arab peoples. The militias have raped, looted, killed and set fire to villages.

The protest Wednesday reflected the government's success in convincing ordinary Sudanese that Western military intervention in Darfur is an imminent danger.

In fact, no countries other than those in the AU have gone beyond the preliminary planning stage, and the United States has shown no inclination to send troops to Darfur.

AFRICANS YES, AMERICANS NO

Hassan Ahmed, a Sudanese protester in his 60s, said: "If they want to send African troops, then those are from among us, but we will not allow a single American foot to rest on Darfur soil." He said he was not a government loyalist.

Khadija Adam, a woman from western Sudan, said: "I am not saying that things are not hard for us, but on the other hand we cannot allow them (the international community) to use this as an excuse to make us kneel to them."

The Sudanese government has said it will strongly oppose any attempt to send Western troops into Darfur, a vast arid region about the size of France.


Refugees arrive from Sudan to Chad after they fled the Sudanese Darfur region following violent clashes. The African Union said it was planning to send a 2,000-strong peacekeeping force to Sudan's troubled Darfur region, which the United Nations says is the scene of the world's worst humanitarian disaster. [AFP]

Pronk, Annan's special representative to Sudan, told the BBC Khartoum was taking steps to improve security for displaced people and had lifted all restrictions on humanitarian access to Darfur.

"They have deployed many more policemen in the region and they have stopped their own military activities against villagers," he said, adding that security in the refugee camps had also improved.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit told reporters that Egypt wanted Arab foreign ministers, at their meeting in Cairo Sunday, to support Khartoum's efforts to comply with the U.N. Security Council resolution.



 
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