Press Release

Sudan Government Must Stop the Holocaust of Southernes

The SPLM call (November 1, 2001) on the International Community to urge the Government of Sudan to stop military action in order to provide urgent humanitarian assistance to the seriously affected civilian population of the Raga County is an important invitation to the GoS and the International Community to immediately attend to the needs of our people in this disastrous situation that continues to destroy the civilian population, as well as the whole region.

SHRO-Cairo urges the warring parties to come to terms in order to process humanitarian support for the innocent people that is victimized by the acts of war of the warring parties in the area.

Most important, the Government of Sudan must stop air bombing and the other crimes against humanity that government troops and/or the Murahleen militias have been pursuing in the South and the other war-affected regions of the country. These senseless crimes include the enslavement of Southerners, starving them, killing them and destroying the precious establishments that the SPLM installed in the SPLM-governed territories to develop them with meager support from the USA AID, humanitarian organizations, and a few relief agencies.

It is shameful that the same government that drills oil by military action to gain hundreds of millions of the dollars that are only used to increase war and the crimes against humanity versus Southerners, shamelessly extends the same criminal behavior to destroy the South Sudanese efforts to build their homeland even under the GoS senseless attacks.

Government must collaborate with the SPLM/SPLA and the other warring forces to insure humanitarian support to the war-affected civilians as a top national agenda. The United Nations, African States, and the Arab League must take full responsibility for the stoppage of the genocide war in Sudan that is seriously destroying the country.

The unrelenting, irresponsible, and terrorist determination of GoS to escalate civil war is an unprecedented international crime. The most recent pledge of Omer Al-Bashir, head of the ruling regime, to continue the same aggression and acts of genocide in the South testifies beyond any doubt to the terrorist nature, planning, and performance of the existing Government of Sudan.

The International Community and the Untied Nations must not concern themselves only with the important goal of stopping the war in the Middle East and Afghanistan. The civil war of Sudan that thus far suffered the lives of more than 2 million Sudanese is the real holocaust of the two centuries, the former and the present one, that must have equal attention and real effort to replace it with the fair and permanent peace.

The Organization asks the United Nations and the International Community to maximize the pressure on the Government of Sudan as a State Party to the United Nations Conventions and the Geneva Protocols, in particular, that prohibit air bombing as well as all other acts of war, starvation, or tortures against the civilian population, including the continuous oil drilling at expense of the safety and rights of the indigenous population in the oil-producing areas.

It is time to involve all warring parties in a permanent cease-fire as a necessary step to encourage a permanent cease-fire and fair peace negotiations that only will open the path for a democratic settlement of the Sudan political crisis.