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UNGS on
Sudan
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On July 15,
2008 UN SG
Ban Ki-moon
urged Sudan
to
co-operate
with the UN
and ensure
the security
of
peacekeepers
and
humanitarian
workers in
Darfur.
·
International
Criminal
Court has
accused
Sudanese
President
Omar al-Bashir
of genocide.
ACCUSATIONS
AGAINST
BASHIR
·
Genocide:
Killing
members of
the
Fur, Masalit
and Zaghawa
ethnic
groups
Mission
IAS’2009
·
Thousands of
Sudanese
took to the
streets of
Khartoum to
rally in
support of
their
president.
·
He denies
the charge,
and Sudan
says it will
seek to
block the
work of the
ICC.
·
Bashir, who
says the
accusations
are lies, is
accused of
genocide,
crimes
against
humanity and
war crimes
in Darfur.
·
The UN is
withdrawing
about 200
non-essential
staff from
the joint
UN-African
Union Darfur
mission,
Unamid,
describing
it as a
precautionary
move after
the genocide
accusation
and recent
violence.
·
Ban says "At
the same
time, there
are 16,000
international
humanitarian
workers who
are
supporting
more than 4
million
refugees and
internally
displaced
people.
·
Some 300,000
people have
died as a
result of
the conflict
in Darfur
since 2003,
while more
than two
million
people have
fled their
homes,
Sudan's
government
denies
mobilising
Arab
Janjaweed
militias to
attack black
African
civilians in
Darfur since
rebels took
up arms in
2003.
·
The Sudanese
government
had reported
that after
an attack on
Khartoum in
May by the
rebel
Justice and
Equality
Movement (Jem),
some of
those it
captured
were child
soldiers.
Ban Ki-moon,
the eight
Secretary-General
of the
United
Nations,
took office
on 1 January
2007. His
predecessors
were:
·
Kofi
A. Annan
(Ghana), who
held office
from January
1997 to
December
2006;
·
Boutros
Boutros-Ghali
(Egypt), who
held office
from January
1992 to
December
1996;
·
Javier Pérez
de Cuéllar
(Peru), who
served from
January 1982
to December
1991;
·
Kurt
Waldheim
(Austria),
who held
office from
January 1972
to December
1981;
·
U
Thant
(Burma, now
Myanmar),
who served
from
November
1961, when
he was
appointed
acting
Secretary-General
(he was
formally
appointed
Secretary-General
in November
1962) to
December
1971;
·
Dag
Hammarskjöld
(Sweden),
who served
from April
1953 until
his death in
a plane
crash in
Africa in
September
1961; and
·
Trygve Lie
(Norway),
who held
office from
February
1946 to his
resignation
in November
1952.
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