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STORY: UN / KADUGLI HUMAN RIGHTS
TRT: 2:22
SOURCE: UNTV
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LANGAUGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 5 AUGUST 2011, UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
RECENT - UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN headquarters
5 AUGUST 2011, UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, beginning of press conference
3. Cutaway, press
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Reverend Andudu Adam Elnail, Anglican Bishop of Kadugli, Sudan:
“If you are dead with the bombs, next year you’ll die from the famine because the Government of Sudan is not allowing the humanitarian to go and give aid food and medicine to the people on the ground. And there is a lot of killing going on and we consider this as ethnic cleansing. And that’s why we are calling on the UN Security Council to consider what is going on in Sudan.”
5. Cutaway, press
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Peggy Hicks, Global Advocacy Director, Human Rights Watch:
“It’s as is a fox was blocking access to the hen house and everyone said we have no choice but to accept the fox’s word that everything is fine inside and the hens are doing just very well. If the Security Council members want more information, it’s their responsibility to make sure there are monitors who have access to southern Kordofan in order to gather it.”
7. Cutaway, press
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Jonathan Hutson, Director of Communications, Enough Project:
“So this is not a war of Muslim versus Christian, this is not a war of Arab versus black, it’s not a war of Sudan versus South Sudan. This is a state-sponsored ethnic cleansing campaign. The Government of Sudan is killing its own people through a campaign of artillery shelling, aerial bombardment and house to house killings. There is evidence from eye-witnesses, satellite imagery, UN remarks and a leaked UN draft report of mass killings and even mass graves.”
9. Cutaway, press
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Peggy Hicks, Global Advocacy Director, Human Rights Watch:
“We want the UN Security Council to mandate immediately an assessment mission by the Office for High Commissioner for Human Rights and demand access from Sudan for that mission. And that means not just put that on paper but for members of the Security Council to get behind that and push Khartoum to allow it to happen and that’s one step. And we believe that of course alone won’t be sufficient and that there does need to be an international presence on the ground of some sort.”
11. Cutaway, press
Anglican Bishop Andudu Adam Elnail of Kadugli in Sudan’s South Kordofan state said that the United Nations (UN) Security Council needs to protect the people of Nuba Mountains adding “there is a lot of killing going on and we consider this as ethnic cleansing.”
Briefing the press today (5 Aug) at UN headquarters, Bishop Andudu added “that’s why we are calling on the UN Security Council to consider what is going on in Sudan.”
The Bishop is here in New York to meet with Security Council members ahead of next week’s meeting on Sudan. Over the past two months, indiscriminate aerial bombardments by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) in South Kordofan have reportedly left many civilians dead and forced thousands to flee to the Nuba Mountains to seek safety in the caves.
Among some of the witnesses to these atrocities Bishop Andudu said, were his congregation. According to the UN, the situation in the area has remained unpredictable with heavy bombardment continuing in and around the main town, Kadugli, forcing tens of thousands to flee.
Human Rights Watch’s Peggy Hicks said “if the Security Council members want more information, it’s their responsibility to make sure there are monitors who have access to Southern Kordofan in order to gather it.”
She compared the UN’s inaction on the situation to a fox blocking access to the hen house saying that “we have no choice but to accept the fox’s word that everything is fine inside and the hens are doing just very well.”
Last month, UN human rights experts have expressed alarm over reports of mass killings in the Southern Kordofan appealed for an immediate cessation of the violence and called for an urgent investigation.
Jonathan Hutson from the Enough Project called the violence “a state-sponsored ethnic cleansing campaign” quoting “evidence from eye-witnesses, satellite imagery, UN remarks and a leaked UN draft report of mass killings and even mass graves.”
Ivan Šimonovic, Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, said the UN has received “very disturbing” reports recently from Southern Kordofan that include indiscriminate aerial attacks, shelling, abductions, extrajudicial killings and mass graves in fighting between Government forces and members of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA).
Recent media reports said that as many as 100 civilians are buried in mass graves.
Peggy Hick called on the UN Security Council “to mandate immediately an assessment mission by the Office for High Commissioner for Human Rights and demand access from Sudan for that mission.”
She added “there does need to be an international presence on the ground of some sort.”
Bishop Andudu testified Thursday at an emergency meeting before the United States (US) Congress. The Bishop said he will not return to Kadugli because his life is in danger.
Southern Kordofan lies in Sudan but borders the newly independent South Sudan. According to the UN human rights office (OHCHR), the Nubans have reportedly faced exclusion, marginalization and discriminatory practices that have resulted in their opposition to the Sudanese Government and their support for the SPLA.
