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"Mr President, I was a member of a fact-finding mission of the European Parliament to Darfur. My conclusions are as follows: the security situation there is alarming; the political situation has not changed; the Sudanese Government is not willing to take any steps beyond those forced upon it by international political will; the humanitarian situation has improved only slightly.
I am very sorry to state here that only a very short time after 9/11 we have tens of thousands of very poor people living in camps. There is no future for them, nor any way back. Fifty per cent of the population in the camps is under 15 years of age, so we are creating a new generation of deprived people who can only take up Kalashnikovs and become new fundamentalists and new extremists. We have to be very precise in the measures that we take to ensure our individual and common security.
What are the points to be discussed? The first is the ethnic context. We have seen that there are no Arabs in the camps. Ninety per cent of those to whom we have spoken do not have Arabic as their mother tongue. In Arabic they are called ‘Suda’, the black population. There is massive sexual violence. One sheikh told us that they have to send women out of the camps for food and water because they at least come back, whereas if they send men, they are killed. There is mass killing and a mass expulsion of the population from its camps. This should be stopped immediately. The situation is even more alarming in security terms than in humanitarian terms.
With regard to humanitarian aid, it reaches up to 60% of IDPs in the camps. The situation has improved because the Sudanese Government allows NGOs and certain humanitarian organisations to reach the territories under its control."@en1
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