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"Mr President, I would like to say at the very outset that everything I saw in Darfur confirmed the view that what we are seeing there is a genocide. The evidence and the testimonies that we took from the people we spoke to all referred to collaboration between the Janjaweed and the Government of Sudan.
What the people talked about was coordinated violence against them. It was not random violence, it was coordinated by the Janjaweed with the assistance and collusion of the Government of Sudan. We heard of decapitation, burning, brutality, terror and awful suffering from the people that we spoke to. It was only in 1994, when I was in Rwanda, that I ever saw the degree of terror in people's eyes that I saw in those camps in Darfur and in Chad.
We need to see an effective global arms embargo, an international commission of inquiry; we need targeted sanctions against those, both in government and business, who have been connected with these atrocities and I believe that there should be an oil embargo. 320 000 barrels of oil are produced each day but the benefits of those barrels of oil never reach the people of Sudan.
To both the Commission and the Council I would say that in Al Fasha the African Union expressed no enthusiasm for an increased protection force. They had little coordination with the United Nations or discussion on the plan of action. They called for more monitors and for an international policing and human rights monitoring force. They said they were not able to deal with the current challenges they faced, never mind having to deal with a substantially increased force. They were very clear and very adamant on that.
To both the Commission and Council I would also say that the plan of action agreed by the UN is leading to the Government of Sudan now deploying forces towards the safe areas, into the rebel areas, and causing immense instability and difficulty. They are contravening the no-fly zone. When we landed in Al Fasha, an attack helicopter was hovering overhead. On our visit to one village, we saw the rockets that had been fired at the people, destroying the village and sending the people scattering into the bush.
We want to hear no more of 'never again' from anyone in the international community. We have to challenge the Government of Sudan and stop its relentless Orwellian denial of what is happening in its country. The pattern of violence must stop."@en1
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