UN Official: It is time for Parties to Conflict in Sudan to Silence Guns

Sudan Events – Agencies

UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths has said the survival of millions of children, women and men in Sudan is at risk, and called on the international community to “assume its responsibility” a year after a massive war broke out in Africa’s third-largest country.
In an article in Le Monde newspaper, Griffiths stated that the international community should not ignore the painful echo of the Darfur war, and expressed his regret at what happened, even though the consequences of this forgetfulness are unforgivable, because it encouraged the parties to the conflict to flout the basic rules of war. He added, “We saw people were shot while trying to escape, children were killed, women were raped, and hospitals were targeted.”
He said that those with influence on the parties to the conflict must force them to respect the declaration of commitments they signed 11 months ago in Jeddah, when the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces committed to protecting civilians and facilitating the delivery of aid, but they failed in that mission.
He stressed that it is time for the parties to the conflict and those who support them to face reality, as they are making Sudan unfit to live, which means that they must silence the guns now. He continued, “Because after a year of war, there must be a light at the end of the tunnel of darkness and death, after… Millions of people in Sudan have lost their homes, livelihoods and loved ones.”