Forget about DARFUR!!

Darfur refugees forgotten in Chad Absent the issue of Sudan's Darfur region for the world's attention since 2010, but since then compounded the suffering of the Sudanese refugees at home and abroad after that deprived them "strangers" in their homes, security and stability. Chad does not intend Abdullah Juma Abu Bakr, to return to his country after ten years on the fleeing violence in the Darfur region of Sudan. After it left the town of El Geneina in West Darfur in 2002, Abdullah spent the first two years in a camp on the border in Sudan before moving to a "mountain", a refugee camp in Goz Beida region of eastern Chad. He said Abu Bakr, the leader of the refugees in the camp: "What I saw when we left, the killing of people and burning of mosques, makes me I can not imagine final return. Know that others will come back, but I can not go back. Still have some of my family members in Darfur, but I Not sure I would be safe if I went back. " And frequented many of the refugees in the camp - totaling 18 thousand mostly from Darfur - also about to return to their homes. The, Aminata temptation, represented by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Chad said that "Darfur refugees have placed several conditions to return, especially security and restoration of property, land and other things." The lure: "We are working on a tripartite mechanism in regard to the possibility of repatriation, but as long as the situation is not good, they will not come back. Actually, we hope to facilitate the return of some refugees in 2013 and in particular those belonging to the Masalit." The Masalit non-Arab ethnic group found in parts of Chad and Sudan. It also followed the lure: "We always hope in the back because this is the first permanent solution in front of us. Second solution is resettlement, but always opposed because of political considerations." Said Jerome Tubiana, a researcher independent, said that since the year 2009 and with the improvement in relations between Sudan and Chad, turning the conflict from West Darfur to the east, which has led to the emergence of some pockets stable in West Darfur, adding that "some returns, whether for internally displaced people or refugees have occurred in those enclaves, but this return was often on a temporary basis because security is still unstable. " It is estimated that there are about 1.7 million internally displaced people in Darfur at the moment of those registered in the camps, while the eastern Chad hosts an estimated 264 thousand Sudanese refugees. He said Saudi Hassan, head of the Office of the National Committee in Goz Beida to deal with displaced persons and refugees, some refugees go to their home every week and then return again, adding that "they have information that about 95 percent of them do not want to return. They say that unidentified persons occupying their land and that there is a lack of infrastructure in their original homes compared to the refugee camps. There are still some sites for internally displaced people in Darfur, but they are wondering "How can we go if our home?" And Darfur disappeared from the international agenda since 2010, according to a report of the survey of small arms which was released in July "" entitled: "Darfur forgotten: the old tactics and new players." The report said that "although it is clear that many parts of Darfur has become blessed peace largest since 2009 - especially after turning the conflict in the east, away from the West Darfur and the Sudanese border - Chad, but the late 2010 and the first half of 2011 witnessed a major attack of by the Sudanese armed forces and the militias. " The report stated that the attack was supported by air strikes and aerial bombardments targeted rebel groups and the civilian population belonging to the Zaghawa in most parts of eastern Darfur. The report said that Darfur has seen the first major battle between 2003 and 2005 with do militias Abbala "camel herders" the Arab-dominated attacking non-Arab groups accused of supporting anti-government insurgency there. But "new war" in eastern Darfur, which erupted in late 2010 and early 2011 incited groups non-Arab against groups other non-Arab, especially since government-backed militias are derived from small groups of non-Arabs marginalized in the past - including the groups البرقد and Alberti and Tunjur - who have been deployed against groups and communities Zaghawa rebel. And Abu Bakr said that Darfur refugees increasingly feel that they are forgotten in the Djabal camp in eastern Chad, adding that "when we attended the camp in the beginning and the second year there was a lot of care with us. Now we do not welcome any visitors and it seems like no one cares. Before that organizations attended and they start to run schools and then we were told then that we manage primary schools and now a middle school in the camp. He also added that "when we attended was all vulnerable refugees. For non-food support, they select the most vulnerable and, for the rest of us having and Daúv". The Sudanese refugee children face other risks as well. Said the lure, represented by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said that "the Sudanese refugee children have no access to birth certificates while the children of the Central African Republic are getting it," adding that "these children did not choose to be born in that country." It also stated that the failure to obtain a birth certificate means that children may not be able to provide exams - and when they return to their home country may not also identify them there. The announcement will be issued with birth children of Sudanese refugees, a document is not recognized, but there are efforts underway to support the right of these children to get birth certificates, according to the National Commission for dealing with internally displaced persons and refugees. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) access to traditional justice is a problem for refugees because of cultural considerations. For example there among the refugees issue of the payment of "blood money", a fine imposed when violence leads to death. If someone could not pay blood money, kill him with his family. The complicated efforts to enter the mobile courts because of the difficult living conditions in the refugee areas where lawyers refuse and state employees work in those areas. The threats against the staff had left many of the outstanding issues. The crisis did not coast food is also continuing with the exception of refugees. Depends refugees mainly in parts of eastern Chad on humanitarian aid, which is a full ration of 2,100 calories, the World Food Programme (WFP) through the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) without opportunities for agriculture. On the other hand, the refugees in the south have access to land to cultivate and get at the same time on half rations. Said Prosper Capi Debedeba, official public health in the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Chad, said that "this has been reflected on the nutrition situation the current refugee where increased rates of acute malnutrition global camps eastern regions than in southern camps except camp Doce." At the same time, look at the refugees in eastern Chad, as in other areas, they are better off than the host communities in remote regions where there are camps. Hassan said of the National Committee to deal with internally displaced persons and refugees, "If you compare between refugees and host communities and IDPs, refugees are better off than the rest of the group, and they in fact are not the most affected by food insecurity in the region." The lure of that there has been a significant reduction in resources United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) allocated to Chad this year it is possible to increase the reduction in resources in 2013, adding that "when it was developing a plan to respond to the crisis coast, were not include refugees because they said that the United Nations High Commissioner High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) there. there a need for a coordinated response to the crisis, no refugees should be excluded from any response.