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| 00:00-00:22 | How do you think the youth of Darfur feel? Our wives, some of us had children, raped in front of our eyes. Our wives. Our children. And now in the camp we are still not secure. UNAMID is not protecting us. |
| 00:23-00:35 | After six years of war, the displaced communities of Darfur have had enough. A year on from the deployment of UNAMID – the joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force, the suffering continues. |
| 00:36-00:56 | UNAMID Commander, Rwandan Major Commander Kareki Karenzi investigates recent events on the ground. He and his men have been tasked with protecting internally displaced persons, IDPs, in this vast area of Western Sudan. What he finds is alarming. |
| 00:57-01:23 | The IDPs are psychologically tired. They don’t see evolution of UNAMID’s operations. It’s not only here but in UNAMID in general, I think it’s time to bring enough personnel, enough equipment, to enable UNAMID to carry out it’s normal activities. |
| 01:24-01:36 | UNAMID’s peacekeepers are a stones throw from the IDPs they are mandated to protect. Yet the people live in constant fear. Fatabourno IDP camp in North Darfur. |
| 01:36-01:56 | Just a few minutes ago, three men threatened us. They were on camels with guns. They said if we try to collect firewood again tomorrow, they would kill just like a donkey. They are not far from here, just one kilometre. Yesterday children were beaten but UNAMID does nothing. |
| 02:00-02.15 | Last night people with guns came to the house. They threatened us. -Does UNAMID do come to help? -No -Do the people from UNAMID come to stop it? -UNAMID don’t come |
| 02:17-02:27 | The IDPs are becoming radicalised after too many broken promises. Young men, collectively known as the ‘Shebab’ threaten to take matters into their own hands. |
| 02:28-02:36 | The attacks have gone on for so long. If security doesn’t come, the only option is to fight ourselves. We will not wait any longer. |
| 02:37-02:39 | But UNAMID lacks teeth |
| 02:40-03:01 | The [UNAMID] mandate to the best of my knowledge as a member of UN civpol. You cannot shoot at a soldier, you cannot shoot in any fashion, even if they are committing a crime. The best you could do, if possible, is try to arrest them and hand them over to the police. |
| 03:02-03:13 | Lacking a mandate, the international community also leaves UNAMID badly under-resourced whilst the Government of Sudan has blocked essential supplies. |
| 03:13-03:20 | We have nine vehicles but only four have batteries, in the other five there are no batteries. So we don’t know how to work. |
| 03:21-03:26 | Patrols often fail to reach those they are mandated to protect. |
| 03:27-03:46 | For more than two months we have not reached this destination. UNAMID is trying it’s best but we have to change some of the equipment, these are old. There as you can see, it’s not easy. |
| 03:46-03:51 | We’ve been here, in this part, for almost two and a half hours. It happens a lot. All the time there are problems. |
| 03:53-03:56 | For IDPs, this is UNAMID in action. |
| 03:57-04:21 | We don’t have a printer, two CPTs and printer. None of us have a photocopier. Commander Tour and Commander ‘myself’ don’t have Thuraya (satellite) phones. There are no desk phones. -You don’t have Thuraya at all? - Nothing. No communications devices No phones! - Yeah, because you people want to save money, you don’t want to call your families. |
| 04:21—04:28 | We need a real force on the ground, not these people who are now working as UNAMID. How will they protect us? They can’t protect even themselves! |
| 04:29-04:35 | They are firing at our position, where are you over? Where are you? We must stop sleeping now, they are firing this side at our position. They are firing do you copy? |
| 04:35-05:04 | UNAMID have just come under fire from government troops. The sound of mortars can be heard. - Do you have coms with them. Over. - I am calling them. It’s a negative but I am calling them. - It’s a big positive, come back to me if you get them. Over. |
| 05:05-05:15 | The government controls this road and had earlier that day guaranteed safety for this journey. All UNAMID can do is try and call them and ask what is going on? |
| 05:17-05:37 | If they are shooting at us, we will shoot back at them. Yeah, that’s the way it is. - They’re shooting. Get out of that place! - There are people shot on the road. Yeah, there’s people shot on the road. |
| 05:40-05:51 | Forced to flee and retreat, tempers run high. They don’t know exactly what’s happened, where the next UNAMID base it, nor how to get there. |
| 05:51-05:54 | You don’t take a shot without information. What is this sort of information! |
| 05:57-06:07 | A local lorry driver agrees to guide them to the nearest UNAMID base. It’s over four hours away. It’s dark long before they arrive. |
| 06:09-06:27 | I can’t say they were no attacking us. You see, I am just somewhere, I am confused a little bit. But the bottom line is they were shooting in our direction and now you have to turn back. It’s supposed to be a peacekeeping mission! |
| 06:38-0652 | - The enemy has stronger equipment than UNAMID! Again we ask you, what is your plan? - They are not new problems. As time goes on, UNAMID force and police will grow up to 26000. But now we don’t even have up to half of that number. |
| 06:53-07:11 | After more than a year, UNAMID’s appeal for patience wears thin. Frustrations boil over. Displaced communities regularly attack UNAMID. Whilst most violence is attributed to angry youth, for the first time, it is clear that traditional leaders are also turning to violent solutions. |
| 07:12-07:30 | - If you have seen your mother raped and killed, what are you to do? - As there is no one protecting us, some one has to fight to protect you. I would fight if I could. I am happy for the youth to fight, if I could fight I would. I would let my own son fight. |
| 07:30-07:55 | The call to arms of traditional leaders such as this sheik follows a series of Government attacks on IDPs which UNAMID did nothing to prevent. A key turning point cited across Darfur. On 25th August 2008, 8 months after UNAMID’s deployment, the government massacred the civilian population of Kalma camp in South Darfur. These are the graves. 35 dead. |
| 07:56-08:06 | This is the Sheik. Two women are here, and then children and adults over there. The Government of Sudan did this. |
| 08:09-08:15 | Over 90 000 people live in Kalma camp. They have already been through too much. |
| 08:18-08:33 | They shot my daughter that morning. I could only bring tea and pray. I was frightened she would die. I was so scared. |
| 08:33-08:51 | After the attack UNAMID began much awaited night patrols. This is the only protection the people of Kalma have. The previous night Government police opened fire on the patrol, tonight, intimidated, they worry it is going to happen again. |
| 08:51-09:05 | - Because of the shooting yesterday we can’t go on to that place. - Don’t worry about going there, I told you just mention in your report that you didn’t want to go because of the shooting yesterday. (Yes!). That’s the end of it! |
| 09:05-09:10 | UNAMID are running scared, accepting no go areas in the camps. |
| 09:10-09:21 | - Ok, but if we don’t go there today then we won’t go there ever again. Have you called them? Have you called them? - Ok ok, I am going to phone the government police. |
| 09:30-09:47 | UNAMID abandons the patrol. This 12 hour patrol is over in just 2. Kalma is once again left with no protection.
The IDPs in Darfur, with the ‘shebab’ for fighters are a force ready to explode. Their patience has run out.
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| 09:47-10:08 | - We’ve heard about the attacks in other camps - We want security, security, security - UNAMID has come but done nothing. They don’t work so they might as well go back. It would be better if they just left! |
| 10:09-10:15 | The youth have lost patience. They are getting out of control. Now, we leaders will not stop them fighting or joining the rebels. |
| 10:22-10:34 | In Nertiti, West Darfur, a group of angry IDPs attack the UNAMID base. |
| 10:34-10:48 | They came from all directions but in the end all of them were there trying to come through the entrance. And the soldiers had to stop them, they had to block them. It was chaos, they were shouting but of course we didn’t understand what they were saying. |
| 10:51-11:02 | The whole problem started here. A government soldier came past and was shot here. The government found the empty shells here and said they must have been fired from this house here. |
| 11:03-11:23 | After the soldier was shot I met with the commander of the government soldiers. The commander made a promise. He assured me that nothing would happen to the IDPs. As a result of that we went back to the Sheiks and we assured them that nothing would happen to them. |
| 11-18-11:21 | And the next day we were attacked! |
| 11:26-11:42 | I am completely blind but I heard a voice from the Government military shouting ‘enter the houses now’. I was really frightened and got down on the floor, under the bed. A few minutes later I heard my neighbours shouting, get out, get out of there - your house is on fire. |
| 11:45-11:58 | We were in the house when the government soldiers arrived. As soon as we heard the shooting we ran away, they came from this way – but also all directions. I don’t know how many there were, we thought it was our last day on earth. |
| 12:00-12:08 | UNAMID met the government and told us nothing would happen. They are working together with the government! |
| 12:08-12:20 | Two IDPs were killed in the attack and many others wounded. UNAMID was set up by the Government of Sudan - the IDPs erupted in anger. |
| 12:20-12:53 | This is what used to be our CPC centre. We used to come here and work. IDPs would come here and lodge their complaints. They burned it out of anger. We were not in a position to get any form of assistance in any way because we can’t say we need help. We were not able to because we don’t have the communications devices. No desk phones, no thuraya. |
| 12:54-13:05 | Look at UNAMID in this latest incident – at best they just come afterwards and report, just reporting, but the attacks continue. |
| 13:05-13:12 | UNAMID is vulnerable to ever increasing IDP anger as the beneficiaries threaten to become the enemy. |
| 13:12-13:32 | They actually don’t trust us and at the same time it created that element within us of not trusting them at all. If the very people we are here for are not happy with us, you start to ask your self the question. If somebody is not happy about me, are they going to welcome me? |
| 13:34-13:51 | It has never been like this before. We have had a peaceful relationship but when they came that night I personally saw that the attitude towards UNAMID has changed. They now see us as part and parcel of the Government of Sudan. |
| 13:51-14:12 | - The youth of Darfur are angry because our women and children are still not safe. - UNAMID is not protecting us so we must take arms to do so. - Now we know UNAMID is not protecting us we need weapons to do the job. |
| 14:12-14:45 | - Across the whole of Darfur we are many. There’s 10000 shebab like us in Kalma alone. There are over 1500 in this camp able to carry arms. If we rise up we can defend ourselves. - Everyone will go and be rebels. All of us will be rebels. - Do you all feel this way? - Yes, all of us.
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