It is a war without images, forgotten by all... In Darfur, a region of Sudan as large as France, the population is the victim of a central government-sponsored genocide. In four years, 200,000 people have died and 2.5 million have been displaced. Some have found refuge in France. There are 175 in Arras. Pastor NGAZUBA helps them with the means at hand, but there is no question of creating a Sangatte bis. Commentary on factual images alternating with testimonies of refugees and pastor.
Meeting with Hassan, a 32-year-old Sudanese who was granted refugee status last year. It was a matter of life and death when Hassan fled his country, Sudan, and his region of Darfur, ravaged by civil war. Wounded and separated from his family, Hassan landed alone in France in 2011, he does not speak a word of French. Five years later, he is now a tenant of this small apartment in Amiens after finally getting the precious refugee status, it was on March 5, 2015. Hassan thirsts to learn, he follows courses on the Internet and with associations; and his dreams, he intends to fulfill them, little by little. Hassan sees himself as a survivor, he left his twin brother in Sudan, and a sister, of which he has no news. His younger brother is halfway around the world in Australia. The Internet connects them.
A humanitarian resolution of French origin was adopted in committee of the UN General Assembly, recognizing the importance of humanitarian action in Sudan. On the spot, plans of children coughing, group of rickety people, child still on the ground covered with a blanket, children famished. Interview with Bernaud KOUCHNER (State Secretary for Humanitarian Action): "there will be international pressure, a right." Interview with Rony BRAUMAN (Doctors Without Borders): "there will be enormous mistrust". Images of a humanitarian aid convoy.
Interview with Ushari AHMAD MAHMUD, author of a report on the violation of human rights, which explains the strategy of the Sudanese government. He recruited armed Arab militias: the Misseriya and the Rizeigat. Supposed to help the government in the fight against guerrilla warfare, they actually have as their main mission to make slaves among the Dinka.
It took two years of negotiations with Khartoum government forces and Colonel John GARANG’s SPLA for the ICRC to intervene in the war zone in southern Sudan. International aid is coming from all over the airport and the trucks are loaded. The victims are already waiting in the squares and are kept at a distance by white-collar policemen. After many discussions with the various representatives of local authorities, heads of districts, police officers, etc the distribution begins. However, a part of the population has no cover and some trucks are still full: an ICRC delegate explains that the established list of people in need has been respected and people are warming up. The trucks of blankets and organizations leave under the boos of the crowd. Since January 1989, an air bridge has been set up to the south of Sudan. A plane is coming. The Dinkas are helping empty the cargo.