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| October 1, 2009 |
No place is safe for Darfur's refugees
The new Amnesty International report detailed something we all knew is happening, and which echoes the excellent report by Physicians for Human Rights. Women and girls who fled violence in Sudan's Darfur region are being regularly raped in the refugee camps in neighboring Chad, despite the presence of U.N.trained forces. The agency has called for increased protection of civilians in the country, an end to a prevailing culture of impunity, and sufficient funds for a fully operational United Nations mission.250,000 refugees fled Darfur seeking safety in camps across eastern Chad. But conditions inside the camps are deplorable and for the refugees, who are mainly women and children, there is no safety.