36 What the Sudanese Protesters Wanted
I’ve noticed that a lot of the news stories on the Sudanese protesters have been confused. That’s natural. It’s a confusing situation, and from the dozen or so interviews I’ve had with the refugees, it’s clear that there’s a lot of contradictory information floating around. This whole thing is a mess.
In the spirit of helping journalists, researchers, and interested readers abroad make sense of what led up to this situation, I thought it would be helpful post a copy of the protesters’ requests verbatim, without comment (though I hope readers will comment). A protest leader gave me this in hard-copy in November:
- The Sudanese refugees object the UNHCR programme of compulsory voluntary repatriation.
- We object the local integration.
- We object the unfair crertaria the UNHCR applied on the Sudanese refugees
- We refuse to distinguish between Sudanese refugees according to their ethnic backgrounds and/or geographical zones.
- We refuse the arbitrary detention for Sudanese refugees without guilty
- We request the UNHCR to consider Sudanese refugees status determination as individuals not as a group.
- We request not to apply the four freedom principles between Sudanese government and Egyptian government on Sudanese refugees.
- We request the UNHCR to protect Sudanese refugees from the Sudan national conference personnels.
- We request the UNHCR to register Sudanese asylum seekers on arrival.
- We request the UNHCR to search for the missed Sudanese refugees.
- We request UNHCR to care about vulnerable categories as elders, minors without family members and women at risk.
- We request the UNHCR to re-open the closed files of all Sudanese refugees.
- We request a radical solution for all Sudanese refugees, problems otherwise move them to another country where there is no discrimination.
[tags]Sudan, Egypt, Sudanese Refugees, Human Rights[/tags]
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