• • • • • A sense of fear pervades the camps and residents remain skeptical of strangers. When asked to explain that, the IDPs gave the following reasons for their fear: o They suspect presence of authorities’ spies in the camps and they feel that they are under constant surveillance. o They were instructed to deny their displacement but rather to mention that they are settling in new villages or nomadic settlements. o They were threatened with expulsion and that they will be treated as rebels should they disobey those orders. A big number of IDPs kept displacing from place to other, e.g. those who had settled in Al-Abbasiya/Tagali and Wakara had left it to other areas such as Al Mashaggah, Mabsut and Um Marreh Camps. That was due to the harassment by the government authorities, as well as disallowance to form displacement camps and the inability to rent house in the town. Hence kept in continually moving. Mobile phones are used with caution due to fear of being monitored. Environment health is badly deteriorated (there is no clean water, toilets, etc.). All houses (huts) are made of the availed local materials while plastic sheets are used by very few. Appeal We hereby appeal to all, the International Community, Human Rights Organizations, international solidarity organization, Other International Decision Making Centers and to all those who stand by human rights and legality to exert utmost efforts to end this predicament through: 1. Immediate unconditional access should be given to humanitarian agencies to deliver humanitarian aid to these affected people and to lift all restrictions on humanitarian access. 2. Exert a maximum pressure and act urgently to force the Sudanese Government to stop repression and human rights violation against IDPs. 3. Protect IDPs from further attacks. 4. Immediate release of all IDPs’ detainees and all other arbitrary detainees and abductees. 5. Exerting more pressure on the NCP regime to halt the aerial bombings. 6. The perpetrators who committed crimes against humanity should be brought to court to face justice. HUDO 25th of February 2013