00:00I got a good drink.
00:03When I come back, I'm a big drink.
00:06No, I don't know.
00:07No.
00:20No, no, no, no.
00:23Long live.
00:24Excellences, distinguished colleagues, Monsieur le Commissaire, la 38e session extraordinaire
00:49du Conseil des droits de l'Homme est maintenant ouverte.
00:51The atrocities that are unfolding in Al-Fasher were foreseen and preventable, but they were
01:03not prevented.
01:06They constitute the gravest of crimes.
01:08On behalf of the Special Counsel of the United Nations for the Prevention of Genocide.
01:13There have been mass killings of civilians, ethnically targeted executions, sexual violence
01:20including gang rape, abductions for ransom, widespread arbitrary detentions, attacks on
01:27health facilities, medical staff and humanitarian workers, and other appalling atrocities.
01:34This is a pattern that we have documented time and again in this conflict.
01:41But our wake-up calls were not heated.
01:44Blood stains on the ground in Al-Fasher have been photographed from space.
01:50The stain on the record of the international community is less visible, but no less damaging.
01:57Thank you for your statement.
01:59I now give the floor to Mr. Surya.
02:01The international community has a clear duty to act.
02:05There has been too much pretense and performance and too little action.
02:10It must stand up against these atrocities, a display of naked cruelty used to subjugate and
02:18control an entire population.
02:21It must take action to prevent continued large-scale human rights violations, often ethnically motivated
02:27in Darfur and beyond.
02:29And it must ensure that civilians from Al-Fasher and the surrounding areas have access to humanitarian
02:34aid and the protection they so desperately need.
02:38The international community needs to take action against the individuals and companies that
02:48are fueling and profiting from this war.
02:52Sudan is caught up in a proxy battle for its natural resources and commodities.
02:58Numerous countries in the region and beyond are involved.
03:03Much of Al-Fasher now is a crime scene.
03:07I must issue another stark warning about surging violence in Kordofan.
03:13All the signs are there – bombardments, blockades, people forced from their homes, a despicable
03:21disregard for civilian lives.
03:24Kordofan must not suffer the same fate as Darfur.
03:29International law must not be shredded before our eyes, and the suffering of the Sudanese people
03:34must end.
03:35Thank you for your statement.
03:43Thank you for your statement.
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