Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Alan Meale (Labour), on Tuesday, 15 June 2004, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 111 members in total.

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SUDAN

That this House is alarmed to learn that Sudan, the largest country in Africa, already badly affected by over two decades of civil unrest which has caused the deaths of at least two million of its people by fighting, or as a direct result of war-induced famine, should yet again be subjected to recent escalating levels of violence because of a complex web of conflicts involving rebel forces, the Sudanese Government and government-backed militias, which have, since February 2003, left an estimated 30,000 dead, 1.2 million people internally displaced and a further 120,000 more having to flee for their lives across the border into Chad; and calls upon Her Majesty's Government urgently to work with all the UK's international partners to take whatever steps necessary to end the misery, loss and despair felt by the vast majority of innocent Sudanese citizens.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

1351 

Session

2003-04

Other sponsors

Jimmy Wray

Syd Rapson

Bill Etherington

Rudi Vis

Subjects

Civilians Sudan

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk