This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Adrian Edwards - to whom quoted text may be attributed - at the press briefing, on 4 May 2012, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
Pressure is mounting on Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, with more than 19,000 people seeking shelter in nearby areas since Sunday to escape fighting between government forces and renegade troops. As of last night, 4,100 people had carried on past Goma, capital of North Kivu province, and sought shelter in nearby Rwanda, where we are providing basic aid.
UNHCR field staff say people are still coming to Goma and its environs from their homes in the Masisi and Walikale areas, but the flow has eased a bit. UNHCR staff have registered 10,300 people at a spontaneous site 25 kilometres from Goma and 9,000 in Mugunga III, one of 31 UNHCR-run settlements for internally displaced people in North Kivu.
Hundreds are sleeping in a school and church at the spontaneous site, while about 1,000 people are heading to South Kivu. We are working with our partners to provide assistance, including shelter and other non-food items. Our protection staff are in the field monitoring needs and identifying the most vulnerable internally displaced people (IDPs).
The latest figures add to the already massive displacement numbers recorded in North Kivu and neighbouring South Kivu so far this year. Conflict in the first quarter of the year is estimated to have displaced around 300,000 people, according to figures compiled by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) with input provided by UNHCR and other organizations. With the latest figures, more than 2 million people are now uprooted countrywide, including 1.4 million people in the two Kivus.
Most of the displaced are in South Kivu where, in the first three months of this year, 220,000 people have fled continuing clashes between the rebel Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) and the Mai Mai militia. Displacement has also been seen from joint military action by UN peacekeepers and the Congolese armed forces, although this operation has now been suspended.
In North Kivu, fighting between government forces and soldiers loyal to former rebel commander Bosco Ntaganda intensified in April. An estimated 58,000 were newly displaced in the province between January and March. We are particularly concerned for some 38,000 displaced people in the areas of Masisi and Walikale. UNHCR is unable to access these people because of the insecurity. Many are in IDP settlements located in areas now under the influence of rebel or militia groups. They include the Mpati site, where there were more than 9,000 people, as well as Nyange (1,305 people) and Kivuye (2,717 people).
UNHCR is appealing to all sides to urgently allow humanitarian access to these vulnerable groups and to respect their rights, including the rights to safety, medical help and freedom of movement. We also stress how important it is to maintain the civilian character of the camps and we urge the provincial authorities to increase security in and around the camps where possible.
Meanwhile, our office in Rwanda reports an average of 1,000 people a day have been crossing into Rwanda at the Goma-Gisenyi border point since the weekend. Most are women, children and the elderly coming from Masisi and Walikale, via Goma. The new arrivals are being transferred to a transit centre inside Rwanda and receiving humanitarian assistance.
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THIS IS A COMMON REASON TO DISPOSE OF ANY ALLIAGAINCE TO THE ICC THIS A DESTRUCTIVE VENUE USED BYT EH WEST TO COME INTO AFRICA TO LOOK AFETR THEIR MILITARY AND AMBITIOUS HEGEMONIC CONCERNS. THIS IS WHY I SAY TO AFRICANS WE MUST EDUCATE ALL OUR PEOPLE. THESE PEOPLE ARE STARTING CONFLICTS ALL OVER THE PLANET ,FOR THEIR OWN GREEDY AND SELLFISH INETERST. THEY ARE NOT NOT TO HELP YOULEARN OR BUILD. AS A MATTER OF FACT THE MORE IGNORANT AND ILLITERATE THE PEOPLE THE BETTER FRO THEM THEY WILL INFALET AREAS THAT ARE RURAL WHERE THEY WILL HAVE MILITIAS GUNNING DOWN PEOPLE WHERE WE WILL HAVE MASS MOVEMNTS OF PEOPLE ,THERE WILL BE RAPES LOOTING AND THE REST OF THE ANARCHY THAT IS THE RESIDUAL OF WESTERN AMBITIONS TO CONT6ROL OUR RESOURCES. THEY STAGE ALL THESE REBELLIONS THEY GIVE ARMS FREELY TO GIVE POWER TO THOSE WHO ARE OF NO HOPE ,THEY SEE CORRUTPION ALL AROUND
"" THIS IS A COMMON REASON TO DISPOSE OF ANY ALLIAGAINCE TO THE ICC' THIS A DESTRUCTIVE VENUE" USED BY THE WEST TO COME INTO AFRICA TO LOOK AFTER THEIR MILITARY AND AMBITIOUS HEGEMONIC CONCERNS. THIS IS WHY I SAY TO AFRICANS WE MUST EDUCATE ALL OUR PEOPLE. THESE PEOPLE ARE STARTING CONFLICTS ALL OVER THE PLANET ESPECIALLY IN AFRICA,FOR THEIR OWN GREEDY AND SELLFISH INETERST. THEY ARE NOT NOT HERE TO HELP YOU LEARN OR BUILD. AS A MATTER OF FACT THE MORE IGNORANT AND ILLITERATE THE PEOPLE THE BETTER FOR THEM THEY WILL INFILTRATE AREAS THAT ARE RURAL WHERE THEY WILL HAVE MILITIAS GUNNING DOWN PEOPLE WHERE WE WILL HAVE MASS MOVEMENTS OF PEOPLE ,THERE WILL BE RAPES LOOTING AND THE REST OF THE ANARCHY THAT IS THE RESIDUAL OF WESTERN AMBITIONS TO CONT6ROL OUR RESOURCES. THEY STAGE ALL THESE REBELLIONS THEY GIVE ARMS FREELY TO GIVE POWER TO THOSE WHO ARE OF NO HOPE ,THEY SEE CORRUTPION ALL AROUND SO THEY BECOME ENTHRALLED WITH CARRYING GUNS SHOOTING PEOPLE. SO WE WILL AGAIN SEE CROPS GOING UNATTENDED AND THERE WILL BE FORCED LABOUR FOR DIAMONDS GOLD ETC SO THEY CAN MAINATIN THEIR GRIP ON WEAPONS AND MUNITIONS. THESE PLOTS KEEP HAPPENING TO THE SAME COUNTRIES AND THEY GET NO WIZER. IF THE PEOPLE HAS A TRUE ELECTORATE THERE WOULD BE MORE ACHIEVEMENT ;"AS WE STAND NOW WITH THE CORRUPTION AND THE FOOLISH NOTION THAT THE ICC HAS POWER IN AFRICA ". WE HAVE THOSE WHO DO NOT GOVERN BY CONCERN ; CONCERNS OF THE PEOPLE AND "THE CONCERNS OF THE AFRICAN UNION TO WIT" ; THEY SAY THERY ARE MEMBERS. WE HAVE STATED CONTINUALY THAT THE ICC IS NOT REPREWSENTATIVE OF AFRICAN IDEALS. EUROPE JUST CANT COME INTO AFRICA MAKING LAWS AND TALKING ABOUT SIGNATORIES WHAT SIGNATORIES ? WHOM SOEVER SIGNED THSE LAWS DID NOT DISCUSSS THIS WITH THE PEOPLE OF THEIR RESPECTED STATES.SO WE CAN NOT RECOGNISE IT IN ANY FORM. WHEN THE WORLD BODY OF NATIONS ARE BOUND BY ITS LAWS THEN IT WOULD BECOME BINDING . THERE ARE NOT ANY SPECIAL PEOPLE ON THIS PALNET OVER ANOTHER. EITHER WE ARE ALL EUQAL OR WE ARE ALL AT WAR?IF EVERY ONE WENT TO WAR AS THEY WANT TO SEE ON THE PLANET THEY WOULD BE DEFINITLEY OUT OF POCKET SO EITHETR THEY ARE GONNA RESPECT THE RIGHSTS OF ALL HUMANITY. THE PROSPECT OF CHILDREN WOMEN BEING RPED CHILDREN BEING FORCED INTO SEX AND CARRYING GUNS ALARMS ME. IT DOESNT SEEM TO AFFECT THE REST OF MY BROTHERS AN DSISTERS AS MUCH W SEE ONE LEADER CALLING FOR DISUNITY IN THE AFRICAN UNION BECAUSE SHE WANTS A WELFARE CHECK .., THEN WE SEE ANOTHER WHO COULD NOT CARE LESS ABOUT THE DEATHS OF THE MANY INNOCENT , HE DOES NOT CARE ABOUT THE YOUNG WOMEN WHO WILL FOREVER BE SCARRED BY SEXUAL TORMENT WHAT KIND OF ICC IS THIS?ONE THAT FORCES PEOPLE TO UNDERMINE THEIR STANDING UNITY WHERE THEY HAVE COME TO FORGIVE AS WE ALSO LIKE FORGIVENESS BUT MOST OF ALL PEACE. THE CONGO WAS IN PEACE EVEN THOUGH THE ELECTIONS WERE RIGGED BY THE WEST SO THEY COULD MANITIAN THEIR MAN IN THE POWER. NOW HE HAS TO PAY THEM FOR THIS POWER SO HE DISTABILISES THE WHOLE COUNTRY SUBJECTINGT MANY TO RAPES TORTURE LIMBS CHOPPED SLAVERY AND TRAUMA ; SOMETHING THAT NO WHITES EVER SEEM TO HAVE TO FACE. IN OUR GENERATION THE PAST TWO THOUSAND YEARS AFRICA HAS BEEN AT WAR CONSTANT WAR. NOW IN THE PAST ONE THOUSAND YEARS WE HAVE BEEN GRADUALLY SENT TO WAR AGAINST ORUSLVES W WE HAVE BEEN THE TOOL USED BY EUROPE BY WESTREN GOVERNMNETS TO MURDER RAPE SODMISE AND DEPOPULATE OUR NATIONS. THEY SUBJECT US TO BE EACH OTHERS ENEMY IF WE WANT TO EAT OUR OWN FOOD. LOOK, OPEN YOUR EYES !!!THIS IS WHAT THE ICC IS ALL ABOUT""""" THEY HAVE NO HUMAN INETEREST AT HEART. THEY WANT OUR SOVEREIGN POWER IN AFRICA . THEY WANT TO TAKE OUR SOVEREIGNTY AWAY THEY WANT UNDERMINE UR UNITY THEY WANT US BE LEGALLY RESPONSIBLE TO EUROPE.THESE SIGNATOTRIES ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE MENTALLY ENSLAVED WHO KNOW NOT THEIR HISTORY AND WERE BOUGHT OUT BY WHITES WHO INSTILLED THEIR PROPOGANDA INTO THEIR EARS ALLOWING FOR THEM TO CHOOSE THE DIRECT DICTATIVE JUDICIARY SUPERSEDING AFRICAN GOVERNMENTS AND OVER ALL AUTHORITY OF COMMON LAW IN AFRICA. THIS IS ABSOLOUTE FOOLISHNESS ONLY A DUNCE AND A RETATRD WOULD UNDERMINE HIS OR HER COUBNTRIES SOVEREIGNTY FOR SOME ABJECT LAWS THAT WERE NOT RATIFIED IN ANY HOUSES OF LEGISLATION ON THE CONTINENT. NOR WAS IT RATIFIED IN TO INTERNATIONAL LAW SO HOW COULD THIS BE IN ANY WAY REPREENTATIVE OF COMMON LAWS IN AFRICA NO WAY AND NO WHERE!!!!THE PEOPLE WOULD HAVE TO BE THE INTIATORS OF SUCH PRACTICES. AFRICA !!!! DO NOT GET IT TWISTED WE ARE SEEING TOOO MANY CRACKS AND NOW WE ARE SEEING THE DEPLOYMENT OF U.S TROOPS IN AFRICA. WE ARE BEING SUCKED INTO KONYISM AND NOW WE HAVE THE GENERAL SO WHAT IS NEXT UNLESS WE STOP THE INFILTRATION OF THESE ENSLAVRS. "UNITED WE STAND DIVIDED WE FALL"