RMCE issues its first report to the international community. RMCE's membership, a group of Sudanese students in Egypt, were receiving reports from Darfur alerting them to the human rights abuses people were suffering there. They believed that this situation could become more dangerous for the people very quickly so they wrote a statement and distributed it to the different embassies in Cairo. This statement was then distributed by embassy officials throughout the world. It was published in the UN general assembly publication and was quoted by Kofi Annan in some of his speeches at the UN.
It was then that RMCE was contacted by Jemera Rone from Human Rights Watch, who began working with the organization, addressing and highlighting the issue of Western Sudan. RMCE's members were introduced, through Rone, to Dr. Leonardo Franco, special repertoire for Human Rights Watch to the Sudan, began to send reports directly to him.
RMCE met with the Sudanese Federal Alliance Party Chairman-Cairo, the African Studies office at American University Cairo Egypt, and with the special representative of Dr, Garang Demebior, Chairman of SPLM/A in Cairo. Members of RMCE also participated in a conference at the Umma Party office.
RMCE sponsored most of the refugees who came to America, Australia and Europe from Darfur through the UNHCR. They met with representatives from the office of the UNHCR throughout this time reporting on what was happening in West Sudan. |