As a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador to Sudan, Liam Neeson has criticized aid cuts that could have harmed millions of children.
After traveling to South Sudan, Hollywood star Liam Neeson criticized aid cuts. UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Neeson met the mothers of children in the landlocked nation for six days while they were facing starvation.
Nearly half of the children in the war-ravaged nation are currently at risk of dying from malnutrition, according to estimates of 2.3 million. However, 186 nutrition treatment centers have been closed due to funding cuts by wealthy nations, leaving disadvantaged families without essential services.
Neeson expressed his deep sadness over seeing so many undernourished children. When they should be laughing, sleeping when they should be playing, or crying when they should be smiling, they are hauntingly quiet.
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I wonder what will happen to those kids as treatment centers are closing across the nation.
Unicef, which is expecting a 20% drop in funding over the next four years, says currently there are only five social workers for every 100,000 children. The actor, who also met young girls forced into marriage, added: “The world cannot turn its back on children like those I met in South Sudan
“Lifesaving programs for children around the world are threatened by funding cuts.” Either we support them right now or let their future sour.
For the past two and a half years, a brutal civil war has raged in Sudan between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. The conflict has led to more than 150,000 reported deaths while 12 million have been displaced by the savage violence.
In response to rumors that the Rapid Support Forces were systematically eradicating the non-Arab population in the area, US authorities declared genocide earlier this year.
In January of this year, the RSF and allied militias deliberately targeted women and girls from some ethnic groups for rape and other forms of brutal sexual violence, according to former US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.
“Those same militias have targeted evading civilians, murdered innocent people who are escaping conflict, and prevented last-ditch civilians from getting life-saving supplies.”
According to this information, I’ve come to the conclusion that Sudanese RSF and allies have committed genocide.
General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces leader, was later subject to sanctions by the US. Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the head of Sudan’s army and de facto president, received similar sanctions.
Source: Mirror
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