50th Anniversary of the First International Congress of Black Writers and Artists MOTION ON THE DARFUR CRISIS Presented by Professor Wole Soyinka, President of the Communauté Africaine de culture

We deplore and condemn in the strongest terms the conduct of the Janjaweed units of sectarian terrorism against the African indigenes of Darfur and demand international intervention through the authority of the United Nations without delay.

We welcome the decision of the Africa Union to extend the mandate of its peace-keeping forces to the end of the year and urge the international community to support those forces by all means necessary, including a deployment of U.N. peacekeeping forces, since from all evidence, the Sudanese Government has demonstrated that it lacks the will or means, or both, to control the genocidal activities of the Janjaweed marauders.

We demand an end to the greatest international refugee crisis that the world has ever known, an end that will be meaningful only when the refugees are returned to their legitimate homes and placed under the protection of international forces until they are empowered to protect themselves, and peace is firmly established in the Sudan.

We demand an international commission of enquiry into strong allegations of complicity by the Sudanese Government in the activities of the Janjaweed. In the meantime, we call on the international organisations and governments to take strong action and sanctions including expulsion, against the Sudanese Government until it agrees to abide by the UN resolutions on Darfur and cease to place obstacles in the way of United Nations presence in Darfur.

Passed in Paris Friday 22nd September 2006