2953 x 2215 px | 25 x 18,8 cm | 9,8 x 7,4 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
1 settembre 2005
Ubicazione:
12 km west of Musbat, northern Darfur, Sudan.
Altre informazioni:
ICRC is an acronym for International Committee of the Red Cross. Camel herders have brought their camels to be vaccinated against Haemorrhagic Septicaemia, a bacterial desease that causes internal bleeding followed by sudden death.In the desert, the rainy season has made it green, perfect grazing land. In Darfur people predominantly rely on their camels as a food source and for their milk, also selling camels to buy cereals. Camels are a sort of cash “capital” bank.With the abundant rain in 2005, they were able to remain in North Darfur (normally they would migrate to the South), although it meant they were concentrated in one area, putting pressure on water and grazing land. The majority of the camels were concentrated in Dar Zaghawa (North Darfur) because the conflict had made it impossible to use migration routes.In the areas under the control of SLA and other groups, camels had not been vaccinated and it was not possible for the herders to benefit from the veterinary services of the government. This was why the ICRC had been asked by the Sudanese government to step in. 300, 000 camels had so far been vaccinated and the ICRC was aiming for a total of 350, 000 and another 150, 000 sheep, goats and cattle. Darfur had been at war since February 2003 when the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) and Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) rebel groups began fighting the government of Sudan, which they accused of oppressing Darfur's non-Arab population. The government responded to attacks by carrying out a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Darfur's non-Arabs. This resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians and the indictment of Sudan's president Omar al-Bashir for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court.
