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Sudan refugees: Returning home

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Subido el 26 de junio de 2007 por EducaMadrid

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There are an estimated twenty-five million displaced persons around the world. But the family you’re about to meet is beginning their long journey home to southern Sudan. After years of civil war, is it possible their home will still be there? Or will their hopes be shattered?

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There are an estimated 25 million displaced persons around the world. 00:00:00
The family you're about to meet is beginning their long journey home to southern Sudan. 00:00:06
After years of civil war, is it possible their home will still be there? 00:00:12
Or will their hopes be shattered? Here's their story. 00:00:18
In this refugee camp in Sudan, many harbour dreams of returning to the villages of their childhood. 00:00:23
It's better. That's my village. I will go there even if it's bad. 00:00:30
Jackson Daw was only 10 years old when civil war forced his family to flee their home in southern Sudan. 00:00:35
They, like millions of others, became outcasts in their own country. 00:00:42
Victims of the longest civil war in African history. 00:00:47
Millions had no rights. Those who robbed us, we called them armed forces. 00:00:53
The war in southern Sudan began 23 years ago when rebels from the south, 00:01:03
most of them Christian or traditional African faiths, took up arms against the Islamic government in Khartoum. 00:01:11
More than 2 million people were killed in the war or in the famine it triggered. 00:01:19
In January of 2005, the Khartoum government and rebel leaders signed a power-sharing deal to end the war, 00:01:25
triggering Jackson's dreams of a return to the village of his birth. 00:01:33
That's where they cut my umbilical cord. That's the land of my grandfather. I'll stay there. 00:01:38
It's estimated that 3 million southerners stuck in refugee camps like this will soon want to return home. 00:01:46
But what will they find when they get there? Are their dreams of a blissful homeland really viable? 00:01:54
Many, like this community leader, think so. 00:02:01
Now that God has brought peace, we will return to cultivate our land. 00:02:05
If you have a fishing rod, you can fish. That's why we are going. 00:02:12
And so for Jackson, like so many others, the journey begins. 00:02:19
With money he has been saving for months, Jackson plans the voyage. 00:02:24
He gathers his family group, all 17 of them, and they pack everything. 00:02:30
His children are about to leave the only home they have ever known. 00:02:38
The family heads off to the nearby port of Kosti on the river Nile, 00:02:45
where they plan to catch a cargo barge that will pass their old home village. 00:02:49
By first light, Jackson's family gets on board. 00:02:55
The boat won't be leaving until the next morning, but emotions are running high. 00:03:00
Finally, the next day, the captain pulls out of port. 00:03:21
Jackson's family is confined to a small space between the main engine and a cargo bay. 00:03:26
The family faces a three-day, 400-kilometer voyage from Kosti to their home port of Melut. 00:03:32
Others are heading to the southern capital of Juba, 1,200 kilometers away. 00:03:40
They will be on board for more than two weeks. 00:03:45
With the barge continuing its way south at a stately 10 kilometers an hour, 00:03:49
Jackson's family has found a relatively safe and sheltered corner. 00:03:55
Now they and others on board have time to think and to worry. 00:04:00
John Kong comes from a village near the eastern border. 00:04:06
He is leading a family group of 23. 00:04:10
I have nothing. No cows. 00:04:15
And even the people on board have nothing. 00:04:20
No cows, no food. 00:04:24
We will depend on the little the United Nations gives us to eat. 00:04:27
Many international organizations are involved in Sudan's reconstruction. 00:04:32
The United Nations has launched a $3.5 million construction project to build new schools in southern Sudan. 00:04:38
It's also supporting various public health campaigns to battle diseases like polio, measles and meningitis, 00:04:46
and it's helping to repatriate the tens of thousands who are trying to come home. 00:04:54
But despite international efforts, nearly every district in southern Sudan fails their minimum standard for clean water. 00:05:01
Schools, health services and communications are all in short supply. 00:05:09
There's no issue or activity that you could list that isn't required. 00:05:15
Robert Turner is with the United Nations Return and Reintegration Unit. 00:05:20
We need to be doing emergency food aid now because it's required. 00:05:25
We need to be looking at the longer-term interventions, including building roads and infrastructure 00:05:28
and improving people's access to livelihoods. 00:05:32
The power-sharing peace treaty is supposed to give the south a split share of Sudan's emerging oil wealth 00:05:36
along with new government and civil service jobs. 00:05:42
But for now, Jackson and his family are about to find out the reality of life in southern Sudan. 00:05:46
The barge finally arrives at Jackson's stop. 00:05:55
This is Mailut, the port near their home village of Falouge. 00:05:58
Jackson's family is about to get some terrible news. 00:06:03
The village he loved and dreamed about for so long is gone, burned to the ground during the war. 00:06:07
Some relatives have offered to take them in, but not for long. 00:06:14
I'm worried because I don't have a place. When I get my place, I'll be happy. 00:06:18
The village may be gone, but for Jackson Daw, hope is certainly alive. 00:06:23
He recalls another village where his relatives had a vast herd of some 5,000 cattle. 00:06:28
There's no usable road, but a bicycle will get you there in about an hour. 00:06:35
When Jackson arrives, this is what he finds. 00:06:40
The great herd of 5,000 is now barely 100. 00:06:44
In a land where wealth is measured in cattle, this is a devastating loss. 00:06:50
The 600 villagers are hungry, poor and desperate. 00:06:55
Jackson's uncle explains the terrible situation. 00:06:59
There's no food here. In the past, we used to have milk. 00:07:04
But now the people are suffering. 00:07:09
A country like this, and there are many, will not be able to sustain 00:07:13
the hundreds of thousands of returnees coming home to southern Sudan. 00:07:17
There are not enough government resources, 00:07:22
and promises of more than $4.5 billion pledged by international donors are not being kept. 00:07:25
The coming of peace was a huge step. It was a huge positive step. 00:07:32
But it alone is not enough to sustain peace or reconciliation or anything else. 00:07:35
We need to see the dividend of the peace beyond the fact that there's no war. 00:07:40
The children in Jackson's uncle's village sing of God. 00:07:47
Their faith will sustain them for now, but to build a new Sudan, 00:07:51
they need help, and they need it soon. 00:07:55
According to the World Food Program, more than 600,000 people 00:08:00
are expected to return to southern Sudan within the next year. 00:08:04
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Fecha:
26 de junio de 2007 - 16:57
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Duración:
08′ 15″
Relación de aspecto:
4:3 Hasta 2009 fue el estándar utilizado en la televisión PAL; muchas pantallas de ordenador y televisores usan este estándar, erróneamente llamado cuadrado, cuando en la realidad es rectangular o wide.
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