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Recommendations

To the United Nations Security Council

  • Take all necessary measures, including the urgent passage of any relevant resolutions, to ensure the deployment of a robust international presence of military personnel and human rights monitors along the Chad/Sudan border with, at minimum, sufficient mandate and resources to protect and deter further attacks on civilians as set forth in Option B of the December 22, 2006 UN Secretary General’s report on Chad and the Central African Republic; to monitor the arms embargo established under UN Security Council Resolutions 1556 and 1591 in cooperation with the UN Panel of Experts; to report on the movement of insurgent armed groups across the border; and to investigate and publicly report on cross-border attacks on civilians and other incidents in the border zone.

  • Call on the government of Chad to immediately to cease support for armed groups responsible for attacks on civilians, including those factions of the Darfur rebel groups responsible for forced recruitment of refugees and use of child soldiers, and to take urgent action to restore law and order, including by refraining from arming abusive ethnic militias.

  • Call for the immediate establishment of an office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Chad with a mandate to monitor and publicly report on human rights violations throughout the country, including in the context of conflict.

  • Call on UN member states to support the activities of an office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Chad and along the border with Sudan with sufficient funding and other support.

  • Call on UN member states to ensure full support to humanitarian activities benefiting Sudanese refugees and Chadian internally displaced persons.

  • To the Government of Chad

  • Immediately cease support for abusive Darfur rebel groups and other abusive armed groups, support the deployment of a strengthened international force in Darfur and along the border with Chad to deter further attacks on civilians, monitor the existing UN arms embargo, and help implement the Tripoli Agreement of February 2006 between Sudan and Chad.

  • Deploy sufficient military personnel, police, and resources to conflict areas in eastern Chad, including parts of the Ouaddaï and Salamat regions and the Dar Tama and Dar Sila administrative departments, and as required in other areas mandated to ensure that civilians are protected from further attack.

  • Investigate and bring to justice all those individuals involved in attacks on civilians.

  • Take action to ensure the demobilization all child soldiers and end the recruitment of children under the age of 18 by armed groups operating on Chadian territory. Take steps to bring to account those who have recruited and used child soldiers.

  • To the Government of Sudan

  • Cease support for armed groups responsible for attacks on civilians in Chad, including with arms and other forms of support.

  • Support the immediate deployment of a strengthened international force with UN elements in Darfur and along the border with Chad to deter further attacks on civilians, monitor the existing UN arms embargo and help implement the Tripoli Agreement of February 2006 between Sudan and Chad.

  • To the Sudanese Rebel Movements

  • Take all necessary steps to ensure combatants under your control comply with international humanitarian law and hold accountable those who fail to do so.

  • Cease support for abusive militias, Chadian self-defense groups and all other armed groups responsible for attacks against civilians.

  • Immediately end the recruitment and use of child soldiers, and demobilize existing child soldiers.

  • To the Chadian Rebel Movements

  • Take all necessary steps to ensure combatants under your control comply with international humanitarian law and hold accountable those who fail to do so.

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