Regrettable escalation of media hostilities on Abyei - SHRO
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THE SUDAN HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATION – CAIRO
Regrettable escalation of media hostilities on Abyei
June 4th, 2011 — The Sudan Human Rights Organization-Cairo is gravely
concerned for the failures of the governments of Khartoum and Juba, as
peace partners, to engage the largest majority of people in a national
effort to strengthen the process of peace as a foremost prerequisite
to enable the South to build its own State, and to allow democratic
transition in the North as well, in accordance with the spirit and
text of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.
Earlier, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague (PCA)
decision on Abyei constituted a significant step to ensure the
stability and democratic transition in the country, in general, and
the Abyei region, in particular. The PCA decision was further
promising to help moving the country towards implementation of the
other major agenda of the transition to democratic rule, only with
principled implementation of the CPA by the Government of Sudan (GoS)
and the Government of South Sudan (GoSS) side-by-side with full
participation by the opposition umbrella the Ijmaa al-Qowa
al-Wataniya, the National Forces Alliance. We regret the Khartoum
rulers rejected the PCA decisions, which prepared the ground for
continuous hostilities in the region up to this day.
Enshrined in the spirit and provisions of the Comprehensive Peace
Agreement, both the GoS and the GoSS are required to enact the laws
organizing the upcoming referendum in Abyei; complete the national
count of the population by proper census; establish national
commissions for human rights and the civil service; remove all
suppressive laws, especially the public order and the criminal law;
prohibit gender and ethnic discrimination by flogging and the other
forms of tortures; resolve the crisis in Darfur by participation of
all rebel groups and opposition parties; respect the economic rights
of farmers and professionals in the Gazira Scheme, Managil and the
other farming groups in the country; and ensure the full enjoyment of
the Bill of Rights for people without partisan attitudes to run the
national democratic elections, properly.
While these fundamental tasks have not been accomplished by the two
peace partners in close collaboration with the opposition parties and
civil society groups as stipulated by the CPA, the PCA settlement of
the Abyei dispute provided a viable opportunity for the two
governments to convene a non-partisan democratic conference on equal
terms with the opposition to end the ongoing constitutional crisis.
On December, 2010, the Organization welcomed a presidential decree to
establish a high level national committee to facilitate the referendum
process in South Sudan. The committee, however, was mainly composed of
members of the National Congress Party (NCP), in addition to the
non-NCP Government of South Sudan President and the DUP leader. The
committee did not include leaders of the other National Forces,
including the Umma leadership whose participation is extremely
important for the peace and democracy of the country.
o SHRO-Cairo believes that there is urgent need for sustainable
cooperation between government authorities and all national forces
than a 7-member presidential committee might possibly do.
o We urge the Sudanese governmental and opposition groups to adopt
Darfuri resolutions to end the crisis in Darfur, maintain sisterly
relationships between the population groups in dispute, and end the
escalated gender, ethnic, media, and all other hostilities.
o We urge the CPA peace partners to convene a National Conference for
all Sudanese parties, armed or civil society groups, to assure
peaceful implementation of peaceful referendum in Abyei.
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