Sudan calls for int’l cooperation to arrest Abu-Kershola war crimes suspects
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June 23, 2013, (KHARTOUM) - Sudan’s attorney general Omar Ahmed
Mohammed said today that the minister of justice, Mohamed Bishara
Dosa, has briefed the last session of the United Nations Human Rights
Council (UNHRC) on the violations committed by the Sudan Revolutionary
Front (SRF) umbrella rebel coalition in Abu-Kershola.
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Displaced Sudanese people from the district of Abu Kershola, comfort
each other at a camp on April 29, 2013 in the North Kordofan town of
El Rahad. TEBRAHIM HAMID/AFP/Getty Images)
Abu-Kershola, in north-eastern of South Kordofan and on the border
with North Kordofan, had been seized by SRF fighters on 27 April,
after hitting Um-Rawaba located some 100 km from Al-Obeid, capital of
North Kordofan state.
Following recapture of Abu-Kershola by the Sudanese army, Sudan’s
ruling National Congress Party (NCP) urged the United Nations Security
Council (UNSC) and the international community to impose crippling
sanctions on SRF rebels claiming that they have committed crimes
including the use of citizens as human shields, killing of children
and rape of women.
The Sudanese foreign ministry on its end claimed that courts-martial
established by the SRF rebels during their takeover of these towns led
to summary executions based on ethnicity.
But the SRF denied committing crimes in Um Rawaba and Abu-kershola.
The SRF leading figure, Yasser Arman, has called to form an
international committee to investigate human rights violations by both
sides in southern and northern Kordofan.
“Whoever is found committing crimes and war crimes should be held
responsible and accountable”, he challenged
The attorney general said that a documentary including images of
violations and breaches of international humanitarian law and human
rights law by the SRF was presented by the minister of justice to
ambassadors, civil society organizations, and non-governmental
organizations at the UNHRC meeting.
He said in an interview with the state news agency SUNA, that the
minister of justice appealed to the international community to condemn
these violations and cooperate with Sudan to capture the perpetrators.
The Sudanese official pointed out that the charges in Abu-Kershola
incidents are filed against the SRF and namely its chief of staff
Abdel-Aziz Al-Hilu, adding that they will pursue them through the
Interpol because atrocities were committed against civilian
population.
He further said that the investigation committee on Abu-Kershola
incidents which was formed by the ministry of justices and headed by
the prosecutor general in Um Rawaba has filed charges under articles
130 premeditated murder, 175 looting,167 banditry, 182 damage, and 183
infringement on private or government property.
Following his third mission to Sudan, the UN independent expert on the
situation of human rights in the country, Mashood Adebayo Baderin,
issued a press statement last Thursday, expressing his regret that he
was not able to fulfill his initial plan to visit South Kordofan "for
security reasons".
He highlighted that SRF’s attacks in Abu-Kershola and Um Rawaba
"seriously affected innocent civilians and resulted in human rights
violations and displacements which are very worrying.
“I had the opportunity to meet some of the victims during my visit to
Al-Rahd in North Kordofan. They gave disturbing accounts of the
ordeals they went through during the attack”, said Badern.
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