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Civil Society forum, Sudan and South Sudan, May 2013
The first session of the Civil Society Forum on Sudan and South Sudan convened in Addis Ababa on 21-23 January 2013. The second session in Addis Ababa on 16-18 May 2013. The Third session in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, January 20 - 22 nd, 2014. This event was organised by Darfur Relief and Documentation Centre in collaboration with the African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies, Darfur Bar Association, Human Rights Institute of South Africa and South Sudan Human Rights Society for Advocacy. The Forum adopted 11 (eleven) resolutions addressing an array of issues in Sudan and Republic of South Sudan.
In July 2004, DRDC observed that: "Two criminal aspects underpin the ethnic cleansing in the Darfur region viz.
a) The premeditated and systematic mass killing and physical destruction – in whole or in part – of the indigenous African tribes of Darfur such as the Fur,
Massaleet and Zaghawa because of their ethnic and/or tribal backgrounds; and
b) The appropriation of the victims’ land, the confiscation of their livestock and other material wealth and in some cases for extortion of money for protection
by the militia groups in the absence of government authority."
“The roots of Darfur’s crisis lie in a history of neglect of the Sudanese peripheries, dating from colonial times and continuing during the years of Sudan’s independence. The crisis in Darfur is a manifestation of Sudan’s inequitable distribution of wealth and power"
“The government doesn’t have an understanding of what it means when women say repeatedly to different people: ‘We are being raped. We are being beaten. We are being brutalized. We are fearful.’ I do not think the people we talked to tonight understand. Ms. Graça Mandela-Machel, Concluding Press Conference, Khartoum, 4”th October 2007.
“Many of the people that we met with in Chad are giving up hope in the belief that the responsibility to protect doesn’t seem to have any meaning
or relevance in their lives and in addressing the situation in Darfur.”Professor Jody Williams, 1997 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, comments on her Mission Report on Darfur,16 March 2000.
“This report demonstrates, beyond all doubt, that the last two years have been little short of hell on earth for our fellow human beings in Darfur.
And despite the attention the Council has paid to this crisis, that hell continues today.”
"This is ethnic cleansing, this is the world's greatest humanitarian crisis, and I don't know why the world isn't doing more about it."
December 2013
Urgent Appeal - Death in custody
Geneva, 17 December 2013
The Darfur Relief and Documentation Centre (DRDC) received information that Mr. Abdel Jalil Mahi-al-Deen Abdel Jalil, a 32 years old shop keeper, died as a result of injuries sustained during his detention in a Military Intelligence facility in Kadugli, capital of South Kordofan State. Mr. Abdel Jalil died in the early hours of Tuesday, 17 December 2013 in the Military Hospital in Kadugli where he was admitted in a critical situation a few hours earlier. Mr. Abdel Jalil was arrested in Kadugli by agents of the Military Intelligence on Saturday, 14 December 2013 without warrant of arrest or a court order. He was accused by the Military Intelligence of collaborating with the insurgent Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N). The family of Mr. Abdel Jalil believes that he was ill-treated and severely tortured which led to his death.
DRDC is very concerned that torture and extra-judicial killings are systematically practiced by the security agents in Sudan and with total impunity. Torture, unlawful killings and enforced disappearances are particularly rampant in areas that witness armed conflicts such as Darfur, South and West Kordofan and the Blue Nile States, and where the native peoples are indiscriminately suspected by the intelligence agents of being supporters or sympathizers of the insurgent movements. DRDC calls for an independent investigation of the killing of Mr. Abdel Jalil and the apprehension and trial of his killers.
December 2013
Sudan Human Rights and Humanitarian Bulletin
01 to 15 December 2013
General Observations
The human rights and humanitarian situation in Sudan continued to deteriorate during the last two weeks. The war between the army and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) and its allied insurgent groups of the Sudan Revolutionary Forces (SRF) has been intensifying with military operations in South and West Kordofan and the Blue Nile States. Fighting was also reported between the Sudan Liberation Movement-Abdulwahid (SLMAbdulwahid) and the army near Zallingei, capital of Central Darfur State...
A. Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
1. Violations of Civil and Political Rights
On 15 December 2013, armed NISS agents arrested Mr. Gazi Al-Ryah Al-Shalzli, an activist and leading member of the humanitarian group Nafeer Campaign. He was arrested from his family home and taken to an unknown place. The NISS did not give any explanation, or show an arrest warrant or court order for the arrest of Mr. Al-Shazli. On the same day, it was also reported that NISS agents arrested Dr. El-Fadil Saeed, a pro-democracy activist and member of the Sudan Democratic Liberal Party and held him in an unknown location.
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