Despite Khartoum’s denials, on Wednesday the Human Rights Council adopted a resolution to establish an independent international fact-finding mission into the situation in Sudan, stressing the urgent need to investigate what human rights violations are and where they occurred. Political parties and legal bodies were quick to welcome the decision, and saw it as a step towards achieving justice and ensuring no escape from accountability.
More than 7,000 people have been killed and thousands injured as a result of the outbreak of war in Sudan in mid-April, according to the latest figures from the United Nations.
Both sides of the fight face each other; Sudan has been accused of widespread human rights abuses against civilians during the ongoing conflict between the armed forces and the Rapid Support Forces.
The Sudanese Foreign Ministry, while it was still in the drafting stage, was expected to publish the decision by categorically rejecting it, describing it as “extremist” in its bias against the Sudanese armed forces.
19 countries voted to approve the resolution, 16 countries rejected it and 3 countries abstained from voting.
The resolution called for the parties to the conflict to fully cooperate in carrying out the truth-finding exercise. He urged the international community to provide full support in the implementation of its mandate.
The mission consists of 3 members with expertise in international human rights law and international humanitarian law who will be appointed by the President of the Human Rights Council for an initial term of one year shortly.
The international mission was mandated to investigate and establish the facts, circumstances and root causes of all allegations of human rights violations, abuses and violations of international humanitarian law, including those committed against refugees.
According to the resolution, the task is to identify individuals and entities responsible for violations or other related crimes, with the aim of ensuring that those responsible are held accountable.
The resolution also calls for the commission of inquiry to make recommendations on accountability measures, individual criminal responsibility and access to justice for victims.
Welcome to the end
In a statement, the Emergency Lawyers (a legal body) welcomed the United Nations’ approval to establish a commission of inquiry into the widespread human rights violations committed since the outbreak of war.
Emergency advocates praised the countries that voted to ratify the resolution, led by Britain, the United States, Germany and Norway.
For its part, the Federal Assembly, one of the wings of the Alliance for Freedom and Change, described the decision as an important step towards uncovering the truth about grave humanitarian violations committed during the war. justice
He called on the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces to fully cooperate in carrying out the mission of the group until due justice and fairness is achieved for victims and victims.
The Sudanese Foreign Ministry rejected the decision during the planning phase, describing it as “extremism” in its bias against the Sudanese armed forces.
The Foreign Ministry accuses “rebel support” forces of committing atrocities against civilians, including ethnic cleansing and massacres, massacres, rapes, torture and the displacement of thousands of civilians in Darfur.
On October 5, the United States, Germany, Britain and Norway submitted a request to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva to send a United Nations expert mission to Sudan to monitor human rights violations and crimes against women and refugees. , and children.
The United Nations has warned again that Sudan is on the verge of sliding into “full-blown civil war” that could destabilize the region.
International intervention
Sati al-Hajj, head of the Nasserite Party, believes the creation of a fact-finding panel into violations is a message to the warring parties that continuing the fighting allows for foreign intervention, which could reach the point of military intervention. With article seven.
Khartoum’s rejection of the resolution does not prevent a committee set up in accordance with international law from carrying out its tasks, but we fear the hidden agendas behind such committees contribute to the disintegration of the country.
He adds that the panel, which includes the Human Rights Council, is on the surface a good decision, but on the inside it is a blatant intervention that weakens the country and puts it back to square one during the regime of the deposed. President, Omar al-Bashir.
Sati Al-Haj says that such decisions have serious implications for the nation, its security and its unity, pointing out that the international community has not acted actively to stop the war and calls on the parties involved in the conflict to stop the war immediately. He believes that Sudan is inseparable from all wars in the Arab and African regions.
Meanwhile, on Thursday, Sudan’s Sovereignty Council announced that it had taken the necessary steps and measures regarding the Human Rights Council’s decision.
Council member Ibrahim Jaber presided over the third meeting of the Supreme Committee to Handle the United Nations in Port Sudan on Thursday, in the presence of Prime Minister-designate Othman al-Hussein, Sovereign Council media reported. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ali Al-Sadiq, Attorney General, Khalifa Ahmed Khalifa and many other officials. Heads of regular and judicial institutions.
Culture and Information Minister Graham Abdel Kader said in a press release that the meeting discussed Britain’s submission to the Human Rights Council and what was done about it.
He said that the content of the decision was briefed in the meeting and necessary steps and procedures were taken in this regard. While participating in the Human Rights Council session in Geneva, he said the meeting reviewed the efforts of the National Commission on Crimes and Violations and the efforts of the Attorney General.
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