2023-10-13 09:06:01
The Human Rights Council approves a commission to investigate war violations in Sudan
Despite Khartoum’s refusal, on Wednesday, the Human Rights Council adopted a resolution to establish an independent international fact-finding mission on the situation in Sudan, stressing the urgent need to investigate what human rights violations were committed and where they occurred. Political parties and legal bodies were quick to welcome the decision, and considered it a step to achieve justice and ensure no escape from accountability.
More than 7,000 people were killed and thousands were injured as a result of the outbreak of war in Sudan in mid-April, according to the latest United Nations statistics.
The two sides of the fighting face each other; The Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces are accused of committing widespread human rights violations against civilians during the ongoing conflict between them.
The Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs anticipated the issuance of the decision, when it was in the draft stage, by categorically rejecting it, describing it as “extremist” in its bias against the Sudanese Armed Forces.
19 countries voted to approve the resolution, while 16 countries rejected it, and 3 countries abstained from voting.
The resolution called on the parties to the conflict to cooperate fully with the fact-finding mission in carrying out its work. He urged the international community to provide full support to the mission in implementing 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 as soon as possible for an initial period of one year.
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 mission must identify individuals and entities responsible for violations or other related crimes with the aim of ensuring that those responsible are held accountable.
The resolution stipulates that the investigation mission shall make recommendations on accountability measures as appropriate, individual criminal responsibility and access to justice for victims.
We welcome the decision
In a statement, Emergency Lawyers (a legal body) welcomed the United Nations Council’s approval to establish a commission of inquiry into the widespread human rights violations committed since the outbreak of the war.
Emergency lawyers praised the countries that voted to approve the resolution, led by Britain, the United States, Germany and Norway, for a transparent and fair investigation that ensures no impunity.
In turn, the Federal Rally, one of the factions of the Forces of Freedom and Change coalition, described the decision as an important step to uncover the facts about the grave humanitarian violations committed during the war, stressing that anyone proven involved will be brought to justice.
He called on the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces to cooperate fully with the committee to carry out its work and carry out all the tasks assigned to it until the justice and fairness they deserve for all victims and those affected are achieved.
The Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejected the decision during the project phase, describing it as “extremist” in its bias against the Sudanese Armed Forces.
The Foreign Ministry accuses the “rebel Rapid Support” forces of committing atrocities against civilians, including ethnic cleansing and mass massacres in Darfur, and murders, rapes, torture, and displacement of thousands of civilians.
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 search for possible crimes committed against women, refugees, and children.
The United Nations repeated warnings that Sudan is on the verge of sliding into an “all-out civil war” that will destabilize the region.
International intervention
The head of the Nasserite Party, Sati’ al-Hajj, believes that the formation of a fact-finding committee into violations is a message to the warring parties that continuing the fighting allows foreign interventions, which may reach the stage of military intervention in accordance with Article Seven.
He told Asharq Al-Awsat that Khartoum’s rejection of the resolution does not prevent a committee formed in accordance with international law from performing its tasks, but we fear hidden agendas behind such committees, which contribute to the disintegration of the country.
He adds that the committee consisting of the Human Rights Council, on the surface, is a good decision, but on the inside it is blatant interference, which weakens the country and returns it to its previous square during the era of the regime of the deposed president, Omar al-Bashir.
Satih Al-Hajj says that such decisions have harsh implications that affect the nation, its safety, and its cohesion, and that the parties to the conflict must stop the war immediately, pointing out that the international community is not working seriously to stop the war in Sudan, which he believes is inseparable from all the wars taking place in the Arab and African regions.
Meanwhile, on Thursday, the Sovereignty Council of Sudan announced that it had taken the necessary measures and measures regarding the Human Rights Council’s decision.
The Sovereignty Council media said that Council member Ibrahim Jaber chaired on Thursday, in Port Sudan, the third meeting of the Supreme Committee for Dealing with the United Nations, in the presence of the “designate” Prime Minister, Othman Al-Hussein, the Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ali Al-Sadiq, the Attorney General, Khalifa Ahmed Khalifa, and a number of officials. Leaders of the regular and judicial agencies.
Acting Minister of Culture and Information, Graham Abdel Qader, said in a press statement that the meeting discussed the resolution submitted by Britain to the Human Rights Council and what was done regarding it.
He added that the meeting was informed of the content of the decision, and the necessary measures and procedures were taken in this regard. He said that the meeting reviewed the efforts of the National Commission for Crimes and Violations and the efforts of the Attorney General during his participation in the meetings of the Human Rights Council in Geneva.
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