Sudan
Democracy First Group
20 January 2018
SDFG Salute the martyrs and wounded of the December 2019
Protests.
SDFG Salute the Sudanese protestors who filled the streets in
all cities of Sudan.
In its third statement since the eruption of the revolution of
December 2018, Sudan Democracy First Group (SDFG) affirms its full stands with
the Sudanese people in their demand for political, economic and cultural
rights. SDFG is certain that these rights will be fully realized after
overthrowing the Islamic military dictatorship that ascended to power in 1989
through a military coup against a democratically elected government. SDFG would
like to draw the attention of the Sudanese people and the world to the
following important points:
First; The killings and atrocities committed by the Sudan
Security and Intelligence Services (NISS), the police forces, and other
government militias, are crimes that should not go unpunished. In addition to
its violation of the Sudan’s Constitution, the international and regional laws
and human rights instruments, these crimes have violated all Sudanese customs,
values and traditions that respect the sanctity of homes and prohibit beating
of children, elderly and women.
Since the beginning of the current protest in December 13, 2018
in the city of Damazin and then spread to many cities and towns all over the
country, the number of premeditated killings has climbed to more than forty of
all ages, hundreds seriously injured and hundreds are still in detention.
The Sudanese government's disregard to the peaceful nature of
the protests and the predetermination to use excessive force and live
ammunition against the protestors, as well as its disregard to internal,
regional and international calls to refrain from the use of excessive force and
other forms of repression, is a sufficient proof of the government ill
intention and predetermination to kill and seriously hurt protesters to deter
further protests. The denial of the government agencies, including the
Presidency, of the use of live bullets and the killing of peaceful protesters,
does not by all means relieve the government from its constitutional
responsibility of investigating these crimes, arresting preparators and
bringing them to immediate trials.
The Sudanese government has announced the formation of a
government commission to investigate and assess losses of what it has called
the encroachment and destruction of public properties during the first two days
of the demonstrations, however, the scope of work of the commission did not
include investigating the killing and injuries of peaceful protesters. It is
worth-mentioning that, the Sudanese people are very much aware of the partisan
nature, lack of capability and limited framework and terms of reference of such
commissions of inquiry. A good example of these type commission was the one
established to investigate the massacre of more than 200 protestors, committed
by the armed government agencies in September 2013, against peaceful
protestors. That commission concluded its task by blaming these heinous crimes
to unknown persons and Government immediately started financial reparation to
the families who lost their love ones in order to close the case and protect
the perpetrators. As such, the Sudanese people do not trust these government
commission and/or the integrity of the judiciary system and the public
prosecution.
Hence, SDFG calls upon the United Nations organizations, the
Human Rights Council, the International Human Rights Commission, regional and
international human rights organizations, and all peace, freedom and democracy
defenders to exercise the highest possible pressure on the Sudanese Government
to accept and allow an independent international inquiry commission, to
investigate these latest crimes, in close cooperation with Sudanese human
rights organizations, associations of Sudanese lawyers, Sudanese judges and
civil society organizations. The task of such a commission is to investigate
the massacres and other form of atrocities committed by the armed government
agencies against the Sudanese citizens while exercising their constitutional
right peacefully. The commission needs to publicly announce its findings and
the government should present all preparators to a transparent and fair
trial.
Second; There are persistent attempts by the Sudanese government
officials and media, plus international and regional media and decision-making
circles in some countries, to attribute the causes of the December 2018 revolt
to economic policies implemented by the government during the last quarter of
2018 that resulted in scarcity and high rocketing prices of bread and fuel.
Although the poor management of the economy and the ensued hardship is
partially responsible, but political impasse, repression, corruption,
restriction of freedoms and the performance of the economy in general have been
the main causes that drived the Sudanese people to took to the streets and
demand the departure of the regime. Moreover, these attempts, by the government
and some international and regional actors, to portray these protests as a
reaction to the lifting of subsidies, is an ill motivated manoeuvre to undermined
the causes of the protests and limit its potential outcomes to a cosmetic
alteration of the current regime and hinder the realization of the slogans of
the Sudanese people that call for Freedom, Peace and Justice ... Down, that it
is ... the People Want to Bring Down the Regime ... Down..Down with the Kizan
(the Muslim Brothers), and all other slogans that go beyond the economic
hardship. People are demanding, without ambiguity, comprehensive change;
starting with the departure of the current regime including its personalities,
oppressive laws and rules, its racist wars in the marginal areas, its corrupt
economic and political systems, its approach to economic and development, its
political empowerment policy in the civil service, its media, its culture, its
version of Islam, its ideologically based foreign relations... etc. Therefore,
SDFG would like to draw the attention of those who want to reduce the
revolution of Sudanese people to that it is a bread revolts, to that the roots
of the Sudanese current crisis is essentially political, as a result of years
the regime bad governance scheme. The Sudanese people are determined to realize
the goals of their revolution despite all difficulties.
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