SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Newlines Magazine - How a Human Rights Report Could Upend Sudan

4/5/2021: Newlines Magazine - How a Human Rights Report Could Upend Sudan, by Mat Nashed

Mat Nashed’s feature piece spoke to Nabil Adib, who leads committee investigating the June 3 2019 massacre.

With Adib saying “whatever we decide will destabilise the country,” Nashed writes: “if Adib presses charges against senior security officers in the Military Council [they] may try to overthrow the civilian half of the government and consolidate power,” although “many fear that Adib will reinforce a climate of impunity if he absolves senior military officers from blame”.

Despite open-source investigations by the BBC, Human Rights Watch and The Sentry claiming evidence of Rapid Support Forces (RSF), military and police participation in the massacre, Adib “speculates” that al-Jazeera “which provides favourable coverage to the Muslim Brotherhood” may have aired videos of government forces taking part in the massacre to “shield the real culprits: Islamist cells from the former regime”. Nashed adds that the RSF “propagates a similar conspiracy”.