SUDAN NEWS ALERT: New York Times – Sudan to Investigate Darfur Atrocities Under Ousted Leader,
The New York Times reports that Sudan has launched investigations into the “long, bloody suppression” of Darfur under the government of Omar al-Bashir.
Dahir notes that delivering justice “may prove easier said than done,” citing the prominent government positions held by al-Bashir’s “most trusted confidants.”
Arnold Tsunga, director of the Africa regional program of the International Commission of Jurists, called for the transition government to demonstrate that the transition “will not obscure past crimes and will take into account the demands of all populations in the different regions of the country.”
Amir Suliman, a Sudanese human rights lawyer and co-founder of the nonprofit African Center for Justice and Peace Studies, said that justice for Darfuri victims is contingent upon al-Bashir facing trial at the International Criminal Court, adding that “forgotten and abandoned” Darfuri refugees in eastern Chad still suffered physical and psychological consequences from the war.