SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Radio Dabanga - Sudan lawyers file new complaint against Al Bashir

6/12/2019: Radio Dabanga - Sudan lawyers file new complaint against Al Bashir

Radio Dabanga reports that a group of Sudanese lawyers have filed a complaint to the Prosecutor of Khartoum North against deposed President Omar al-Bashir, former Vice-President Ali Osman Taha, former Parliament Speaker al-Fateh Izzeldin, and members of the Sudan Scholars Association, for ordering the killing of demonstrators.

The lawyers base their complaints on number made during the early days of the Sudanese uprising.

They pointed to al-Bashir talking about “retribution against the demonstrators” in a meeting with police commanders. Taha spoke in a television interview about the existence of shadow battalions to quell the protests against the regime. Izzeldin said that the heads of protesters, in particular those of communists and Baathists should be cut off.

Reportedly, the Sudanese Scholars Association advised the deposed president during the uprising that a leader has the Islamic right to kill one third of his people so that the rest can live in dignity.