SUDAN POLITICAL ALERT: Amnesty International - Sudan: All security agencies that attacked protesters must be held to account
Deprose Muchena, Amnesty International’s Director for East Africa, called on Sudan’s transitional authorities to hold “thorough, effective and independent investigations into all protester killings and other human rights violations” committed from December 2018 onwards, calling for all those found responsible, “including through command responsibility,” to be brought to justice through fair trials, “but without resorting to the death penalty.”
Amnesty blamed the “shadowy” armed operational units of the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) for the first lethal crackdowns on protesters in December 2018, and for attacks on civilians until April 2019. NISS officers were jointly blamed alongside the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for the June 3 2019 Khartoum sit-in massacre
Muchena said Amnesty was “flabbergasted” by the “widely divergent” protester death toll data provided by different Sudanese government agencies, calling for Sudanese authorities to “spare no effort” in verifying the “true extent of atrocities committed.”