SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Sudan Tribune – Sudan’s FFC reject findings of national rights body on 3 June attack

26/9/19: Sudan Tribune – Sudan’s FFC reject findings of national rights body on 3 June attack

 Sudan Tribune reports that the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC)  brushed aside the report of Sudan’s national human rights body on the June 3 massacre, and stressed their adherence to the investigation committee recently set up by Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok.

 Sudan’s Human Rights Commission said that 85 people were killed and more than 400 others injured in the massacre. Its current officials were appointed by ousted president Omar Al Bashir and they are not seen as an independent authority.

 Tariq Kandik, spokesman for the Democratic Bar Association, told Sudan Tribune that the FFC are not concerned by the findings of the report because the Constitutional Document stated that an independent national committee to investigate the June 3 massacre will be formed.  

 Nonetheless, Human Rights Watch has voice concerns about the independence and impartiality of the committee, given that it will include a Ministry of Defence representative.