SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: al-Jareeda - Individual actions, inexcusable justification

26/8/2021: al-Jareeda - Individual actions, inexcusable justification, by Haider al-Mikashfi

Following the beating of journalist Ali al-Dali, his colleague Haider al-Mikhashfi calls on the security forces to check the conduct of their personnel by holding “intensive courses on human rights for their staff,” whereby soldiers learn to protect citizens and not take the law into their own hands.

Al-Mikashfi writes that all Sudanese security forces offer “half-baked” justifications for violations committed by their adherents against unarmed civilians on the basis they are, and he quotes, "isolated, individual behaviour that has nothing to do with our unit”, with the offenders going unpunished.

Al-Mikashfi notes that security elements assaults on unarmed civilian citizens “have increased in a worrying manner,” despite the enactment of legal provisions. Thus, through his proposed solution, al-Mikashfi concludes that the assault of al-Dali can be “the last of such misconduct, or else calls for judges to be assigned to investigate before the civilian judiciary will be logical”.