SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Human Rights Watch - Sudan: Prioritize Justice and Institutional Reforms

23/6/2020: Human Rights Watch - Sudan: Prioritize Justice and Institutional Reforms

 Human Rights Watch (HRW) call for Sudan to prioritise justice, legal and institutional reforms.

 Noting the “little progress” on accountability for the June 3 2019 Khartoum massacre, HRW call for Sudanese authorities to ensure that attorney general (Taj el-Sir al-Hibr) has political backing and sufficient resources and technical support the investigating committee’s work, which “should be able to investigate and prosecute up the chain of command those most responsible for planning and ordering the dispersal operation.”

 HRW also call for a “comprehensive” plan for reforming the army, Rapid Support Forces (RSF), police, auxiliary forces, and the sprawling national intelligence and security agency, NISS (renamed GIS), citing the need to: set up accountability systems in the forces and put them under civilian oversight.

 HRW also call for authorities to investigate alleged connections between the security forces and a network of state-owned companies, controlled by the military and security apparatus.