SUDAN POLITICAL ALERT: Human Rights Watch - Sudan: Halt Attacks on Protesters

4/6/19: Human Rights Watch – Sudan: Halt Attacks on Protesters

 HRW calls for “urgent international action to halt further violations, and to advance accountability of those responsible and to bring justice for the victims,” following Monday’s massacre perpetrated by forces “[including] the RSF, a paramilitary force with a well-documented record of abuse.”

 HRW called for the UN’s Human Rights Council to continue scrutiny of the human rights situation in Sudan, and ensure an investigation into violations and abuses committed since December 2018.

 HRW Africa Associate Director Jehanne Henry said that “yesterday’s violence reminds us of the serious RSF abuses against civilians in Sudan’s war zones and it requires more than condemnations,”

 Henry added that “key international actors should impose targeted punitive sanctions against those responsible for the violence and urgently establish a UN inquiry.”