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June 29, 2008

To: Dr. Sima Samar, Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Sudan.
OHCHR – UNOG
8 -14 Avenue de la Paix
1211 Geneva 10
Switzerland

Re: Human rights abuses of Darfurians in the aftermath of May 10th 2008 events.


Dear Dr. Samar,

Our organization has been monitoring massive human rights abuses of Darfur citizens in the Capitol Khartoum and beyond by the Government of Sudan since JEM attack on Omdurman on May 10th 2008.
We can summarize the human rights abuses and violations on the following brief points:
1- Darfurians ( specially from Zaghawa Tribe) are rounded up, targeted ethnically, and detained from streets, work places, worship places, homes, schools, transportation depots and centers by special Security forces ( in uniform and in plain clothes), Police, The National Congress paratroopers ( Popular Defense Forces and alike)..
2- The detention and arrest operations usually carried out in humiliating manner with beatings, spit on the faces, racial name calling, beating with fists and end-of- assault guns.
3- Detention included Darfurians from all walks of life: Professionals (Lawyers, Doctors, Engineers, Civil Servants, military and police members), Students, Laborers, Men, Women, Children ( even infants), whole families.
4- The Security forces detain wives and children of the detainees as a mean to pressure them into forced and false confessions.
5- Torture and killings are used systematically in detention centers even against women, children, and elderly sick ones. There are numerous accounts from detainees who were released. They reported horrible torture and abuses in crowded detention centers. Estimation of detained darfuris runs above 4 thousand detainees.
6- Human abuses and torture is so rampant that even children are subjected to brutal torture. A video surfaced and widely distributed showing tens on children whipped by security agents while calling them insulting and derogatory names. They forced the children to crawl on hot sands while some of them with their hands tied behind their backs. Then the security agents under whips and sticks forced the children to lie on the hot sand with their cheeks on the burning sand. Some children begged for water only to be mocked and scorned by the security agents.
7- Some Darfuri students in the University of Khartoum were attacked in their dorms by Government supporters and security agents. The Darfuri students some were thrown from 2nd floor of the dormitory buildings, some were beaten with steel bars and their limbs broken, some were burned with chemical acids. Many students sustained severe injuries.
8- The Government of Sudan has set up Special courts for trials of some detainees as alleges that they either had participated in the JEM attack, or supported the attack, or sympathizers of JEM. These detainees are denied their basic human and legal rights. The Government may hand them death penalty and may carry out their executions in a hurry.


We would like immediate and prompt intervention from your office and the international community to put an end to these gross and massive human rights violation directed ethnically and racially against the Darfurians in greater Khartoum and AlGazira State.

We urge you to give this matter your utmost attention.

Thank you,

Truly yours,


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Darfur Democratic Forum DDF.
Khartoum- Sudan
[email protected]
www.pyasudan.org
www.darfur1.org
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