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 Re: الأمم المتحدة تدعو إلى التحقيق في جرائم حرب في ج كردفان والمحاسبة (Re: Elbagir Osman)
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UN urges inquiry into Sudan "war crime" reports
Tue Aug 16, 2011 9:27am GMT
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Residents gather outside UNMIS sector headquarters in Kadugli town June 9, 2011. REUTERS/Paul Banks/UNMIS/Handout
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By Sherine El Madany
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - The United Nations called on Monday for an inquiry into reports of human rights abuses in Sudan's Southern Kordofan region that it said could amount to war crimes but that Khartoum dismissed as "unfounded".
Tensions have flared in state, which holds most of Sudan's remaining known oil reserves, after South Sudan seceded last month, taking its oilfields with it.
Tens of thousands of civilians have fled since fighting broke out there in early June between Sudan's army and fighters, many of them from Southern Kordofan's ethnic Nuba group.
A 12-page report by the U.N. human rights office documented alleged violations in the state capital Kadugli and the surrounding Nuba mountains including extrajudicial killings, illegal detention, enforced disappearances, attacks against civilians, #####ng of homes and mass displacement.
The allegations, "if substantiated, could amount to crimes against humanity or war crimes", the United Nations said.
Most of the reported violations were blamed on Sudan's army and its allied militias, the report said. But the army's opponents, known as the Sudan People's Liberation Army North (SPLA-N), also reportedly mined parts of Kadugli, it said.
Sudan's Foreign Affairs Ministry dismissed the U.N. report as "unfounded" and "malicious", a ministry spokesman said in comments carried by the state news agency SUNA.
These allegations aim to "support the insurgency and the fight against the government of Sudan, and they are not backed by any evidence and do not reflect the facts on the ground in Southern Kordofan", the spokesman said.
Nobody was immediately available to comment from Sudan's army, which has dismissed reports of abuses in the past.
"CHALLENGING CIRCUMSTANCES"
The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights listed about 30 incidents of violence and rights abuses in the preliminary report.
One part quoted a witness saying Sudanese army personnel piled bodies into a mass grave in al-Gardut neighbourhood in Tillo and filled it in with a bulldozer.
The report said insecurity and restrictions on movement in June had hampered efforts to deliver aid in the state.
Southern Kordofan includes large populations which sided with South Sudan during a 20-year civil war.
The United Nations said on June 22 that 73,000 people had fled Southern Kordofan after more than two weeks of fighting although some later returned to their homes.
Activists and some aid workers had accused the Khartoum government of starting the fighting to stamp its authority on the key oil-producing state after South Sudan broke away. Southern Kordofan borders the new country of South Sudan.
Locals have said fighting flared after the government tried to disarm members of the SPLM-N, who were allied to South Sudan before the split.
Khartoum denies charges of human rights abuses in Southern Kordofan. The northern army has dismissed allegations that it has made the humanitarian situation worse, saying it is working to help civilians, not hurt them.
It has accused the SPLA-N fighters of launching a rebellion inside Southern Kordofan to try to control the region, and team up with rebels in other areas to challenge the national government.
"This is a preliminary report produced under very challenging circumstances and with very limited access to affected areas," said U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay in a statement on Monday.
"However what it suggests has been happening in Southern Kordofan is so serious that it is essential there is an independent, thorough and objective inquiry with the aim of holding perpetrators to account."
The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Sudan's president Omar Hassan al-Bashir and other officials to face charges of masterminding war crimes during a separate conflict in the country's Darfur region, which borders Southern Kordofan. Sudan refuses to recognise the court.
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