Massacre of Al -Salih: The exhibition of international failure – the face of truth – ✍️ Ibrahim Shaqlawi
The Al-Salha massacre, south of Omdurman, was an important step in the file of serious violations against civilians in Sudan, where the massacre embodied the transfer of crimes of rapid support for horizontal propagation to “qualitative vertical brutality”, according to one of the experts. In a scene that shakes human conscience, the rapid support militia liquidated (31) young men drawn in a public square, in cold blood and before the eyes of the people, in a blatant violation of international humanitarian law, which comes under a war crime and a crime against humanity.
According to the testimonies of eye witnesses and the first reports in the Sudanese press, the members of the militia made a descent in the morning of the massacre in a public square in the Al-Salha region and dismissed a certain number of civil prisoners. With the announcement of the Network of Doctors of Sudan, the number of deaths has increased to (31), the echoes of the crime extended, revealing the extent of its commitment to the provisions of international and humanitarian law.
The militia has undertaken earlier to deal with prisoners according to the laws of war, but the facts documented with sound and image indicated that these promises did not exceed the limits of media propaganda, which proves a systematic approach by violating human rights, as field leaders affiliated to the militia, they appeared and they narrate the details of the crime.
The Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has renewed its conviction of the rapid support militia, in the context of this massacre, calling for its classification of a terrorist group and by holding its responsible regional sponsorship. Politically, civil and national powers, notably the Sudanese Congress Party condemned in a preliminary preliminary preliminary, the Federal Democratic Party, the future movement for reform and development, and the UMMA reform party, this odious crime, fully responsible support, requiring the international community to move weapons and independent equipment.
In turn, the National Soufi Commission has published a strong statement based on evidence and confessions illustrated in the ranks of the rapid support militia, which deliberately and systematically improves accusations of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The army, the massacre coincided with the progress of the Sudanese army in the West Omdurman, and its control over the “Conan” camp and its progress towards the Al-Salha camp, which is probably that the militia liquidated prisoners and civilians for fear of falling into the neighborhoods in the army and revealing more atrocities.
The good massacre does not only represent a single violation, but is also the alarm of the future of Sudan, while the massacres contribute and spread the scenes of public liquidation by distributing the social fabric and by distributing the psychological defeat among civilians. In light of a suspicious international silence, the moral question develops: what is the feasibility of the international law system if the massacres of this size pass without punishment or deterrence? And if the militia is not classified as a terrorist organization after all this documented brutality, then with a criterion, then is it determined by terrorism?
The imprisonment of these crimes constitutes a stab in the credibility of the international system and increases the tragedy of Sudan, which today fights two battles: the battle to stay against the militias of death, and the battle to recover the dignity and the justice which do not fall according to the limitation period. The blood of the just martyrs, and before them, the victims of Darfur, Sennar and Al -jazeera, remain an eternal witness to the size of the tragedy, and living ignorance in the battle of freedom and dignity, whose roots are not disappeared until all the land is released from the implementation of the rebellion and its local supporters to suppress peace.
In the presence of the blood of the broth and crossed the rubble of affected cities, the world seems to test the hardest moral exams, and it is aware of the provision of regional support for this war by a certain number of regional and international human rights organizations. When houses, schools and hospitals intentionally target, human dignity is murdered, war turns into crime, and silence becomes moral and lethality that is not suitable for the conscience of humanity.
Here, the importance of international and humanitarian law, which confirms that the protection of civilians and prisoners during disputes is an undesirable legal obligation as a Geneva congress in 1949 and additional protocols of 1977 stipulated the need to protect civilians and prisoners during armed conflicts, and brutal acts such as the deliberate murder of prisoners or civilians are crimes of war and crimes against humanity. According to these criteria, the commission of these laws exposes its authors to prosecution before the International Criminal Court, on the basis of the basic Rome system of 1998.
Depending on what we see from the face of truth, we invoke Hegel’s saying: “Freedom is only carried out by law.” And that the absence of commitment to laws does not simply mean going beyond the law, but rather a destruction of freedom itself and the dismantling of human values. Likewise, freedom does not reside in chaos, but rather in the organization which guarantees rights and justice. In this context, we hope that Sudanese judicial institutions will continue to work hard to prove the rights of the victims and do them justice, by implementing local and international laws which guarantee the protection of human rights. This will be an important step towards the restoration of security and peace in Sudan, and strengthening its national sovereignty on the basis of justice and human dignity.
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