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SUDAN GOVT BLAMMED FOR VIOLENCE December 12, 2005
Apunyu Bonny
(SomaliNet) Sudanese President Omar el-Beshir, and his team has been blamed for widespread atrocities committed in the troubled western Darfur region, a leading human rights watchdog said on Monday, reports AFP.
Beshir and 15 other current and former senior officials in the Khartoum government, military commanders and local administrators should be subjected to United Nations sanctions and probed for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said.
"The Sudanese government at the highest levels is responsible for widespread and systematic abuses in Darfur," HRW said in a report entitled "Entrenching Impunity: Government Responsibility for International Crimes in Darfur."
UN Security Council and individual nations have been called by the New York based group to take stronger measures to atrocities there and boost the African Union (AU) military mission in the region. The body has also called upon the International Criminal Court (ICC), the World’d first pernmanent war crimes tribunal to investigate Sudan's entire leadership for possible prosecution for the abuses.
It named Beshir, Sudan's Second Vice-President Ali Osman Taha, Defence Minister Abduraheem Hussein, armed forces chief of staff Abbas Arabi and intelligenc! e chief Salah Abdallah Ghosh as among those suspected of orchestrating repression in Darfur.
They "should be investigated for crimes against humanity and war crimes, either as a matter of individual criminal responsibility or command responsibility," HRW said in the nearly 90-page report.