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Bashir Elbukhari Suliman, Chief Prosecutor of Sudan
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According to our practise,
we will start by hearing the delegation of the country concerned.
I now give the floor
to His Excellency
Mr Yasir
Bashir.
Bukhari
Suleiman, Chief Prosecutor of Sudan. You have five minutes
in the name of God most compassionate, most merciful. Mister President,
High Commissioner, Heads of Delegation.
I would like to congratulate the President of the Council, Mr Ambassador Amar
Zoner
for his wise management of our work and the High Commissioner. Mr. Turk, I
address you as a public prosecutor of the Republic of Sudan,
an independent institution and head of the Independent Commission of Income
that looks into violations perpetrated since April 2023.
Because your council is an international mechanism
dealing with justice, accountability and ending impunity.
The world has witnessed violations and crimes perpetrated by the
against unarmed civilians, such as killing displacement,
systematic attacks against civilians that amount to genocide, the west of Darfur
and
other crimes, as well as the massacre in W, the
Noura and Al Jazeera Governorate,
which was condemned by the High Commissioner as well as
blatant attacks that led to 21 deaths and 15 casualties.
Will you have followed the acts by the rebel forces who killed the governor of Hamis,
Mr
Abkar, who mutilated his corpse.
And you have also seen crimes and serious
violations against Children and women such as rape,
sexual violence
that targeted more than 216 women and girls,
as well as forced conscription of more than 6000 Children.
Children displaced because of these warring activities amount up to 4850 child Mr
President
since the rebellion started in April 2023. The
continued to attack civilian infrastructure and houses,
which led to the displacement of more than 15
million citizens inside the country and outside the country.
They attacked religious
sites,
mosques, cultural sites, museums, archive centres that were looted,
burned or sabotaged.
They have also
hampered the activities of more than 120 hospitals.
In their attempt to threat lawlessness, the rebel forces have invaded 31 prisons,
released inmates and many governorates.
About 19,000 inmates were released illegally.
They attacked seven airports, water and electricity plants,
18 embassies and diplomatic missions
and headquarters of international organisations.
This was a blatant violation of international law.
They also attacked law enforcement agencies.
Courts looted them, destroyed them,
sabotaged them and destroyed the documents and
killed the police and horses and dogs.
Mr.
President,
the rebel forces have also obstructed the distribution of humanitarian
assistance,
targeted humanitarian staff and attacked livestock
and crops in Al Jazeera governorate.
The rebel forces have perpetrated all these crimes
by resorting as well to foreign mercenaries,
which is
a violation of international and regional agreements.
Our national commission has respected the principles of fair trial
right of a defendant to have a defence counsel and to have legal aid by the Ministry of
Justice. We have received more than 12,000 cases and lawsuits.
We have classified the rebel forces as a terrorist organisation
according to the law and relevant Security Council resolutions.
We have also referred more than 65 criminal cases
to the national courts and we have seen some
judgments of acquittals or condemnation being published later on.
I would like to reiterate to you Mister President,
that our national judicial institutions are keen on implementing the rule of law,
achieving justice, giving redress to the victims and ending impunity,
and we are ready to engage in technical Cooper operation.
We ask the international community for the following.
First of all to submit the technical assistance that Sudan
is asking for in the field of criminal investigations.
Law enforcement
we ask for We call upon neighbouring countries to facilitate the work
of our commission so that we can have access to the victims,
witnesses and stolen assets.
Third,
to provide technical to assist in establishing an international
fund for redress and compensation for to provide technical