Al-Yurae- Despite the widespread violations in the country, during the battles that enter their sixth month, the British draft resolution submitted to the Human Rights Council faces wide opposition from Arab and African countries, including Egypt, Libya and Ethiopia, while the Sudanese Foreign Ministry said that it has the support of the Arab Group – Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the African Group, which objected to the draft resolution.
The draft calls for the establishment of an urgent commission of inquiry on the Sudan, composed of three experts in international human rights law and international humanitarian law, appointed by the President of the Human Rights Council as soon as possible, for a period of one year at present.
Its mandate includes investigating and establishing facts and causes of all alleged human rights violations and violations of international humanitarian law, including against refugees, and all crimes committed in the context of the conflict that erupted in mid-April, collecting evidence including interviews, witness testimonies and forensic materials, and identifying individuals and entities responsible for human rights violations or violations of international humanitarian law in Sudan With the aim of ensuring that those responsible are held accountable.
The Sudanese government described the draft resolution as “extreme”, condemning the moves that it said Britain has been leading since last August and joined by some Western countries, stressing that the resolution faces “a collective rejection by all geographical and political groups to which Sudan belongs, although Britain went on to submit the draft resolution to the Human Rights Council.”
It affirmed its rejection of the draft resolution, which it considered “the right side by equating the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces and did not take into account the real priorities of the country at this stage, which it identified as ending the rebellion, evacuating citizens’ homes and civilian objects, including hospitals and places of worship, and facilitating the delivery of humanitarian aid as stipulated in the Jeddah Declaration of Humanitarian Principles signed on May 11.”
