SPLM-N’s Malik Agar urges UN Human Rights Council to delve deeper into Sudan situation

In a statement on the eve of the 36th Regular Session of UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, opposition Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement – North (SPLM-N) Chairman Malik Agar has called on the Council to “extend its visits to the eras where the affected people located to be able to meet all the stakeholders… to avoid the risk of manipulation of his visits”.

Agar said “the Council have listened intensively to the decorated rhetoric speeches from the delegations of the government of Sudan, and affiliated NGOs. Their theme was on two issues: One, the lifting of the US sanctions which are portrayed as causes of the economic degradation in Sudan, That is not true, the truth is of their own making, and their policies.

“While [focusing on] the genocide of the Rohenga, that is indeed an unacceptable and uncalled for genocide, these people or NGOS never talked about the genocide in their backyard, Darfur; the mass rape of Tabit, mass killings in Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile, human rights violations all over Sudan, the recent massacre at Kalma camp for displaced persons.

“I strongly urge the concerned human rights organisations, governments, and members of this Council to condemn the continued government violence and evident violations of human rights and attacks on civilians, detentions massacres of all corners of Sudan.”

Agar urges the Council “to pay attention to Sudan government continuing the war under cover of guns disbandment. That is a disguised method of launching military operations while declaring a cessation of hostilities,” Agar concludes.