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HUDO Centre 7th February 2018 Update (12) COURT TRIAL OF AL-SANADRA CASE The court session was held on 31st January 2018 at Khartoum North court before Justice/ Abdeen Hamid Dhahi. All parties were present except the prosecutor. The next court session will be on 14th January 2018. The coming session is scheduled to hear testimonies from AlAbbasiya’s former governor and Tagali Ommda/ mayor. Summary of the court session The main activity of the session was hearing of testimonies from two accusing witnesses (the 15th and 16th witnesses). Their names are; Mr. Emam Abdalla Eldai, 47 years old, self-employed and a resident of Al-Abbasiya (15th witness) and Mr. Rafae Eltahir Hamid, 38 years old, selfemployed and a resident of Al-Sanadra (16th witness). They were cross-examined by the court/ judge and lawyers from both panels. The summary of their testimonies is indicated below:  The 15th witness informed court that soon after the attack, he went together with two community leaders in Al-Abbasiya to the locality governor/ Mr. Daoud Abu-Kalam to inform him about the incident. They found the governor in a meeting over the same issue and they were invited in to join. The following were in the meeting; the locality governor, Al-Abbasiya’s army commandant/ Colonel. Elrasheed, SAF Captain/ Elgeiley, the state’s Member of Parliament/ Gaidoum Moalla, Al-Abbasiya’s Mayor/ Adam Omer Ismail, the mayor of Tagali/ Altahir Mansour and other two people from Messairya Arab tribe (one of them is Elmanzoul Rodwan). During the meeting, defendant/ Abakar Fadelmowla came in PDF uniform and informed the commandant that, they attacked the first camp and that they are in need for support vehicles.  Two vehicles were sent together with SAF soldiers, PDF commandant and other members of PDF to evacuate the attackers. One of those vehicles was loaded with a machine gun and its bullets.  The 15th witness informed court further that, he had asked the military commandant later in the hospital when the dead bodies had arrived that “was Al-Sanadra a camp”? But he got no reply.

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Court Trial of Al Sanadra Case

Reports

Type of Report: Thematic reports / research papers

Date of publication: Sep 17, 2017

Brief description: On 2nd Sept 2016, Public Defense Force (PDF) soldiers on more than twenty motorcycles accompanied by two land cruiser vehicles attacked Al-Sanadra village in Al-Abbasiya locality in South Kordufan state. The attack was based on a claim that some cattle were looted and the footsteps passed through Al-Sanadra village. As a result of the attack, nine (9) people were killed, about twenty (20) wounded and some houses were looted and burnt down, cattle were looted as well as displacement of many residents of Al-Sanadra. The authorities (state/security) first ignored the case but later considered it after much pressure from citizens/public. The case was opened at Al-Abbasiya police office. The lawyers’ of the victims (Accusation panel) requested for the transfer of court to Khartoum and it was accepted.