Executive Summary
Since June 2011 to present time South Kordufan/ Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile states
of Sudan have been experiencing a deadly conflict. This resulted in many atrocities and
different human rights violations occurred. The Government of Sudan (GoS) had
declared the state of emergency in the two states. Later the GoS formed the Rapid
Support Forces as recycle of Janjaweed. The GoS equipped the RSF with more
destructive equipment and enlarged their field of work to include the two states in
addition to Darfur.
The aim of this report is to bring to light the human rights violation and abuses taking
place in SK and BN states/ government territory of Sudan and the situation of internally
Displaced Persons (IDPs) from the two states. The information included in this report
was gathered by trained monitors and compiled by trained staff. The report does not
cover all incidents that occurred due to many challenges and limitations.
The violations and abuses included in this report are; torture and arbitrary arrest which
were mainly carried out by Military Intelligence and National Intelligence (MI) and
security Services (NISS) in conflict areas. This intensified because of the emergency
status which gave the military forces the right to arrest civilians. The extrajudicial killing,
mostly conducted by military and their allied militias/ Rapid Support Force. The sexual
violence mainly committed by Rapid Support Force (RSF) against underage girls
whereby police could not carry out investigations and no reaction from authorities. The
other violations included death under torture, the government not protecting civilians
and targeting of IDPs particularly students and Christians. The report gives
recommendations calling on both parties at war to consider and respect the
international human rights laws, calling upon regional and international bodies to
compel the Government of Sudan (GoS) to respect the international human rights and
humanitarian laws.
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