06.03.2007 - Source: US Department of State

Southern Sudan: Police lacks resources to effectively protect local population ("Country Report on Human Rights Practices 2006") [ID 19251]

"According to UNMIS, police in Southern Sudan lacked resources to effectively protect the local population. In Maridi, in West Equatoria State, police lacked uniforms, radios, sufficient vehicles, and office equipment. The local jail had only one cell, with no toilet. To compensate for the lack of resources, police required complainants to pay three dollars (5,000 Ugandan shillings) before they would investigate their cases. Ugandan shillings, Kenyan shillings, Ethiopian birr, and US dollars all circulate as common currency in the south. Local judicial personnel also were inadequately trained, with only one judge having a law degree. Local police also complained that SPLM officials routinely intervened in police affairs, forcing police to release relatives and friends without following legal procedures. "

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06.09.2006 - Source: Human Rights Watch

Government indiscriminately bombs civilian-occupied villages ("Darfur: Indiscriminate Bombing Warrants U.N. Sanctions") [ID 15797]

"Sources on the ground indicate that the government of Sudan is indiscriminately bombing civilian-occupied villages in rebel-held North Darfur, Human Rights Watch said today. The bombing campaign comes as Khartoum is threatening to eject African Union peacekeepers and stymieing efforts to deploy a U.N. force to the region, and should trigger sanctions against senior Sudanese government officials."

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10.02.2006 - Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees

Arbitrary detention by security forces persists ("UNHCR's position on Sudanese asylum-seekers from Darfur") [#44832],  [ID 18370]

"The National Assembly passed a new Security Act in July 1999, which allows
the security forces to detain individuals for a period of three days for investigation. It
is difficult to assess whether the three-day provision of the Act is being strictly
implemented. Since the security forces wield considerable power, arbitrary detention
for much longer periods persists. In addition, many suspected political opponents are
required to report every day to security offices, where they have to stay all day."

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01.2006 - Source: Human Rights Watch

World Report 2006 [ID 15377]

Government of the country doesn't take concrete steps to disarm and disband the Janjaweed; government militia allies and army troops committed abuses with impunity

"The Sudanese government took no concrete steps to implement a 2004 Security Council resolution demand to disarm and disband its allies, the Janjaweed. Government militia allies, to whose abuses civil servants turned a blind eye, and army troops committed abuses with impunity, encouraging further lawlessness. In June 2005, the Sudanese government set up a tribunal, the “Special Criminial Court on Events in Darfur,” purportedly to try individuals guilty of abuses. However, as of October 2005, of six cases tried by the new tribunal, none concerned major crimes associated with the conflict. No medium or high-level government officials or militia leaders were suspended from duty, investigated, or prosecuted for serious crimes in Darfur."

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