Ahmed Fadl-Khartoum

After 29 years have passed since the execution of 28 Sudanese officers convicted of participating in a coup attempt against the regime of the ousted President Omar al-Bashir, the President of the Sudanese Sovereignty Council, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, informed the families of these officers that they reached the mass grave where they were buried and that remained unknown throughout that period. Let him renew that conversation about one of the files that resists being forgotten.

Al-Burhan pledged to the families of those officers whom he met last Wednesday at the General Command of the Sudanese Army to restore consideration to the officers who were executed, to give them the right to promote and to pay compensation and financial entitlements that include their salaries since their execution and to ensure their children.

These officers were executed on April 24, 1990, on the eve of Eid al-Fitr, for their participation in a failed coup attempt called the "National Salvation Movement." And the team, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, previously announced that he was among the officers participating in that attempt and that he survived the trial, because the officers refused before their execution Disclosure of other participants with them.

In addition to the committee formed by the Attorney General last month to investigate the execution of the 28 Ramadan officers, there is another committee that was established by proof last October, led by Lieutenant-General Munawar Othman, regarding the rehabilitation of officers.

The proof did not reveal the location of the cemetery, saying only: "The area of ​​the cemetery has been almost defined, and we will see the possibility of searching inside the cemetery, or only placing a memorial in the names of the martyrs."

But Magda, the sister of Captain Tayyar Mustafa Awad Khogali, one of those covered by the death penalty, tells Al-Jazeera Net that the authorities are close to locating the cemetery, adding that it is located near the "radar" mountain near the Military College in Wadi Sidna Aqsa, north of the capital, Khartoum.

For his part, said Captain Ibrahim Khalifa Muzammil, one of the survivors of the execution and expelled from service for his participation in the coup attempt, that the cemetery is already located somewhere in the radar mountain northwest of the military prison in the valley of Sedna.

Khalifa explains that they were 46 officers in the custody of intelligence led by the army in Khartoum, before taking 29 of them to the military prison north of Khartoum, and the next morning the prison officers informed them of the execution of 28 of their comrades and only one acquittal.

Emotions of the sister of Colonel Esmat Mirghani Taha and Manal, the sister of Pilot Mustafa Khojali, members of the Legal Committee when submitting a memorandum to the Minister of Justice last October (Al-Jazeera)

Retribution
The location of the cemetery does not seem sufficient for the families of the executed officers, according to Mrs. Awatif, the sister of Colonel Esmat Mirghani Taha, one of those included in the death penalty. Extermination and now it is time to reckon. "

Awatef reports that, according to the directives of the Public Prosecutor's Committee, her family opened a communication that includes a list of 25 people involved in the execution of her brother, including the ousted president Omar al-Bashir and Islamic Front leaders such as Ali Osman Muhammad Taha, Nafi 'Ali Nafi' and Awad al-Jaz.

As for Captain Ibrahim Khalifa Muzammil, the survivor of the death sentences, he says that he and other army officers testified before the Public Prosecution Committee, adding that the indictment is large.

He explained that it affects the "Armed Forces Command Authority at the time, members of the National Salvation Revolution Command, the fortieth Revolution Councils, those who carried out the shooting of the martyrs and the Corps of Engineers, who moved a bulldozer to dig the cemetery, along with a large number of military intelligence and the heads and members of two military courts that supervised the trial of the officers."

Regarding the possibility of exhuming the cemetery, Fathia Kampal, Aqeelah, Lt. Col. Bashir Amer Abu Deek, who is also subject to the death sentences of Al-Jazeera Net, said, "There is a division between families regarding the transfer of the remains of officers and their funeral in a military funeral."

She adds that this determination is left to the Public Prosecutor's Committee if she deems that there are grounds for dissection, but considers that the cemetery, after its identification, will be transformed into a historical place by fencing it and constructing a memorial that turns into a shrine.

"The gathering of the families of the martyrs of 28 Ramadan, which was formed after a protest demonstration for families on the fifth day of the execution and was suppressed, is now harvesting the fruits of its patience," she added.

"I feel a mixed feeling of joy, sadness and amazement. I hope that I will stand on my father's grave after a long wait and have mercy on him in his shrine," said her son Mohammed, who did not see his father, Lt. Col. Bashir Abu Deek.

He considered that the disclosure of the cemetery "is a human and moral right and will reveal the details of bloody events that occurred outside the scope of the law, which requires retribution and consideration."