Muzdalifah Muhammad Othman - Khartoum
The burning fire did not go out in the heart of the Sudanese Sadiq Samal, who lost his son during the events of the Sudanese revolution, which started in December 2018, and although the wound is still deep, he is ready to forgive the perpetrators.
The records of the bereaved father, the loss of his son Abd al-Rahman, seemed full of sadness, but they were not without a conciliatory tone, as the perpetrators, in his view, are only victims of ideas that require treatment instead of spilling more blood.
On this matter, he says, "Retribution must be from the institutional thought that made everyone victims of a gloss that is not related to human life at its lowest levels ... Retribution lies in the transition to social justice that is driven by morality and not intellectual commitment, whether religious or secular."
Regardless of how many people described Samal's vision as a super-ideal, what was remarkable was the great satisfaction and response he received from his posts on his Facebook page, without some comments being full of blame hints to promote these ideas.
But what is certain is that the voices demanding retribution for the victims are the highest so far. The Sudanese movement, which sparked in the cities of Damazin, El Fasher and Sennar with the exit of school students to protest against the high prices of bread and transportation on December 12 and 13 December 2018, reached a peak in the cities of Atbara, North Sudan and Qadarif, in the daily east. 19 and 20 of the same month.
As the weekly protest continued in Khartoum and other cities for five months, the death toll rose to about 85, according to the Central Doctors Committee.
Resolve the sit-in
However, the tragic disagreement with the army general sit-in protest last June 3, which followed the removal of Al-Bashir’s regime by about two months, represented the “great shock” that the accident took place after the fall of the regime, when about 180 people were killed, according to the “December Martyrs Organization”, while the Ministry of Health said that The number 64, but the final death toll is unknown, especially after the announcement of a number of bodies later found.
And because the video clips of the storming of the sit-in showed the elements of the police and rapid support forces, the finger of accusation was addressed directly to the military commanders who were the reason for isolating Al-Bashir, which complicates the matter further.
After the military realized in the pyramid of power the magnitude of what happened and the severe impact of the dissolution of the sit-in, the way out of the truce was to form a commission of inquiry that did not receive any popular or political recognition, but rather sparked the announcement of its results and wide protests after it concluded that the perpetrators of the operation included high-ranking officers They violated higher instructions, and they were placed in detention.
| A scene from breaking up the sit-in in which dozens fell (Al-Jazeera) |
Commissions rejected
After the formation of the transitional government, the Public Prosecutor decided to form a committee to investigate the incidents of breaking up the sit-in, followed by Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdouk himself establishing a third commission of investigation entrusted to the attorney Nabil Adeeb.
These committees do not heal the families ’families. The justice and retribution processions continued to emerge from time to time in huge numbers, the last of which was on the third of this month, as the Council of Ministers, the Sovereign Council, and the Judicial Authority received a memorial of the families of the victims, calling for the formation of a new investigation committee that includes representatives of the families of the martyrs.
The committee is concerned with all martyrs of the revolution, not just those who died in the sit-in incident. The memo called for the sit-in case to be considered crimes against humanity, with the appointment of a specialized prosecutor for the victims of the revolution headed by the Attorney General and the establishment of a specialized court also to be handled by the head of the judiciary.
| Nuri: The solution lies in the creation of special courts that cut back on the killers (Al-Jazeera) |
Revolutionary Courts
Bashir Nouri, the father of the young Uday, who died after being shot in the chest while breaking up the sit-in, doubts the Prime Minister's investigation committee.
He says to Al-Jazeera Net that the solution lies in establishing special courts that cut back from the killers, or that the public prosecutor lift the immunity from those involved in the killing of his son, especially as he directly indicted the President of the Sovereign Council, Lieutenant General Abdel-Fattah Al-Burhan, and three leaders of freedom and change - keep their mention - To prevent them from fleeing the country.
Nuri notes that the formed committee is time-consuming and difficult to follow, while if families handle separate cases they can pursue them during the investigation stages within the public prosecution and litigation before the courts.
As for Abd al-Salam, Kesha's father, who was killed during the dissolution of the sit-in, he also sees the necessity of forming a specialized prosecution, after which the "revolution courts" will be formed for the retribution of the killers.
Kisheh believes in his interview with Al-Jazeera Net that the death of the father or brother of any dead person in a separate lawsuit is futile, considering that "the committee consisting of the Prime Minister is unable to take retribution and is a killing for time."
| Kesha: Failure to indict any of those involved in the sit-in incidents is considered a default |
He points out that the transitional government officials assumed their positions thanks to the revolution, and the government's first priorities should be "retribution for those killed while participating in their demonstrations."
Kisheh considers that the failure to indict any of those involved in the events of breaking up the sit-in is considered a default by the authorities entrusted with achieving justice.
With hundreds of families of the victims waiting for the courageous measures of the government to announce the lifting of the immunity of the responsible military who are directly involved in the killing of their children in preparation for their trial, other families succeeded in this step, as more than 40 people belonging to the security apparatus are being tried after they were involved in the killing of the teacher Ahmed Al-Khair after He was arrested and tortured during the protests in Khushm Al-Qorba, eastern Sudan.
The immunity of an intelligence officer accused of killing the crowned student, Mahjoub, at the Faculty of Medicine at Al-Razi University, was also lifted after his arrest and torture.