Geneva: Head of the UN Rights on Thursday condemned the use of Sudanese ammunition against peaceful demonstrators, after 15 protesters killed in the most bloody day since the October 25 coup.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said his office had repeatedly appealed to Sudanese military forces “to refrain from the use of unnecessary and disproportionate forces to demonstrators”.
“It was very embarrassing that the ammunition of life was used again yesterday against the protesters,” he said in a statement.
“Photographing into a large crowd of unarmed demonstrators, leaving dozens of dead and many more injured, sad, clearly aimed at strangling expressions of differences in public opinion, and totaling violations of international human rights law.” At least 15 people were killed during the crackdown of massive protests Wednesday, raising victims since the coup of up to 39.
More than 100 others were injured, including 80 which sustained shots into their body and their heads, quoted by reliable.
Medical source.
The police said 89 officers had been injured.
Protests are the latest who has rocked Sudan since General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan – Sudan de facto leader since April 2019 expelled the old President Omar al-Bashir – last month to hold civilian leadership and stated an emergency.
The latest demonstration is organized even though there is a total shutdown of internet services and telephone line disorders in Sudan.
“Internet and telecommunications shutdown blankets violate the core principles of the needs and proportionality and contrive of international law,” said Bachelet.
He warned the closure of communication means people “cannot ask the ambulance to treat injured protesters, families cannot check the safety of the people they love, and the hospital cannot reach a doctor because the emergency room is filled.” Bachelet urged the authorities to release all who were detained because they only protested.
He also condemned the increase in targeting journalists in Sudan, including arbitrary arrests and kidnapping experimental reports.
“With the internet shutdown, the role of journalists in getting important information in the current situation is very important,” he said.
“But I’m afraid the environment that is increasingly hostile to them can cause self-sensor, and more threatening media pluralism and independence.”
The murder of the demonstrators in Sudan ‘truly embarrassing’: Head of the UN Rights
