Sudan accuses UN field workers of bias in assessing rights conditions
September 19, 2011 (KHARTOUM) –The Sudanese Justice Minister Mohammed Bushara Dousa slammed United Nations field workers in his country saying that they lack objectivity when writing assessments on human rights conditions.
The Sudanese official said that behavior of the office’s staff led to loss of trust between Khartoum and UN rights bodies noting that this “harms the common endeavor to protect and promote human rights”.
The human rights officer in Sudan’s mission in Geneva Hamza Omar Hassan who transmitted Dousa’s complaint said that the justice minister also accused UN staff of giving priority to their own interests which leads them to providing erroneous and biased reports.
Dousa said that this misleads decision making bodies at the UN and states which base their resolutions on these reports.
The Sudanese official added that the disbanded UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) focused its efforts on encouraging South Sudan’s secession throughout their stay in the country since 2005.
He also criticised the UN for ignoring violations by the Sudan People Liberation Movement (SPLM) committed in the contested region of Abyei. Dousa also said that the world body prepared a false account of events in South Kordofan.
A UN report last month documented wide-ranging atrocities it alleges were committed by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and its allied paramilitary forces during South Kordofan’s conflict. The report said that the actions could amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, calling for an independent probe into the situation.
The UN human rights envoy for Sudan said the violence in the country’s border region, and particularly in Abyei, South Kordofan and Blue Nile, threatened peace between Khartoum and Juba.
“Sudan and South Sudan cannot be at peace if the border areas between the two countries remain mired in armed conflict,” Mohamed Chande Othman told the UN Human Rights Council.
The United Nations said on Sunday that the number of people fleeing from South Kordofan’s Nuba Mountains region across the border into Unity state surged last week, to about 500 a day compared with 100 a day in August.
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Cibaipiath Junub Sudan
Sudan accuses UN field workers of bias in assessing rights conditions
The Government representives of Khartuom (Justice Minister and Ambassador to UN) are disputing the truth. You are fun of violating Human Rights. I do not know why you claimed yourselves to be “holy” when you deny the truth to flourish in the eyes of faithful. Un field workers have no other interest apart from reporting what actually come across to their eyes. Do you want them to pretend and report false which is not in their terms of reference and career as well? That is No. The UN field workers should exactly report the degree of Human Right violation in Khartuom and especially by the NCP to the UN and entire world. Right now, you have arrested dozens of people, killed dozens and diplaced dozens. You are continuing bombing the civilian targets within Sudan as if you are fighting an independent soverign state. Is that not a human right Violation? You have violated the CPA and deny freedom of speech? You have block trade routes. You are torturing civils who are not contented with your rulings. You keep on threatening people and civilians live in fear all the time. No peace, joy and freedom of Associations. People live in total dismay. What a nation of fear to live in? Darfur, South Kordofan and South Blue are to liberate themselves from brutality.