Call to put to trial murderers of the Ramadan Martyrs
Nov 2, 2005 — April the 24th, 1990 (the 28th of Ramadan), almost one day before the occurrence of the Eid Muslim religious festival, the NIF leadership of the June coup 1989 (who still are leaders of the Transitional Government) murdered 28 army officers and 200 regulars (or more) in gross violation of international norms and the Sudan military law that guarantee irrevocable provisions on procedure, sentence, and appeal in the case of a court martial or other prosecutable trials to maintain the rights of the accused.
The murdered officers included General Khalid al-Zain, a key figure of the Sudanese Army, and the other well-reputed army leaders Lieutenant-General ?Uthman al-Sayed Baloal, Lieutenant General Hussain ?Abd al-Qadir al-Kadaro, Brigadier Mohamed ?Uthman Karrar, Colonel Mohamed Ahmed Qasim, Colonel Bashir Mustafa, Colonel Ismat Merghani Taha, Colonel Salah al-Deen al-Sayed, Lieutenant-Colonel Sayed Hassan ?Abd al-Raheem, Lieutenant-Colonel Bashir al-Tayeb, Lieutenant-Colonel Mohamed ?Abd al-?Aziz, Lieutenant-Colonel Bashir ?Amir, Lieutenant-Colonel ?Abd al-Mon’im Hassan ?Ali Karrar, Major Nihad Ismail Humaida, Major Seed Ahmed al-Nu’man, Major Taj al-Deen Fath al-Rahman, Major Usama al-Zain, Major al-Shaikh al-Baqir al-Shaikh, Major Akram al-Fatih Yousif, Major Mua’wiya Yassin ?Ali, Major Salah al-Deen al-Dirdeeri, Major al-Fatih Ahmed al-Yass, Major Isam Abu al-Qasim, Major Babikir ?Abd al-Rahman Nugd-Allah, Captian Mustafa ?Awad Khugali, and Captain ?Abd al-Mon’im Kemair.
Until a fair lawful trial is publicly made to determine the criminal role of all suspects in these heinous murders, the Ramadan Family League holds the June coup leader, Brigadier Omer Hassan al-Bashir (nowadays a Field-Marshal, President of Sudan), and all his military and civilian collaborators in the Ramadan 1990 massacres directly responsible for the murders of the officers mentioned in this call, as well as the other regulars whose full names have never been disclosed by the authorities.
We, the Ramadan Family League in the United States and the United Kingdom :
– Ask the Government of Sudan to identify the graves of the murdered officers and the other army regulars, and the names of all the crime-doers or accomplices.
– Demand the Government should immediately allow our families to receive the wills and the other belongings of the martyrs.
– Require the Government to enable an Independent Judiciary to put to trial the suspects/accused persons referred to in this release, without discrimination.
Our League is confident that the Sudanese Civil Society and the International Community would support this Call on the Transitional Government of Sudan to realize, in actual terms, provisions of the Transitional Constitution, which protect the rights of crime victims and guarantee fair public trial to the accused.
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Kofi Anan, United Nations Secretary General, New York
Jan Pronk, United Nations Envoy to Sudan, Khartoum
The Transitional Government, Khartoum
The National Democratic Alliance, Khartoum
Umma Party, Omdurman
Human Rights and Civil Society Groups