Sudan sentences 12 JEM rebels to death
June 9, 2009 (KHARTOUM) — A Sudanese special court sentenced 12 rebels from the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) to death on Tuesday after their participation in an attack on the Sudanese capital in May 2008 where some 220 people were killed.
The verdict, which is the last in a series of court cases related to Omdurman attack, brings to 103 the number of the rebels condemned to death. The court found the JEM members guilty of terrorism, murder and destroying public property.
Abdel Aziz Abu Usher, a half brother of the JEM chairman is among those who are sentenced to die on Tuesday. The court also ordered to transfer one of the sentenced rebels to a mental hospital.
None of the sentenced 103 has been executed.
JEM rebels denounced the trials of their comrades they described the courts as “Inquisition Courts implementing the political will of the regime.”
They also said that Khartoum had breached Doha goodwill agreement because it had agreed to consider the sentenced rebels as prisoners of war (POWs).
The release of POWs is one of the two issues discussed currently in Doha by the Sudanese government and JEM rebels. The two parties review the implementation of a confidence building deal they signed on February 17.
However, the government says JEM should sign a ceasefire agreement before to proceed the release of JEM sentenced or detained members.
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Chol
Sudan sentences 12 JEM rebels to death
The Khartoum government does not know something called POW as we have seen it in the SPLM/A which released their POWS while Khartoum could not release a single one their side.
This is unfortunate. They go rampage killing thousands if not milions in the west, east, centre and in the south as well and nothing every executed them but they are the one with the power to execute everyone including pows. So, it’s their time let them have fun.
Tom Zart
Sudan sentences 12 JEM rebels to death
WAR IS THE GREATEST PLAGUE OF MAN
As war is fought it takes charge
And events spin out of control.
The madness of men can alter the soil
Which nourishes the roots of their soul.
Many things will forever change
Far more then wished to be.
As the wrath of war starts to destroy
Those things we fight to keep free.
War is the greatest plague of man
Religion, state, and sanity.
Any scourge is more preferred
Than the one which disables humanity.
When war breaks out, boundaries change
And all who die are a token
Of the rage that must run it’s course
Before words of peace are spoken.
War I hate, though not men, flags nor race
But war itself with its ugly face.
When we lose faith in the brave, which die
Then we’re not fit to greet those who cry.
What distinguishes war isn’t death
But that man is slain by fellow man.
Crushed by cruelty and injustice
With his enemy’s murderous hand.
War tends to punish the punishers
So the losers won’t suffer alone.
The essence of war is but violence
Till the survivors come marching home.
Sometimes it’s hard to defend what’s right
Sometimes we’re forced to rise up and fight.
Sometimes we survive, while others must die
Sometimes never knowing the reason why.
The rush of combat is a natural buzz
Caused by fear, leaving nothing as it was.
Hunting one another like wild game
Without a shortage of those to blame.
Sometimes victory comes too slow or quick
Sometimes the cost on both sides is sick.
Sometimes God is asked to intervene
To help stop the savage from being so mean.
War is a hell we visit before death
Fueled by the whisper of the devil’s breath.
There must be a reason man destroys man
But why it is so, I can’t understand.
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