U.S. wants investigation into escape of USAID employee killers
June 15, 2010 (KHARTOUM) — The U.S. Embassy in Sudan issued a statement last Sunday calling for the government to investigate how four men convicted of killing a USAID official managed to escape a maximum security prison last week.
The men belonging to an Islamic extremist cell shot dead John Granville from U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and his Sudanese driver Abdel-Rahman Abbas Rahma on 2008 New Years Eve.
Granville was the first American to be killed in Sudan since 1973, when two diplomats were slain by Palestinian militants.
After several court hearings and appeals the judges upheld the death penalty imposed upon the assassins who have claimed that confessions were extorted out of them.
Last Friday it was revealed that the four men broke out of Kober prison through an old sewage pipe and shortly afterwards overran a police checkpoint northwest of the twin capital city of Omdurman.
The general feeling in Sudan has been that the fugitives received help from government insiders to escape. This is the first time in the history of the country that a prisoner succeeds in making his way out of Kober where political figures are normally held when detained.
Prior to the escape, two influential journalists with the pro-government Al-Intibaha newspaper urged Sudanese President Omer al-Bashir to give the four an amnesty, after they had appeals turned town.
“The U.S. Embassy requests the Government of Sudan to initiate a thorough investigation of the circumstances surrounding this escape from one of Sudan’s most secure prisons. We also call upon Sudanese law enforcement officials to prosecute, to the full extent of the law, any individuals or groups found complicit in the escape of these criminals.”
“The embassy calls upon the Government of Sudan to use all means at its disposal to pursue and capture these convicted criminals. It is essential that the rule of law be strictly upheld, and that justice be meted out in this case”.
The independent Al-Sahafa daily quoted government sources as saying that the warden of Kober prison has been suspended until investigation is completed.
On Saturday the Sudanese government today asked the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) to issue orange notices for the location of the fugitives. The request signaled an indication that the four men may be attempting or have already succeeded to leave the country.
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Angelo Ajiech Manyuat
U.S. wants investigation into escape of USAID employee killers
This indicate that there is something sound fishy behind this escape because this is the first time prisoners escape in Kober prison. I believe that Sudanese government help those prisoners to escape so that they’ll dodge persecution for their murder of an American man. In reality, justice don’t serve fairly in Sudan due to their addiction to pathetic sharia law. God bring change to Sudan sooner than later!
DASODIKO
U.S. wants investigation into escape of USAID employee killers
They have them somewhere! But they just want to see the American reaction. I am sure they are looking for a deal between them and America. However; if they have seen a red eye then they will say we got them!!!!!!!!!!!!
Murle Intellectual
U.S. wants investigation into escape of USAID employee killers
To those who may not know, the four terrorists were released by the NCP jihadists. It is an insult for them to keep their fellow jihadists in prison for killing Americans
Kur
U.S. wants investigation into escape of USAID employee killers
Oh, the criminals were allowed to escape but Bashir is also being asked to forgive the terrorists. Criminals running the gov’t cannot do justice. Bashir should simply surrender to ICC to answer to his crimes in Darfur.
Kur