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A report highlights the crimes and atrocities committed in Sudanese Army and Muslim Brotherhood prisons


The network (SPT) dedicated a report to highlight the horrific human rights violations and crimes committed by the Sudanese army and its allied Islamic militias in their detention centers and prisons.

The network stated in its report that the serious violations committed deserve to be documented and condemned, but many factors have contributed to overlooking the severe crimes and violations committed by the Sudanese army and the allied Muslim Brotherhood militias, granting them a form of implicit immunity and encouraging them to continue committing atrocities without fear of accountability.

The report continues: “This neglect reached its peak during the massacres and violations suffered by the inhabitants of Kanabi in the Al Jazirah state, when the army and its allies used excessive violence, including murder, arson, and forced displacement. The disregard for the army’s crimes led to a situation within its ranks and those of the allied Islamic and tribal militias that resembled a guarantee of impunity, causing an escalation in violence against civilians, an increase in arbitrary arrests in official prisons and secret detention centers resembling ‘houses of horror,’ and the spread of organized killings, looting, and theft, as part of a systematic campaign of terror that continues to this day.”

The report specifies that the army and its militias manage secret detention centers in the cities of Omdurman, Khartoum, and the Nile, often located in apartments in buildings, abandoned homes belonging to citizens who fled the war, as well as some hospitals, schools, and closed kindergartens. These centers are so numerous that it is difficult to count them, and they are spread over a vast area in several cities. These centers are overseen by various entities: some are supervised by the official security service, others by the Muslim Brotherhood‘s security, and some are under the control of what is known as the “Special Work Forces,” a mixed group of official members and militia fighters, all affiliated with the Islamic movement. There are also detention centers belonging to the “Brigade of Al-Bara’a bin Malik” militia, most of which are located in the Nile city.

All of these detention centers are intended for civilians, and those accused of working or collaborating with the Rapid Support Forces are either executed immediately or sent to special military intelligence centers.

In these secret detention centers, all forms of physical and psychological torture are practiced, in a context where food and medical care are almost non-existent.

The report includes testimonies from many former detainees, their families, eyewitnesses, human rights defenders, and Sudanese and international organizations.

One survivor testified that each day, between 7 to 8 people are buried on average, while the lowest number of deaths in a day was 4, and the highest number reached 30 bodies buried in one day. This figure concerns only one detention center.

Survivors’ testimonies confirm that more than 1,500 people were killed inside one detention center due to torture, lack of medical care, and malnutrition, and that most of the bodies buried were in an advanced state of decomposition.

 

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