A/HRC/15/57 • Number of investigations • Number of prosecutions • Number of convictions • Number of perpetrators, especially those with command responsibility prosecuted • Findings of investigation committees made public • Number of compensated and rehabilitated victims In South Darfur, UNAMID monitored four trials involving the prosecution of low-ranking military and police officials accused of criminal offences in the State. On 1 September 2009, the Nyala General Court sentenced a corporal from the Central Reserve Police (CRP) to one-year imprisonment for negligently causing the death of a 9-year-old girl. On 12 October 2009, the Nyala General Court sentenced an SAF soldier to death for murder. UNAMID HR continues to monitor another case involving a corporal from the CRP also accused of murder. Initial steps towards implementation were undertaken. The outcome of the Commission of Inquiry into the 2008 Kalma IDP camp incident has not been made public. There has been no prosecution of those responsible for the attack which resulted in the death of 33 residents of the camp. The Government has established a Commission of Inquiry to investigate the 9 February 2010 militia attack on Kass IDP Camps. Response of the Government of Sudan The Government states that the courts in Darfur continue to try cases of killings, abductions and violence against women. It has submitted two lists of armed forces and security personnel tried and convicted by courts in the three Darfur states 3.2 Ensure that there are no laws that provide legal immunities for State agents for human rights violations; in particular, repeal article 33 of the National Security Forces Act of 1999 (criminal and civil immunity), and article 46 of the 1999 Police Forces Act (immunity for police on official duty). As long as immunity laws are in force, the responsible authorities should issue a blanket waiver for immunities for war crimes and crimes involving torture, violence against women, arbitrary detention, enforced and arbitrary disappearances and extrajudicial killings in Darfur or in relation to the situation in Darfur. Short-term • Legal immunities for armed State agents abolished • Blanket waiver issued Various laws in Sudan continue to provide No implementation at all, which 37

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