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• 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
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