A group of widows has threatened to parade naked at the event of the declaration of South Sudan’s independence if the President of the Republic attends the occasion.
The group is organized by the widows and relatives of people killed during the 1992 Juba Massacre.One widow told SCR News that she and another 50 widows are planning to walk naked into the venue of the celebration if Omar Hassan Al-Bashir is among the invited world leaders.
She said the widows will walk naked to the celebration venue unless they are promised that Mr. Bashir will be arrested and handed in to the International Criminal Court.
North Sudanese human right activist Faisal El-Bagir said the widows deserve justice because the 1992 Juba Massacre represented the biggest human right abuse in the Sudan.
Merekaje Lona, a human right activist from South Sudan, said the widows have the right to express their grief in public.
She called upon the South Sudan to cooperate with the ICC and hand in Mr. Bashir if he visits Juba after independence.
The government of South Sudan said last week that more than fifty percent of African heads of state have already received their invitation for the declaration of independence, President Bashir included.