Enough Project on Sunday praised the Sudanese government for investigating crimes committed in Darfur by the former regime led by Omar Hassan Ahmed Al Bashir.
Project Senior Advisor Dr Suliman Baldo said Sudan took a significant step by opening investigations into the role of deposed President Omar al-Bashir and some fifty senior officials of his regime in the war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide that took place in Darfur starting in 2003.
His praise came after State Prosecutor Tagelsir al-Heber announced on Sunday that Sudan has opened an investigation into crimes committed in Darfur going back to 2003 by members of the regime of former president Omar al-Bashir.
The world will be watching closely, with the expectation that these investigations will be conducted independently, fairly, and with the clear understanding that no one will be held above the law who was implicated in orchestrating these atrocity crimes in Darfur and elsewhere in Sudan’, Dr Baldo explained.
The new civilian-led government is showing through these investigations its determination to put an end to rampant impunity for serious crimes that prevailed under Bashir.
It is also responding to the demands of justice by the victims of conflicts in Sudan, and by the population whose peaceful protests led to the downfall of Bashir.