Banjul, 22 Apr. The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR), a Gambia-based body of the African Union (AU), today condemned the shelling of residential areas in Sudan and attacks on hospitals, after a week of violent fighting. in the country.
“The ACHPR expresses its outrage in the strongest possible terms at the indiscriminate hostilities, including shelling of civilian residential areas that have killed and maimed an increasing number of people and inflicted enormous suffering and pain,” the minister said. organ in a statement.
In addition, the ACHPR regretted “the repeated attacks on hospitals and health centers, which have destroyed twelve of them.”
Thus, the pan-African body also pointed out that in Sudan there is “total disregard for the principles of humanitarian law”, with the wounded and sick without access to humanitarian services, and civilians “stranded in places without services or access to basic needs, including food and water.”
According to the ACHPR, during the fighting civilians have been killed, homes have been destroyed, access to medical care for the wounded has been obstructed, and there has been “sexual violence” against women and girls, including rape by “personal of the conflict”, among other abuses.
The body called for the “immediate and unconditional cessation of hostilities” and to guarantee “urgently” access to humanitarian services for people who need it, as well as a mechanism for the AU Commission (secretariat) to “document and report on human rights issues in the ongoing fighting in Sudan”.
Fighting between the Sudanese Army and the powerful Rapid Support Forces (FAR) paramilitary group has been going on in the country since April 15 despite several attempts at humanitarian pauses and after weeks of tension over the reform of the Sudan forces. security in the negotiations to form a new transitional government.
At least 413 people have been killed and 3,551 injured in Sudan since the outbreak of the conflict, according to the latest count from the World Health Organization (WHO). EFE
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