Press Release

April 1, 2004

Comment on Human Rights Report to The Human Rights Commission - Geneva

The human rights report by Eric Reeves "Khartoum's National Islamic Front Speaks to the International Community: With Contempt, with Obduracy, and with Cynical Dishonesty" just copied to Commission by this writer is a truthful account of the NIF-ruling junta policy and action towards the new century’s crime against humanity in the region of DarFur.

Inactions of international community are retarded by Sudan Government enjoyment of full status in all international bodies, especially the Human Rights Commission for which it shows nothing but contempt.

Sudanese people said it long ago, “without real participation of them, the Sudanese parties and civil society groups, external pressure would not bring the lasting peace or democratic transition to Sudan.”

Unfortunately, the best external sources that do understand this fact are not acting inline with it; they think and act as they want; something that the junta well understands and plays with.

The Chad appreciative meeting, which also was received with contempt from the part of the NIF junta, replicated the same restrictive policy that external powers adopt against full participation of Sudanese in Sudanese decision making.

The exclusion of the Massaleit Community in Exile was quite faulty and meaningless.

One message is clear from author's truthful account, as well as the other serious reports by Sudanese and non-Sudanese human rights groups, that external powers must show more action. That is fine.

However, another important message needs to be equally emphasized: international community is invited to line behind Sudanese democratic opposition and civil society groups to get the Sudan Government to respect the will of the Sudanese.

The reversed equation has not only enabled the NIF junta to get away with evil crimes against humanity; it had equally placed the junta on top of the international community's human rights commission, which is the representative of international community's refined concerns for human rights, peace and democracy.

The Khartoum military junta has already gained undeserved opportunities to fool around with Sudanese people and the international community. The opportunities were not spent in State reform. They were spent in unprecedented genocide in DarFur besides clear signs of renewed hostilities in the South by government planning and actions.

Perhaps first serious step now for the world to correct in action’s to force this ruthless regime to comply with decency and humanity is 1) kicking out the Sudan Government from the Human Rights Commission seconded with 2) clear support by the international community to the Democratic Opposition and all Sudanese civil society groups to stand as a unified body in a sponsored UN conference to decide on Sudan's present state of affairs and future.