Followup Sudan Sanctions Letter To Biden Administration
With the security and political crisis in Sudan worsening, Operation Broken Silence is once again joining 100 NGOs, Sudanese activist leaders, and human rights experts in calling on the Biden Administration to impose targeted sanctions on the military leaders of the illegal coup.
One year ago today, Generals Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, aka Hemeti, overthrew Sudan’s transitional government. Both men were holdovers from the brutal Bashir regime, which was swept from power during the country’s peaceful 2019 revolution.
These military figures are connected to previous and ongoing human rights abuses and war crimes. Since their coup, conservative estimates put the number of protesters seriously wounded by security forces under their command at over 7,000 people. But it is marginalized Sudanese in the long oppressed hinterlands who continue to suffer the most under a dangerous mix of severe regime violence and aggressive governmental incompetence.
Recent fighting in Blue Nile state has consumed the state capital and several more communities, killing over 250 people and leaving thousands more homeless. In Abyei, outbreaks of political violence have tripled since last year alone. Regime-backed attacks on defenseless civilians in Darfur have surged this year. And violence by regime-backed Misseriya tribes against Nuba communities in West Kordofan recently became so severe that it prompted a temporary and dangerous ceasefire collapse between the regime and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North. (Note: Operation Broken Silence works in the Nuba Mountains nearby, which is controlled by the SPLM-N.)
There are zero signs that such abuses will end, with diplomatic efforts and ongoing peaceful protests across the country failing to change the dark path these men have put Sudan on. Reality demands a more robust international response, including a minimum of targeted sanctions against the primary individuals responsible for derailing Sudan’s fragile transition to democracy and denying the aspirations of the Sudanese people.
Sanctions should not be used in a vacuum. They should be connected to rapidly evolving events on the ground, the aspirations and needs of the Sudanese people, and a broader overall strategy to help restore the democratic transition in Sudan.
THE LETTER
Operation Broken Silence is again joining 100 NGOs, Sudanese activist leaders, and human rights experts in calling on the Biden Administration to impose targeted sanctions on the coup leaders. Our last letter was delivered in September 2022 and has received no response.
Read the letter and see the full list of signatories.
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