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2021-03-17 Africa Horn
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Sudan Prosecutes Former Regime Officials on Corruption, Murder Charges
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[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] The Sudanese Public Prosecution announced it was taking legal action against a new group of former officials of ousted President Omar al-Bashir
 ...Former President-for-Life of Sudan He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself head cheese. He fell out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Hee was overthrown by popular consent in 2019. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it...
's regime on charges of murder, corruption and torture.
The Public Prosecution referred five cases of murder during protests in Atbara city to the judiciary, which will set date for the trials.
It also completed its investigations into an incident where a detainee was tortured to death by the Rapid Support Forces in December. The report will be referred to the judiciary within days.
Attorney General, Tajelsir El Hibir, received the forensic reports on the autopsy of exhumed bodies of the Kajbar Dam deaders, and the incident was documented as a criminal association and premeditated murder.
The Kajbar Dam events date back to 2007 when members of the security forces of the former regime rubbed out four people during a peaceful march denouncing the construction of the dam, which was threatening to inundate their areas.
Former finance ministers, Ali Mahmoud Abdel-Rasoul and al-Zubair Ahmed al-Hassan, who was the Secretary-General of the Islamic Movement, among others, are facing corruption charges relating to their selling of the state's River Transport Authority, according to the prosecution's statement.
The prosecution also charged ministers Awad Ahmed al-Jaz and Abdel Halim al-Mutafi along with others with corruption charges in the case of the Mashkour Sugar Company. Former governor, al-Haji Atta al-Mannan was also indicted in corruption charges in the case of the AlNile Bank.
The Prosecution's office of Crimes Against the State and Counterterrorism issued 34 reports against former officials for using foreign currencies outside the banking system, and their involvement in counterfeiting networks.
Since the toppling of Bashir and the establishment of the transitional government, the Prosecution has been working on several cases and reports to hold the regime accountable for its crimes.
The ousted president was convicted of corruption, and his comrades are under trial for plotting the 1989 coup that overthrew the elected democratic government led by the late Prime Minister al-Sadiq al-Mahdi.
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