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Sudan: Govt Rejects U.S. Accusation of Human Rights Abuse
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The Nation (Nairobi)
19 March 2008
Posted to the web 18 March 2008
Godffrey Olali
Nairobi
The Sudanese government has scoffed at an American report undermining its human rights record.
An Annual Report released last week by the State Department sharply condemned Khartoum administration, as one of the States violating human rights.
But in a quick reaction to the report, Sudan's Foreign ministry took issue with the US report, saying the latter's move was only aimed to serve its own agenda against the states that do not succumb to its dictation.
"This report lacks in subjectivity and is irrelevant to the world's human rights situation; therefore it is politically oriented reflecting the nature of the American administration's political relations with different states," the ministry said through a statement.
Sudan maintains that human rights conditions in the country have improved and even lauded by various international organisations. "The improvement witnessed in human rights conditions in the Sudan was lauded by considerable number of international organizations," says the ministry.
The country further states that it has amended some national laws to conform with international human rights accords and conventions.
Sudan also says it is signatory to human rights conventions and is in the process of working to implement them and taking big steps for the welfare and consolidation of various domains of human rights.
Sudan has been on the world focus, following the humanitarian crisis in the western Darfur region where an estimated 200,000 people are believed to have died since the war erupted in 2003 displacing at least 2.5 million others. World leaders have hugely condemned human conditions in the region, where the government has been accused of torturing non-Arabs in favour of Arabs and neglecting the region.
But on Tuesday, the government said it had already established protection camps in Darfur and introduced a "social police force." It also says the United Nations Human Rights unit, has been given full accessibility and freedom of movement in Darfur.
In its reaction, Khartoum accused Washington of intimidating the Muslim community within the US.
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"Muslims are subjected to arbitrary illegal detentions, bugging of personal contacts thus violating basic human, citizenship and equality rights," it said.
Sudan government also accused Washington as being the world's biggest human rights violator, whose practices are openly witnessed in the secret prisons worldwide.
The statement cited kidnapping of innocent persons dispatching them to be tortured in some countries in addition to what is taking place in Guantanamo camp, the practices it said, are perpetrated and are still taking place in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
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