Sudan: Accountability in Sudan 'Crucial' to Avoid 'Further Bloodshed', Says UN Rights Office

7 June 2019

Now in its fifth day, a crackdown by the military authorities in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, with dozens reported killed, has prompted a "gravely concerned" UN human rights office (OHCHR) to propose the "rapid deployment" of a monitoring team to look into allegations of serious rights violations.

Spokesperson Rupert Colville told journalists in Geneva on Friday that the UN was seeking the military Government's cooperation to deploy the mission, which would seek, at the earliest opportunity, "to engage with relevant Sudanese authorities, civil society organizations and others".

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