News and Politics | August 17, 2008 | 15 comments

Darfur rebels sentenced to death

source: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2008/08/200881714819511413.html

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Sudan has sentenced eight Darfur fighters, including a senior member of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), to death for their involvement in an attack on Khartoum, Sudan's capital.

The court ruling on Sunday brings to 38 the number of people condemned to hang over the unprecedented attack in which more than 222 people were killed.

Among those sentenced was Abdel Aziz el-Nur Ashr, the half-brother of Khalil Ibrahim, the JEM leader.

"The court is sentencing all eight accused to death by hanging," said Mudathir Rashid Sidahmed, the presiding judge.

The accused and relatives - who were barred from attending the hearing - broke into shouts of death to the government after the sentences were read, a reporter for the AFP news agency said.

Darfuri women at the court protested outside the courtroom but were escorted away by police.

The accused have one week to appeal before Omar Hassan al-Bashir, Sudan's president, signs the execution order.

The UN has voiced concern that the courts do not meet international standards and urged the appeals court to review the sentences.

The attack on Khartoum in May was the first time an armed group had brought their fight to the capital.

The fighters were stopped at bridges over the Nile, a few kilometres from the presidential palace and army headquarters.
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15 comments // Darfur rebels sentenced to death

  • rem2
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      rem2  

    • First , there is oil in Africa, along w/diamonds, and we are not involved there. As far as doing something....Clinton screwed that up...can we say Somolia? I have no answer what to do except to try using the impotent U.N. forces....again...you know, the ones that didn't help us in Somolia.

    • 3 years ago
  • negrete_ink
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      negrete_ink  

    • WHY ISENT THE The US fighting for Africa???
      Is Iraq worth fighting for, Are They better than everyone on earth??/ Oh, Yeah, There is oil ther. I forget!!!!!!

      Life is not worth it, OIL IS!!!!!!!

      GOD BLESS AMERICA

    • 3 years ago
  • negrete_ink
  • Bren589
  • molotovsx4xcorpgov
  • katielanae
  • phillyharper
  • HiImGuss
  • stratuscloud9
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      stratuscloud9  

    • I think it's too easy to say, "When are we going to do something about this?"

      I truthfully don't know what to do. Spread the word? Pray? Fly out there and become a human shield? Maybe I should just bug the government into doing my dirty work for me...

      I shall call it "Exhibit A": the thirst for power, and the apathy of those who are quenched

    • 3 years ago
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  

    • "The accused have one week to appeal before Omar Hassan al-Bashir, Sudan's president, signs the execution order."

      And another war criminal in Bashir goes free. They even stand up for him even after the ICC calls for his arrest. And the US, China, and the international community turn a blind eye... just like they did in Rwanda...Despicable.

    • 3 years ago
  • huntre
  • kennymotown
  • Vierotchka
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      Vierotchka  
    • kennymotown:

      The USA has been for many, many years aiding, training, arming and financing the Darfur rebels because China happens to legally own the concession of the largest and richest oilfield in south Darfur, and oilfield which the USA has long coveted.

    • 3 years ago
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