New book on violence against Sudanese women during the National Congress-Saad Osman Madani

New book on violence against Sudanese women during the National Congress
Saad Osman Madani - published in Hurriyat on 12 - 11 - 2013
Women in Sudan suffer from the exacerbation of the phenomenon of violence imposed by the National Conference system, which takes various forms such as arrest, imprisonment, rape, verbal violence and sexual harassment by the regular forces that protect the regime. It is also justified by the clerics who have been appointed valuable judges On Sudanese society. The war, led by the armed National Congress militias in Darfur, the Blue Nile and the Nuba Mountains, has created tragic situations for women in these areas. What is happening in Sudan is a flagrant violation of women. It is a painful reality that we live in every day under the authority of the Conference. the National.
Many of those who participated in public demonstrations were arrested, especially after January 2012, and many of them were tortured while in detention. During the arrest and imprisonment process, they are frequently harassed by their sexual language, the constant threat of rape, and the actual rape by the National Security Council forces against the activist Safia Ishaq on 23 February 2011.
The phenomenon of insulting Sudanese women against the background of the law of public order, namely arrest, imprisonment and sexual harassment by the police of the public order, is merely because of the mood and personal judgment of police officers regarding their assessment of blatant adultery, and the claim that it undermines public modesty. To disregard women's right to private freedoms.
Despite the rise in the voices condemning the widespread phenomenon of detention on the mere suspicion of wearing the blasphemy worn by members of the public order police, as has been the case with "Trousers" Lubna and "Tarha" Amira, the situation is getting worse and the violence that targets women is increasing. They are being humiliated and insulted every day, because of what they believe is a blatant dress worn by some of them. They are arrested and whipped, and their statements are not shown in the media, for fear of the family and society who criminalize the girls, just to talk about such things publicly.
In the phenomenon of sexual harassment, which is practiced by the police and security forces, there are many statements of women and girls who have been exposed to them, has been documented in most Sudanese websites. Most cases of sexual harassment occurred during the arrest of many women activists who took part in demonstrations in recent years against the authoritarian and coercive policies of the National Congress. Sexual harassment also involved women working as "tea makers", food vendors in the markets, or market hawkers to sell traditional items during their arrest, in what is called the schizophrenia of the NCP public order forces at each and every time. Many of them mentioned verbal violence, which contained abusive, sexual and racist abuse, which they encountered from regular forces during attempts to arrest and imprison them. This is not the physical violence inflicted on them by these forces, which left their deep traces in their bodies, such as bruising and bruises on different bodies of the body, bruises and even fractures in the bones, and do not forget also the devastating psychological effects that accompanied this violence in all its forms, Which they felt during these events.
On the other hand, the civil war that raged in the Darfur region in 2003, which has continued to this day, has accompanied throughout these periods, serious violations of women in the Darfur region, the worst form of rape in the collective and individual by the militias affiliated Of the National Conference System in the Region. And has suffered thousands of women in Darfur and has been almost daily since 2003. According to an Amnesty International report issued on 19 July 2004, many of the atrocities that have occurred in Darfur have been mentioned. To identify the names of 250 women who had been raped in the context of the conflict in Darfur and to collect information on an estimated 250 other cases of rape, which were obtained from testimonies of individuals who represent only a fraction of those displaced by the conflict
In June 2011, the NCP forces launched an all-out war in southern Kordofan and Blue Nile against the SPLM forces, displacing thousands of women and their children into border areas and neighboring countries. The National Armed Forces (NCP) forces carried out repeated aerial bombardments by Antonovs and military helicopters for RUF-controlled areas in both the Blue Nile and the Nuba Mountains. Civilians were more targeted in these bombardments, the most affected were women And children in these areas. The crisis in these regions since the second half of 2011 and even today has been reflected more in women and children. It is universally known that women and children are the most affected during armed conflicts in any country. Since then, problems have been going on in women day after day. Many of them have lost their father, brother, husband or son. In addition to the pain, shock and psychological effects of these women, they also had the burden of replacing men The wife becomes at the same time a mother and father of her children. This is not the great suffering that a woman experiences after she and her family have to flee their homes and resort to places that are not suitable for living. The basic elements of life are not available. In this area Water, drinking water, health care, education, etc., accompanied by a great deal of hardship, and the magnitude of the tragedy you are experiencing
Women in these areas are reported in a report on Radio Models page on January 13, 2013. More than three thousand people have been displaced from the Kurmuk, Yapos and Yaabus jungle areas in the Blue Nile state for more than four months amidst dire humanitarian conditions, said the report, displaced from Yabos in Blue Nile to Tamazug radio. They have been living in the open like birds for four months They were traveling from place to place due to repeated aerial bombardment of their areas of displacement in Blue Nile, and said that among the homeless were women carrying children and elderly people who were moving from tree to tree in harsh humanitarian conditions without food or treatment. In the South of the Blacks Thousands of refugees in the Ida refugee camp for refugees fleeing aerial bombardment and fighting in the Nuba Mountains are suffering from a severe shortage of relief and humanitarian assistance. In the camp and appealed to international organizations and the United Nations to take care of the refugees fleeing the Nuba Mountains and provide urgent assistance to them in various fields. The SPLM also announced the displacement of more than 300,000 people in South Kordofan and more than 400,000 in the Blue Nile According to UN records, the movement said in a statement that the number of refugees in southern Sudan from the two regions of the Unity and Upper Nile states reached more than 150,000, to more than 38,000 in Ethiopia from the Blue Nile, as documented in UN records. As for the reduction practiced on young children in Sudan, it was protected by the Islamic Jurisprudence Complex in Sudan, which was established by the National Conference for the issuance of religious fatwas. Its name was changed from "Pharaonic Circumcision" to "Circumcision". In a meeting of the Cabinet on 5/2/2009, Article (13) of the draft Child Law of 2009 dealing with female genital mutilation was dropped in compliance with the fatwa of the Islamic Fiqh Academy, which distinguishes between the harmful circumcision (FGM) and the (Sunni circumcision) By legal circumcision. This is not the first fatwa issued by the Fiqh Academy regarding the permissibility of circumcision. In May 2005, an advisory opinion was issued on the Islamic Fiqh Academy of the Presidency of the Republic, which said that circumcision is "obligatory and obligatory. It is well known that many of the laws that are now in the system, which include public and personal liberties, are not enforced and are repeatedly violated by members of the security apparatus and the rest of the National Congress militias. Rather, it is a formal procedure in which the regime of the autocratic national conference preserves its existence and glorifies its image in international forums. However, its regime respects the law and its laws include these freedoms. The NCP also does not abide by the many international conventions that have been signed, including the defense of the rights of women, the most prominent of which is the United Nations. According to Article 1 of the United Nations Charter on the Rights of Women, it recognized the right of women to political freedom and expression of opinion. This is not recognized by the authoritarian authority of the National Congress, which believes that the freedom of political movement may affect its authoritarian power. , Violated the right of women to peaceful political movement and imprisoned and tortured many of them, to silence their voices forever. Despite the enactment of laws guaranteed in the 2005 Interim Constitution of Sudan prohibiting the violation of individual privacy and personal liberty, Article 37 of the Interim Constitution states: "The privacy of any person shall not be violated. No one may interfere in the private or family life of any person in his home or correspondence, Except in accordance with the law (art. 29). Everyone has the right to liberty and security, no one may be subject to arrest or imprisonment, and no one may be deprived of his liberty or restricted except for reasons and in accordance with procedures established by law. With these constitutional articles, and has practiced the worst violations of individual privacy Personal freedoms. The security forces and the various militias of the regime broke into the houses of many women activists in the public work. They were arrested and were not followed by the reasons for the arrest and the reasons for the arrest, and were held in prison for long periods without fair trials. On August 23, 2012, some of the illegal measures that accompanied the arrest of Professor Jalila Khamis were described (Jalila Khamis Coco was brutally abducted in front of her children at 1:00 am on March 14, one week after International Women's Day and forced She begged her 17-year-old son to let her cover herself as a "top" but they refused and threatened him with arms.) Violation of personal freedom and infringement of the freedom to participate in protest against issues affecting Negatively affect the lives of citizens and also available in the Constitution I am against hundreds of public activists. In this regard, there are many examples that reflect this violation. "I was participating in the funeral procession of martyr Dr. Salah Sanhuri at 9:00 am on Saturday, and of course the security people were guarding the convoy very heavily, even Mohamed Atta himself was present, but they did not need to hit bullets or buildings for a long time," says Amal Habani. What happened was the burial and the procession went through the streets for a long time and on Sixtyth Street, after they began to catch people, I felt that it was possible to arrest me. I said I walked the nearest house I knew, but what I had received was gone, one said to me, They arrest you, I entered the side street of my two lines stopping me
"I was arrested at 4 pm on the opposite side of Akbar Square from the street and I was only walking in the street and I did not get out to the square of Aqrab after and with me, Zmaili Ahmed," says journalist Marwa Tijani. We stopped the car in a shaded saloon and two of them in civilian clothes came out carrying two pistols. One of them pulled the pistol directly to my face and ordered us to enter the car. It was very scary. For the first time in my life, I see a gun with this proximity - Estes It was for them to enter the car with little resistance). Although the various violations against Sudanese women in the struggle for freedom, equality and democratic rule under the government of the National Congress represent a state of cultural, civilizational and social backwardness at the same time. Is widespread in many countries of the developing world. However, this system, by its authoritarian nature and ideological ideology that is generally hostile to women, exacerbated the nature of these violations and established many laws that violate the rights of Sudanese women, especially the laws of public order. Authoritarianism and fascism have also led security forces to exercise all kinds of violations against activities in public work, all of which are part of their mechanisms to stabilize the authority of the National Congress at any cost. Those activists who have always proved their superiors in leading demonstrations and protests against the junta of the National Congress, despite the escalation of these violations. The Sudanese women today, and all the activists of public work in general, must stand up and fight against this fascist regime through the institutions of the international community to put pressure on them to stop the farce of aggression against Sudanese women. This requires the move of local civil and international institutions and human rights in particular to document violations and monitor them. , And then confront this system, to pressure him to stop these crimes committed by his security forces and various militias, and we must also develop the culture and awareness of future generations regarding the status of women and their pivotal role in the industry of history and civilization, which will reflect the The long-term look at the generations, especially the male role of Sudanese women inherent in public and private life and respect for disruption