Sudan

The 2 million people driven from their homes in Darfur are still at risk of unlawful killing, displacement, rape, detention, torture, starvation and disease. Darfur is still a conflict zone and its people are traumatised by the losses of the past, they are in fear of the present and unsure of their future.

When we visited Sudan we spoke to hundreds of displaced persons in camps and towns in Darfur as well as in the capital, Khartoum. Their testimonies confirmed the enormous mistrust still felt toward the Sudanese government by those who have been forced out of their villages and remain too afraid to leave their camps without international protection.

The government continues to deny the extent of the killings and rapes and refuses to take responsibility for the human rights and humanitarian crisis in Darfur. To strengthen the human rights situation in Darfur, a comprehensive approach to the situation in the whole of Sudan is needed. Issues that need to be urgently addressed throughout Sudan include:

• impunity for grave human rights violations
  
• the lack of freedom of expression or association
  
• harsh conditions of detention
  
• unfair trials and an unreformed judiciary
  
• human rights violations against women
  
• the use of militias to kill and displace civilians
  
• arms proliferation

For the latest Amnesty reports on Sudan see the AIUK website