About two thirds of Sudan's 26 million people live in the north where Arabic is the main language and Islam the majority religion. [...] Throughout the country, from cities to the countryside, it has systematically violated the human rights of ordinary Sudanese as it crushes opposition to its own ideology of political Islam. [...] Most of the time.'' A detainee held for four months in 1992 describes his experience in a letter to a friend after his release (7) “I paid them their fine but I refused to take the lashes. [...] Shilluk family from the south in a squatter camp in the capital, Khartoum © Panos (9) The deliberate targeting of civilians has been a strategy used by all parties in the civil war. [...] Government forces and both factions of the SPLA have been responsible for killing tens of thousands of unarmed civilians, including defenceless children.
- Index number
- AFR 54/046/1994
- Published in
- United Kingdom
