The officer corps of the sudanese army, who had attempted a coup against ex-president Omar el-Bashir, have been found near Khartoum.
The body of 28 officers of the sudanese army, who had attempted a coup in 1990 to overthrow the ex-president Omar el-Bashir, have been discovered in a mass grave in Omdurman, twin city of Khartoum, has announced on the floor Thursday. This is the second mass grave discovered since the fall of the autocrat, who had ruled the country with an iron hand for thirty years. It is on the basis of the information gathered by a commission of inquiry set up by the services of the attorney, after the overthrow of Omar al-Bashir, that the mass grave was found.
“It took three weeks and the participation of 22 experts from different departments to locate it. Operations are underway to exhume the body and physicians perform tests to identify them,” he added in a statement to the prosecutor, Tagelsirr al-Hebr. These officers had surrounded the army headquarters as well as multiple barracks before being arrested and executed.
In mid-June, a mass grave containing the bodies of dozens of soldiers executed in 1998 by the regime of Omar el-Bashir while they were attempting to desert, had been an update by the commission of inquiry to investigate the killings in the military camp of Ailefoun, in the south-east of Khartoum.
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A government in search of the truth
In April 1998, several dozens of young conscripts were killed in attempting to escape from the camp unsafe for Ailefoum where they attended their training, in order to join their families for the muslim holiday of eid al-Adha. Rejecting accusations that were addressed, the sudanese authorities then, in response to the ex-president Omar el-Bashir, had said that the young soldiers were dead, drowned in the Blue Nile. Officially, 55 bodies have been recovered after the boat carrying the recruits sank.
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This official version was quickly challenged by survivors, families of victims, who never received the remains of their loved ones, as well as many of the opposition groups who believe in hundreds the number of victims. The military regime of Bashir ousted from power in August 2019 after having reigned 30 years in the Sudan with an iron fist, using the conscripts as troops in his war against rebels in the South, a region rich in oil resources, which seceded in 2011.
Omar el-Bashir to trial
Since August 2019, the Sudan has a government of civilian-military transition, the responsibility of leading the country for three years. Resolved to break with the old regime, the latter seeks to restore the truth, long buried, to the abuses and massacres committed under the dictatorship of Bashir. Convicted of corruption in December 2019, Omar el-Bashir, who is currently detained in the prison of Kober, in Khartoum, is also the subject of two arrest warrants from the international criminal Court (ICC) for “war crimes”, “crimes against humanity” and “genocide” in Darfur.
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The conflict in Darfur (west), which broke out in 2003 between the regime in most arab of al-Bashir and rebels from ethnic minorities, has approximately 300,000 people and forced 2.5 million people into exile, according to the united Nations. On Tuesday, the ex-president of the sudan has appeared before a special court in Khartoum, where he must respond to the coup that had brought him to power in 1989, a trial unique in the arab world.
The first hearing lasted only an hour because the room could not accommodate the 191 defence lawyers. The special court formed of three judges has fixed August 11 for the next hearing. The ex-autocrat at the age of 76 and 27 other defendants may face death penalty for having overthrown the democratically elected government of Prime minister Sadek al-Mahdi 31 years ago.
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Among them are members of the military and civilians, who were grouped together in cages, as well as former vice-presidents Ali Osman Taha and the general Bakri Hassan Saleh. The majority of the inmates wore the dress traditional white and a headdress of the same color.
