OHCHR / High Commissioner Sudan visit

UN Human Rights spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani reiterated Tuesday its warning to the parties to the conflict in Sudan that “the horrific violations and abuses committed during the capture of El Fasher, North Darfur must under no circumstances be repeated in Kadugli and Dilling, in South Kordofan.”

She made the remarks at the UN bi-weekly press briefing in Geneva, following a five-day visit to Sudan by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk, concluded on Sunday.

“During his visit to Sudan, and in particular to Al Afad site for internally displaced people in Ad Dabba, Northern State, which is sheltering some 20,000 displaced people, they bore witness to the trauma and reverberating impact of the brutality that children, men and women suffered in El Fasher and as they attempted to flee,” Shamdasani said.