The Air Force crime in Tura

Enough with the silence and ineffectiveness. We have had enough. We have run out of patience and tolerance for these tragedies that unfold every day before our eyes in Omdurman and Khartoum, with the targeting of worshippers in mosques and civilians in their homes. An entire family of six was annihilated in the Fourth District of Al-Thawra, near Al-Bulk Hospital. They hail from Sheikh Talha, east of Sennar [Bashir Al-Sardi family].

The mass annihilation of civilians is a disregard for humanity, the law, and justice, it contradicts the sound human conscience. Crimes are being committed in cold blood, and the perpetrators believe they are immune from punishment. The airstrike carried out by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) is a war crime, using barrel bombs, in North Darfur, targeting a market crowded with innocent civilians. Its a deliberate targeting to claim the largest possible number of lives.

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Escalating heinous crimes against civilians have been committed since the war began on (April 15th, 2023), particularly in Darfur.

The political establishment and the international community are still in the phase of inert statements and tasteless language (we condemn, we denounce, and we are concerned), which no longer attracts attention. We call on the United Nations and the UN Security Council to impose a no-fly zone and safe zones for civilians, to punish the Air Force Commander and the Commander-in-Chief of the Sudanese Armed Forces, and to extradite them, along with the perpetrators of massacres to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for investigation into war crimes and crimes against humanity, and to uphold the principle of non-impunity.

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In Conclusion

The Sudanese civil society, human rights organizations, and international organizations ought to make a stance, in a coordinated campaign to put an end to the indiscriminate killing of civilians, to ensure that war crimes, crimes against humanity, and crimes of ethnic cleansing are not subject to a statute of limitations, to ensure that the perpetrators of these crimes within the Sudanese Armed Forces and its allied militias don’t escape punishment.

None of these criminal human rights violators should be granted an escape from the scales of justice, no matter how long it takes and how many fake investigative committees are formed to absorb the national and international media outrage and attacks. They must face justice, no matter how slow the political authority is and how incapable the national judiciary is. The international judiciary must rise to the occasion, to fill the void, especially the UN Security Council and the International Criminal Court. This is to ascertain that no human rights violator would sleep soundly, like the criminal Air Force Commander who decided to bomb the Tura market.

Justice must be achieved, no matter how long the journey takes and how far the destination.

We will not be silent.

#No_To_War

#It_Must_Stop

March 26th, 2025