The Sudanese Missing Initiative announced that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has abducted women in the Nuba Mountains area of South Kordofan state last February.
Kampala, Altaghyeer: Sara Taj Alsir
Four of these women were released after paying a ransom of 15 billion Sudanese pounds, said the Initiative.
Member of the Missing Initiative, Thoyba Hashim, explained that the RSF has asked for a ransom of 4 billion pounds to free another three women.
Speaking at a virtual meeting organized on Saturday by the UN Higher Commission for Human Rights’s country office to discuss enforced disappearance, at Alkhatim Adlan Centre in Kampala, she cited a case in which one of the missed persons died shortly after his release due to deteriorating health condition.
Hashim said more than 800 people in the area were missed indicating that communication interruption has negatively affected monitoring and documentation processes.
She explained that 15 women, who were kidnapped by the RSF and allied tribes in the Nuba Mountains, were released following negotiations with the Sudan People Liberation Army/North resulted in paying 15 billion pounds as a ransom.
Member of the Sudanese Group on Enforced Disappearance, Rania Mohamed, said the group has reported 461 cases of enforced disappearance.
She said the Sudan’s criminal law does not include any provision that incriminate involuntary disappearance calling on the UN institutions to form a committee or mechanism to tackle the issue of enforced disappearance because it is not enough to depend on the status quo government of Sudan as it represents a part of the problem.
Deputy director of the UN Human Rights Commission’s office in Sudan, Fareed Hamdan, urged the warring parties to abide by the International Convention on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance which the Sudan signed on 2021.
He greeted the Sudanese women on the occasion of the International Women’s Day regretting their being subjected to the most heinous abuses during the ongoing war between the RSF and the Sudanese
