June 28, 2019<\/P>\n
\nThe Honorable Tibor Nagy<\/p> \n
Assistant Secretary<\/p> \n
U.S. Department of State<\/p> \n
2201 C Street, N.W.<\/p> \n
Washington, D.C. 20520<\/p>\n
\n
Donald Booth<\/p> \n
Special Envoy for Sudan<\/p> \n
U.S. Department of State<\/p> \n
2201 C Street, N.W.<\/p> \n
Washington, D.C. 20520<\/p> \n
\nDear Mr. Assistant Secretary, <\/p>\n
\nDear Special Envoy to Sudan,<\/p>\n
\n
\nIn December 2018, protests broke out throughout Sudan calling for dictator President Omar al-Bashir, in power for nearly 30 years, to step down. Al-Bashir was removed from power on April 11, and replaced by a Transitional Military Council (TMC), now controlled by Lt. General Abdel-Fattah al-Burhan and Lt. General Mohamed Hamdan, known as Hemeti. Hemeti is the leader of the Rapid Support Forces, which grew out of the notorious Janjaweed militia responsible for the Darfur genocide, where more than 500,000 people died.<\/p>\n
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The Forces for Freedom and Change, the opposition coalition leading the protests, is calling for the TMC to immediately hand over power to a civilian-led council. Despite Burhan\u2019s commitment to transfer power to civilians, the military junta has resisted by unleashing its most violent military and paramilitary forces against its own people, The Rapid Support Forces and other security forces have killed over 100 peaceful protestors, 40 bodies were recently recovered from the Nile River in Khartoum. Civil society representatives, opposition leaders, journalists, political activists, and medical professionals have been detained and tortured. Sudanese hospitals have reported over 70 cases of rape of both men and women in June. Yet the Sudanese uprising has maintained its commitment to nonviolence.<\/p>\n
\nWe the undersigned human rights and civil society organizations committed to a free, civilian-led Sudan, are encouraged that you have met with the TMC and opposition forces to seek a peaceful solution to the Sudanese crisis and that Ambassador Donald Booth has been appointed as a senior advisor on Sudan. We believe that the goals for American diplomacy should be to press the TMC to:<\/p> \n
\n(1) Press the TMC to immediately cease all attacks on protesters and civilians, who have the right to freedom of expression and association, and to choose their own leaders<\/p> \n
\n(2) Press the TMC to negotiate with the Freedom and Change Movement with the goal of quickly transferring power to a civilian-led council which can set Sudan on a path to a democratic and prosperous future<\/p> \n
\n(3) Make clear to the TMC\u2019s allies\u2014Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt\u2014that they must go along with a civilian-led government or face serious consequences in their relationships with the United States. One of the principal reasons why the TMC stubbornly refuses to cede power to civilians is because it believes it has the backing of these three countries, which in turn are supported by the United States.<\/p> \n
\nFor U.S. diplomacy to be successful in achieving these goals, the U.S. needs to develop strong leverage and can do so through the use of robust financial tools. We ask that you support the implementation of sanctions for human rights violations and corruption using the Global Magnitsky Act and work with the Department of Treasury to issue an advisory to alert financial institutions about the increased risk that proceeds of corruption from Sudan may enter the U.S. financial system.<\/p> \n
\nWe thank you for your consideration and hope you will support the people of Sudan at this critical time.<\/p> \n\n
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Sincerely,<\/p> \n
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ORGANIZATIONS:<\/p> \n\n
ACT FOR SUDAN<\/p>\n
\nAFRICAN FREEDOM COALITION<\/p> \n
\nASSOCIATION OF AFRICA CONCERNED SCHOLARS (ACAS)<\/p> \n
\nCENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL POLICY<\/p> \n
\nCENTER FOR DEMOCRACY AND PEACE (CEN-DAP)<\/p> \n
\nDARFUR ACTION GROUP OF SOUTH CAROLINA<\/p> \n
\nDARFUR AND BEYOND<\/p> \n
\nDARFUR BAR ASSOCIATION<\/p> \n
\nDARFUR COMMUNITY NE<\/p> \n
\nENOUGH PROJECT<\/p> \n
\nHELPING HAND FOR SURVIVORS<\/p> \n
\nINVESTORS AGAINST GENOCIDE<\/p> \n
\nJEWS AGAINST GENOCIDE (NEW YORK)<\/p> \n
\nKAMMA ORGANIZATION FOR DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES (KODI)<\/p> \n
\nMASSACHUSETTS COALITION TO SAVE DARFUR<\/p> \n
\nNEVER AGAIN COALITION<\/p> \n
\nNEW YORK COALITION FOR SUDAN<\/p> \n
\nSKILLS FOR NUBA MOUNTAINS<\/p> \n
\nSUDAN HUMAN RIGHTS NETWORK<\/p> \n
\nSUDAN NEXTGEN<\/p> \n
\nSUDANESE RIGHTS GROUP (HUQOOQ)<\/p> \n
\nSUDAN UNLIMITED<\/p> \n
\nTHE SUDANESE AMERICAN PUBLIC AFFAIRS ASSOCIATION<\/p> \n
\nTORTURE ABOLITION AD SURVIVORS SUPPORT COALITION INTERNATIONAL (TASSC)<\/p> \n
\nUSE YOUR VOICE TO STOP GENOCIDE<\/p> \n
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INDIVIDUALS:<\/P> \n
ELHAG ALI WARRAG SIDAHMED WARRAG (HURRIAT EDITOR IN CHIEF)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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June 28, 2019 The Honorable Tibor Nagy Assistant Secretary U.S. Department of State 2201 C Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20520 Donald Booth Special Envoy for Sudan U.S. Department of State 2201 C Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20520 Dear Mr. Assistant Secretary, Dear Special Envoy to Sudan, In December 2018, protests broke out throughout Sudan calling[…]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanhumanrights.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanhumanrights.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanhumanrights.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanhumanrights.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanhumanrights.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1824"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/sudanhumanrights.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1883,"href":"https:\/\/sudanhumanrights.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions\/1883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanhumanrights.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanhumanrights.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanhumanrights.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}