March 11 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The UN Integrated Mission for Transition Assistance in Sudan (UNITAMS), the African Union and the trilateral mechanism of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) have begun this Saturday a round of conferences in Sudan where they will study a justice process transitional meeting to address the crimes committed by the dictatorship of deposed Omar al Bashir, key in the difficult transition talks in the African country.
The figure of Al Bashir, deposed in 2019 after a popular revolution with military support, and currently imprisoned in Khartoum, continues to cast a long shadow in Sudan.
The country is now governed by a military junta accused of dozens of deaths during a recent wave of repression, and under the skepticism of the same civil groups that encouraged the uprising against the dictator, some of which are involved in a parallel transition process. under the auspices of Egypt.
These groups consider essential the existence of a process that purifies responsibilities of thirty years of dictatorship, hence the importance of the conference that begins this Saturday, distributed in several cities of the country and with the assistance of civil society organizations, national experts and the more than 40 signatories of the Framework Agreement of December 5, which in principle is the “official” process developed by the military to hand over power.
After completing the regional workshops, a National Conference for Transitional Justice will begin in the capital, Khartoum, hoping to bring together the Army and an organization instrumental in the downfall of Al Bashir, the Forces for Freedom and Change, which are suspicious of the presence of Al Bashir’s allies in the junta that leads the country, headed by Abdelfatá al Burhan, reports Radio Dabanga.
It should be remembered that this organization is not the only one that has expressed its suspicion towards the military. In fact, the Sudanese Army has had to begin a mediation process in recent weeks with the country’s main paramilitary group, the Rapid Intervention Forces, after criticism by the leader of this organization, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, alias ‘ Hemedti’, to the paths of the current transition process in the country.
Last month Dagalo again showed his disagreement with the course that the transition process is taking in Sudan, in his opinion an “error” that “has opened the door to a return to the old regime” of the dictator Al Bashir.
The statements by the leader of the RSF, a paramilitary force closely linked to the transcendental events that the African country has gone through until the consolidation of the current military junta, occurred at an extremely delicate moment in the transition process that the country is going through after decades of dictatorship. , before the appearance of the parallel peace process in Cairo, advised against by the Western allies of Sudan, with the EU at the head, so as not to further cloud the talks.
