Torture Claims in South Sudan
2 min readBy Noora Faraj
Al Arabiya with Agencies
A few days after the war in South Kordofan, Sudan, began, Ahmed was taken by security agents and subjected to interrogation.
He was accused of being a member of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement North.
The SPLM-N fighters participated in the civil war that finally ended in 2005, resulting in a peace treaty that allowed the south to separate from the north. Some members of the rebel army remained in the north under the government’s control.
Clashes erupted between the Sudanese army and loyalist rebels of SPLM-N on June 5th.
According to Ahmed, his captors took him to a room with three other men, who used a rocket launcher and rifle butts to beat him on his back. They then took him to another room, where they chained him to a chair and tortured him.
He said they strapped an electrical device to his feet and left shoulder. The electrocution he experienced resulted in the paralysis of his left side a few days later. He managed to escape the same day, when a fight broke out between other captives.
An Amnesty International investigation found that Ahmed was one of the luckier victims. Witnesses reported last month that SPLM-N members were responsible for various random acts of violence on people and homes.
http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/09/15/167047.html
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