“Cairo Workshop Meant To Resolve the Sudanese Crisis” Says Dr. Adib

Interviewed by: Omer Ahmed EL haj and Idress Hamza
The Citizen newspaper has the honor to conduct an exclusive interview with Dr. Nabil Adib Abdalla; he is a human rights lawyer, who was appointed on 20 October 2019 as the head of the investigation commission of the 3 June Khartoum Massacre (KMIC).
Q1. what about the report of your investigative committee regarding the
Massacre at the headquarters of the armed forces, why the report was delayed, is there some hurdles facing the work of your committee?
A: Well it took a long time, because we should have specific criteria to guide the investigation for it is a criminal case and not an easy task to carry out hastily and come out with results within a short period of time.
Even though its mandate says that it should end within three months, I have asked the former PM Hamdok why it should three months. , he said that it was a suggestion however, the first three month was not sufficient to carry out our mission. Again, we didn’t have a proper place to work.

Then the Covid 19 pandemic stopped our work for more than 8 month, and since the 25th of October Sudan remained without a PM. these are the factors that caused the delay in our mission, instead the government should have provided us with the necessary technical and logistic support.
We have exchanged allot of correspondences with the AU about providing us with a team of experts to help us in the investigation, but they told us that the request should come from Sudanese government, this is still not done as the AU considered it as intervention into Sudanese’s internal affairs
Q2. what is your view on the empowerment removal committee and dismantling of the 30th of June 1989 regime?
A: You know I have been very open about these issues, the law should be practiced properly, you can’t convict someone without a solid case, or real evidence in your hands, and the committee should conduct its work and procedure in a proper manner.
Q3. What is your legal and constitutional view on the Transitional Justice (TJ)?
A: Transitional justice(TJ) have been applied in 30 countries and it worked , I mean that it’s important for counties which went through civil war to apply (TJ), rather than to apply classical justice, Sudan’s history of the civil war technically began before the independence, again lots of cases were committed against Sudanese people during that time .
So because of its civil war history, Sudan strife to apply the TJ as it would be of great help to the transitional period that would be tasked with arranging elections.
Q4. Would you please brief us about the workshops that has been organized by the central council of freedom and change (FCC), compared to the workshops in which you have participated in Cairo?
A: The workshops in Cairo was aimed at reaching some sort of agreement regardless of how to run he transitional period (TP), and were not against the framework agreement as some groups say; In Cairo those who participated decided that the main issues is to go back to constitutionalism .
In Cairo the workshop discussed the Constitutional Document even though it needs to be amended. It also came out with vary important decision that one party or political block should not rule Sudan. I think all political entities should take part in this transition period except the national congress party.
The FWA is insufficient to govern the country. One political block can’t rule Sudan and the time is not for fighting, so after the transitional period all could compete in the elections.