More than 100 members of Turabi’s Party were arrested after last month’s wave of public demonstrations. One of Turabi’s assistants declared that half of them were sent to detention outside Khartoum and submitted to ill-treatments and tortures. Some of them would have been brought to court and condemned (to what? asks V.S). The others would simply be detained in Khartoum without being charged..

Bombing of the civilian population continues unabated, with the bombers the Khartoum regime has been able to buy with petrol money. In November, 131 bombs were dropped on 15 different towns or villages, killing 30 people and wounding 70 others, some of them seriously, one of them is an eight-months old baby. Bombs fell successively -at 20 metres of a church in which faithful were gathered for the Sunday service -near an NGO compound  -near a humanitarian demining team -on a primary school (many of the 700 pupils have now gone back in all haste to their families in the villages no more schooling for them), -on a market place at the busiest time of the day -on a health centre -on a camp for displaced persons -on private homes -on herds of cattle (80 heads of cattle killed). Near the petroleum wells in exploitation at Khor Adar, the bombs were apparently destined to civilians fleeing from Khartoum ground forces. Full details on those bombings are available on request at our office. The list at our disposal is probably incomplete. It is usual to hear long after the event about bombings of faraway isolated localities. Indeed the news has just reached our office that a supervisor of the vaccination campaign  against polio working in Torit area was killed in the field in a bombing at the end of October during  the vaccination cease-fire period.

Raid of a PDF commando on a primary school: 7 children executed, 24 enslaved? Christian Solidarity International announced that they received a message from the Civil Commissioner of the County of West Aweil, Simon Wol, complaining of the following incident. A unit of the government militia numbering some 600 armed militiamen, burst upon the primary school of Guong Nowh, in the County of West Aweil, Bahr-el-Ghazal, on November 20th in mid-morning. Government soldiers enslaved 24 children, 18 boys and 6 girls. 7 children were executed in full sight of their companions to instil fear into them as well as submission. The local villagers discovered the bodies of the small victims. Two of the boys driven into captivity managed to escape the raiders and return to their village. Mr Simon Wol is asking CSI to transmit his protest to the Secretary General of the United Nations Organisation. 

Arrest and imprisonment in incommunicado detention in an unknown place, by the  Security Forces, of seven members of the National Democratic Alliance political leadership secretariat. They had gathered together in a house with a member of the American Embassy in Khartoum. Khartoum states that they were conspiring with the USA, an accusation which seems groundless. Those men belong to the PDU, to the Baath, to the SCP, to the USAP, and to the Trade Unions Alliance. Their fate has given rise to much pessimistic speculation. The American diplomat was arrested along with those seven Sudanese nationals, then released but declared persona non grata. This done, the Security arrested a lawyer, also a member of the PDU, without giving any reason. Then they seized a second lawyer, Ghazi Suleiman, who is the head of a political formation and who had accepted to act as  defence lawyer of these in detention. The United-States said their diplomat did nothing wrong. “The Sudanese Government,” they pointed out, “has never informed us of any restriction imposed on our personnel for meeting Sudanese nationals.” (AFP).