{"id":24313,"date":"2024-06-07T16:59:43","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T13:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=24313"},"modified":"2024-06-07T16:59:43","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T13:59:43","slug":"un-calls-for-investigation-on-wad-al-nura-village-incidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/07\/un-calls-for-investigation-on-wad-al-nura-village-incidents\/","title":{"rendered":"UN calls for Investigation on Wad al-Nura village incidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Follow-ups<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The UN called on Thursday for an investigation into the massacre committed by the Rapid Support Forces RSF in the town of Wad al-Nura in Gezira state , central Sudan, and for the perpetrators to present to the justice.<\/p>\n<p>The Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan, Clementine Nkweta Salami, said in a statement, \u201cI demand for a comprehensive investigation into the circumstances and facts of what happened in Wad al-Nura and for those responsible for the crimes to be held accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She explained that the UN\u00a0 was shocked by reports of violent attacks and the high number of casualties in the town.<\/p>\n<p>She continued, \u201cWhile the UN\u00a0 does not yet have the full details and facts of yesterday\u2019s events, there are credible reports of heavy gunfire and the use of explosive weapons in populated civilian areas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Salami pointed out that the RSF publicly affirmed that its members participated in ground operations in this area on June 5.<\/p>\n<p>She added, \u201cEven by the tragic standards of the conflict in Sudan, the images emerging from Wad al-Noura are heartbreaking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She renewed the UN\u2019demands for the importance of respecting the rules of war, respecting international humanitarian law and the commitments made in Jeddah.<\/p>\n<p>She called for avoiding armed clashes and the use of explosive weapons in densely populated areas at all costs and said that civilians can never be a target.<\/p>\n<p>She stressed that impunity cannot be allowed to turn into another situation, as the humanitarian tragedy in Sudan has become a characteristic feature of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Follow-ups The UN called on Thursday for an investigation into the massacre committed by the Rapid Support Forces RSF in the town of Wad al-Nura in Gezira state , central Sudan, and for the perpetrators to present to the justice. The Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan, Clementine Nkweta Salami, said &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24318,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24313\/revisions\/24318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}