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SHRO-CAIRO URGENT REPORT:

HOW BRIGADIER OMER BASHIR AND MAJOR DR. IBRAHIM SIKHA MURDERED DR. ALI FADL

July 18, 2002

The Sudanese Human Rights Quarterly (Summer 1995) published a documentary material prepared and authenticated by the Sudanese Doctors’ Union (in exile) about the heinous assassination of the Sudanese Community Leader, Dr. Ali Fadl, by the National Islamic Front's military leader, Major Dr. Al-Tayeb Ibrahim (Sikha) and his accomplices in collaboration with the Sudan State Security, Sudan Police Force, and the Military Center of the Armed Forces Military Corps.

SHRO-Cairo affirms the direct involvement of Brigadier Omer Al-Bashir, as Head of the June Military Coup and his assistants in this unprecedented crime against humanity. The Organization accuses Al-Bashir and his accomplices of plotting to assassinate Dr. Ali Fadl, executing the assassination in actual fact, hindering the due process of law as properly initiated by the Honorable Judge Boshara Abd-Allah Boshara in April 1990, and further protecting the murderers who were chaired by the member of the NIF's military council, Major Dr. Al-Tayeb Ibrahim (Sikha).

The case of Dr. Ali Fadl was unlawfully closed by direct intervention of the High Military Council. The case of the Martyr will only rest in peace when the murderers and all their accomplices would be brought to trial before Independent Judiciary.

The Organization is gravely concerned about possible assassination plans by the same leaders and others who joined them to murder the prominent Sudanese Community Leader, Dr. Toby Maduot, the Prisoner of Conscience, who has been arbitrarily arrested, detained, and tortured by the same ruling group in the present time.

The ruling military leaders of the NIF’s June coup, who officially represent the Government of Sudan, are nationally and internationally responsible for the safety and well being of Dr. Maduot. As government they are fully responsible for the insurance of the full enjoyment of both Sudanese and international human rights norms to all citizens, indiscriminately. The Government of Sudan is held responsible for the murder of Dr. Ali Fadl, as well as the assassination plans nowadays going on against Dr. Toby Maduot.



The Sudanese Human Rights Quarterly
Summer 1995

Documents

The Sudanese Doctors’ Union (in exile) wrote this report:

The Assassination of Dr. Ali Fadl by the June Military Rule April 21st,
1990.

After the strike made by physicians on 26 November 1989 – four months after the NIF seized political power – political harassment increased and an era of terrorism plagued the country. Out of a feeling of anticipating danger, Dr. Ali Fadl Ahmed left his house for about a month after which he returned to his family’ residence.

Dr. Ali was pressed by his sense of responsibility and a firm commitment to his parents and family. The incident of the arbitrary arrest of his younger brother, Dr. Mukhtar Fadl, during his absence, which was an unlawful procedure that was wickedly used by the military authority as a means to force the family to surrender their son Ali in his brother’s place, also motivated Ali to return home.

In December 1989, Al-Tayeb Sikha, a member of the High Security Committee of the Salvation Military Commanding Council, received a report against Ali Fadl that said: “Ali Fadl is one of the main plotters and engineers of the physicians’ strike.”

A security agent named Mohamed Al-Hassan Yagoub, who was the first defendant accused in the notorious case of corrupting the lands allocated for the People’s Housing Project, wrote the report. Al-Tayeb Sikha “took responsibility,” as he announced, “of a Jihad Mission to arrest Ali Fadl, force him to confess, and bury him alive.”

In the night of Tuesday, the 30th of March 1990, an opened Toyota car (1978 type) No. 2777 carried the martyr to an unknown place.

It had been discovered lately that the martyr was tortured since the night of his arrest at one of the secretive detention centers and was seriously injured at one side of his head.

The injury was stitched at the same ghost house in which he was repeatedly tortured before the eyes of many witnesses who put immense pressure on the torturers to take the martyr to the hospital at the very last moments of his life. Some of these witnesses heard Dr. Ali Fadl’s last will.

On April 20, 1990, the martyr was still bravely resisting the torturers who brutalized him with extensive tortures to humiliate him. In that same evening, Ali was hit several times on his skull until he suffered internal bleeding in the brain, and his health ran down speedily. Moreover, medical authentication proved that the martyr was forbidden from eating and drinking and even cleaning or washing throughout his detention.

At 4:30 p.m. of the afternoon of April 21, 1990, Martyr Ali was brought to the Military Hospital at Omdurman in a comma. One of the physicians described his condition as follows: “it wasn’t the state of a political detainee who was sick. It was rather like some unknown person picked up from the side of a street. His condition was quite miserable and painful, and I am ready to testify in any investigation that would be made.”

A military physician called Ahmed Seed Ahmed, an NIF-loyalist, examined Ali medically. There was great pressure exerted by security officers and a letter sent by the Headquarters of the Sudan State Security, in addition to mediation by Brigadier Dr. Al-Fadlabi, Head of the Military Medical Center upon the staff of the Surgery Department. The Surgery Department held that the martyr was only a “normal patient,” regardless of the formal legal procedure.

At five o’clock in the evening of the 21st of April 1990, the situation was becoming more and more critical that the Head of the Medical Center, Brigadier Dr. Al-Fadlabi, called on the specialist physician of surgery supervising the patient to open the scars on his body by using a scissors. When the martyr was turned to his side, he passed away.

At quarter to five o’clock p.m., the martyr’s body was laid at the Department of the Surgical Emergency of the Military Hospital where the following facts were carefully registered:

(1) Deep bruise in the head with contamination that lasted for 3 weeks;
(2) A distance of 3.5 inches by 3 inches in the head, where hair was forcibly pulled off;
(3) Swallowed belly, yet using a special medical operation the gall-bladder was found to be empty. The case suggested internal bleeding in the belly;
(4) Bruises on one of the eyes and a track of burning by cigarettes.

In the afternoon of April 21st, Dr. Bashir Ibrahim Kukhtar, Secretary General of the Islamic Medical Association, assisted by Dr. Ahmed Seed Ahmed, wrote a report stating that the Ali Fadl’s body was being surgically operated and that his death was due to fever caused by malaria. It had been proved later on that Dr. Bashir had never applied any medical tests on the body of the martyr, nor had Dr. Bashir sent any samples to the laboratory be medically tested.

Dr. Bashir just looked at Ali Fadl’s body before he wrote his report.

A death certificate was issued by the Military Hospital at Omdurman as follows:

“Serial Number: 166245
Name: Ali Fadl Ahmed.
Time of Death: 5 o’clock p.m, 21/4/90.
Cause of Death: Malaria.
Reporter of Death: Ahmed Seed Ahmed.”

The signature of the person who issued the certificate is unreadable and the person’s name is unknown.

On the 21st-22nd of April 1990, the Public Court near the Military Hospital at Omdurman witnessed a series of continuous meetings of leaders of the fascist regime to bury the body of the martyr unlawfully.


The Deputy Commander of Sudan Police Force, Lieutenant-General Fakhraldeen Abdel-Saddiq, exerted immense illegal pressure on a continuous basis on the low-ranking police officers of the Southern Police Station and that of Khartoum North to extract a burial permit from the resident Judge to bury the martyr’s body. These officers dishonestly registered in the Police Information Report No. 40 dated 22 April 1990 at the Southern Police Station that “Ali Fadl died normally of malaria.”

Brigadier Abbas Arabi of the Sudan State Security and other security officers accompanied by police commandants tried first to persuade the martyr’s family to receive and bury his body. Thereafter, the police commandants resorted to threats. But the martyr’s family, led by his father, refused to receive the body and insisted that the body must be medically examined to determine the cause of death by a reliable medical source.

Due to this strong stance by the martyr’s family, some police officers joined the Resident Judge of the Southern Police Station of Omdurman, the Honorable Boshara Abd-Allah Boshara who ordered that the legal procedure must take place in accordance with Section 137 of the Code of Criminal Procedure on “suspicions of a murder.”

Judge Boshara’s Judicial Order was issued in Form No. 8. It said, “Surgery must be applied to the body by the aid of a forensic.”

The report of the Forensic revealed new facts about the cause of death. It reads: “recent bleeding inside the brain caused by brain damage for being hit by a strong sharp instrument.”

The Forensic Report No. 903/1990 was thus issued:

“The Victim: Dr. Ali Fadl Ahmed.
The Defendant: Sudan Security Forces under Section 251 of the Penal Code 1983.
The Charge: Premeditated Murder.”

The legal procedure of the case had started and the Judiciary went on with the procedure. The State Security, in turn, became involved in a counter pressure upon the family of the martyr to the extent that investigation was stooped and finally hindered. The Security Officers accused of committing the murder were protected and never arrested.



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