Submitted by Tamazuj1 on Fri, 2012-04-06 22:08
The UN high commissioner for human rights Navi Pillay has
demanded an investigation into the comments made by the governor of
South Kordofan Ahmed Haroun, captured on video by Al Jazeera last week.
The video showed Haroun addressing Sudanese soldiers before
an attack that took place in South Kordofan tellling them to 'bring
back no prisoners' as they are an 'administrative burden'.
Pillay said these statements could lead to an escalation in
violence and said she was concerned about the human rights and
international law violations that continue in the Blue Nile and South
Kordofan.
She added that witnesses that visited the states reported
evidence of burning villages, extra-judicial killing and mass
displacement.
Yesterday in response to the video EU chief Catherine
Ashton said 'a deliberate policy of taking no prisoners during armed
conflict constitutes a war crime
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