A call for hatred and violence is causing concern in Sudan. In a video circulating on social media, a man publicly attacks the UN envoy to Khartoum, Volker Perthes, and asks to assassinate him. The United Nations has called on the Sudanese authorities to open an investigation.
With our correspondent in the region, Florence Morice
The video was filmed during a conference bringing together officials from various Sudanese Islamist parties and personalities linked to the ousted regime. by Omar al-Bashir. We see a man who says his name is Adelmoneim attacking to the UN envoy.
” I ask for a fatwa […] to shed his blood “, he says before adding to be” volunteer to do it “. Subsequently, the man accuses Volker Perthes to have committed offenses ” while having ” excluded some factions of the ongoing talks meant to put the democratic transition back on track. In these talks, the UN plays the role of “facilitator”. The signing of the final agreement, which includes a reform of the security services, was postponed last week sine die.
“ Dig the divisions »
Tuesday evening, the organizers of the conference distanced themselves from the man, but still criticized the ” negative role “, according to them, of the UN in this process which would impose ” a vision foreign to the Sudanese people “. Supporters of the Islamic-military dictatorship of Omar al-Bashir regularly call for the departure of the country of the UN envoy.
” Calls for hatred and violence will only deepen divisions, but they will not prevent the mission from carrying out its activities “replied the UN in a press release. The UN organization asks Khartoum not to let the case pass and to open an investigation.