Share Your Testimonies for Justice!

Mohammed Abdallah 

mohammedabdalluh2000@gmail.com

At a defining moment suspended between the folds of pain and the hope of holding perpetrators accountable, the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on Sudan has issued an urgent call to victims, survivors, witnesses, human rights organizations, and civil society to submit their testimonies and documented information regarding the grave violations committed since the outbreak of armed conflict on April 15, 2023.

This call is not just a routine step in the machinery of international justice-it is the first crack in a long road toward truth and accountability. It is an open invitation to anyone who has lived through the violence, witnessed it, or documented it-whether from within the burning cities, overcrowded camps, or distant exiles—to break the wall of silence and say to history: “We were there. We saw what must never be forgiven.”

The mission, established by the Human Rights Council, places at the heart of its priorities the documentation of the most horrific forms of violence that have torn Sudan’s fabric-from systematic sexual violence to ethnically driven attacks, indiscriminate shelling of civilian areas, child recruitment, inhumane detention conditions, widespread looting, denial of humanitarian access, and the targeting of journalists and aid workers. These investigations are not mere archives of atrocities; they lay the foundation for official reports that will be submitted to the Human Rights Council, paving the way for prosecuting perpetrators and exposing institutions complicit in these crimes.

We are at a moment that cannot be missed. This mission is one of the rare international mechanisms available to Sudanese people in this war to uphold their right to justice and end the long-standing culture of impunity that has cloaked murderers in official or militia garb.

Justice is not easy-but it begins with a word, a testimony, a photograph, or a file carrying the story of someone who endured suffering. That is why I call on everyone who has a testimony or information-victims, survivors, or eyewitnesses-to document what they went through or what they know about violations, and to submit it through the safe channels provided by the mission. Our silence may mean depriving entire generations of the truth, denying victims their dignity, and reinforcing the environment of impunity.

Civil society organizations, activists, lawyers, and journalists have a historic role no less critical than that of the victims themselves. Let us gather the evidence, present the testimonies, and insist that this war-with all its tragedies-be the final chapter of genocide and widespread violence in Sudan.

If we don’t write history, the killers will.

If we don’t testify today, tomorrow will be erased.

Justice does not come on its own-it is calling you to come to it.