Khartoum: Six people were hanged in Sudan`s
capital on Thursday for their role in deadly clashes in 2005 between
police and residents of a camp for the displaced, the official
news agency SUNA reported.
The clashes broke out in May 2005, a few months after the
end of Sudan`s north-south civil war, as authorities tried to
forcibly evacuate the Soba Aradi camp in a Khartoum suburb
that housed 10,000 people who had fled the conflict.
Thirty civilians and 14 members of the security forces
were killed. Most of those arrested after the violence were
acquitted, but six people were sentenced to death.
SUNA said the six were executed in Kober prison in
northern Khartoum after the appeal process was finally
exhausted.
Five years after the two-decade-long war which cost an
estimated two million lives, Soba Aradi is no longer
considered a camp for the displaced but an impoverished suburb
that is home to thousands of people from around Sudan.
PTI
