A conference in Sudan on Monday recommended special legal amendments to uproot Muslim Brotherhood elements from the army, security forces, police, and the Rapid Support Forces.
The conference was focused on removing traces of the regime of ouster President Omar al-Bashir.
Purging the country’s apparatuses from the influence of the former regime must be done according to clear and specific mechanisms discussed in covered in security and military reforms.
Moreover, members of the dissolved National Congress Party, which was headed by Bashir, will receive referrals for their removal from all state institutions.
After Islamists rose to power through a military coup in 1989, they pursued a policy of empowering loyalists in all state institutions, especially the military, civil service, judiciary, and public prosecution.
To accomplish this, the Islamists dismissed thousands of employees and replaced them with members of the political Islam movement and loyalists.
The conference further stressed the need for imposing penalties on all those convicted of financial and administrative corruption during Bashir’s totalitarian rule, which lasted three decades.
Moreover, the conference stressed the need to rid the justice system and law enforcement mechanisms from the influence of Bashir’s followers.
It recommended the confiscation of assets and companies associated with the ousted regime. This included security companies.
The conference advised that amendments be made to the law to dismantle Bashir’s regime, provided that the changes guarantee basic rights, stages of litigation and appeal, and observance of the principles of justice and the absence of impunity.
It also called for the establishment of a special prosecution to provide transitional justice guarantees and the formation of a special court with one degree of review, whose decisions are binding and final.
Organized by the United Nations, the African Union, and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), the conference held a four-day workshop between January 9-12.
Signatories to the framework agreement, stakeholders, and experts in national and international law in the field of dismantling political systems participated in the event.
