GENEVA, Switzerland, May 10 (UPI) -- A U.N. expert on arbitrary executions will visit the Upper Nile and Darfur regions of Sudan next month and report to the U.N. Commission on Human Rights.
The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva announced Monday its special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions, Asma Jahangir, would begin her 10-day visit in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, June 2.
Announcement of the visit by the Pakistani lawyer and human rights activist follows a Friday report on a recent U.N. fact-finding mission to camps for Sudanese refugees in eastern Chad and to the Darfur region of western Sudan.
The report said that while black African rebels in western Sudan appear to have violated human rights in their quest for development, the government of Sudan and its Arab proxy militia have responded with a "reign of terror" of massive human rights violations that "may constitute war crimes and/or crimes against humanity."
Since her appointment in 1998 Jahangir has made field visits to Afghanistan, Albania, Brazil, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nepal, Timor-Leste, Turkey, and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
