I~C"~)~. ACH PR t~ '. ~(m:rrD ~ African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights Human Rights our Collective Responsibility of the Respondent State, but also the bombing and shelling of civilian areas throughout both regions.f In its 5 November 2011 Resolution on the General Human Rights Situation in Africa - ACHPRjRes.207(L)2011, the Commission observed that it was concerned about: 114. the indiscriminate aerial bombardment of civilian targets, and causing death among the populations, destruction of houses and the systematic displacement of civilian populations destruction of habitat and purposeful displacement of civilian populations, extrajudicial killi.ngs and forced disappearances of members of the indigenous tribes of these regions» 115. Similarly, in its Concluding Observations and Recommendations on the 4th and 5th Periodic Reports of the Republic of Sudan, the Commission observed that: Government forces persistently and indiscriminately bomb civilian areas across the Nuba Mountains, forcing people to seek shelter in caves and in mountains, where they lack food, shelter, and access to basic needs such as toaier and sanitation. 116. These observations are in addition to public reports by the UN, the Sudan Democracy First Group, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and other civil society organisations showing the arbitrary deprivation of life by security personnel of the Respondent State. In the face of the preponderance of evidence demonstrating the wanton destruction of human lives, the government did not provide any explanation for the actions of its security personnel. 117. In light of the failure of the Respondent State to refute these allegations, the Commission is entitled to find that the various killings of civilians in South Kordofan and Blue Nile demonstrate, jointly and severally, government's Human Rights Watch' Under siege: Indiscriminate bombing and abuses in Sudan's Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile States' (11 December 2012) pp. 20-21,34-39; Amnesty International 'We can run away from bombs, but not from hunger- Sudan's refugees in South Sudan' June 2012 https:/ /www.amnesty.org/en/documents/afr65/001/2012/en/; UN Human Rights Committee,' General Comment 6, Article 6,16th session, UN', Doc. HRI/GEN/1/Rev.1, 1994, para.3; Sudan Democracy First Group' Ethnic Cleansing Once Again: South Kordojan/ Nuba Mountains' 13 June 2011 http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?iframe&page=imprirnable&id_article=38972; The Enough Project, 'Sudan Field Dispatch: Refugees Provide Details of Attacks in Isolated Blue Nile State' http:// www.enoughproject.org/ files/ Blue_Nile_Dispatch_20120723.pdf. 35 African Commission "Resolution on the General Human Rights Situation in Africa ACHPR/Res.207(L)2011" adopted during the 50th Ordinary Session, Banjul, the Gambi ~'@cfdbefo - 5th November 2011. ;~ ,._c.~S.i'\"f4r- '\) .~ ~~ , 23 ~ <" 34 I J An Organ or the AfriGan I.,r~~' V,· Unlon '",,;;' • 0 ~