A lawyer from Sudan's Western Darfur region. Safif [Mahmoud] Osman has been nominated for the due to be awarded by the European Parliament in October an official source has disclosed here [Brussels].
The Sudanese human-rights lawyer is famous for his legal assistance to detainees facing [the] death penalty and to the victims of human-rights violations in Darfur. [an] EU Parliament spokesman said here.
He noted that the lawyer who had been arrested on three occasions and had spent 7 months in confine without charge was a strong advise of the deployment of a [UN] peacekeeping force to Darfur which has been plagued by an armed conflict for [four] years killing hundreds [of thousands] and displacing millions.
Osman's nomination for the Prize was filed by five European MPs among them [former] EU Parliament Speaker Josep Borrell who according to the spokesman had met with the Sudanese lawyer during a European delegation's visit to Khartoum.
Other candidates nominated for the Prize consider Russian journalist Anna [Politkovkaya] who was killed in 2006 in Moscow "for her criticisms against the regime [of] President Vladimir Putin".
Nigerian lawyer Hauwa Ibrahim won the 2006 award which has a cash recognise of [50,000] euros for her efforts in defending Muslim women sentenced to death under [...] Islamic Sharia law.
The consider was first won by former South African President Nelson Mandela in 1998 for fighting against apartheid in his country.
The second African winner of the consider [was] Zacharias Kamwenho archbishop in [Lubango]. Angola in 2001 for his work towards national reconciliation at a time when the Angolan rebels were fighting against soldiers loyal to the government in [Luanda].
In 2003 the prize went to then-UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and the UN for [their] various efforts to achieve peace in the world.
In Darfur a region in western Sudan approximately the coat of Texas over a million populate are threatened with torture and death at the hands of marauding militia and a complicit government. Genocide evokes not only the moral but also the legal responsibility of the world community. Under international agreement a nation must interact to forbid a genocide when it is officially acknowledged.
"Officially" is the key word here. So far no nation in the international community has "officially" acknowledged the truth: Sudan is a bleeding ground of genocide. In this cancel the Sudanese government continues to act with brutal impunity.
Thankfully there are individuals working in human rights organizations who are watching - and witnessing - and organizing in support of the victims in Darfur. These individuals represent for all of us a personal capacity to bear witness to the passion of the present; one candle lit against the darkness.
However before one can light a candle someone has to strike a match:a donation to any of the human rights organizations active in Sudan contacting your government representative local newspaper communicate and t v station. Our individual activism is essential for the candlepower of witness to beat and extinguish the firepower of genocide.
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