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Physicians and Human Rights
Quentin D. Young, MD, FACP;
Eric Stover
JAMA. 1990;264(24):3127-3129.
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Sudan, which is the largest country in Africa, is now ruled by a military government intent on establishing an Islamic state. Hundreds of Sudanese citizens have been jailed and, in some cases, tortured since June 1989, when a relatively unknown military officer, Lieutenant General Omer al-Bashir, seized power from the elected government of Sadiq el Mahdi. Blaming the multiparty system for a stagnant economy and corruption, General al-Bashir immediately abolished all unions and political parties; banned professional associations of lawyers, engineers, and physicians; and created a new security agency called the "Security of the Revolution," which, according to former detainees, is staffed by Islamic fundamentalists and is responsible for many of the arrests and much of the torture.1
Much of the repression, especially in the capital of Khartoum, has been directed against those groups—mainly politicians, physicians, and academics—that the government fears as potentially capable of organizing a political challenge
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Author Affiliations
Subcommittee on Human Rights and Medical Practice American College of Physicians Hyde Park Associates in Medicine Chicago, Ill; Science and Human Rights Program American Association for the Advancement of Science Washington, DC
Footnotes
Edited by Annette Flanagin, RN, MA, Assistant to the Editor. Reprint requests to 5822 Blackstone Ave, Chicago, IL 60637 (Dr Young).
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