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Title	Sudan: The police (1991 to July 1999)
Publisher	Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Country	Sudan
Publication Date	1 July 1999
Citation / Document Symbol	SDN32240.E
Cite as	Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Sudan: The police (1991 to July 1999), 1 July 1999, SDN32240.E, available at: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/3ae6abe678.html [accessed 2 June 2012]
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Sudan: The police (1991 to July 1999)

No information on the various types of the Sudanese police forces, their functions, and human rights abuses committed by the police further to that is contained in Human Rights Watch, Behind the Red Line: Political Repression in Sudan chapter 6 (1996), which is available at Regional Documentation Centres, could be found among the sources consulted by the Research Directorate. For additional information on the police, please consult the attached excerpt from Sudan: A Country Study (1991).

This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the Research Directorate within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum. Please see the list of additional sources consulted in researching this information Request.

Reference

Human Rights Watch/Africa. 1996. Behind the Red Line: Political Repression in Sudan. New York. Human Rights Watch.

Sudan: A Country Study. 1991. Edited by Helen Chapin Metz. Washington, DC: Secretary of the Army.

Attachment

Sudan: A Country Study. 1991. Edited by Helen Chapin Metz. Washington, DC: Secretary of the Army.

Additional Sources Consulted

Africa Confidential [London]. January 1998 - June 1999. Vols. 38-39. Weekly

Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series [Oxford]. January-December 1998. Vol. 35. Nos. 1-12.

Amnesty International. 1998. Amnesty International Report 1999. New York: Amnesty International USA.

Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1998. 1999. United States Department of State. Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Press.

Horn of Africa Bulletin [Uppsala]. January 1998-February 1999. Bi-monthly. Nos. 1-6.

The Indian Ocean Newsletter [Paris]. Weekly. January 1998-June 1999. Nos. 793-862.

Jane's Intelligence Review [Surrey, UK]. January -December 1998. Vol. 10. Nos. 1-12.

Keesing's Record of World Events [Cambridge]. January 1998-January 1999. Monthly. Vols. 44-45.

Political Handbook of the World 1998. 1998. Edited by Arthur S. Banks. Binghamton, NY: CSA Publications.

Sudan Democratic Gazette [London]. January 1998-June 1999. Nos. 92-109.

Electronic sources: IRB Databases, Internet, LEXIS/NEXIS, World News Connection (WNC).

Copyright notice: This document is published with the permission of the copyright holder and producer Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB). The original version of this document may be found on the offical website of the IRB at http://www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/en/. Documents earlier than 2003 may be found only on Refworld.

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