Toby Maduot

Dr. Toby Maduot Parek is the chairman of the Sudan African National Union political party^[1] , also known as (SANU) and a member of the Sudanese Group for Human Rights (SGHR). He currently serves as a member of parliament in the government of southern Sudan (GOSS) Legislative Assembly.

Early in his career he was elected to Parliament for the Bahr al-Ghazal district in 1968. He became a political philosopher and played an instrumental role in shaping the ideology of SANU which latter gave birth to Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement. Working closely with his brother-in-law William Deng Nhial, one of Sudan's most important nationalist leaders in post-independence Sudan, he achieved recognition by the national government as they represented the first southern Sudanese political party. After the 1969 October Revolution, Dr. Maduot served in the cabinet and then was named Commissioner for Bahr al-Ghazal province in 1971.

After the signing of the Addis Ababa Agreement of 1972, in which he played a key role, Dr. Maduot became a member of the Southern Region High Executive Council and was elected to the Regional Peoples Assembly. Dr. Maduot is a principled human rights activist, secularist thinker, and strong opponent of the war, enslavement, and other disasters that the government has been escalating against the People of Sudan. During the rise of the SPLM/A, Dr. Maduot was one of the few southern leaders who remained in Khartoum and fought politically as he always did. He operated a small medical clinic in one of the most impoverished suburbs of Khartoum and devoted himself to fighting for human rights and an end to the war in the South. The Sudan government arrested Dr. Maduot continuously along with journalist Alfred Taban, lawyer Mustafa Abdel-Gadir, lawyer Ali Al-Sayed, and many other democratic leaders or professionals who honestly and publicly criticized the regime's repression, war mongering, and non-democracy.

Dr. Toby Maduot lived under intensive security surveillance, and was detained by the regime's security team for years in Khartoum. He was repeatedly harassed and interrogated but consistently refused to comply with the security team's unlawful procedure, which flagrantly violated international human rights law. On June 28, 2002 SHRO-Cairo issued a follow-up report addressed to the High Commissioner of Human Rights (Geneva), the African Commission on Human Rights (Banjul), and the other human rights organizations. Human rights worldwide call for the release of Dr. Toby Maduot after the government’s extension of his unlawful incarceration irrespective of his urgent need to medical attention at the time. Human rights and others became very involve and Dr. Toby became a known and respected figure as he peacefully shed light on the suffering of his people in Sudan.

References

1. ^ "SANU reverses course on Sudan’s unity, calls it partition". New Vision. 20 August 2010. http://www.newsudanvision.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2202:sanu-reverses-course-on-sudans-unity-calls-it-partition&catid=1:sudan-news-stories&Itemid=6. Retrieved 27 March 2011. 

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