The impunity enjoyed by the Sudanese authorities in their ongoing atrocities in Darfur demonstrates why the near-final peace deal to end the country’s North-South conflict must include accountability for human rights abuses, Human Rights Watch said this week. On November 18-19, the United Nations Security Council will hold an extraordinary session in Nairobi to push the North-South peace negotiations to a conclusion. The draft peace deal to end the 21-year conflict is known as the Naivasha protocols, named after the Kenyan town where the Sudanese government and the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) have negotiated a series of protocols since June 2002. “Unless they are held accountable for abuses in the South, the Sudanese authorities will continue to believe they can get away with murder in Darfur,” said Jemera Rone, Sudan researcher for Human Rights Watch.