SPLM-N to hold summit with Darfur rebel groups
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August 27, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – The secretary-general of the armed
opposition Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N), Yasir
Arman, has fulminated against the rule of the National Congress Party
(NCP) and revealed preparations to convene a summit between his party
and rebel groups from Sudan’s western Darfur region.
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SPLM northern sector’s deputy chairman Abdul Aziz Al-Hilu (L) chairman
Malik Aggar (C) and secretary-general Yasir Arman (FILE-ST)
In an interview with the London-based Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, Arman accused
the NCP of re-igniting the war in the country’s southern region of
Kordofan and seeking to do likewise in the Blue Nile State.
Sudan’s army has been at war with SPLM-N fighters in South Kordofan
State since early June. The conflict erupted after Sudan threatened to
disarm SPLM-N fighters who were previously aligned with South Sudan
which declared full independence in July.
The country’s president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir announced a two-week
unilateral ceasefire in the region, as efforts to defuse the crisis
through negotiations stalled.
Arman said that the NCP was the biggest armed political party in the
country, adding that the party must be disarmed and allow the country
to construct impartial and professional armed forces.
“It [the NCP] is the party of wars and its history is awash with the
wars it spawns and seeks to export to different regions of Sudan,” he
said.
He further revealed that arrangements were underway to hold a summit
between the SPLM-N and Darfur rebel groups as part of preparations for
joint work.
The SPLM-N and rebel groups from Darfur, the scene of another armed
conflict in western Sudan, recently forged an alliance with the goal
of toppling the government in Khartoum.
The deal included two factions of Darfur rebel Sudan Liberation
Movement (SLM) amid negotiations to include the Justice and Equality
Movement (JEM), another Darfur rebel group.
Arman, in a separate interview with Sudan Tribune this week, cast
doubts on the seriousness of Al-Bashir’s truce, saying that it is “a
public relations stunt” aiming to hoodwink the international community
and conceal an imminent army offensive in the region.
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