Opposition forces to demonstrate against wars in Sudan
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September 5, 2011 (KHARTOUM) — The Sudanese opposition forces will
organise a demonstration on Friday demanding to stop the war in South
Kordofan and Blue Nile and to investigate who started the attacks.
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A supporter of the Uma party (AFP/ile)
Clashes erupted last Saturday in Blue Nile state between the Sudanese
army and fighters of Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North
(SPLM-N). The two parties are fighting also since last June in the
neighboring Southern Kordofan.
In both cases, every side accuses the other of starting the
hostilities. Over one hundred sixty thousand people were forced to
flee their home in the Southern Kordofan but the government refuses to
allow international aid groups to provide humanitarian assistance or
to open camps. In the Blue Nile no estimations have yet been done.
In a meeting chaired by the leader of the Uma National Party (UNP)
Sadiq al-Mahdi, the opposition National Consensus Forces (NCF) agreed
to address a memorandum to the Sudanese presidency to demand to stop
war and seek peaceful settlement for the conflict in the southern and
western parts of the country.
Reliable sources told the Sudan Tribune the decision has been taken
that demonstrators will gather next Friday outside Al-Mahdi mosque and
the house of the late leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
Mohamed Ismail al-Azhary in Omdurman.
Then the anti-war demonstration will move to the presidential palace
in Khartoum to hand the memorandum called (Declaration of the Sudan)
to the President Omer Hassan al-Bashir. A meeting will be held on
Thursday to mobilize the street to take part in the peaceful
demonstration.
President al-Bashir held yesterday a meeting with the political
parties to brief them about the causes of the clashes and accused the
SPLM-N of igniting the war. The SPLM–N and its allies from the rebel
groups also called on the opposition to join them in the struggle
against Khartoum’s government.
The political opposition is frustrated by the refusal of the ruling
National Congress Party to hold a national conference to resolve armed
conflicts in Darfur, Blue Nile and Southern Kordofan. They blame
Bashir’s party for the rejection of a comprehensive and inclusive
process they propose.
Mariam Sadiq al-Mahdi, leading member of the National Consensus
Forces, stated in a press conference held on Monday after meeting of
the opposition alliance leaders that the memorandum aims to stop war
in all the parts of the country.
She also called for a popular support to their demand to investigate
the reasons of armed conflicts in the Blue Nile and Southern Kordofan,
stressing that the opposition strongly condemns the bloody clashes.
""We must stop the war, and probe the causes of the armed clashes,
because the war only bring devastation, destruction and international
intervention (in the Sudanese affairs)," said Mariam.
(ST)
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