Toppling Bashir’s regime by force would lead to endless violence in Sudan: Mahdi
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December 28, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - The leader of Sudan’s opposition
National Umma Party (NUP), Al-Sadig Al-Mahdi has warned against
toppling the regime by military force and called for making peaceful
change through national consensus.
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Opposition Umma Party leader and former Prime Minister Al-Sadiq Al
Mahdi speaks during joint news conference with Sudan’s President Omar
al-Bashir (R) after their meeting at Mahadi’s house in Omdurman August
27, 2013 (REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah)
The former prime minister said in a talk show broadcasted by the
state-run Radio Omdurman on Friday that "Sudan is at crossroads",
stressing that any attempt to overthrow the regime by force would lead
to an endless cycle of violence.
Al-Mahdi added that Sudan looks forward to achieving full democratic
transformation and comprehensive and just peace. He pointed out that
"removing the current regime by force would lead to a situation
similar to that is of Syria, calling for achieving change through soft
power".
The opposition leader who is known for his rejection to the use of
arms to topple down the regime attempted last November to meet with
Sudanese rebels in Kampala but the Ugandan government declined to give
him a visa.
The groups of the Sudanese Revolutionary Front say they want a
comprehensive process leading to dismantle Bashir’s regime but however
they doubt that the government can accept such demand unless it is
militarily defeated.
Alluding to the position of the ruling National Congress Party (NCP)
rejecting his initiative for a holistic process including rebel
movements, Al-Mahdi demanded all parties to abandon partisanship and
seek to achieve a balanced equation of democratic governance and just
and comprehensive peace.
The ruling NCP and the Umma party held talks in the past months over
democratic transition in the past months but all the former offered to
the latter is to participate in a coalition government and to give the
opposition party an important number of ministerial posts.
The leader of the NUP laid out features of what he called the new
national political regime to overcome the political crisis, saying
that “we have to recognise and address the crisis and offer the right
diagnosis”.
“The new political regime emulates the South African experience
through a consensual road map”, he further added.
Al-Mahadi on Wednesday called for establishing a new regime and
organising public pressure, protests, and sit-ins to force the regime
to engage in a road map for achieving comprehensive and just peace and
democratic transformation similar to that which took place in South
Africa in 1992 or through a peaceful popular uprising.
He said that the new regime should take into account the developments
in the system of governance, political parties, trade unions, civil
society organizations, and the role of woman in society.
(ST)
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