Darfur rebel leader urges condemnation of attack against IDPs

Darfur rebel leader urges condemnation of attack against IDPs
By: Alrabae Adam Ezaldeen General secretary of, Sudan Liberation Movement and Army (SLM/A in uk)

August 22, 2007 (LONDON) — In reaction to the attack carried by the Sudanese forces against Kalma camps, the leader of the rebel Sudan Liberation Movement has accused the Sudanese government of annihilating Darfur people. He further urged the international community to condemn "this barbaric attack".
Abdelwahid al-Nur appealed on the international community to show solidarity with Darfur Internally Displaced People (IDPs). He said it is obvious that after regular attacks and killing of civilians in Darfur, Khartoum government wants now to achieve the "final solution" by eliminating those who succeeded to reach IDPs camps.
Sudanese forces surrounded and attacked Kalma camp in South Darfur on Tuesday to flush out rebels they say are behind recent attacks on police posts last Saturday. One policeman was killed and eight injured when unidentified armed men attacked police near al-Salam camp.
Police Maj-Gen Omar Mohamed Ali, the South Darfur police chief said the police would continue their pursuit of the "bandits" who were terrorizing the public and stealing their property, especially following their attack on the police posts at al-Salam camp.
Al-Nur told Sudan Tribune that police arrested about 25 people. He also denied that Kalama IDPs had taken part in any attack against the police.
"These are false allegations, Kalma people have no weapons; and I want to know for which reason they attack the police," he questioned. Adding that "If Kalma people are armed, as Khartoum alleges, then why they didn’t use it to defend themselves and repulse this attack."
"This question of attack against police posts is just a pretext to inflict a psychological defeat and let them feeling that no body can prevent the government from reaching them and hit them whenever it wants." He said.
The rebel leader said that "World should know when we request security for our people before talks, this demand is justified by the lack of credibility of this government." He further said Khartoum is not serious when it speaks about peace because they act every day to impose military solution for the conflict.

after regular attacks and killing of civilians in Darfur, Khartoum government wants now to achieve the "final solution" by eliminating those who succe

after regular attacks and killing of civilians in Darfur, Khartoum government wants now to achieve the "final solution" by eliminating those who succeeded to reach IDPs camps.

Alrabae Adam Ezaldeen General secretary of, Sudan Liberation Movement and Army (SLM/A in uk)

Sudan Liberation Movement/Army Prerequisites to any Peace talks with the Government of Sudan.

Sudan Liberation Movement/Army Prerequisites to any Peace talks with the Government of Sudan.

As the Government of Sudan continuing the genocide unabated and working hard to change the political landscape in Darfur, by settling new-comers from the neighboring countries in the indigenous people’s lands. It is the Sudan Liberation Movement /Army sincere hope that we can resolve this conflict peacefully, but before we can do that, the Government must do the following:-

1- Conflict suspension which means stopping the violence and the killing of innocent people.
2- Conflict Resolution through a addressing the root causes of the conflict.
3- Conflict transformation which leads to building positive relations among people everywhere.

We are making these demands fully a ware that the government is not ready to give us more than “token peace” and it is time to see to it that the NCP lift up it’s sense of commitment by making these demands; we are not for a peace that contains the seeds of an extremely dangerous explosive situation in the future and no solution to the conflict can be found while our people are dying; goodwill has to be shown then, and only then we can have the ingredients for a true and meaningful peace.
The Sudan Liberation Movement/Army concern is that while the NCP playing the AU, UN and the International Community by continually denying and ignoring everything they had already agreed to and sometimes acting defiantly our people are dying. Consequently, we appeal to the International Community and peace-loving nations to put pressure on the Government to make these first steps towards a lasting peace, because the fundamental Islamist of Khartoum lacks the moral strength to stop killing our people.
Regarding the resolution 1769 it is a courageous step in the right direction, but it is an effective implementation to the resolution that we are waiting and restrictly we do not want forces from Regime- friendly countries, as protecting civilians must be in trusted to, and conducted by undoubted forces whose hands are free and do care for the result.
Once again, the Sudan Liberation Movement/ Army will do everything in its significant power to end this conflict; and indeed we wish to it comes to speedy conclusion.


Alrabae Adam Ezaldeen General secretary of, Sudan Liberation Movement and Army (SLM/A in uk)