تهنئة من رئيس حركة و جيش تحرير السودان

تهنئة من رئيس حركة و جيش تحرير السودان
الاستاذ/ عبد الواحد النور
By Mr Alrabae Adam Ezaldeenباريس 31 ديسمبر 2007 يهنىء رئيس حركة و جيش

تحريرالسودان الاستاذ/ عبد الواحد محمد النور جيش حركة تحرير السودان الباسل فى الاراضى المحررة و كذالك النازحين فى الداخل و اللاجئين بالخارج و كذالك مكاتب حركة تحرير السودان بالداخل و بالخارج و كذالك جماهير حركة تحريرالسودان بالداخل والخارج و كل جماهير شعب السودانى قاطبة بحلول العام الميلادى الجديد. و يناشدهم
اولاً بالاستمرار فى مسيرة النضال بالوقوف مع الحركة لتحقيق السودان الديمقراطى العلمانى الليبرالى الموحد وهذه هى الوسيلة الوحيدة المبنية على المواطنة الحقة للجميع و الفصل الواضح للدولة و الدين و هذه هى الطريقة الوحيدة المتبقية لوقف تصدع و تشرذم السودان.
ثانياً : يناشد المجتمع الدولى بنشر القوات الدولية على الارض فى اقليم دارفور لصنع السلام و ليس لحماية السلام لانه ليس هنالك سلام فى ظل هذه النظام الحاكم الذى يبيد شعبه و يمارس التطهير العرقى ضد هم. لان السلام يتم صناعته و فرضه على الارض و هى مسئولية العالم الاخلاقية ومبادىء الامم المتحدة.فيما يختص بعملية انتقال مهمة قوات الاتحاد الافريقى للقوات المختلطة فحركة تحرير السودان تود ان تاكد موقفها الثابت و المبدئى ان لا تفاوض ما لم تكون هنالك قوة دولية فاعلة على الارض فى اقليم دارفور بتفويض واضح لوقف القتل و الاغتصاب و نزع سلاح مليشيا الجنجويد و كل مليشيات النظام الحاكم وطرد المستتوطنيين الجدد فى اراضى وحواكير شعبنا هذا التزام منا كحركة ولا نقبل المساومة اطلاقا وهذا موقف مبدئى و ثابت.
ثالثاً : نحن نريد ان يتسنى لمواطيننا اللذين الان فى مخيمات النزوح و يعتمدون على الاغاثات وهم مواطنيين طيلة حياتهم و تارخيهم هم شعب منتج فقط لظروف مؤقتة صنعها النظام الحاكم اللذى يبيد شعبه. نريد لهم ان يعودوا الى قراهم و حواكيرهم و يكونوا منتجين كما كانوا من قبل و ليس معتمدين على الاغاثات فقط نسبة للظروف المؤقته التى صنعها نظام الابادة الجماعية.
رابعاً : حركة تحرير السودان تناشد المواطنيين فى منطقة جنوب كردفان و الميرم و المناطق الاخرى و الحركة الشعبية على ان لا يسمحوا لنظام الانقاذ ان يزرع الفتنة من جديد بين المواطنيين اللذين هم مواطنون لوطن واحد و اننا نسعى جميعاً لبقاء وحدة السودان و بناء دولة المواطنة الحقة.
خامساً : احر التعازى للمواطنيين فى مناطق الجزيرة المتاثرين بوباء الحمى الخلاعية اللذى تستر عليها النظام الحاكم لانه يهتم بسمعته الزائفة على حساب حياة المواطن السودانى.اخيراَ و ليس اخراً احر التهانى لكل جماهير الشعب السودانى و جماهير اقليم دارفور خاصة ان هذا العام الجديد يكون عام بناء السودان العلمانى الليبيرالى الديمقراطى الموحد.
كل عام و انتم بخير عبد الواحد محمد احمد النور رئيس حركة و جيش تحرير السودان

بيان تحذيرى من حركة و جيش تحرير السودان

بيان تحذيرى من حركة و جيش تحرير السودان

posted be Mr Alrabae Adam Ezaldeen

لندن 31 ديسمبر 2007طالعتنا صحيفة السودانى الدولية الصادرة بالخرطوم العدد رقم 764 بتاريخ 30 ديسمبر2007بتصريح للمدعو عصام الدين الحاج المتحدث باسم مجموعة الحركة الشعبية المقيمة فى جوبايصف فيها رئيس حركة و جيش تحرير السودان الاستاذ/ عبد الواحد النور باوصاف ما انزل الله بها من سلطان و متطابقة مع لسان و امانى و احلام و اشواق النظام الحاكم بالخرطوم.ان المدعو عصام الدين الحاج ليس غريباً منه مثل هذة التصريحات السالبة فقد كرس نفسه وحياته للمؤامرات و الفتن فهو الذى كان ناطقاً باسم مؤتمر حسكنيته المشئوم فى نوفمبر 2005 مؤتمر الفتنة و كال ما كال من التهم و الاباطيل و ايضاً فى ابوجا عام 2006 سار على نفس درب التهم و الدسائس للنيل من عزيمة و باس الحركة ممثلة فى رئيسها عبد الواحد النور و لكن هيهات هيهات هيهات لاننا حركة لنا قضيه عادلة و راكزة ولا نتخذ شعبنا مطية للوصول الى كرسى الوظيفة بالخرطوم او جوبا. بعد ان انتهى المدعو عصام الدين الحاج من فتنة حسكنيتة الاولى بوصول بعض من رفاقه الى كرسى الوظيفة بالخرطوم صمت عاماً كاملاً يخطط لفتنة اخرى و اطل الينا هذة المرة من جوبا فى نسخة مكررة طبق الاصل فى كل شىء حتى فى و ظيفته السابقة متحدثاً باسم حسكنيتة اصبح الان ايضاً متحدثاً باسم مجموعة الحركة الشعبية المقيمة فى جوبا واصبح يكيل التهم والدسائس و فى محاولة ثانية للنيل من رئيس الحركة عبد الواحد النور و لكن نقول له هيهات هيهات هيهات و المدعو عصام الدين الحاج حتماً فاشل كما فشل ايضاً عندما كان متحدثاً باسم حسكنيته فنحن حركة لنا قضية و مبادىء ومواقفنا ثابتة منذ تفجر الثورة وليس من شاكلة اصحاب الباذار السياسى مثل المدعو عصام الدين الحاج تارة متحدثاً باسم حسكنيتة و تارة متحدثاً لمجموعة الحركة الشعبية باسم جوبا و لاندرى غداً ربما يكون متحدثاً باسم مجموعة اخرى.حركة و جيش تحرير السودان تحذر المدعو عصام الدين الحاج من القيام بمثل هذه الدسائسوالمؤامرات و التصريحات السالبة فى حق رئيس الحركة عبد الواحد النور و نكرر الحذر الحذر يحي بولاد الناطق باسم الحركةPhone : + 00 44 79 616 08 397Email : yhbashir@yahoo.co.ukWeb : www.sudanslm.net

Darfur rebel leader to remain in France despite Sudan pressure
By Mr Alrabae Adam Ezaldeen
By Wasil Ali

December 24, 2007 (PARIS) — The decision by the French government to extend the residence permit of an influential Darfur rebel leader is likely to anger the Sudanese government.
Yesterday the French government announced that it has decided to renew the residence permit of leader of the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) Abdel-Wahid Al-Nur.
"The length of stay of Mr. Abdel-Wahid al-Nur has been extended by three months" the spokeswoman of the foreign ministry Pascale Andreani told reporters on Monday.
The founder leader of the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) Abdelwahid al-Nur has been residing in Paris for since 2006 under a special residence permit granted by the French government. The permit is renewed every three months.
Al-Nur declined political asylum offer by the government of the former president Jacques Chirac.
Andreani said that al-Nur is supposed to "respond positively to invitations to participate in peace negotiations that would be addressed to him by the UN and the African Union".
The Sudanese government has been pressuring France to expel Al-Nur over his refusal to attend the peace talks before the deployment of peacekeepers.
Sudan’s U.N. ambassador Abdel-Mahmood Mohamad accused France earlier this month of blocking the participation of Al-Nur in the peace talks.
Earlier this month Sudan’s official news agency SUNA reported that French President Nicolas Sarkozy had given al-Nur a deadline to attend peace talks by the end of December or leave France.
SUNA’s announcement followed a meeting between Sarkozy and Sudanese president Omar Hassan Al-Bashir in Lisbon, Portugal at the EU-Africa summit.
Also an unidentified French diplomat told Reuters this month that France will probably force Al-Nur to leave the country by the end of the year.
But expelling Al-Nur was likely to be an uphill battle because of the wide support he enjoys among Darfur activists and civil society in France.
Richards Rossin, former secretary general of ‘Doctors Without Borders’ and Secretary General of ‘Collectif Urgence Darfur’, issued a statement mid-December condemning the reports of expelling Al-Nur from France.
“The shame of expulsion should not take place. They make us guilty of complicity in crimes against humanity. It would send the worst message of weakness to tyrants everywhere on the planet.” Rossin said.
“France should not sell its soul and its traditions of asylums” he added.
Bernard Henri Levy, a renowned French figure, echoed the same call.
“I can not imagine that my friend Kouchner [French Foreign Minister] can soak in such infamy”.
Relations between Sudan and France have been strained since the election of President Nicolas Sarkozy who has taken an increasing role in Darfur diplomacy. The Sudanese government has been hostile to Western involvement in the Darfur crisis.
International experts estimate 200,000 people have died in the conflict, which Washington calls genocide, a term European governments are reluctant to use. The Sudan government says 9,000 people have been killed

BREAKING NEWS: France renews residence permit of Darfur rebel leader

BREAKING NEWS: France renews residence permit of Darfur rebel leader

December 24, 2007 (PARIS) — The French government renewed the residence permit of a prominent Darfur rebel leader ending speculations about his imminent expulsion.
Abdelwahid al-Nur
"The length of stay of Mr. Abdelwahid al-Nur has been extended by three months" the spokesman of the foreign ministry Pascale Andreani told reporters today.
The founder leader of the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) Abdelwahid al-Nur has been residing in Paris for over a year.
The French government granted al-Nur a residence permit that is renewed every three months.
Andreani said that al-Nur is supposed to "respond positively to invitations to participate in peace negotiations that would be addressed to him by the UN and the African Union".
Earlier this month Sudan’s official news agency SUNA reported that French President Nicolas Sarkozy had given al-Nur a deadline to attend peace talks by the end of December or leave France.Also an unidentified French diplomat told Reuters this month that France will probably force Al-Nur to leave the country by the end of the year

Divided US administration takes a toll on Bush special envoy to Sudan

December 21, 2007 (WASHINGTON) — President Bush’s special envoy to Sudan, Andrew S. Natsios, resigned yesterday amid continuing frustration in Congress, the administration and the human rights community over the slow pace of deployment of international peacekeepers to war-ravaged Darfur.
Natsios will be succeeded by Richard S. Williamson, a prominent Illinois Republican and former U.S. ambassador who has held senior posts in three GOP administrations, the White House said.
In an interview, Natsios said his departure has long been planned and is related to his desire to return to full-time teaching at Georgetown University. But he has also been at the center of intense bureaucratic battling over what to do about the humanitarian disaster in Sudan’s Darfur region, and associates said Natsios appeared weary of the constant infighting. He also alienated others in the bureaucracy with what they regarded as his freelancing style.
Professor Eric Reeves, one of Natsios’ staunchest critics, told Sudan Tribune that the special envoy’s tenure “was anything but a success for US policy, either in Darfur or in securing from Khartoum compliance with the north/south Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA)”.
Bush has adopted Darfur as a special cause, and has become one of the few world leaders to describe the killing there since 2003 as genocide. But he has been repeatedly stymied in his efforts to marshal an effective international response to the crisis in Darfur, in the western part of Sudan, where fighting has claimed at least 200,000 lives and displaced more than 2 million people.
Natsios’s departure comes as the United Nations once again struggles to expand an existing African Union force of 7,000 troops into a more robust international force of 26,000 peacekeepers. U.N. officials have had little luck persuading countries to contribute the 24 helicopters needed for the mission. The government of Sudan, considered a major instigator of the violence, has thrown up various roadblocks after initially accepting the idea of the new force.
Natsios said in the interview that he was hopeful the peacekeeping force would begin to grow, noting that 800 troops from Rwanda had just arrived and 2,400 from Egypt and Ethiopia are set to deploy shortly. "It’s slow, I admit that, but it’s happening," he said.
Natsios, a former head of the U.S. Agency for International Development who has been involved in Sudan affairs for decades, said that the killing in Darfur has dropped considerably in the past year and that the greater danger in Sudan is the revival of a north-south civil war that claimed millions of lives in the 1980s and 1990s.
"It’s not stable. It’s anarchy," Natsios said of Darfur. "But our ability to put it back together is going to take a long time, and we need to be patient."
Natsios’s assessment of conditions in Darfur has put him at odds from time to time with the religious and human rights groups that have pressed for more aggressive U.S. action on Sudan. They greeted Natsios’s departure with concern that the president was replacing one part-time envoy with another.
Professor Reeves said that Natsios “recently spent far too much time criticizing the fractious rebel groups and too little convincing Khartoum that there would be a meaningful international price to pay for continuing to obstruct deployment of the UN/African Union force to Darfur”.
The Save Darfur Coalition, an alliance of more than 180 faith-based, advocacy and human rights organizations called for a new direction in US policy towards Sudan.
"Al-Bashir’s scorched earth campaign against civilians is not part-time, the Janjaweed reign of terror is not part-time, and the sense of insecurity and fear in Darfur is not part-time," said Sam Bell, Save Darfur Coalition board member and Genocide Intervention Network director of advocacy.
"So there is no excuse for part-time U.S. engagement on this issue. In light of recent diplomatic developments, the president must now seize this opportunity to appoint a high-level, full-time special envoy whose sole function is full-time diplomatic engagement on this critical issue. Half measures and part-time efforts have clearly failed the people of Darfur" he added.
"This needs to be more than just a fresh face in that position," said Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), a key supporter of recent legislation to protect the right of states to divest from companies with connections to Sudan. "To this point, we’ve seen only spurts of engagement and muscle from the administration, surrounded by long droughts of silence and passiveness."
Bush is considering whether to sign the divestment bill, which has raised concerns among senior advisers as a possible encroachment on foreign policy.
Some advocates expressed satisfaction with the appointment of Williamson, a onetime Reagan White House aide who served earlier in this Bush administration as an envoy to the United Nations and the U.N. Human Rights Commission in Geneva.
"If given the opportunity to work directly for and with President Bush, and not get entangled in the staff-level internecine turf wars, he has a real chance of making a difference in Sudan," said John Prendergast, a former Clinton administration Africa expert who described Williamson as a "heavyweight diplomat."
Williamson said in an interview that he will meet with Bush in early January and that he intends to "draw up some practical proposals and put some diplomatic muscle so we can advance the ball." He said the dynamic needs to change on Darfur: "Right now, there are too many people who find it too agreeable to have a status quo. And no matter the human suffering, they are unwilling to act."
International experts estimate 200,000 people have died in the conflict, which Washington calls genocide, a term European governments are reluctant to use. The Sudan government says 9,000 people have been killed

UN envoy faces opposition in heartland of Darfur rebel leader

UN envoy faces opposition in heartland of Darfur rebel leader

December 8, 2007 (HASSA HASSA) — The U.N. special envoy for Darfur faced a firm opposition during a tour in the tribal heartland of the region’s top rebel on Saturday. The UN official was trying to draw the reluctant chief’s followers into new peace talks that have stalled since October.
Jan Eliasson’s effort faced firm opposition by local Fur tribesmen, hardened by what they describe as years of persecution at the hands of the Sudanese government.
Most Fur tribal chiefs follow rebel leader Abdelwahid al-Nur, who is boycotting the U.N.-brokered peace talks until a planned U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force of 26,000 deploys in the region and proves effective in ending the bloodshed.
Among those skeptical of peace talks was al-Nur’s elderly father.
"Tell my son we are proud of him, that he must continue the fight because we are dying," Mohamed Ahmed al-Nur told The Associated Press.
Peace negotiations were launched by Eliasson in October, but broke off just after opening in Libya because of the absence of major rebel chiefs.
Abdulwahid al-Nur, who lives in exile in Paris, is the founder of the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army. He yields little military power, but enjoys widespread following among his tribe, the Fur, which is Darfur’s largest and gave the region its name.
A black African tribe, the Fur have been among the main victims of the ongoing conflict that has killed more than 200,000 people and chased 2,5 million from their homes — mostly ethnic African civilians — since Darfur rebels took arms in 2003 against Sudan’s Arab-dominated central government, accusing it of discrimination.
A previous Darfur peace deal signed in May 2006 has largely failed, in part because al-Nur refused to endorse it. Eliasson was keen Saturday to win the Fur civilian leadership to the idea of new negotiations.
"We want to begin the political talks and deploy the peacekeepers at the same time," Eliasson told a tribal gathering in the Hissa Hissa camp, home to some 50,000 Fur refugees. "We hope these two processes will reinforce each other."
Although Eliasson aims to open "substantial negotiations" in early 2008, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon warned this week that the Darfur peacekeeping force due in January faces considerable delays because of Sudanese government foot-dragging and a lack of equipment and troop commitments from wealthy Western nations.
Eliasson hopes countries wary of sending troops would be reassured if a political settlement is under way. "We would like to offer you a voice in this process," he urged the tribal leaders. "You carry a trauma, but I hope you will also look at the future."
Leaders in the camp, which lies next to al-Nur’s hometown of Zalingei, read out to Eliasson a long list of their conditions, which echoed those of their chief.
U.N. peacekeepers must deploy urgently, they said, to disarm government paramilitary groups and expel new Arab settlers squatting the Fur refugees’ empty villages. Only then can the U.N. effectively monitor a peace deal, they said, and also called for compensation for lost relatives and destroyed lands.
Al-Nur’s father, whose clan was influential in politics before Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir seized power in 1989, had stayed back in his dusty shop in Zalingei and did not meet with the U.N. envoy. Of his 20 children, he said, most of the sons had joined their brother’s rebellion.
"We welcome Eliasson and we want nothing more than peace," the elder Al-Nur said. "But without international force, there is no way we can trust this government."
Khartoum denies it backs the janjaweed militia of Arab nomads blamed for the worst atrocities here, but the International Criminal Court has jointly charged a Sudanese minister and a janjaweed chief with crimes against humanity.
The U.N. estimates that over 4 million people — two thirds of Darfur’s population — are now seriously affected by the conflict. With the spread of chaos, some of the Darfur Arabs have now also fled to refugee camps, where Eliasson came to meet them near Zalingei.
Distrust prevails and most Fur say they view the 17,000 new refugees from the small Al-Hutiya tribe as also being janjaweed. But the Al-Hutiya’s camp chief, Idriss Ibrahim, denied this.
"We’re Arabs, but we have nothing to do with the janjaweed," Ibrahim told the AP. "That’s why the government didn’t give us weapons and we are now refugees," he said, pleading with Eliasson that his tribe be represented separately in the peace talks.
"I know you are also the victims of this terrible conflict," Eliasson said, stressing "nobody must be forgotten" when talks eventually resume.

Darfur rebel leader lashes out at US special envoy for Sudan

Darfur rebel leader lashes out at US special envoy for Sudan
By Wasil Ali

December 12, 2007 (PARIS) — The leader of a Darfur rebel group expressed “ deep disappointment” over statements made by Andrew Natsios, Special Envoy for Sudan last week.
“Natsios seems to be in a state of denial about the party who has been and still is obstructing peace in Darfur, so he is now putting the blame on us” Abdel-Wahid Al-Nur, leader of Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) told Sudan Tribune by phone from Paris France.
“Over the last four years, the Sudanese government routinely snubbed a handful of UN Security Council resolutions on Darfur ranging from arms embargo to flight ban to extraditing war criminals” Al-Nur said.
“Today and four months after resolution 1769 was adopted, Khartoum is putting one obstacle after another to prevent the peacekeeping force from being deployed in Darfur to protect my people. Yet Natsios is faulting us the victims for the instability” he added.
Natsios, speaking at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington last Friday, said that Al-Nur is “in discussion and maybe in alliance” with Mohamed Ali Hamiditi who is the leader of a Janjaweed group.
The US envoy said that Hamiditi despite being funded by Khartoum felt betrayed by the central government.
The influential rebel leader said that he will work with anyone “for the safety of his people”.
“It is my responsibility to do everything in my power to protect my people and stop the genocide. I do not need the permission of anyone to carry out this task. The international community has so far given us nothing but empty words and false promises” Al-Nur said.
Al-Nur said that Hamiditi has defected from the Sudanese government and is fighting against it.
“Contrary to what Natsios thinks, this is not a new phenomenon. We had many members of Arab militias join the ranks of the SLM as recent as April after they realized Khartoum manipulations. The defection of Hamiditi is the culmination of this trend” he added.
Natsios also accused Al-Nur’s forces of making physical threats against IDP’s who participate in the election process to choose their advisory council.
However the SLM leader categorically denied Natsios allegations.
“This is totally absurd and ridiculous to say the least. The SLM has democratic practices in place and we would never use force against our people. We defend the rights of the displaced and they elect their representative from the base to the leadership, all of whom are displaced elected by the displaced. If these were our tactics, our people would have rejected us outright from day one” Al-Nur said.
The US envoy said that despite Al-Nur being popular in IDP camps he has reasons to believe that his support is dwindling because “people are getting impatient”.
But the rebel leader scathingly dismissed Natsios claims.
“This is wishful thinking by Natsios. He can dream all he wants but the fact remains that the SLM enjoys support from the majority of Darfur refugees. The SLM is not about me but it is an embodiment of the principles my people are yearning for” he said.
Al-Nur called on Natsios to join hands with him to end the misery and tragedy of the Darfurian people.
“The people of Darfur are indebted to the US administration and the American people for the leading role they have played and the humanitarian assistance they provided. But Natsios has to understand that I will not sign a quick unworkable agreement. Security for our people is paramount to anything” he added.
Al-Nur has refused to participate in peace talks before the deployment of peacekeepers and achieving security on the ground.
His demands have caused deep frustration among diplomats and the Sudanese government who called on France to expel him.
Sam Ibok, advisor to the African Union Special Envoy for Darfur, speaking along with Natsios called on Al-Nur to return to Darfur instead of “living in the luxury home of Paris”.
Al-Nur said he “regretted” Ibok statements.
“Unfortunately brother Ibok is simply repeating Khartoum’s bland pronouncements. I will not sink to that level of talk with him.” Al-Nur said.
International experts estimate 200,000 people have died in the conflict, which Washington calls genocide, a term European governments are reluctant to use. The Sudan government says 9,000 people have been killed.