Sudan’s SPLM ridicule North’s claim of uncovering source of leaked documents
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March 20, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudan People Liberation Movement
(SPLM) on Saturday dismissed claims by the North that they were able
to identify the person behind the leaked documents that emerged this
week showing the National Congress Party (NCP) support to militias in
the south.
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FILE - Sudan’s Minister of Defence Abdel Rahim Mohamed Hussein (R)
talks to South’s minister for the SPLA (the southern army) Nhial Deng
Nhial after a joint news conference at the Ministry of Defence
headquarters in Khartoum November 11, 2010
The intercepted documents, written in Arabic, were presented before
journalists in Juba, the South’s capital, by SPLM’s SG Pagan Amum. The
latter said the documents were obtained from Sudan’s defense ministry,
military high command, the logistical department and the national
intelligence unit of the Khartoum-based government.
Amum said that the plan for aiding Southern militias was under the
direct supervision of president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir.
A new set of documents were released on Saturday showing orders for
forming security committees in Khartoum, Darfur and Kordofan. It also
showed cases filed against military officers accused of divulging
confidential information.
The punishment of some of these officers were endorsed by the Sudanese
president per the signatures.
The minister of defense Abdel-Rahim Mohamed Hussein dismissed the
documents as fabricated adding that the SPLM paid millions to a
sergeant in the army to make them up.
But the SPLM said in statement that they have no links with the
military officer, whose name was not disclosed, stressing that they
have their own sources.
The ex-rebel movement however called on the international community
and rights groups to protect the sergeant saying that his life now is
at risk.
"The panic that struck the leadership of NCP pushing them to draw
false accusations against innocent people within the military stand as
further evidence on the authenticity of those documents," said the
statement signed by the SPLM secretariat.
The SPLM said that on top of the documents, they have physical
evidence showing the complicity of the NCP and confessions from
members of the militias who were captured in recent fighting.
"The NCP leadership must stop what they are doing and direct their
energies to dialogue and negotiation to reach agreements and
understandings to manage the transition in Sudan that would lead to
the establishment of two democratic states living in peace and mutual
security to give our people in the two countries an opportunity to
rebuild their shattered lives and reunite after the war and
displacement".
South Sudan has seen an upsurge in bloody clashes between rebel groups
and the army since a largely peaceful January referendum on
independence, in which southerners voted almost unanimously to form
their own nation.
The government in the South accused the North of standing behind the
militias and suspended post-referendum talks with the NCP but later
reversed their decision after mediation of former South African
president Thabo Mbeki who leads an African Union panel.
In a related issue the Sudanese president assistant Nafie Ali Nafie
accused the SPLM of seeking to create troubles saying that violence in
the South is caused by SPLA officers rebelling against their
leadership.
Nafie told a visiting Eritrean delegation led by its foreign minister
Osman Saleh Mohamed that they know the source of weapons obtained by
these militias.
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