Northern ultranationalist party to sue SPLM’s Arman with “treason”
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March 30, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – A northern political party advocating
extreme nationalistic agendas is preparing to file a lawsuit against
the Secretary-General of the SPLM’s northern sector, Yasir Arman, on
the grounds of his calls on the US Administration not to lift economic
sanctions on Sudan.
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Just Peace Forum leader Al-Tayyib Mustafa
Al-Tayeb Mustafa, the ultranationalist leader of the Just Peace Forum
(JPF), which preaches against the influence of African Sudanese on the
Islamic and Arab identity of the Sudan, said his party had formed a
team of lawyers to instigate legal proceedings against Arman on the
charge of “treason.”
Arman, who leads north Sudan sector of the ruling SPLM in South Sudan,
called on the US administration during a visit to Washington not to
lift economic sanctions imposed on Sudan since 1997 until Khartoum
demonstrates commitment to democratic transformation.
His statement drew an angry response from the Sudanese government
whose spokesman Khalid Musa who said Arman’s statements constituted “a
breach of national agendas, calling on the SPLM to repudiate them.
Speaking to Sudan’s official news agency SUNA on Wednesday, Mustafa
said that the team of lawyers was currently engaged in preparing the
case, calling on all lawyers wishing to join the team to register
their name with the JPF’s administration.
Al-Tayeb Mustafa, who happens to be the maternal uncle of Sudan’s
President Al-Bashir, chairs the board of directors of the
JPF-affiliated daily newspaper Al-Initbaha in which Mustafa writes a
daily column often containing derogatory remarks against Arman and
other figures from south Sudan and Darfur.
Mustafa is accused of using his paper to spread xenophobia against
people from African ethnic backgrounds in Sudan.
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