SPLM’s northern sector accused of inciting U.S to wage war on Sudan
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April 24, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – North Sudan’s ruling national congress
party (NCP) has accused the northern sector of the Sudan People’s
Liberation Movement (SPLM) of inciting the U.S to wage a new war on
the country.
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Yasir Arman, secretary-general of the SPLM’s northern sector
The accusation was made by Ahmed Ibrahim Al-Tahir, the speaker of the
Sudanese parliament and head of the NCP’s politbureau, during a public
rally in South Kordofan State on Sunday.
Al-Tahir claimed that the SPLM had requested the U.S assistance in
waging a new war on Sudan, and stressed that his party would not allow
the SPLM to complete its plot.
A delegation of the SPLM-northern sector had recently visited
Washington where the party’s secretary-general, Yasir Arman,
reportedly called on the U.S Administration not to lift the economic
sanctions it has been imposing on Sudan since 1997 unless the
government of president Al-Bashir demonstrates commitment to
democratic transformation.
Arman’s statement sparked fury in Khartoum where the spokesman of the
country’s foreign minister Khalid Musa told reporters last month that
Arman’s call constitutes "a breach of national agendas and
principles."
The SPLM is the ruling party in South Sudan which massively voted to
secede from the north in a referendum held in January as part of the
2005’s deal which ended decades of north-south civil wars in 2005.
In the same public rally, the NCP’s incumbent candidate for
gubernatorial elections in South Kordofan State, Ahmad Harun,
criticized the “new Sudan project” advocated by the SPLM’s northern
sector, describing it is a “racist and separatist” ideology.
Harun, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on
charges of war crimes allegedly committed during a government
counterinsurgency campaign in the country’s westernmost region of
Darfur, has also been accused by the SPLM of standing behind the
incidents of violence which occurred this month in the state’s village
of El-feid, where the paramilitary Popular Defense Forces (PDF) killed
at least 17 people and burned hundreds of houses.
The incidents come ahead of the May 2 legislative and gubernatorial
elections in South Kordofan, which failed to hold them when Sudan
organized countrywide elections in 2010 due to disagreements over the
2008 census and delimitation of geographic constituencies.
The two frontrunners for the state governor office, Harun and Abdul
Aziz Adam Al-Hilu of the SPLM, have been actively campaigning since
the Khartoum-based National Elections Commission (NEC) announced the
beginning of electoral campaigns period on April 4.
In a separate development, the SPLM’s candidate Al-Hilu urged South
Sudan president Salva Kiir to release citizens of South Kordofan’s who
were arrested during the recent fighting in Unity State between the
south’s army and militia groups allegedly backed by Khartoum.
In a letter to Kiir seen by Sudan Tribune, Al-Hilu accused unnamed
bodies of turning South Kordofan citizens from cattle-herders into
soldiers for southern militias.
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