Sudan’s presidential assistants assaulted, injured in London
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June 7, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan’s Presidential Assistant Nafi Ali Nafi
sustained an injury on Wednesday when an angry Sudanese expatriate
hurled a chair at him during a heated symposium organised by the
Sudanese embassy in London.
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Sudan’s presidential assistant Nafi Ali Nafi (REUTERS PICTURES)
The powerful figure of the ruling National Congress Party (NCP)
travelled this week to the capital city of the United Kingdom as he
faced a barrage of criticism at home by fellow party hardliners over
his leading role in signing an accord recognising the north Sudan
sector of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) as a “legal
political party.”
Nafi was hosted by the Sudanese embassy in London on Wednesday, along
with Presidential Adviser Mustafa Osman Isma’il, to address members of
the Sudanese community in the UK. According to Sudan Tribune’s
sources, those who turned up to attend were faced with tight security
measures and had their mobile phones and cameras taken away by
security personnel.
When the window for questions was opened towards the end of the
symposium, Nafi was heckled by journalists and anti-government
activists over his alleged responsibility for some of the well-known
crimes committed during the rule of the current Islamist government,
including the summary execution on 24 April 1990 of 28 army officers
who attempted to stage a coup as well as atrocities committed in the
western region of Darfur.
Eye-witnesses told Sudan Tribune that Nafi responded arrogantly to the
questions, telling the audience that his government had no qualms
about the execution of the army officers who attempted the coup. Then
one attendant rose from his place and throw a chair that hit Nafi
above his eyebrow, according to multiple sources.
The spokesman of Sudan’s foreign ministry Al-Obaid Adam Moraoah
confirmed the incident but he said that the injury was “not severe.”
He told the Sudanese Media Center (SMC), a website run by the
country’s security apparatus, that Nafi is due to be back in Khartoum
on Friday.
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