Sudan security services shut SPLM office in central state
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July 14, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – Security authorities in Sudan’s central
state of Al-Gezira ordered the suspension of the Northern sector of
Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), in what appears to be the
harbinger of a countrywide crackdown on the South Sudan linked party.
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Blue Nile governor and chairman of the SPLM’s northern-sector, Malik
Agar, addresses the press in Juba after attending South Sudan’s
independence. Sunday 10 July, 2011 (Ngor Garang – ST)
The SPLM is the southern movement that fought two-decade of civil war
with North Sudan before signing a peace deal in 2005. It now rules
South Sudan, which gained independence earlier this week, but its
northern sector, whose membership is now made-up of Northern Sudanese,
has decided to continue operating in the North.
Officials of Sudan’s ruling National Congress Party (NCP) have
threatened in the past to suspend the SPLM Northern sector (SPLMN) as
soon as the South becomes independent, saying it would be considered
an extension of a foreign party.
In a press release seen by Sudan Tribune, the SPLM said that its
assistant secretary-general for political mobilisation in Al-Gezira
State was summoned on Tuesday morning to appear before the deputy
director of the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) in
the state.
According to the press release, the SPLM official was informed of a
decision by the state’s security committee to close down all SPLM
offices, suspend its activities and freeze all of its contacts with
other political forces.
The SPLM further reported that its branches in other localities of
Al-Gezira state received identical directives.
A framework agreement signed earlier this month between the NCP and
the SPLMN on the situation in the war-battered region of South
Kordofan had collapsed after NCP hardliners objected to the accord’s
recognition of the SPLM as a legal political party in the North.
Officials of the SPLM’s northern sector warned that any attempt by the
NCP to crackdown on their party, especially in the North-South border
states of South Kordofan and Blue Nile, could ignite an all-out war.
The SPLM’s stated vision for a "new" secular, federal and democratic
Sudan is at odds with the NCP’s Islamist and authoritarian tendanices.
(ST)
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