SPLM’s Arman may be prosecuted over alleged Israel visit: report
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August 17, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – The state prosecutors are moving to probe
the Secretary General of the Northern sector of Sudan People
Liberation Movement (SPLM-N) Yasir Arman in response to complaints
filed by several government agencies claiming that he paid a visit to
Israel recently.
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Sudan People Liberation Movement (SPLM) north’s secretary general
Yasir Arman (Reuters)
This week the government sponsored Sudanese Media Center (SMC) website
said that Arman led an SPLM-N delegation to the Jewish state where he
met with the minister of foreign affairs Avigdor Lieberman and defense
minister Ehud Barak.
The independent Al-Sudani newspaper on said that prosecutors are
preparing to charge Arman with spying, collaborating with an enemy
state, sedition and war against the state and other codes related to
violating the Immigration and Nationality law.
Legal sources said that the possible lawsuit is based on the
classification of Israel as an enemy state and that any Sudanese
citizen who travels there would face criminal charges. The sources
added that Arman, who is currently in Nairobi, will be summoned to
appear before the State Security Prosecution division. Should he not
show up for questioning a warrant may be issued for him through the
Interpol.
However in an interview with the Cairo-based Al-Ahram newspaper Arman
vehemently denied the report saying that during the North-South civil
war which lasted over two decades he never visited Israel.
Arman said that “the dissemination of these lies and allegations
reflect a deep crisis experienced by the one-party regime in Khartoum”
adding that Khartoum is seeking to undermine a planned visit to Egypt
by publishing these reports.
“On the one hand, it [the regime] is afraid of our ties as SPLM with
Egypt more than it fears any relations we have with Israel, and it
knows that there is a formal invitation presented by Egypt since two
months ago to the SPLM-N chairman Malik Agar and myself as SPLM-N
Secretary General….. It is working on the aborting any real Egyptian
role in the Sudan despite talk of the Nile Valley love which does not
have any basis in its actions” Arman said.
The SPLM-N figure slammed the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) in
Sudan saying that it is faced with many challenges and failures
including the ongoing war in Darfur and South Kordofan, governance
crisis and worsening economic situation.
He warned that Khartoum is heading towards further splitting up the
country after the South’s secession through aggressive policies. Arman
also ruled out any agreement between the NCP and other Northern
opposition parties.
Some sources said that charges pressed against Arman are a prelude to
banning activities of the SPLM-N.
The SPLM is a Southern based party but during the two decades civil
war it managed to gather support in the north, particularly in the
border regions of Blue Nile and the Nuba Mountains area of Southern
Kordofan.
Following the South’s independence last month, it was announced that
SPLM-N would become a separate party in the North. Sudanese officials
have given conflicting positions on whether they would allow that.
Some NCP figures said they would not allow a party that has roots in a
foreign country to operate in Sudan.
(ST)
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