Sudanese official slams opposition for meeting with rebel leaders
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May 12, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – A top aide to Sudanese president Omer Hassan
al-Bashir directed fierce criticism at the opposition parties
suggesting they are traitors for meeting with rebel leaders battling
the government in different parts of the country.
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Sudanese presidential assistant Nafie Ali Nafie (Reuters)
This week representatives from the National Umma Party (NUP), Sudanese
Communist Party (SCP), Popular Congress Party (PCP), Democratic
Unionist Party (DUP) met in London with delegation from Sudan People
Liberation Movement North (SPLM-N) led by its chairman Malik Agar.
The participants issued a joint statement saying they reject the use
of force to redraw borders between north and south Sudan and called
for dialogue between the two neighbors.
This came against the backdrop of the brief occupation by South Sudan
army (SPLA) last month of the oil-rich region of Heglig which lies
inside South Kordofan state. Juba made a claim to the area saying that
it belongs to the south but was annexed through an administrative
decision several decades ago.
Sudan armed forces (SAF) regained control of Heglig but SPLA insisted
that they withdrew voluntarily.
The Sudanese presidential assistant Nafie Ali Nafie addressing
supporters at an event in Khartoum said that the opposition parties
are counting on Juba and SPLM-N to help in the process of regime
change and thought that Heglig was to be the starting point.
He chided the opposition parties for being slow in condemning the
south’s invasion of Heglig saying that their belated position was a
"makeup" to save face.
"Those who don’t stand with the armed forces in these circumstances
are not one of us," Nafie said before adding that the qualities of
patriotism and virility no longer applies to the opposition.
The Sudanese official claimed that there is a fifth column inside the
Sudanese capital stressing that he knows them by name and disclosed
that they are all under surveillance.
The London meeting called on Khartoum not to use the Heglig incident
by the country’s leadership to mobilize the people using racial
slogans directed at the people of South Sudan or to utilize it by
discrediting any party on grounds of nationalism.
But Nafie dismissed the opposition parties’ call saying that their
work with Agar and SPLM-N Secretary General Arman did not earn them
anything because these names became a pariah to the Sudanese people
who consider them as traitors.
Fighting has been raging since last year between the Sudanese army and
SPLM-N rebels in the states of South Kordofan and Blue Nile, adjacent
to newly-independent South Sudan.
South Kordofan and Blue Nile are home to tens of thousands of fighters
who battled Khartoum as part of the southern army during a civil war
that ended in 2005. Khartoum accuses Juba of continuing to back the
insurgents, which South Sudan denies.
Sudan has rejected a clause in the United Nations Security Council
(UNSC) resolution adopted this month calling on Khartoum to negotiate
with SPLM-N to end the conflict in the border states which led to mass
displacement and food shortage.
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