Sudanese opposition party urges Bashir not to sign army law
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July 15, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - Sudan’s opposition Popular Congress Party
(PCP) has demanded that president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir not to sign
the controversial army law recently approved, appealing him to return
it to the parliament.
Earlier this month, the Sudanese parliament passed controversial
amendments to the 2007 Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) law which allows
for prosecution of civilians in military courts.
These amendments allow military courts to prosecute civilians on
several crimes including deserting military service, harbouring a
fugitive, disclosing military information, using military uniforms,
undermining the constitutional order, inciting war against the state,
dealing with an enemy state, spying on the state and allowing escape
of prisoners of war among others.
The PCP secretary for justice and human rights, Abdallah Al-Hussein,
in a press statement yesterday called upon Bashir not to keep the law
at his office for more than 60 days to avoid its tacit approval and
return it immediately to the parliament.
He saw that the law opens the door for exercising selective justice
which had been adopted by some regimes in the past.
Al-Hussein also expressed concern that the army law would allow
international justice and human rights institutions to interfere in
Sudan’s internal affairs under the pretext that the country’s own
judiciary is not qualified for the job.
In a separate issue, the PCP’s political secretary, Kamal Omer, has
described statements made by the head of the parliamentary
sub-committee on foreign affairs, security, and defense, Mohamed
al-Hassan Al-Amin, on a possible convergence between the ruling
National Congress Party (NCP) and the PCP as “ravings”.
“Differences among Islamists were on democracy and freedom”, said Omer.
On Sunday, Al-Amin, said that rapprochement between the two Islamists
parties, NCP and the PCP, in the future is not unlikely, pointing that
they share the same ideology.
He stressed that the main differences between the two parties were on
strategy not the fundamental orientation.
The PCP split from the NCP following 1999’s bitter power struggle
between president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir and the Islamist leader Hassan
Al-Turabi. The latter was ousted from his post as parliament speaker.
Al-Turabi afterwards established the PCP and has since been a
vociferous critic of the very regime whose army-backed seizure of
power in 1989 he orchestrated.
(ST)
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