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Date: Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 12:59 AM
Subject: SRF Leaders Comment on Addis Peace Talks
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Peace Talks in Addis Ababa - February 2014
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SPLM-N Enters Talks with Sudan Government While
SRF Awaits Inclusive Dialogue
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*"If it's just an issue of the SPLM and the two areas, then it is not
going to solve the problem of Sudan. We can sign a very beautiful agreement
and it won't be worth the ink."*
-Malik Agar, chairman of Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF), told Nuba Reports
Thursday marked the first day of talks between the Sudan government and the
SPLM-N. The SPLM-N is a member of the unified Sudan Revolutionary Front
(SRF) that has made it their goal to remove the regime in Khartoum. No
other members of the SRF were invited to the negotiations. Watch the
interviews with each member of the SRF to hear their views on the talks:
- Malik Agar, SPLM-N
- Jibril Ibrahim, JEM
- Mini Minawi SLA-MM
- Abdul Wahid SLA-AW
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AS BOMBINGS CONTINUED IN THE NUBA MOUNTAINS, NEGOTIATIONS TO RESOLVE
POLITICAL, MILITARY AND HUMANITARIAN CRISES IN SUDAN'S BLUE NILE AND SOUTH
KORDOFAN STATES BEGAN TODAY IN ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA.
Former South African President Thabo Mbeki will lead the new round of talks
between the Sudanese government and the rebel SPLM-North, more than 10
months after the last talks stalled when the two sides could not agree on
an agenda.
However none of Sudan's rebel leaders have any hope that the talks will
bring peace or even tangible progress. The leaders of the Sudan
Revolutionary Front - a coalition comprising groups from Blue Nile, South
Kordofan and Darfur - say only comprehensive talks with all opposition
groups can bring real change.
"From the beginning I don't have any hope for Addis Ababa negotiation,"
said Abdul Wahid al-Nur of Darfur's SLA-AW. "We have, with this government,
43 piece-meals [agreements, which] never succeeded. [Adding] 44 or 45 will
not succeed."
In the past, Sudan has refused to negotiation with the SRF coalition as a
whole. Leaders from the SPLM-North said they would only attend the Addis
Ababa talks to discuss humanitarian access in Blue Nile and South Kordofan.
However in the weeks leading up to the talks, Sudan's chief negotiator,
Ibrahim Gandour, said he would prefer to hold comprehensive discussions.
The Sudan Tribune quoted Gandour, as saying the government wanted talks
addressing the "root causes" of the conflict. He rejected SRF's demand to
focus on humanitarian access, currently blocked in South Kordofan and Blue
Nile. The government called the humanitarian crises in those regions
"symptoms" of the greater, underlying conflict.
SRF leaders share this sentiment with the government, but SRF and
SPLM-North Secretary-General Malik Agar says humanitarian issues are a path
to broader discussion. Agar said, "We cannot be in a high moral ground when
our people are being bombarded and denied food and denied access."
Despite this, a Sudan Sukhoi-24 jet dropped 18 bombs in Tabanya, South
Kordofan as the talks opened. There was another bombing in Um Serdiba,
where an unconfirmed number of civilians were wounded.
The bombings are the latest in a string of attacks in the lead-up to the
talks. 27 bombs were dropped within two days in the Buram and Heiban
counties of South Kordofan. "The philosophy of this government, whenever
there is a negotiation, is to kill very massively in order to bring you
weak in a negotiation table," said SLA-AW's al-Nur in an interview a week
earlier.
According to JEM leader Jibril Ibrahim, any agreement reached in Addis will
be meaningless. In 2012 a 'Tripartite' agreement was signed by both the
SPLM-North and the Sudanese Government to allow delivery of food and aid to
South Kordofan and Blue Nile states. But the agreement's first steps were
never taken.
Ibrahim said the SPLM-North will not be enticed by the negotiations into a
broader peace deal without the SRF coalition, because of rebel groups'
commitments to each other. "We used to quarrel among ourselves and fight
among ourselves," he said. "Now we are putting all our resources against
the regime."
According to SRF Secretary General Agar, real talks must address the
identity of Sudan and it's society. "There is a monopoly of power and a
monopoly of the identity of Sudan and a religious monopoly also. But Sudan
is so diverse and it is resolvable. It is only a matter of which are the
right buttons to touch."
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