---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Eric Reeves <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 6:44 PM Subject: Leaked minutes from a senior-level meeting of Khartoum officials, October 11, 2015 To: Eric Reeves <[email protected]>
*Leaked minutes from a senior-level meeting of Khartoum officials, October 11, 2015 * Eric Reeves, 27 January 2016 I received today, from the same highly authoritative source as for previously leaked and web-posted minutes of senior-level meetings in Khartoum, a nine-page document entitled *RESOLUTION AND OTHER MAIN POINTS MADE DURING PRESIDENT AL-BASHIR’S MEETING OF OCTOBER 11, 2015*. The document (which begins with an overview dated *November 6, 2015*) includes: a summary of key points; a list of those in attendance; an agenda for the meeting; and comments by those in attendance. I received both the *original Arabic document* as well as an *English translation*. What appears below are links to the Arabic text as well to the translation, and my partial rendering of the English translation in clearer, more idiomatic, and consistent form. This task is ongoing, but several comments deserve immediate highlighting: The Governor of South Darfur State speaks of the *“burden” UNAMID creates for the regime* and remarks ominously: *“The displaced camps and NGOs [international humanitarian organizations] pose a direct threat to national security.”* Hamid Siddig, Deputy Islamic Movement Chairman for Organizational Affairs: *“The Islamic Movement will not hand over power to anybody and we shall fight to the last man.* *We will not surrender and we will not allow formation of any transitional government.* It’s the Islamic Movement’s idea to call for the National Dialogue…” “[W]e must crush the rebellion this year whatever the cost. We are not going to succumb to any blackmailing or bargaining by anybody.” President al-Bashir: *“We must use all means to evict UNAMID by the end of this year.”* [image: 54f109848b172] <http://sudanreeves.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/54f109848b172.jpeg> *“We must use all means to evict UNAMID by the end of this year.” President Omar al-Bashir, October 11, 2015* *English translation* appears at | http://wp.me/p45rOG-1QR *Arabic text* at | http://wp.me/p45rOG-1QT ************************************ • Fully authenticated previously leaked minutes of August 31, 2014 meeting | http://wp.me/p45rOG-1sq (on the authenticity of these minutes, see | http://wp.me/p45rOG-1w5 ) • September 10, 2014 meeting | http://wp.me/p45rOG-1Fn • July 1, 2014 meeting | http://wp.me/p45rOG-1Cb • June 3, 2014 meeting | http://wp.me/p45rOG-1Ij ************************************ Date: November 6, 2015 *RESOLUTION AND OTHER MAIN POINTS MADE DURING PRESIDENT AL-BASHIR’S MEETING OF OCTOBER 11, 2015* [I.] President al-Bashir [1] They will comple UNAMID to withdraw from Darfur by force of will before the end of 2015; [2] They will harbor/host the Egyptian Islamists by assisting, accommodating them, provide, security and investment opportunities in Sudan; [3] They will not expel the Islamists in order to appease Egyptian President al-Sisi or the USA; [4] Egyptian Islamist students are coming in large numbers to study in Khartoum; [5] The al-Bashir regime will not respond to but rather ignore all of al-Sisi’s provocative acts and continue to support the Islamists’ efforts to take power from him one day, when they are at their full force; [6] The regime has a secret deal with Dr. Riek Machar to help him through his governors of Upper Nile state to coordinate [with Khartoum] in controlling the border of Upper Nile state; [7] There are rebel fighters among the refugees in White Nile State [Sudan] who go back and forth [to South Sudan]; [8] They *[presumably the leaders of the Khartoum regime—ER] *are the ones who decided to allow the secession of South Sudan, knowing that it would not continue to hold as a state but break up into small villages after independence; [9] *[We must—ER] *Raise money to establish a trust fund with the aim of compensating the families of victims of the Darfur war crisis and thus manipulate them to ask the ICC to drop the case against al-Bashir *[comments from state governors and a general security assessment—ER]* *[Beginning page 3]* *In the name of God the most gracious and merciful* *The Republic of Sudan* *The Presidency of the Republic* *Ministry of Federal Affairs | **October 11, 2015* *Attendance:* [I] Field Marshal/Omer Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir, President of the Republic [II] Faisl Hassan Ibrahim, Federal Affairs Minister [III] Dr. Hamid Siddig, Deputy Islamic Movement Chairman for Organizational Affairs [IV] al-Daw al-Mahi, Sinnar State Governor [V] First Lt-General Abdelrahman Mohamed Hussein, Khartoum State Governor [VI] Colonel (Intelligence) Anas Omer, East Darfur State Governor [VII] Major General (Popular Intelligence) Abda Wahid Yusif Ibrahim, North Darfur State Governor [VIII] Major General (Popular Intelligence) Adam Jammaa Adam, Kassala State Governor [IX] Brigadier General (Popular Intelligence) Abu al-Gasim al-Amin Baraka, West Kordofan State Governor [X] Major General (Intelligence) Ali Ahmed Hamid, Red Sea State Governor [XI] Major General (Intelligence) Eisa Adam Abbakar, South Kordofan State Governor [XII] Major General (Popular Intelligence) Khalil Abdalla Mohamed, West Darfur State Governor [XIII] Ali al-Awad Mohamed Musa, Northern State Governor [XIV] Mohamed Hamid al-Balla, River Nile State Governor [XV] Major General (Popular Intelligence) Adam al-Faki Mohamed al-Tayib, South Darfur State Governor [XVI] Major General (Intelligence) Mirghani Salih, Gedaref State Governor [XVII] Hussein Yasin Hamid, Blue Nile State Governor [XVIII] Mohamed Tahir Eila, Gezira State Governor [XIX] Shartai/Jaafar Abdel-Hakam, Central Darfur State Governor [XX] Abdelhamid Musa Kasha, White Nile State Govenor *The meeting was attended by all 17 State governors; *The President of the Republic and Chairman of the National Congress Party Welcomed the Governors to the meeting; *The Federal Affairs Minister presented the directives intended to govern the functions of the State Governors; *AGENDA* [a] Governors to report on security and political situations in their respective states as well as any progress achieved in the implementation of the State Reform Charter; [b] Comments/reflections/reactions of the President concerning the Governors’ reports; [c] Recommendations and resolutions; [d] Governors are to present verbal summary of their reports and hand over the written reports to the Secretariat Again, the full translation may be found at | http://wp.me/p45rOG-1QR And the Arabic original may be found at | http://wp.me/p45rOG-1QT ********************************************* *Of particular note are the comments of:* The Governor of South Darfur State concerning the *“burden” UNAMID creates for the regime* as well his ominous remark: *“The displaced camps and NGOs [international humanitarian organizations] pose a direct threat to national security.”* Hamid Siddig, Deputy Islamic Movement Chairman for Organizational Affairs: *“The Islamic Movement will not hand over power to anybody and we shall fight to the last man. We will not surrender and we will not allow formation of any transitional government.* It’s the Islamic Movement’s idea to call for the National Dialogue…” “[W]e must crush the rebellion this year whatever the cost. We are not going to succumb to any blackmailing or bargaining by anybody.” President al-Bashir: *“We must use all means to evict UNAMID by the end of this year.”* *[to be extended…ER]* -- Eric Reeves Smith College Northampton, MA 01063 [email protected] www.sudanreeves.org Twitter@SudanReeves All woodturning purchases benefit the work of Oxfam in Sudan and South Sudan https://www.etsy.com/shop/EricReevesWoodturner -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/southsudankob View this message at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/southsudankob/topic-id/message-id For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. 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