Sudan’s SPLM accuses pro-Arab party of advocating old vision

Jan 31, 2006 — Secretary General of Northern Sector in the SPLM, Ramadan Abdallah has labelled the Just Peace Forum as an enemy of peace which advocates “the old vision of Sudan.”

Abdallah, who was addressing SPLM supporters at Khartoum North, who rallied as part of the SPLM’s continuing celebrations of the CPA’s first anniversary, said the SPLM is for all the Sudanese people regardless of race, colour, religion or language and that the SPLM had fought for a long time in order to restore the consumed rights of the Sudanese people.

Abdallah explained that the CPA has made an opportunity for the all Sudanese to live together but that some elements, both in and out of the government, want to block this. He called on the SPLM masses to back their leaders and to “stand firm behind the principles of the movement against the so-called ‘Just Peace Forum’ and its newspaper, ‘Al-Intibaha’, (Arabic for ‘The Re-awakening)”.

It is worth noting that the ‘Just Peace Forum’ is a right-wing pro-Arab separatist group headed by Al-Tayyib Mustafa, a cousin of President Al Bashir.

The group recently began publishing its daily newspaper, (Al-Intibaha), which propagates the termination of ‘foreign presence’ in the country, as well as the separation between north and south.

(Khartoum Monitor)