Sudanese official cites army pullout delay, calls for Japan aid
October 16, 2007 (TOKYO) — Sudanese Interior Minister Elzubair Bashir Taha predicted a delay of possibly two years in an already overdue plan for a northern Sudan army to withdraw from southern Sudan, while calling for various means of assistance from Japan including technical support for criminal investigation expertise.
”I would say in two years perhaps,” Taha said in a recent interview with the Japanese Kyodo News in Tokyo, referring to the time it will take to complete the pullout from the southern Sudan effectively controlled by the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM).
Taha is a Cabinet member of the national unity government, which was jointly established in July 2005 by the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) and the SPLM after the signing of a peace deal ending north south civil war.
Taha’s remarks have heightened concerns about the full implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed in January 2005 by the NCP and the SPLM.
The plan for the withdrawal of the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) from the south is one of the key issues under the framework of the agreement. The initial deadline for the pullout was July 9.
Taha defended the policy of keeping the SAF in southern Sudan for economic reasons, saying 93 percent of the northern Sudan army has pulled out but ”7 percent of our troops are protecting the oil installations.”
Taha, 61, expressed hope that Japan will provide ”training and also technical support in terms of criminal investigation laboratories” as a way to help ensure ”stability” in the country.
The interior minister visited Japan mainly to attend a Science and Technology in Society forum held in Kyoto earlier this month.
Stressing that there is a need to boost forensic equipment for crime prevention, Taha said, ”Sudan is a big country…But we don’t own a single electron microscope…We look forward for laboratories for genetical investigation and DNA examinations.”
Taha called on the Japanese government to enhance various assistance measures, saying, ”Japan is the largest single donor of aid to Darfur. It comes via the United Nations in the name of United Nations operations but we know the source is Japan.” the Japanese agency Kyodo reported
Taha urged people helping rebel leaders in European countries such as France and Britain to halt the assistance, saying such people have ”responsibility” for an outcome of a session of peace talks on the Darfur crisis slated for Oct. 27 in Tripoli.
Taha said the Sudanese government is ”determined” and ”confident” that it will follow the schedules of holding a census, which is a crucial process for a general election planned for 2009 and a referendum slated for 2011 on whether to authorize independence of the southern region.
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Sudanese official cites army pullout delay, calls for Japan aid
Mr. Elzubair Taha, the so called interior minister, what you said for the withdrawal of the Sudanese Army from the South is totally wrong. You said that the reason for the delayment of the government to withdraw or pullout the army from the oil field of Southern Sudan is to protect the oil field. Now according to you, is that statement correct? Are you protecting the oil fields from who? Who is your enemy in the oil field? Okay, if the could be any enemy at all, then, what about the SPLA forces in the South? Don’t they have abiliity and power to protect the oil? What you said Mr. Taha is not true. You really exaggerated a big lie to the Japanese about the delayment of the SAF to withdaw from the South.
We know very well that the government of Sudan has an agenda behind. You are now digging filthy ideas to cheat the world. That will never happen at all Mr. Taha. The Lord of universe has already open a door for the people of Southern Sudan to go from you, just as he did to the people of Israel. Any attempt, otherwise you will all die just as like your cousin Saddam Hussein who participated on the mass killing of the people of Southern Sudan. Curse on you, of course an eternal and a BIG CURSE which will be for you forever if you do not change your dirty policy towards the South. And the victory will be for the South at this time let me assure you.
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Sudanese official cites army pullout delay, calls for Japan aid
Best s.s- Elzubair Bashir Taha your TELLING LIES dog the low of the lowest shut your devil mouth and pull out from our land if not we will teach you lesson very soon