JEM rebels slam opposition leader over statements on support from Gaddafi
November 10, 2011 (LONDON) – The Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) today slammed statements the by leader of the opposition National Umma Party (NUP), Sadiq al-Mahdi over alleged support of the rebel group by the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
“There is no doubt that the Justice and Equality Movement received considerable support from Colonel Gaddafi before his end,” Mahdi stated.
JEM spokesperson Gibreel Adam Bilal on Thursday vehemently rejected the statements of the former Sudanese prime minister reaffirming it did not receive any support from the Gaddafi regime.
The rebel official said Khalil Ibrahim, JEM’s chairman, was forced to stay in Libya where he had been placed under house arrest in the Libyan capital before to secure his return to Darfur while after the collapse of Tripoli in the hands of the revolutionaries.
Gibreel further blamed Mahdi for omitting to mention reports about, “Internationally prohibited weapons and missiles smuggled by the regime of the National Congress which used it against civilians in the Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile.”
He stressed that their alliance with the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement –North and the other armed opposition groups does not aim to isolate or to deny the role of the democratic opposition forces. “Over all, it aims to overthrow a regime which is specialised in killing the margin in an orderly and deliberate manner,” he underlined.
The opposition NUP and Democratic Unionist Party condemned the atrocities committed in Darfur and call for a negotiated settlement to the Darfur, Blue Nile and South Kordofan conflicts.
The two main opposition parties however call for a democratic transition and reject the use of force to overthrow the government of President Bashir. They also declined calls to join armed opposition in a large alliance.
The NUP and JEM signed in July 2009 a political agreement in Cairo calling to form a national government including all the political forces to settle the political crisis in the country. They also appealed to achieve justice in Darfur.
The leader of the NUP criticised the attack that JEM carried out in May 2008 on the Sudanese capital and called to inflict severe punishment on the rebel fighters arrested at the time in Khartoum and its suburbs.
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pabaak
JEM rebels slam opposition leader over statements on support from Gaddafi
JEMm remarks are true, in fact Sadiq remark was annoying when he said that, he fear marginalize will capture the power, which fall to old behavior of holding African as not capable of leading the country, this remind me of an attempt coup in 1985 that was spearheaded by the South Sudanese national Samuel Bol Ajok in Khartoum, which Jalaba, condemned and labelled it as discriminatory coup.
pabaak
JEM rebels slam opposition leader over statements on support from Gaddafi
whch like they are saying, if Hashim AlAtha,Ibrahim Abood, Japer Nimari, Souar Al Dahab, and Omar Al basheir coups are legitimate because are Arabs, this ideas and mentality is what led South Sudan to declare it independence, and it will let the rest of marginalizes to continue until they get their freedom.
pabaak
JEM rebels slam opposition leader over statements on support from Gaddafi
like they are saying, Ebrhim Abbod, Hasim Al atha, Japer Nimeri, Sour Al dhab, and Omer Al bashir coups are legitimate because of their Arab identity? this mentality is what let South Sudan to declare independent and definitely will to lead the rest of marginalizes to continue fighting for their freedom.
Lorolokin
JEM rebels slam opposition leader over statements on support from Gaddafi
Pabaak,
Let me tell you something, Now their time has come to call themselve what ever names they wanted. don’t you remember even Mahdi call himself African when he is in the gulf states and again an African when he is in Sudan. You just wait, is a matter of time as the Nubas and the Blue nilean follow the same style of South Sudan.
Al Mahdi is just a lame dog waiting for his days to come.
Kink
Jacob Dior Macueng Aciek
JEM rebels slam opposition leader over statements on support from Gaddafi
It already a wake up call to people who called themselves political leaders of Africa,some of these people like Mahdi are playing a game against marginalize group knowing not that their time is ticking at their doors,soon Darfurians and Nuba Mountains people will be on there own.