Sudan renews its commitment to peace process in Darfur, accuses rebels of violations
KHARTOUM, July 27, 2004 (SUNA) — Following the Sudan News Agency publishes text of statement issued Tuesday by the Minister of Information and official government spokesman:-
“Sudanese government renews its commitments to Abashi peace agreement, humanitarian protocol and ceasefire agreement which have been signed with rebels and proclaims its readiness to establishment of peace and security in Darfur region which has actually been implemented.
The Sudanese government would point out to the international society the continued breaches of ceasefire agreement committed by Dafur rebels and their attack on convoys of humanitarian aids, killing and intimidation of labours working in the humanitarian field, besides abduction of civilians and lynching them.
The rebels have carried out 109 assaults breaching the ceasefire treaty and 14 civil abduction cases in the three regions of Darfur during the period from first of April up to current month, where at the end of April they killed Abdurahaman Mohamedain the Amir of Ampiro and abducted the judge of Alaet district North of Darfur. Also they attacked Pram area Southern Darfur as the result 9 persons among them the leader of Habania tribe have been executed.
Last July, rebels have launched offensive attack on the location of British child care organization at Mleet area, the outcome was plundering of 6 vehicles besides carrying out another assault against vehicle used for vaccination of children and abducting working persons.
During this month rebels have abducted Abass Daw Albeit the leader of all tribes of Eastern Darfur. Concerning the arm robberies carried out by rebels which have reached 38 cases, the latest recorded assault has taken place in Towsha commercial district north of Darfur and other places.
Rebels endeavoured to handicap the humanitarian operations where they attacked aid provision convoy this month at Orishi North Darfur resulted in murdering of 9 civilian people and many policemen guarding the relief convoy. In the other side they attacked another convoy North Al-Fasher town and killed 4 trucks drivers.
However, the numbers of trucks spoiled and taken away by rebels till now estimated 84 trucks belonging to citizens besides they have destroyed and burnt police stations, court locations, and infrastructure of telecommunication in addition to slaughtering the director of Jabal Marra agricultural scheme and 2 engineers working with Sudan telecommunication company (SUDATEL) that bring about hindrance of developmental programs in the region.
Regarding to what has happened in Darfur the United Nations and international community have to shoulder its responsibility in assist solving Darfur crisis through means of negotiations instead of escalating tension and planning to enforce military intervention in Darfur for the purposes of serving foreign economical interests.
If the international community is willing to achieve peace and security in the world it has to adopt negotiation as the only instrument for achieving this aim rather than exploiting Darfur crisis for electoral purposes as US administration does.
However violations carried out by Darfur rebels not only stand as stumbling block on the way of delivery of humanitarian assistance but also stand against the process of establishment of security and returning back of displaced people to their own homeland.
Besides, government of Sudan declares its commitments to do its best for establishing peace and stability in the region and urges the international community to offer additional humanitarian assistance in order to attain prosperity and stablization in Darfur, realizing that intimidation policy would worsen the complicated security situation in all part of Darfur regions.”