SPLM-N says alarmed by deployment of RSF militiamen in Sudan’s Blue Nile
June 2, 2016 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement -North (SPLM-N) warned against the recent deployment of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia in the war-torn state of Blue Nile saying the Sudanese government plans to exterminate its indigenous population .
Last Tuesday the Sudanese government dispatched hundreds of the SRF militiamen to Ed- Damazin the capital of Blue Nile where they were received by the state officials and army commanders. RSF field commander, Mohamed Hamdan Hametti also was there and addressed the troops that reportedly arrived from Darfur region.
The SRF militiamen are accused to taking part in the counterinsurgency campaign led by the Sudanese army against Darfur rebel groups. UN agencies estimate that some 300 thousands civilians were killed.
In a statement extended to Sudan Tribune on Thursday, SPLM-N Secretary General, Yasir Arman said the militia, which fights the SPLA-N combatants since three years in South Kordofan state, will not make any difference on the ground and expected they would face the same fate like in the Nuba Mountains.
However Arman said the SPLM-N is alarmed by this arrival because their first target this time is the civilian population in the Blue Nile.
“The (RSF’s) objective is to exterminate the indigenous people of Blue Nile and to eliminate them from their land, which is one of the most fertile and mineral rich lands of Sudan that includes gold”.
He further went to point that the government of President Omer al-Bashir plans to sell the Blue Nile fertile areas to Arab investors.
” Bashir has been promised a huge investment for agriculture in Sudan by the Yemen war coalition as he is part of it, promising that Sudan will be the bread basket of the Arab world,” he stressed.
The SPLM-N secretary general said they are very concerned of this “new genocidal project” in the Blue Nile and vowed that the rebel fighters will defeat the regime forces and abort this project.
He called on the Sudanese people to politically resist the regime saying the intends to re-engineer the Sudanese social fabric in the interest of the corrupt business class of the NCP and its allies in the name of investment.
He also called on the regional and international communities to condemn this project in the interest of “respect of human rights and diversity all over Africa”. Also he said the Arab investors should wait the end of war.
“For the international community, it is regrettable to indict General Bashir and to leave him to continue what he has been indicted for, and on some occasions, to blame the victims,” he further stressed.
(ST)