Sudan calls for world pressures on Darfur rebels
October 4, 2007 (KHARTOUM) — Sudan on Thursday called world pressures on rebel movements in the war-torn western Sudanese region of Darfur in order to make the upcoming peace talks success.
“The international community should practice pressures on the movements that reject the peace process and punish them for their impeding stances,” State Minister in the Sudanese Foreign Ministry Samani al-Wasila al-Sheikh Samani was quoted by the official SUNA as saying.
The Minister renewed his government’s commitment to dialogue with the rebel movements and exerting utmost efforts to make success the next negotiations to be held in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Oct. 27.
Samani made the remarks during a meeting with visiting U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan Andrew Natsios. The two sides discussed the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in southern Sudan as well as developments of the Darfur issue.
The U.S. official commended a recent declaration made by Sudanese President Omer al-Bashir on his government’s commitment to the cease-fire during the Tripoli talks, saying that the declaration would help in making success the negotiations.
Natsios began his current visit in Sudan since the weekend, during which he has paid a tour in southern Sudan and Darfur.
During his visit in southern Sudan, he explained that he met with a number of local officials and got acquainted with there habilitation process as well as the resettlement of the displaced persons.
In Neyala and Zalengi in Darfur, Natsios met with leaders of the tribes and made a telephone contact with Abdulwahid Mohamed Nur, the leader of the rebel Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) and urged him to join the political process in a view that his absence was not good to the people of Darfur.
Nur, who is currently living in France, has threatened to boycott the Tripoli talks.
(Xinhua)
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highly confidential intelligence brief availed to Sudan Mirror disclosed the training of a batch of 30 recruits from Greater Equatoria in Hantoub Gezira last June under the command of three senior security officers of national security. The training ran through June 10-21 this year and was attended by “carefully selected and chosen”recruits. The recruits “have special files about the backgrounds in the organization in Khartoum”. According to the intelligence brief, the courses were designed “to build a special force loyal and dedicated to carry out jihad in the South and to implement tough orders given to them”. Equatoria was chosen for the training base because of comparative advantages, the report noted. “Most of the Southerners who are in charge of security in the South and some who are integrated in the high security position in the North after the CPA are of less education and knowledge about security matters”. During the opening session of the Hantoub course, a top adviser to the GONU told the recruits that because of the comparative advantages “the penetration of military installations and government institutions plus eliminating the key leaders in the South as esay targets”. Intelligence reports also disclosed that similar training of students from other parts of Sudan have taken place in Kassala, a development that sources in GoSS say confirms the determination of the North to dilute the Comprehensive Peace Agreement. According to intelligence reports, Sudan’s Second Vice President Ali Osman Mohamed Taha was accompanied by high ranking government and security officials during the opening of the training program at Hantoub Gezira. The government and security officials present were identified. The report noted that hate speech directed at the non-Muslims characterized that opening session. In addition, there was a posthumous slur on Dr John Garang as well as denouncement of Muslims working closely with GoSS. The reports quote Vice President Taha as having called on the Muslims in the South to take up arms as he “was ready to put the oil revenue in Sudan to support the war in South Sudan to liberate the South from the infidels backed by the Israelites”. He declared that time had come for the people of Sudan to united against the “infidels”. He remarked that the war in the South Sudan took 21 years but that the new crusade to liberate the South would only take 21 days. The Vice President further disowned the CPA, saying they signed the agreement under international pressure and that the North should not have done so. He announced that plans for other similar Muslim youth training programmes covering the ten southern states especially in Equatoria were underway. According to GoSS intelligence reports, the Muslim youth training had been organized the Islamic elites in Khartoum. The programmes include training on the use of explosives and explosive belts as well as recitations of the spirit of terrorism in Jihad war. The other subjects are aptly titled: “How to exploit the churches” and “The spirit to die in the name of God”. The learning is complemented by video shows for 10 hours a day on jihad suicide operations and handling explosives in public places. The reports say the recruits do not return to their universities at the end of the training but are assigned special tasks in Khartoum to monitor the movements of members of the military and politicians from the South.