Sudan accuses SPLM of acting like an independent state
November 10, 2007 (KHARTOUM) — The Sudanese president Omar Al-Bashir criticized the Southern ex-rebels, Sudan People Liberation Movement (SPLM), and said that they are acting like an independent state.
Al-Bashir told Al-Jazeera Arabic channel in Qatar said that the visit of his First Vice President Salva Kiir to the US was arranged through the SPLM’s mission in Washington and not the Sudanese embassy.
“The offices of SPLM abroad are still acting as they were embassies” Al-Bashir said.
Sudan’s First Vice-President and President of the Government of South Sudan Salva Kiir Mayardit met last week with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Washington to discuss the progress of the CPA.
On October 11th the SPLM decided to suspend their participation in the national unity government because of what they describe as the NCP’s failure to fully implement crucial elements of the CPA.
The latest move by the SPLM raised concern that the Comprehensive peace agreement (CPA) that ended two decades of civil war between the Arab and Muslim-dominated north and the mainly Christian and animist black southerners may unravel.
The Sudanese president said he was suspicious on the goals behind Kiir’s visit to Washington.
“Our brother Salva’s visit to the United States was arranged through the movement’s office in Washington, and not through the Sudanese embassy in Washington, where the ambassador is a member of the SPLM. It is our right at the current circumstances to have suspicions about why he was invited and why he was invited in this way?” Al-Bashir added.
The head of South Sudan mission in Washington Ezekiel Gatkuoth declined to comment on Al-Bashir statements and told Sudan Tribune that Kiir will respond shortly.
The war of words between the NCP and SPLM has escalated since the withdrawal of the latter’s ministers from the government of national unity.
Kiir told the BBC Arabic service from Washington that he “lost confidence in the National Congress Party (NCP) and president Al-Bashir”.
Yesterday the joint committee between the NCP and SPLM established to break the deadlock said that they will adjourn their meetings after failing to agree on a number of issues including the status of the oil rich region of Abyei and of the north-south border.
The 2005 peace agreement brokered by the US and other western countries ended two decades of civil war between the Arab and Muslim-dominated north and the mainly Christian and animist black southerners.
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Kujur
Sudan accuses SPLM of acting like an independent state
Dear Beshir and all Jalaba
Your suspicions and oppression remains in your minds as myth and forgetting that southerners whether in CPA clauses remain as an entity within sudan but missions and politics are to be exercises ewithout being directed by your regime, please jalaba sudan is ours and as citizen with pride to be sudanese don’t distrust SPLM/A like doing treasons acts against you as did during Saddam Husien regime, we know your evils acts toward people of the south and marginalised areas but we will not be in the same track as you wish us disappearances in sudan map.
Kiir visit to America is not against people of sudan and we as southrners will never wish any wrong things to happened to any part of our country we care for our people SPLM/A is not like (NIF) NCP who used lynching method to eliminates its citizens.
Guem David
Canberra ACT
Kur Michael
Sudan accuses SPLM of acting like an independent state
Dear al Bashir,
your words are as last words of dying horse,you have toured many cites,towns and continents of the world using your so-called NCPs’ tickets for all your ruling years with no suspicions from SPLM even recently to Italy and South Africa , yet you move with hidden agenda bag to either eliminate the blacks in Sudan as one time you declared military approach to south crises or calling Arabs’ countries to give you supports both Humans or materials like 1997 war around Juba when Iragis killed southerners in area nicknamed to date as “JEBEL IRAG.
Never develop ulcers for no cause, your days are numbered to see SPLM/A as apartner but Independent, your in human to southerners may not allow us to be with you Arabs as brothers/sisters of the same country.though our leaders/elders preach unity, we stand firm as new generation to see separtion from North together with marginalised areas of Sudan.
I still encourage the Beloved Kiir not to sit on seat only with no move, because any single journey has its own rewards.
long live southern sudan.long live southerners.
reach me on :[email protected].