Sudan’s coup leader was member of al-Bashir dissolved party: former official

January 5, 2022  (KHARTOUM) – The head of the Sovereignty Council was a member of the dissolved National Congress Party (NCP), said Amin Hassan Omer a leading member of the Islamist party that ruled the country for 30 years.

After the collapse of the al-Bashir’s regime in April 2019, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan agreed with the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC) to ban the NCP activities and confiscate its properties and assets.

In a statement to the Al-Sudani newspaper on Wednesday, Omer described al-Burhan as a hypocrite, that adding he himself was one of them.

Al-Burhan was the head of the Party section in Nertiti of Central Darfur State when he was the commissioner of the area, he said.

“Does he has been banned from participating in the transitional period?” He wondered.

He further said al-Burhan recent call for the inclusion of all the political forces except the NCP in the transition was just a manoeuvre to please the revolution’s forces “no more, no less.”

Al-Burhan has avoided mentioning his obscure participation in the counter-insurgency war in Darfur.

But he proudly speaks about his unknown role in an aborted coup carried out by a group of nationalist officers against al-Bashir in 1990. All of them were executed.

The rebel holdout Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) led by Abdel Wahid Nur, after his appointment as head of the Transitional Military Council, announced that they had captured al-Burhan and released him after a ceasefire agreement with the government.

While serving in Darfur, al-Burhan headed the Border Guard Forces militia, the nucleus of what became later the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) which is commanded by his deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo “Hemetti” who seconded him during the war on Darfur groups.

Al-Burhan also oversaw the Sudanese forces participating in the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen.

(ST)