SRF leader denies having troops in Khartoum

January 18, 2022 (KHARTOUM) – Hadi Idris, a Member of the Sovereign Council and leader of the Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF) Tuesday dismissed claims that the alliance of the peace groups has troops deployed in the capital Khartoum.

The security and defence council on Monday ordered the Juba Peace Agreement signatory groups to evacuate their fighters from the capital and to assemble them in the cantonment site in the different states.

After this decision, there were rumours that the SLM Transitional Council of Idris and his SRF alliance which involve the GSLF of Tahir Hajar who is also a member of the Sovereign Council were meant by this decision.

“We don’t have any forces in Khartoum until we get them out,” said Idris when he was reached by the Sudan Tribune to comment over these allegations.

For his part, Osama Saeed SRF Spokesman confirmed that they have no fighters in Khartoum

The security arrangements provide to deploy the combatants within a specific geographical scope in Darfur and Blue Nile State, Saeed added.

He referred to “an organized campaign led by some circles to distort the image of the SRF, which had opted, since its establishment, for the choices of the Sudanese people to achieve freedom, peace and justice”.

Some former rebel groups such as the SLM led by Minni Minnawi, JEM of Gibril Ibrahim support the military coup that toppled the civilian government and excluded the FFC groups of the transitional institutions.

In his statements to Sudan Tribune, Idris condemned the killing of peaceful protesters by the security forces

“We are against the excessive use of violence against demonstrators,” he added.

(ST)