Darfur rebels sign MOU with Kushite Nubian group
August 10, 2008 (WASHINGTON) – The Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) led by Abdel-Wahid Al-Nur issued a statement revealing a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Kushite Nubian Rally in Washington earlier this month.
The Kushite Nubian Rally has been running a campaign to block the creation of Kajbar Dam in Northern Sudan saying it will “inundate one of the most precious and invaluable archaeological sites of the world”.
The Nubians in the region opposing the dam clashed with the police injuring several people.
Nubians who live in Egypt and Sudan have long accused both countries of marginalizing them and implementing policies “to dismantle the Nubian society and assimilate the indigenous people of Nubia into Arabic culture through well organized programs of cultural cleansing, acculturation and indoctrination”.
Both groups said that they will “stand forthwith against all attempts of destruction and dismembering the state, through policies of genocide, ethnic and cultural cleansing, displacement, and forcible relocations of the indigenous people and resettle foreigners in their lands as the case in Darfur, Nubia and other parts of Sudan”.
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Luis Moreno-Ocampo asked pre-trial judges in mid-July to issue arrest warrants for the Sudanese president Omar Al-Bashir for 10 charges including three counts of genocide in Darfur.
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MOU with Kushite Nubian group
I agree with the Nubian Community on this issue.
Becouse you can’t construct something in my place without proper agreement.
Afterall, we are quite aware that the shares from this Dam will never Benefit the people of Nuba once it starts to Function.
If the Government is to do something in an Area that is not it’s property, then they need proper explaination and involve the local community so that there will be NO domination and manipulation on the civilians .
Let the GoNU think together with the people of Nuba and come up with terms and conditions to apply to this dam issue.