Darfur rebel chief denies involvement in kidnapping of Sudanese plane
August 26, 2008 (PARIS) – Abdel-Wahid Mohamed Al-Nur, the leader of the legacy group of the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) vehemently rejected news reports that hijackers of a Sudanese plane kidnapped today are members of his movement.
The Sudanese passenger plane was carrying about 100 people on a trip from Nyala to Khartoum. The plane landed in Kufra, Southeastern Libya.
Al-Nur told Sudan Tribune from Paris that his movement has nothing to do with this “terrorist action” before saying that he “condemns in the strongest terms the kidnapping”.
“This is not our practice to expose innocent civilians’ lives to danger, because go through this similar forms of suffering on daily basis. We do not subscribe to acts of terrorism” he said.
Al-Nur said he has been in contact with SLM sector leads as well as field commanders in Darfur to verify that none of their members have gone missing.
“All the SLM members are accounted for. The hijacker is definitely not one of us” he added.
The SLM chief accused Khartoum of standing behind this incident “to cover the heinous crime they committed in Kalma camps yesterday”.
“I find it hard to believe that the kidnapping happens less than 24 hours after the killing of more than one hundred people in Kalma camp. This looks like nothing but a cover-up operation on the part of Khartoum” he said.
“They want to justify what they will do in the refugee camps in the coming days. This is how they think. After years of dealing with them we have a firm understanding of their mentality” the SLM leader said.
Sudanese troops attacked the Kalma camp on Monday morning killing dozens of IDP’s. The peacekeeping mission said today that they participated in the burial of 33 victims.
This hijacking is the second one conducted by a Darfuri native since the start of the conflict in 2003. In January 2007, a Sudanese from Darfur hijacked a plane taking off from Khartoum and forced the pilot at gunpoint to fly to neighboring Chad.
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Moe Montana
Darfur rebel chief denies involvement in kidnapping of Sudanese plane
Could someone find out whom hijacked the plane?
is it really that hard to find a missing PLANE? Only in Sudan!
God Bless.
fadi
Darfur rebel chief denies involvement in kidnapping of Sudanese plane
Hey my name is Hammuel Merari and I am from Israel and I have been reading your comments in the past days and I find it equally disturbing from both sides that you people are ready to engage in such racism against your own people listen look at America theres Black people,Latinos and white and asians and french and look at them they all get along so please stop the bickering and remember that you guys are one country,one people and I totally,absolutely agree with Moe Montana on this subject and I truely admired it when he said….. They say: “A family that prays together, stays together and one that walks apart just falls apart” so TOGETHER we STAND divided we FALL, UNITED we form SUDAN and take on ALL!!” and may I add this that sooner or later and if the president does become indicted they are immediately gonna call his vice president in and guess who he is its selva karr who is going to come under much scrutiny as they will believe that the president cannot do it on his own so believe me when I say this that although I love the west and America deeply I speak the truth and I wanted to say that the west and its allies main plan is to get money from sudan from oil and incase you think otherwise please take the courtesy of looking on the internet and seeing how much barrels of oil darfur has got you would be amazed and shocked and you will see why America wants to take over sudan as darfur has more than 100 billion barrels in Darfur Alone and thats its estimation and believe me when I say this America invaded Iraq because of oil they havent attacked kuwait or saudi arabia because of oil so this indictment by luis Moreno Ocampo is a self proclaimed attack by the west on Sudan and I cannot tell you how to act except for this you southerners in sudan respect and like America but little did you know America fought a civil war in 1861 and then president Abraham Lincoln killed Many Southerners and still look at them now they Have moved past this Ideological thinking that because Im white Im superior and instead they forged an alliance and today they are standing as beacon of hope and oppurtunity for the whole world so think yourselves in this modern day and think about all the hate which you compass and your mutual resentment towards others for what they have done in the past but in order to move on we must forgive and stop living divided and also think about what you guys could have accomplished by now you Sudanese people have the potential to rise up and live as one so think about it all this hate towards the northerners whats it gonna achieve in the near future and all this hate from the southerners whats it going to achieve Biar M Bul? in the end you will achieve nothing so I hope in the near future you people will understand that living divided means the very end of Sudan and once where a great civilization lived the nubains who are still living today so think about this comment I just wrote and God Bless this world
NOTE: THIS MESSAGE WAS NOT WRITTEN BY ME NOR IT CONTAINS MY IDEAS AND THOUGHTS NOR DO I KNOW THE PERSON WHO POSTED IT, BUT I WOULD RATHER LIKE TO KNOW ALL PEOPLES OPINIONS ON THIS COMMENT. THANK YOU
Daniel Kalaka
Darfur rebel chief denies involvement in kidnapping of Sudanese plane
wWe are soory for those innocent all behind the kidnappers of plane ,but we strongly emphasis that the international community have to be involve to solve the issue and find the realy side behind the events otherwise sudan is ruin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!