SLM leader slams aid expulsion, warns of call to arms
March 16, 2009 (PARIS) — Abdel Wahid Al-Nur, the leader of the Sudan Liberation Movement condemned the presidential decision to oust all the aid groups from the troubled region of Darfur within one year. He also appealed for a strong international action to prevent another humanitarian catastrophe there.
The SLM rebel leader rejects totally this decision saying it would lead to more crimes in the region. “It is clear that Bashir is planning to achieve his Machiavellian crime in Darfur in order to implement his genocidaire project that he started there since more than six years” Al Nur said.
Al Nur also stressed that there are no real national humanitarian NGOs in Sudan. “There are no Sudanese aid groups as Bashir says but just organizations that are part and parcel of the government. And this regime is morally not qualified to conduct relief operations in Darfur.”
The rebel leader was alluding to the war crimes committed by the Sudanese government troops and the militias. According to the UN estimations some 300,000 people were killed and some 2.7 million people displaced.
The SLM leader warned that the expulsion decision would unfortunately confront the IDPs with two choices: either to accept the ongoing injustice or to take up arms and create a new cycle of violence in the war-torn region of Sudan.
He further said that Bashir is actually pushing Darfur IDPs into holding arms if they intend to survive “because with arms they can control territory and invite the aid groups to reach them.”
Following the decision of the arrest warrant issued by the ICC court on March 4, Sudan expelled 16 aid groups. “The decision to expel these sixteen organizations, our main implementing partners, effectively removes some 6,500 staff, or 40% of the humanitarian workforce, from being able to carry out critical humanitarian activities in Darfur,” said UN agencies in Sudan.
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Ben-Fu
SLM leader slams aid expulsion, warns of call to arms
Too many mad men in Sudan, one wonder who would really fix this mess.
Dengtaath
SLM leader slams aid expulsion, warns of call to arms
Bashier is totally obsessed with ICC charges, he will run mad all the time, what all Sudanese need to know, please we have a strong mad dog it can get worst at any time be careful.
celso agole
SLM leader slams aid expulsion, warns of call to arms
It is up to you the rebel leaders, if you don’t come together the more Darfur become like Somali the zone of war.
What is the problem of you as Darfurian to come together and face Bashir as one?
It never happen in this global that every one lead, although it is well known that we are all leaders at the level of family, but when it come at the level of community we are to have one leader.
Please!please! come together for the betterment of Darfurian.
tayeb M. Alhassan
SLM leader slams aid expulsion, warns of call to arms
This poor friend screams through the glasses of five star hotels in Frnace while the ground has totally changed in Darfur since he left. He still dreams to conquer Khartoum on top of a military tank with David Star emblem at the back. Still dreaming but he proved to be useless for his Barons and soon he find himself in the junkyard.
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