Great Lakes summit in Uganda designate Darfur rebel groups as anti-peace forces
December 17, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – The International Conference of the Great Lakes region (ICGLR) designated two major Darfur rebel groups as negative forces that should be combated.
The two rebel movements have refused to sign the peace accord that was signed last July in the Arab Gulf state of Qatar.
Darfur is the scene of an eight-year long insurgency of mainly non-Arab rebels against the government in Khartoum.
At least 300,000 people have been killed since the Darfur conflict first erupted between non-Arab rebels and the Arab-dominated Khartoum regime, according to the United Nations, and 1.9 million people remain displaced.
Ironically, Uganda has recently been hosting a number of senior Darfur rebel groups prompting strong rebuke by Khartoum.
The closing statement of the summit, stressed the need to lay the foundations of democracy and good governance, human rights principles, and said that the absence of these items is the major cause of conflicts in the region.
It also called for the strengthening of the national media to combat violence against women and to increase funds allocated to the institutions of justice and security in order to create organs of strong works to protect women and children.
Separately, the Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni criticized the International Criminal Court (ICC) saying it seems to be targeting only Africans.
“The issue of ICC is something we want to discuss among ourselves as Africans, but the way it is being implemented it seems like it is only Africans committing crimes. There are people who have committed crimes but nothing has been done on them,” he said.
He added: “When I was in Arusha, some people suggested that we leave ICC but I don’t want to comment more.”
Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir who is wanted by the ICC has skipped the ICGLR after Kampala was unable to give him assurances that it wont arrest him.
Uganda as an ICC member referred the case of the Lord resistance Army (LRA) fighting its army to the Hague-based court in 2003 for investigation.
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Daniel Buolmawei
Great Lakes summit in Uganda designate Darfur rebel groups as anti-peace forces
“He added: “When I was in Arusha, some people suggested that we leave ICC but I don’t want to comment more.”
You want to leave ICC because you don’t want it to point out your crimes? President Mosseiveni, I know you are still fearing the possibility of uprising in Uganda. Imagined how you lied in the past of stepping down from presidency in 4-year-term. What happened? Why you are still in power
Daniel Buolmawei
Great Lakes summit in Uganda designate Darfur rebel groups as anti-peace forces
You promised this recorded promise in 1986 when you ascended to power. However, you returned to power several times since 1986, 25 years now. And when any opposition tried to campaign against you, you made him blind like what happened to the opposition last year. Is this the democracy, good governance and Human Rights Principles you put in this conference? You are just good–con
Daniel Buolmawei
Great Lakes summit in Uganda designate Darfur rebel groups as anti-peace forces
For saying things out and no action. What will guarrantee that you will uphold your claims of democracy, good governance and HumanRightsPrinciples while you already violated your promise of stepping down? Also, heads of State like Bashir are allergic to such things like democracy, good governance and HumanRightsPrinciples, who will implement these in Sudan? Are you really wise my leaders? Think.
Sam.Eto
Great Lakes summit in Uganda designate Darfur rebel groups as anti-peace forces
YES they are wise !
Because they know brainwashed ‘white Africans’ like you fall for this western hypocrisy of democracy, good governance and Human Rights Principles. Its a shame, they dont promote it they use it as an excuse to interfere in other states sovereignty. The ICC is directed towards Africans only, get your head out of the white mans a$$ and realise that !
Sam.Eto
Great Lakes summit in Uganda designate Darfur rebel groups as anti-peace forces
When a person is accused of something – he/she is not guilty until proven otherwise. The joke allegations made my Ocampo have been refuted by the US investigation (but they Congress decided to bin it), the UN, NGO’s and many politicians and countries around the world. Because he can point the finger at anyone and say i think hes guilty doesnt make him right or honest.
Sam.Eto
Great Lakes summit in Uganda designate Darfur rebel groups as anti-peace forces
Official death and casualty figues in darfur have been mainly attributed to disease and illness. What is the normal death rate in darfur and how much are the real casualties of war? 10000? like the government stated. But western medias intentionally continue to omit that, why? Do they have an Agenda, do the activists who earn millions from this publicity like Cloney and Pendergarst – Enough ?
Sam.Eto
Great Lakes summit in Uganda designate Darfur rebel groups as anti-peace forces
Daniel, everything isnt black or white. Dont believe everything these white people tell you because it sounds so nice. They all have agendas are out to make money. NOT one of them GIVES A DAMN about you AFRICANS. Proof not a dime spent on Somalia’s famine, not a mention of the 3million dead in Congo. Its all interests, lobbyists and fundamental extremist evangelical driven agendas. Wake up !
Sam.Eto
Great Lakes summit in Uganda designate Darfur rebel groups as anti-peace forces
I personally dont like President Mosseiveni, i see him a dictator and a con man. He tells African leaders one thing and behind doors tells the Europeans and Americans another. Hes in power and safe for one reason – because they support him and listens to them, e.g his proxy war on Sudan. But i would NEVER call for him to go to ICC. Ugandans can decide his fate when the time is right.
Sam.Eto
Great Lakes summit in Uganda designate Darfur rebel groups as anti-peace forces
Same with Bashir – if the Sudanese people, not some rebel groups, paid mercenaries or Western Court decide he should go. They will do it e.g Egypt, Libya, Tunisia etc. Maybe your should think for a second that the majority of Sudanese people actually want him. He wasnt as powerful as Mubarak, Gadaffi, Asad or Bin Ali. What else could be keeping him in power & let him walk freely amongst his peopl
Sam.Eto
Great Lakes summit in Uganda designate Darfur rebel groups as anti-peace forces
NOT EVEN KIIR HAS THE POPULARITY BASHIR HAS IN SUDAN.
I dare him to walk to a single village in Jongolie, Upper Nile or Unity without an army of SPLA. He couldnt. Bashir could and there are hundreds of videos to prove my point. Crowds of people flock to hear him speak. Kiir wouldnt get an audience of 100 people unless he paid them.
Daniel Buolmawei
Great Lakes summit in Uganda designate Darfur rebel groups as anti-peace forces
That’s demonic to deny the killing in Darfur. You son of devil, make sure I grew in Khartoum, I know what I am talking about. I lost relatives not diseases but to your cultic ideologies of Islam. Who are you to lecture to me your thoughts about white and Arab people. You are the most inhuman creatures in the world. I better to live with animals than you. Yes, I understand, whites are better
Denying
Great Lakes summit in Uganda designate Darfur rebel groups as anti-peace forces
Many people work for mony but not for freedom, that is why many are in Khartoum that thier families died in S. K, Blue Nile and Darfur but they better get money from Bashir and let their families die. The same thing with different countries. they just want to do bussineses in Sudan
and nothing else. that is why they want to get away from ICC Laws. Time will come D,N,B people in K will understane
Leave Us Alone
Great Lakes summit in Uganda designate Darfur rebel groups as anti-peace forces
Sam.Eto is 100% percent right, Bashir is popular in sudan, but why? because he has massacred more “Ahl al-Kitab” (People of of the Book) than any other jihadist in history far exeeding Prophet Mohamed expectations.
pabaak
Great Lakes summit in Uganda designate Darfur rebel groups as anti-peace forces
This is a typical of the African leaders, contradictory messages all the time, I hope our country will not be part of that pass. why they fail to recognized Khartoum government’s crimes against its own people in Darfur, and other marginalize areas of the Sudan.
Chuangah
Great Lakes summit in Uganda designate Darfur rebel groups as anti-peace forces
i think the so called great lakes sumit is against the marginalized people of sudan, maybe they are bribe by kartoum govt i knew that all black african leaders runs after money, though the people of darfur have years in the bush its their right you need not to full them to slavery because bashir has bribed you, i think we will not be part of such great lakes who stands against the marginaiized.
Sam.Eto
Great Lakes summit in Uganda designate Darfur rebel groups as anti-peace forces
Thats good, let it out dont keep it in. I think you need professional help. You hated and anger is killing you. I did not question the death of people in Darfur but the exagerated propaanda. I didnt say those figures the UN did.. 1 million iraqies died for a lie, did u shed a tear for them daniel. Hypocrite.
SeekingTruth
Great Lakes summit in Uganda designate Darfur rebel groups as anti-peace forces
SAM ETO,
TO LEAVE IN DENIAL IS PART OF UR CULTURE KNOWN WORLD-WIDE BUT THE CLAIMS THAT NOTHING GENOCIDAL HAPPENED IN DARFUR IS MIND BOGGLING. WHY DOES OMAR KEEPS SKIPPING BIG POLITICAL EVENTS ALMOST ALL OVER THE WORLD? HE SHOULD SIMPLY GO TO COURT AND PROVE TO THE WORLD HE IS NOT A KILLER. IF U BELIEVE IN HIS POPULARITY OR HASN’T DONE ANYTHING WRONG PLEASE, LET HIM DEFEND HIMSELF IN COURT.
Daniel Buolmawei
Great Lakes summit in Uganda designate Darfur rebel groups as anti-peace forces
Sam, stop lecturing. We are different Africans not Africans you used to know. We have liveed with Arabs as well as the so-called whites. It is not you to lecture to me but me to determine who is better. For me none of you is better. But if I chose between two evils, I could choose the whites though you hate them. It is not your choice, it is my choice. So why you seem to lecture anything to me?
Daniel Buolmawei
Great Lakes summit in Uganda designate Darfur rebel groups as anti-peace forces
My argument against my African leaders was not to urge them to choose ICC, but I am against the position they have taken. They took Arab hardline position. That’s position is not African at all. We Africans do not side with terrorism, radicalism and extremism. To reject ICC principles based on the protection of Bashir is nothing but give a blind eye to the suffering of Darfur, Nuba and Blue Nile-
Daniel Buolmawei
Great Lakes summit in Uganda designate Darfur rebel groups as anti-peace forces
You cited disaster in Somalia, do you have no shame? Why don’t you tell us what are the causes of that suffering in Somalia if that not maddness and fundamental extremism of your religion? The Islamic radicals are the cause of failure in Somalia. It is because of this radical Islam that makes Somalia a failed state. You look foolish if you are attempting to fool someone like me. Shame on you Sam.
Daniel Buolmawei
Great Lakes summit in Uganda designate Darfur rebel groups as anti-peace forces
“1 million iraqies died for a lie, did u shed a tear for them daniel. Hypocrite.”
These Iraqi people died because of the reckless speeches of your dangerous leaders. When Iran President issued a statement that Iran will wipe off the map of world the State of Israel, what do you think about this statement? Do you think Israel can wait to be wipped off without preemptive meassures? Your nature of
Daniel Buolmawei
Great Lakes summit in Uganda designate Darfur rebel groups as anti-peace forces
being extreme, radical and terrorist is the enemy of you, not those you seem to accuse. Just adjust yourselves and know that the world must be made accommodative, not just Arab and Islamic. That’s not going to happen like that. Whoever think such way will end up in unimaginable circumstances. Do you want to end up in such condition Sam?