Sudan calls for mobilisation against accord signed by opposition, rebel groups
December 4, 2014 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan’s second vice-president, Hassabo Mohammed Abdel-Rahman, blasted the “Sudan Call” agreement signed by the political and armed opposition groups in Addis Ababa on Wednesday.
Abdel-Rahman stated that the government will escalate an aggressive campaign against the signatories and directed governors of the states to inaugurate new Popular Defence Forces (PDF) camps and announce mobilisation and alert, describing the accord as “treason to the homeland”.
The accord calls for ending the war, dismantling the one-party state, achievement of a comprehensive peace and democratic transition in the country.
It was signed by the head of the National Consensus Forces (NCF) Farouk Abu Issa, deputy chairman of the rebel Sudanese Revolutionary Forces (SRF) Minni Minnawi, leader of the National Umma Party (NUP), al-Sadiq al Mahdi and head of the Alliance of the Sudanese Civil Society Organisations Amin Mekki Madani.
Abdel-Rahman lambasted the agreement and pointed out that they took power in the 1989 coup to empower religion and not to collect money and booty.
He accused opposition forces of using foreign powers “to extinguish the light of God and the project of Islamic Sudan”, and praised the PDF, saying that they are “guarding the Islamic state project and backing it”.
Abdel-Rahman questioned the reasons why opposition forces and rebels would sign the declaration while their forces attack peaceful citizens in South Kordofan at a time when the government is in talks to reach peace.
The ruling party vice chairman and presidential assistant Ibrahim Ghandour described the agreement it as an “unholy alliance” that is destined to be rejected by all Sudanese and criticized “veteran politicians” for falling into the trap of rebel movements that are being aided by foreign powers.
For his part, the Minister of State at the Ministry of Defense team Yahya Mohamed Khair mocked the signatories saying they can sign all the declarations they want and they will create new brigades to fight.
The general coordinator of the PDF Abdullah al-Gaily threatened the “mercenaries” meeting in Addis Ababa who responded to the SRF and allied themselves with a “cruel defeat”.
He said that over the past five years the PDF has provided more than a million Mujahideen for the protection of the Islamic project and “counted more than 18,500 martyrs”.
(ST)