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Sudan’s SPLM ridicule North’s claim of uncovering source of leaked documents

March 20, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudan People Liberation Movement (SPLM) on Saturday dismissed claims by the North that they were able to identify the person behind the leaked documents that emerged this week showing the National Congress Party (NCP) support to militias in the south.

FILE - Sudan's Minister of Defence Abdel Rahim Mohamed Hussein (R) talks to South's minister for the SPLA (the southern army) Nhial Deng Nhial after a joint news conference at the Ministry of Defence headquarters in Khartoum November 11, 2010
FILE – Sudan’s Minister of Defence Abdel Rahim Mohamed Hussein (R) talks to South’s minister for the SPLA (the southern army) Nhial Deng Nhial after a joint news conference at the Ministry of Defence headquarters in Khartoum November 11, 2010
The intercepted documents, written in Arabic, were presented before journalists in Juba, the South’s capital, by SPLM’s SG Pagan Amum. The latter said the documents were obtained from Sudan’s defense ministry, military high command, the logistical department and the national intelligence unit of the Khartoum-based government.

Amum said that the plan for aiding Southern militias was under the direct supervision of president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir.

A new set of documents were released on Saturday showing orders for forming security committees in Khartoum, Darfur and Kordofan. It also showed cases filed against military officers accused of divulging confidential information.

The punishment of some of these officers were endorsed by the Sudanese president per the signatures.

The minister of defense Abdel-Rahim Mohamed Hussein dismissed the documents as fabricated adding that the SPLM paid millions to a sergeant in the army to make them up.

But the SPLM said in statement that they have no links with the military officer, whose name was not disclosed, stressing that they have their own sources.

The ex-rebel movement however called on the international community and rights groups to protect the sergeant saying that his life now is at risk.

“The panic that struck the leadership of NCP pushing them to draw false accusations against innocent people within the military stand as further evidence on the authenticity of those documents,” said the statement signed by the SPLM secretariat.

The SPLM said that on top of the documents, they have physical evidence showing the complicity of the NCP and confessions from members of the militias who were captured in recent fighting.

“The NCP leadership must stop what they are doing and direct their energies to dialogue and negotiation to reach agreements and understandings to manage the transition in Sudan that would lead to the establishment of two democratic states living in peace and mutual security to give our people in the two countries an opportunity to rebuild their shattered lives and reunite after the war and displacement”.

South Sudan has seen an upsurge in bloody clashes between rebel groups and the army since a largely peaceful January referendum on independence, in which southerners voted almost unanimously to form their own nation.

The government in the South accused the North of standing behind the militias and suspended post-referendum talks with the NCP but later reversed their decision after mediation of former South African president Thabo Mbeki who leads an African Union panel.

In a related issue the Sudanese president assistant Nafie Ali Nafie accused the SPLM of seeking to create troubles saying that violence in the South is caused by SPLA officers rebelling against their leadership.

Nafie told a visiting Eritrean delegation led by its foreign minister Osman Saleh Mohamed that they know the source of weapons obtained by these militias.

(ST)

13 Comments

  • DASODIKO
    DASODIKO

    Sudan’s SPLM ridicule North’s claim of uncovering source of leaked documents
    SPLM/A also has rights to keep the NCP busy on another way around. But also they need to rethink their strategies on dealing with the north. being lunatic and believing on what is apparent from the North looks naivety.

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  • Paul Ongee
    Paul Ongee

    Sudan’s SPLM ridicule North’s claim of uncovering source of leaked documents
    Folks,

    The National Criminal Party (NCP) is playing the wrong game with the people of southern Sudan which it is likely to loose at the end of the day. SPLM/SPLA thinks twice ahead of the NCP whose job is to see Southern Sudan go in pieces and have control over the Southern oild fields to keep its economy going.

    Instead of focusing on building mechanism for future relation with the South it engages in subversive activities. If it’s not because of CPA, NCP will remain in peace in the North but I doubt based on its political behavior.

    The intercepted documents represent the ill-intention of the NCP whose future is totally bleak. How can you tell the world that I know the source of the leaked documents while suspecting the non-commission officers and officers from Southern Blue Nile, Southern Kordufan and Darfur serving in the SAF.

    All members of the National Criminal Party need to take note of this warning that any further attempts to destabilize south would result in a devastating impact on the North-South relationship. Obviously, the prospect of NCP staying in power after July 9, 2011 is surely slim based on the assessment of the manure constantly added by NCP on the protest soil. The soil is fertile enough to yield the desired results after south’s departure. Time is not at all on the side of National Criminal Party.

    Paul Ongee
    Khartoum, Sudan

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  • Madior
    Madior

    Sudan’s SPLM ridicule North’s claim of uncovering source of leaked documents
    Hey Folks,
    you should blame SPLM, “there is no smoke without fire”. it is good thing we know what going with NCP. Secretary general would have keep it down, work on certain things lubricated the evidence. Now they provoke situation, and our allied from the North will turn away from us and it would be hard for them gives us such a wonderful information sometimes in the future.MR. Amum, shame on you because put the life your great allied in watch list. Next time, please be patience until suspicious things happen. Reminded all Southerners, this is your country. Stop being asshole against the SPLM, we are already gone from the north. They next time you go to North, would be when you are looking for primitive jobs or to work as indenture servants in the houses of these Northerners. Otherswise, support your leaders no matters how bad they are to us. Ethnics issues are your problems not them.

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