‘Bashir regime will fall due to Doha agreement’

JEM leader Khalil Ibrahim said his group will storm the governmental palace in Khartoum to overthrow the rule

Khalil Ibrahim, the head of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), told Radio Dabanga on Monday that the partial Doha agreement will be the cause of the overthrow of the Sudanese regime in Khartoum.Ibrahim returned from his eight-month stay in Libya recently, where he claimed to have been treated as a political prisoner.

He said, “The agreement signed between the Sudanese government and the Liberation and Justice Movement (LJM) will cause the fall of the Bashir regime in Khartoum.” He added that his group wasn’t open to any negotiations.

A follow-up committee of the Doha peace agreement met in the Qatari capital this week to seek implementation of the peace document. There had been talks about the inclusion of other Darfuri resistance groups, who had been excluded from the talks.

However, Ibrahim’s remarks give a clear indication of their being no compromise on the part of the JEM. “We will enter the presidential palace by force and at the same time launch a violent attack on the government,” he said, claiming that what the government had done was wrong and irresponsible.

LJM: We will continue with implementation

Bahr Idriss Aboqirdh, secretary-general of the Liberation and Justice Movement (LJM), said his group will continue with the implementation of the peace agreement signed with the government.

He told Radio Dabanga from Darfur, “All the people of the region should uphold the peace agreement and work together towards fulfilling it. I have toured some areas in Darfur under the control of the LJM and refugee camps along the Chadian border to meet the Sudanese people and convey this message.”

He announced that he will return with the LJM delegation headed by Tijani Sese in the first week of October.

The LJM is the only resistance movement that signed the Doha peace agreement with the government on July 14, earlier this year.