Doha signatories say Darfur rebels’ protest calls ‘opportunistic’

Doha Document signatories condemned rebel leader Abdel Wahid for calling upon displaced and refugees to stage protests against the donors’ conference to be held early next week in Qatar. Dr. Tijani Sese’s Liberation and Justice Movement (LJM) spokesman called Wahid’s invitation “inflammatory and opportunistic”. He pointed out to the 31 displaced detained by the rebels on their way to the Nyala conference under claims they were security agents, and added the insurgents must “learn from their mistakes”.The abduction was “widely criticized but it provided a good service to the conference” which the rebels were trying to foil, LJM spokesman Ahmed Fadul, who is also minister of state, told Radio Dabanga on Tuesday. Fadul suggested the protests’ invitation by the rebel leader would be ignored by displaced and refugees, because they are the “first ones to benefit from the donors’ conference that supports voluntary return and reconstruction”.  “LJM believes that displaced and refugees are victims of the war and that they should not be part of the on-going conflict between the Sudanese government and rebel forces”, he said. Abdel Wahid called upon displaced and refugees to hold protests against the Doha donors’ conference from Tuesday until Thursday. The summit will take place on Sunday and Monday.File photo: 14 July 2011: Ceremony of the Signing of Agreement between The Government of the Republic of the Sudan and the Liberation and Justice Movement for the Adoption of the Doha Darfur Peace Document, at the Sheraton Hotel, Doha, the state of Qatar (Olivier Chassot/ UNAMID) Related:Darfur’s JEM-Bashar assigned positions in Sudan government (1 April 2013)SLA-AW hostages arrive safely in Zalingei, C Darfur (31 March 2013)