‘Investigate violations in Sudan’s Abu Zabad’: Umma Party

The National Umma Party (NUP) has called on the authorities to fairly investigate the violations committed in the city of Abu Zabad by government militias, and to halt the war in all parts of Sudan. Citizens told a delegation of the NUP visiting Abu Zabad in North Kordofan that armed groups surrounded the city and stormed their houses. They believed the groups were affiliated to the ruling regime. The militias looted the people’s properties and assaulted, raped and insulted the residents. It was only after the attacks, during the past few days, that the government lifted the militias from the city, the NUP claimed in a statement yesterday. A citizen reported that “the militias committed atrocities while the Sudan Revolutionary Front treated the citizens well and warned them for their safety”. The NUP stated that the solution to the problems of Sudan is not military confrontation, but peaceful means and dialogue. “The current developments will lead inevitably to civil war and a torn country.” The party has called for an immediate halt of the war in all parts of Sudan. Nine out of the 16 original Sudanese states have become war zones, of which five states in Darfur, three in Kordofan and one in Blue Nile. “This means that there are wars ongoing in 56% of the country area,” the NUP noted. “Tensions at the borders of the White Nile State and Abyei make the situation even gloomier.”File photo: Sadig El Mahdi, President of the NUPRelated: ‘Humanitarian disaster in Darfur’: Umma Party (25 November 2013)Satellite photos indicate bomb craters in Sudan’s Abu Zabad (23 November 2013) Sudanese police arbitrarily arrest citizens in Abu Zabad, North Kordofan (19 November 2013)Sudan’s rebels, army clash in Abu Zabad, North Kordofan (17 November 2013)