LJM accused of recruiting Darfuris

The movement denies holding any military training camps, says wrongdoers are impostors

The Liberation and Justice Movement (LJM) is recruiting citizens of South Darfur’s Asalaam locality into military training camps, a leader of a local tribe accused on Wednesday.Nazer Mohammad Yaqub of the Tarjem tribe told Radio Dabanga that he had noticed certain groups claiming to be affiliated to the LJM organizing training training camps.

“I have heard about these people distributing military ranks for money. I want to know who is responsible for these acts,” Yaqub said.

Denial

The LJM spokesperson Ahmed Fadel, however, dismissed these allegations claiming that the groups behind such recruitment drives were impostors who had nothing to do with the movement.

“They have their own agenda. They are fraudulent. I am warning the citizens of Darfur to beware of these impostors. They have no links with the LJM,” Ahmed Fadel said.

He confirmed that the LJM had no security arrangement with the government of Sudan and therefore wasn’t going to recruit Darfuris into its militia.

The commissioner of Asalaam locality asked the security forces in the region to not allow establishment of such camps. “Whoever is interested in gaining military training must do so in the formal training academy in Nyala,” he said.