LJM field commanders at odds with movement’s leader – Sudan

The commander of the Liberation and Justice Movement (LJM) for the southwest area, Muhammad Bashir Yusuf has rejected a call by the head of the movement for implementing voluntary security arrangements. In an interview with Radio Dabanga, Yusuf criticised the head of the movement, Dr Tijani Sese, “for his lack of interest in the military aspects and only focusing on the material aspects”. Yusuf: “The field leadership reject Sese’s call for implementing voluntarily security arrangements. We, the field commanders, joined the movement in accordance with the international (Doha) agreement after defecting from other movements with great leadership. I didn’t meet Sese in a disco lounge but in the field.” Yusuf said that the commanders have written to the guarantors of the agreement, including the AU, the Chadian government, the UN, the Joint Mediation and the State of Qatar: “We reject the provision of security arrangements in the way Sese calls for.”He stressed that the field leadership did not reject the item outright, but are demanding that it be implemented according to the agreement and “in accordance with what pleases the field leaders, not as Dr Sese imagines”. “We will not go into the implementation of the item of security arrangements unless we receive dues for the past eight years,” Yusuf concluded. File photo: LJM leader Dr Tijani Sese Related: Sudan politician: security arrangement of peace treaty ‘a concern’ (24 May 2013)Former Darfur rebels threaten to leave government (26 April 2013)