SRF will take fight to Khartoum

The chairman of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement North (SPLM-N) and ex-governor of Blue Nile state Malik Agar announced four mechanisms of action to bring down the regime in Khartoum. In an interview with Radio Dabanga to be broadcast on Saturday, Agar said the first mechanism and the preferred option by the Khartoum government was an ‘armed struggle’. By forming the Sudan Revolutionary Front, comprising rebel groups from across Sudan, he said they were ready to fight the government to the end, if their continued choice was the military option. The second method for change was to work with ordinary people, students, civil society and all political forces to start uprisings in cities across Sudan through mass demonstrations and civil disobedience. The third stated Agar was to use diplomacy, and assistance from parties outside of Sudan. And the fourth would involve comprehensive negotiations between all political parties and on all issues affecting people in Sudan. Agar said all four options are open, but said if the government continued to wage war across Sudan, the Sudan Revolutionary Front will take the fighting to Khartoum. He said it is only a matter of time for the war to reach Khartoum. On the question of negotiation the chairman said ‘the government abandoned the negotiating table wihtout turning back’. Agar said if ‘the government lean towards peace, we will lean towards peace, but if they lean towards war, we are ready.’ He said the rebel movements have the ‘experience and insights gained’ of both.