‘Sudan protects horror militias’: rebel SRF
The Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF) has strongly condemned the Sudanese security apparatus for filing charges against Imam El Sadig El Mahdi, leader of the National Umma Party (NUP), and interrogating him on Thursday about his negative remarks on the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The rebel SRF appealed in a statement to the activists inside and outside Sudan and civil society organisations to confront “the violations the Rapid Support Janjaweed forces have committed throughout Sudan, protected by the regime”. The front called all Sudanese to advocate against this unfair trial against El Mahdi. Chairman Malik Agar told Radio Dabanga that the rebel SRF strongly condemned the interrogation against the NUP leader for saying the truth in the face of the regime. El Mahdi had accused the government RSF of burning villages, committing rape, and displacing civilians. ‘Regime legitimises horrors of RSF’“The front does not recognise any proceedings which are used to muzzle Sudanese,” Agar said. “Instead of the regime trying its corrupt members whose scandals have filled news all over the world, or forming an investigation committee comprising all political forces to check the violations of the regime’s militias, […] it wants to protect and legitimise the horrors of these forces.” Agar stressed that the Janjaweed, “which was newly named as the Rapid Support Forces”, have been involved in ethnic cleansing and ongoing violations since 2003 in Darfur, and continue even now. “But these forces expanded their activities to the Nuba Mountains, Blue Nile, and even North Kordofan’s El Obeid and its surroundings. They burn hundreds of villages and kill and displace thousands of Sudanese citizens, rape and kidnap hundreds of women, and loot civilians’ property, for their systematic impoverishment.” RSF commander Major General Abbas Abdel Aziz on the other hand criticised Unamid’s negative reports about the forces burning villages and raping women at a press conference on Wednesday. He did admit that his forces have committed some violations, describing them as “limited and individual”. File photo: El Sadig El Mahdi arrives at the Security Office in Sajana, Khartoum, on Thursday morning.Related: Displaced Darfuri affirm NUP statements on Sudan’s militias (16 May 2014) More than 127 South Darfur villages razed (2 April 2014)
The Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF) has strongly condemned the Sudanese security apparatus for filing charges against Imam El Sadig El Mahdi, leader of the National Umma Party (NUP), and interrogating him on Thursday about his negative remarks on the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
The rebel SRF appealed in a statement to the activists inside and outside Sudan and civil society organisations to confront “the violations the Rapid Support Janjaweed forces have committed throughout Sudan, protected by the regime”. The front called all Sudanese to advocate against this unfair trial against El Mahdi.
Chairman Malik Agar told Radio Dabanga that the rebel SRF strongly condemned the interrogation against the NUP leader for saying the truth in the face of the regime. El Mahdi had accused the government RSF of burning villages, committing rape, and displacing civilians.
‘Regime legitimises horrors of RSF’
“The front does not recognise any proceedings which are used to muzzle Sudanese,” Agar said. “Instead of the regime trying its corrupt members whose scandals have filled news all over the world, or forming an investigation committee comprising all political forces to check the violations of the regime’s militias, […] it wants to protect and legitimise the horrors of these forces.”
Agar stressed that the Janjaweed, “which was newly named as the Rapid Support Forces”, have been involved in ethnic cleansing and ongoing violations since 2003 in Darfur, and continue even now.
“But these forces expanded their activities to the Nuba Mountains, Blue Nile, and even North Kordofan’s El Obeid and its surroundings. They burn hundreds of villages and kill and displace thousands of Sudanese citizens, rape and kidnap hundreds of women, and loot civilians’ property, for their systematic impoverishment.”
RSF commander Major General Abbas Abdel Aziz on the other hand criticised Unamid’s negative reports about the forces burning villages and raping women at a press conference on Wednesday. He did admit that his forces have committed some violations, describing them as “limited and individual”.
File photo: El Sadig El Mahdi arrives at the Security Office in Sajana, Khartoum, on Thursday morning.
Related:
Displaced Darfuri affirm NUP statements on Sudan’s militias (16 May 2014)
More than 127 South Darfur villages razed (2 April 2014)
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