West Darfur displaced hail Paris Declaration
The West Darfur sector of the Association of Darfur Displaced and Refugees has welcomed the Paris Declaration, signed on 8 August between the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF, an alliance of the main Sudanese rebel movements) and the National Umma Party (NUP). The Association hailed the contents of the Paris Declaration in a statement issued after a mass meeting of displaced in El Geneina, capital of West Darfur this week. The displaced welcomed the intention of the signatories to comprehensively resolve the armed conflicts and the various crises in the country. The Association further demanded the release of all the political detainees and political prisoners, “led by Ibrahim El Sheikh, the head of the Sudanese Congress Party, and Dr Maryam El Mahdi, NUP deputy, who are adopting the language of peace instead of the language of arms”. The West Darfur displaced demanded from “the political forces, and all the Sudanese, to boycott the scheduled elections”, which they described as “rigged in advance”. Unamid In the statement, the Association said that “everything Dr Aisha Elbasri has said about Unamid covering up of crimes committed by government forces in Darfur, is correct”. The displaced demanded from the UN Security Council to establish “an international, independent and neutral committee, to investigate the corruption, and the fraudulent reporting of the AU-UN peacekeeping mission in Darfur”. Former Unamid spokeswoman Elbasri revealed in April this year to Radio Dabanga that Unamid had misinformed the UN by withholding important details about crimes committed by government-backed militias in Darfur. She said that Unamid covered the facts that the Sudanese government failed to disarm the Janjaweed. “It reintegrated them into newly formed paramilitary forces instead, who could then continue with their attacks against civilians in the western region.” File photo: SRF and NUP leaders a day before the signing of the Paris Declaration, 7 August 2014. From left to right: Minni Minawi, leader of the Sudan Liberation movement-MM; Dr Jibril Ibrahim, leader of the Justice and Equality Movement; El Sadig El Mahdi, chairman of the NUP; Malik Agar, chairman of the SRF; Abdel Wahid El Nur, head of the Sudan Liberation movement-AW; Dr Maryam El Sadig, co-vice president of the NUP; El Tom Hajo, of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), and Yasir Arman, SRF Foreign Relations Secretary (Radio Dabanga) Related:Sudanese Congress Party head to be tried in North Kordofan (27 August 2014)‘Paris Declaration signatories to meet with AUHIP chairman’: Sudan’s Umma Party (21 August 2014) Sudan’s regime rejects Paris Declaration; Umma Party responds (20 August 2014) Sudan: NUP cadres demand release of Maryam El Mahdi (19 August 2014)Darfur Bar questions UN investigation team’s integrity (18 August 2014) ‘Sudan’s regime should accept Paris Declaration’: El Mahdi (11 August 2014) Sudan opposition parties sign for toppling regime (8 August 2014) Dossier: Sudan Leaks
The West Darfur sector of the Association of Darfur Displaced and Refugees has welcomed the Paris Declaration, signed on 8 August between the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF, an alliance of the main Sudanese rebel movements) and the National Umma Party (NUP).
The Association hailed the contents of the Paris Declaration in a statement issued after a mass meeting of displaced in El Geneina, capital of West Darfur this week. The displaced welcomed the intention of the signatories to comprehensively resolve the armed conflicts and the various crises in the country.
The Association further demanded the release of all the political detainees and political prisoners, “led by Ibrahim El Sheikh, the head of the Sudanese Congress Party, and Dr Maryam El Mahdi, NUP deputy, who are adopting the language of peace instead of the language of arms”.
The West Darfur displaced demanded from “the political forces, and all the Sudanese, to boycott the scheduled elections”, which they described as “rigged in advance”.
Unamid
In the statement, the Association said that “everything Dr Aisha Elbasri has said about Unamid covering up of crimes committed by government forces in Darfur, is correct”. The displaced demanded from the UN Security Council to establish “an international, independent and neutral committee, to investigate the corruption, and the fraudulent reporting of the AU-UN peacekeeping mission in Darfur”.
Former Unamid spokeswoman Elbasri revealed in April this year to Radio Dabanga that Unamid had misinformed the UN by withholding important details about crimes committed by government-backed militias in Darfur. She said that Unamid covered the facts that the Sudanese government failed to disarm the Janjaweed. “It reintegrated them into newly formed paramilitary forces instead, who could then continue with their attacks against civilians in the western region.”
File photo: SRF and NUP leaders a day before the signing of the Paris Declaration, 7 August 2014. From left to right: Minni Minawi, leader of the Sudan Liberation movement-MM; Dr Jibril Ibrahim, leader of the Justice and Equality Movement; El Sadig El Mahdi, chairman of the NUP; Malik Agar, chairman of the SRF; Abdel Wahid El Nur, head of the Sudan Liberation movement-AW; Dr Maryam El Sadig, co-vice president of the NUP; El Tom Hajo, of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), and Yasir Arman, SRF Foreign Relations Secretary (Radio Dabanga)
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