Khartoum admits violations in Darfour, accuses Garang
Sudan, Politics, 5/1/2004

The Sudanese government admitted that its forces made certain violations in Darfour during the fighting with the rebels.

The minister of state at the Sudanese foreign ministry, al-Teijani Saleh, said that the Sudanese army committed certain violations during the war, but he stressed that the western media magnified what is taking place for the interests of foreign agendas targeting Sudan's security.

For his part, the Wali of northern Darfour, Muhammad Othman Youssef Kabar, said that no body can deny that the government forces carried out killing acts and burning of villages which used to shelter the rebels, but he added that rape and killing operations were carried at individual levels, rather than being organized by the Sudanese government. He continued that the matter did not reach the extent of the government's collaboration with the attacking tribes, as stated by certain circles.

Kabar called on the international community to hurry to giving aids to the dislocated, especially the two camps of Bardmatta in west Darfour and Kalma to the north of it, before the fall of autumn when floods isolate these areas from other parts in Sudan.

Meantime, the secretary general of the ruling national congress party, Ibrahim Ahmnad Omar, said that the leader of the southern rebels John Garang escalated the conflict in Darfour through his support to the rebels in the west Sudan area.

In press statements he said that " Garang cannot negotiate for peace in Nivasha while his fingers are on the gun in Darfour." Omar indicated Garang's support for the rebels of the Sudan liberation movement ( one of the rebellious movement in Darfour) by weapons and training, noting that groups of the movement's fighters in Asmara where Garang had recently met with the leader of the movement.

On the other hand, the leader of the ruling party denied what was stated that the government banned the American aid commission from entering into Darfour to provide relief aid to the displaced in these camps.

He said that the government decided first to specify needs through the UN committees and then comes to provide the aid.

The statements of the ruling party's secretary general came on the background of accusations addressed to the government of banning the American aid from from the effected people from the war after the government refused to give its members entry visas to the country.

Previous Stories:
  Sudan: members in the ruling party called for the separation of the north from the south   (4/30/2004)
  Nivasha negotiations were resumed, Europe calls for relieving Darfour   (4/30/2004)
  Garang proposes to help in settling the conflict in Darfour   (4/28/2004)

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