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Jamous: Involvement of all the rebel movements guarantees peace on the ground in Darfur |
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Friday, 10 August 2007 |
 In an exclusive interview with Miraya FM, a leading Darfur rebel leader, Sulieman Jamous, has insisted for the participation of all the Darfur movements in the next peace talks with the Sudanese government. Speaking through telephone from where he has been imprisoned in a UN hospital in Kadugli for more than 13 months after the United Nations airlifted him there for medical treatment, Jamous told Miraya FM that if the international community wants to realize peace in Darfur then all the the non-signatories of the Abuja agreement should participate in the talks. He also said that he is suffering from body and stomach complications since the time he was detained by the SLA-Minnawi faction, when he rejected the Abuja agreement which was signed in 2006. He said his health is not improving.
"My presence as well as the presence of Abdelwahid in the Arusha meeting, it would have increased the posibility of making steadiness such as accelerating the begining of the peace talks," Jamous told Miraya FM. He added,"for instance, it is not fair enough to delay the starting of the negotiation process for two to three months". Jamous said he thinks that the delay should have been a month only which is quite enough for every party to complete its arrangements and be ready for the talks. "We need this peace not for us as fighters, but for the people of Darfur who had suffered and have been affected by this war," Jamous stressed. He concluded that, "my point is not related to Abdelwahid, but what I mean is that any movement involved in the Darfur conflict should be included to guarantee the peace on the ground". Sulieman Jamous who is a coordinator for the humanitarian affairs in the Sudan Liberation Movement is seen as a key figure in uniting the fractured Darfur movements. The Darfur crisis is apparently entering a new arena after the Darfur movements agreed in Arusha, Tanzania, to unify their positions for the next round of peace talks with Khartoum.Miraya FM Gabriel Shadar reported that the pressure of the international community has intensified despite the positive signals from the Arusha meeting which decided that negotiations between the government and the movements will begin next October. The Security Council made strong statements against the leaders of the factions which boycotted Arusha meeting saying that tough measures will be taken against the refusing parties. The European Union has in the other hand made a clearer massage that called for immediate ceasefire in the region. From its part the Sudanese government has avoided pressures so far by agreeing to resolution 1769 and welcomed the Arusha recommendations and expressed readiness for talks. Now attention is focused on Abdul Wahid Mohamed Nur the leader of the Sudan Liberation Movement who has political and tribal support in the displaced camps which host a majority of his fur tribe. Nur seems to be standing alone after he refused to attend Arusha meetings and insists on rejecting repeated international appeals even with warning.
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