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At a critical moment in Sudan’s history, a UK parliamentary delegation is to visit Sudan from Sept. 16 to 20. The visit takes place at a crucial time for Sudan, particularly Darfur and the two areas.
While the regime in Khartoum claiming through its media that it has achieved peace, stability, human rights, democracy and security, but reality is contrary to what it claims. The situation in Sudan as it was; there was no improvement.
The war is still going on in the margins of Sudan, especially in Darfur, the Nuba Mountains and the Blue Nile. More than three million people were displaced or refugees in the neighbouring countries. Whole the country is suffering from basic services, insecurity and freedoms. The government has failed to address issues of comprehensive peace that lead to a real democratic transformation in the country.
On the other hand, the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) is exerting tremendous efforts to achieve durable peace and justice through a comprehensive and negotiated peace strategy, while the government is training and mobilizing the Janjaweed militias, which have become Rapid support forces on the basis of strategy of peace through war.
The Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) seizes this opportunity to urge the UK parliamentary delegation to raise with the Government of the Sudan the fundamental issues and exercise maximum pressure on the following points:
1-Instead of the agenda of war, the regime must engage in a genuine peace process that addresses the root causes of the crisis in Sudan in order to achieve durable peace.
2. Hundreds of POWs, among whom,135 POWs from SLMA, have been kept behind the bars, their living conditions worsening day after another and some have lost their lives due to torture, malnutrition and lack of medication.The SLM requests the UK parliamentary delegation to visit the prisons of the regime in Khartoum and urges the government to abide by international rules and laws relating to the rights of POWs including the Geneva Conventions and international humanitarian law that protect the rights of Prisoners of War. The SLM would like to remind that when visiting prisons or other communities affected by war, the regime used to direct foreign visitors to selected places with intention of denying access to facts.
3-While the regime in Khartoum is trying to build new relations with the UK government through strategic dialogue, there has been no any progress in human rights and freedoms in general, whether freedom of expression, demonstration and assembly.The SLM’s concern is that any progress in the relations of the two governments at this particular time does not serve the common interests of the two nations.
4- A number of top officials from Khartoum regime, including Omar Hassan al-Bashir, are indicted by ICC,for war crimes and have to stand trial in the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
Nuraddayim Taha
Secretary of Media & Communication
Sudan Liberation Movement ( SLM/A )
