Yasir Arman Condemns Silence of International Community
4 min readSudan Peoples’ Liberation Movement- North
The Office of The Secretary General
Press Release:
· For all its Marshalling of hordes of Mercenaries, the NCP forces suffer huge losses in the Battle for Salei, Blue Nile.
· Arman Condemns the Inaction of the International Community while the NCP Continues to Commit Grievous crimes Against its Peoples with Impunity.
In spite of the National Congress Party’s (NCP) deployment of huge numbers of mercenaries (mainly Janjaweed) in its fateful operation in Blue Nile, on Thursday 20th October, they have suffered heavy losses at hands of SPLM-N forces in both men and armouries. The assorted forces of the regime left behind 85 dead, among them 6 senior officers; and a further 1211 injured, including 5 officers. In addition to 2 downed helicopter gunships, further 6 tanks and a large number of military vehicles were also destroyed.
The NCP military has been, of late, actively engaged in recruiting Janjaweed militias- mostly non-Sudanese- from North and West Africa, particularly Niger. The airports of Al-Geneinah and Nyala, Darfur, recently witnessed a flurry of flights transporting mercenaries to Damazin.
A military expert commented that considering the size of forces amassed by the NCP and bolstered by the Janjaweed and foreign fighters, the SPLM-N have achieved an epic victory in repelling them in the battle for Salei. This fact has been indirectly admitted by the official spokesperson of NCP army, who described battles in Blue Nile that continued for 12 hours- though in truth the fighting lasted for more than14 hours.
The SPLM-N fought the battle of Salei under the command of the SPLM-N chairman, Lt. General Malik Agar, the elected and legitimate governor of Blue Nile State,
Yasir Arman, Secretary General of SPLM-N, said: ‘the NCP is replicating the Darfur experience and the crimes committed there in Blue Nile State’. He strongly condemned the International Community’s inaction in the face of clear-cut evidence from impeccably independent sources, that war crimes (religious and ethnic-cleansing, targeting of civilians and the withholding of food
from IDP’s) are committed by the regime. He further deplored world silence towards the regime’s rejection of proposals of opening safe corridors to deliver humanitarian aid to the needy, and its airforce’s systematic targeting of civilian areas and civilian infrastructure- e.g. the bombing of the water supply tower in Kurmuk.
Arman, added that the NCP leadership have achieved a new qualitative leap in prosecuting its war by employing mercenaries from abroad, thereby unpicking and tearing apart the social fabric and inherited social ties that played vital role in constituting contemporary Sudanese society and state. The Blue Nile area was the seedbed of one of the first Sudanic Islamic kingdoms. It was founded on an alliance between two Sudanese kings, Amara Dungus and Abdallah Jamaa; an epoch-making pact that ruled over central Sudan unchallenged for more that 3 centuries (AD 1504- AD 1821), until the Turkish Ottoman conquest by Mohammed Ali in 1821. As a result, the area of Blue Nile had been a model of Christian-Muslim amity among its peoples who professed either of the two great Abrahamic faiths.
The NCP leadership is currently engaged in destroying that humane inheritance in the name of Islam. Human conscience must recoil in horror at the crimes now committed by these habitual war criminals- though, properly indicted by the International Community, and yet allowed to go on undeterred killing more of their peoples with impunity,
Arman calls on the international community to pay heed to widespread human rights violations now taking place in North Sudan: from Darfur to Damazin, and from Damazin to Kassala- where the Security Police barbarously put-down civil peaceful protests.
The Secretary General, noted that those who wish good neighbourly relations between North and South Sudan while the NCP regime remains in power, are akin to the ‘Vichyste’ who hoped for entente between France while Hitler was in power in Germany; or appeasers who thought Italy could be entrusted with good neighbourliness during WWII when Mussolini ruled there. Those who wage war against their own peoples will not balk at aggression against others.
Yasir Arman, concluded that the Sudanese people will stand up to the NCP autocracy and will replace with a new regime based on peaceful co-existence with its neighbours and for bread and liberty for all its peoples.
The Office of Secretary General
22nd October, 2011
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