‘Firm action against LJM’: dissidents criticise former Darfur rebels

04/04/2014 17:42

Differences have broken out among the Liberation and Justice Movement (LJM), as a stream calling themselves the Reformist Movement threatened to take firm action against the movement in case it fails to take “necessary measures”. First and foremost, the stream stressed “the return to the institutions” of the LJM, the main signatory to the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur in 2011. It gave Dr Tijani Sese, head of the movement and the Darfur Regional Authority, 72 hours to do so. They stated in a press release that the LJM under the leadership of Sese is facing real problems which threaten its unity. “Most notably: the absence of institutions, the exercise of individualised policies, a monopoly exercised by specific people, marginalisation of other groups, and getting rid of the revolutionary spirit.” They further accused the LJM of “nepotism, financial corruption, and the absence of a plan to transform the former armed movement into a political organisation”. West Darfur State Cabinet Minister Ahmed Fadul, also the spokesman for the LJM, has strongly denied what was stated in the statement. “It was issued by entities with an agenda to undermine the unity and cohesion of the movement. The group that named itself ‘a stream of reform’, is an isolated group representing nothing but itself.” He stressed the cohesion of the movement and the unity of its institutions.File photo: Ghazi Salaheldin El Atabani and LJM leader Dr Tijani Sese (R) wave the DDPD in Doha on 14 July 2011 (Unamid)

Differences have broken out among the Liberation and Justice Movement (LJM), as a stream calling themselves the Reformist Movement threatened to take firm action against the movement in case it fails to take “necessary measures”.

First and foremost, the stream stressed “the return to the institutions” of the LJM, the main signatory to the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur in 2011. It gave Dr Tijani Sese, head of the movement and the Darfur Regional Authority, 72 hours to do so.

They stated in a press release that the LJM under the leadership of Sese is facing real problems which threaten its unity. “Most notably: the absence of institutions, the exercise of individualised policies, a monopoly exercised by specific people, marginalisation of other groups, and getting rid of the revolutionary spirit.”

They further accused the LJM of “nepotism, financial corruption, and the absence of a plan to transform the former armed movement into a political organisation”.

West Darfur State Cabinet Minister Ahmed Fadul, also the spokesman for the LJM, has strongly denied what was stated in the statement. “It was issued by entities with an agenda to undermine the unity and cohesion of the movement. The group that named itself ‘a stream of reform’, is an isolated group representing nothing but itself.”

He stressed the cohesion of the movement and the unity of its institutions.

File photo: Ghazi Salaheldin El Atabani and LJM leader Dr Tijani Sese (R) wave the DDPD in Doha on 14 July 2011 (Unamid)