{"id":185111,"date":"2014-06-02T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T11:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dabangasudan.preview.websight.nl\/sudan-s-first-vice-president-calls-for-peace-in-darfur\/"},"modified":"2014-06-02T11:40:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T11:40:00","slug":"sudan-s-first-vice-president-calls-for-peace-in-darfur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/sudan-s-first-vice-president-calls-for-peace-in-darfur","title":{"rendered":"Sudan\u2019s First Vice-President calls for peace in Darfur"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sudan\u2019s First Vice-President, Gen. Bakri Hassan Saleh, has called upon the armed rebel movements in Darfur to lay down their arms, and catch up with the peace process.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is high time for Darfur to enjoy peace,\u201d he declared during his visit to North Darfur\u2019s capital El Fasher on Saturday on the occasion of the celebration of the National Day of Peace. Sultan Saad Bahreldin, the chairman of the Popular Initiative for Peace in Darfur, handed Saleh a document calling for unity, and support for the 2011 Doha Document for Peace in Darfur (DDPD) being \u201cthe only road leading to stability and sustainable peace\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Vice-President promised the implementation of the DDPD and all the requirements listed in the Popular Initiative\u2019s document, \u201cso that Darfur will return as it used to be in the past\u201d.<\/p>\n

Insult<\/strong><\/p>\n

However, the Sudan Liberation Movement for Justice, led by El Taher Hajar, described Saleh\u2019s call to Radio Dabanga as \u201cdeception\u201d. \u201cThe murders, rapes, lootings, and arson in Darfur and Kordofan, carried out by the paramilitary Rapid Support militia of the security apparatus are ample proof of that,\u201d Hajar stressed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Khartoum regime will never be honest and does not want peace. It has never been committed to the peace agreements it signed with rebel movements, be it in Naivasha or Doha.\u201d Hajar described the National Day of Peace as an \u201cinsult and humiliation for the people of Darfur in general, and the victims of the war in particular\u201d.<\/p>\n

Dustbin<\/strong><\/p>\n

For his part, Abdallah Mursal, the spokesman for the Sudan Liberation Movement led by Minni Minawi, described the Vice-President\u2019s speech as \u201cempty aspirations\u201d. \u201cWe cannot afford to pay the bill for a surgery operation on the dying Khartoum regime.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mursal wondered \u201cwhere this peace is to be celebrated\u201d. \u201cWhat is currently going on in Darfur is worse than it was in the first years of the war, 2003-2004. The DDPD is dead, as any Darfuri can testify. We are calling upon the Sudanese to unite and sweep the ruling National Congress Party into the dustbin of history.\u201d<\/p>\n

File photo: First Vice-President, Gen. Bakri Hassan Saleh (Suna)<\/em><\/p>\n

Related: <\/em>Sudan Peace Day in North Darfur raises questions amongst displaced<\/a> (30 May 2014)<\/p>\n

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