{"id":186019,"date":"2014-01-31T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dabangasudan.preview.websight.nl\/khartoum-does-not-want-peace-public-opinion-darfur\/"},"modified":"2014-01-31T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T15:00:00","slug":"khartoum-does-not-want-peace-public-opinion-darfur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/khartoum-does-not-want-peace-public-opinion-darfur","title":{"rendered":"‘Khartoum does not want peace’: public opinion Darfur"},"content":{"rendered":"

Internally displaced people in Darfur and the Sudanese opposition movements have continued their critiques of President Omar Al Bashir’s national address on Monday. They were \u201cexpecting more commitments\u201d and found the speech \u201cpolitically empty\u201d.<\/p>\n

All opposition parties were invited to attend the speech in Khartoum. It was generally expected that the President would announce major reforms, but the speech was received as \u201cmore than disappointing\u201d. A leading activist of camp Zamzam near El Fasher, North Darfur, told Radio Dabanga that they expected Bashir to at least talk about \u201cstopping the aerial bombardments, allowing delivery of humanitarian aid in the conflict areas, and negotiating with the armed movements and the opposition forces to find a lasting peace for Sudan\u201d.<\/p>\n

He added that the displaced people, the refugees and the war-affected people in Darfur, Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile \u201care in a bad need for peace\u201d and demanded parties to unite and topple the regime in Khartoum, whom be believes \u201cdoes not want peace\u201d.<\/p>\n

Mohamed Bilail Issa Zayid, the deputy head of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and Secretary of the Kordofan region for the movement, said that the speech of Bashir was free of content and did not address the West and North Kordofan where the Sudan Revolutionary Front is found.<\/p>\n

Zayid revealed that after President Bashir had miserably failed with the militia leader Himaidtai in Kordofan, he began gathering militias once again in El Obeid under the leadership of El Haj Dodo from Umm Badr in North Kordofan.<\/p>\n

The Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) in the Nuba Mountains said \u201cthere is nothing new in Bashir’s speech other than acknowledging that there is an economic failure\u201d. The spokesman said: \u201cLike his previous ones, his speech was rhetorical, politically worthless and did not answer any of the political issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added that Bashir\u2019s handling of the issue of the ‘Arab-African identity’ was naive and \u201cconfirming the intellectual crisis\u201d of the National Congress Party. He affirmed the SPLA and the Revolutionary Front\u2019s insistence to topple the regime and restructure the state of Sudan on a new basis that accommodates diversity.<\/p>\n

File photo: President of Sudan Omar Al Bashir<\/em><\/p>\n

Related:<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018Question is how to govern Sudan\u2019: Malik Agar<\/a> (29 January 2014)<\/em><\/p>\n

Al Bashir speech disappoints Sudanese<\/a> (28 January 2014)<\/em><\/p>\n