{"id":190097,"date":"2011-09-12T21:08:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T21:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dabangasudan.preview.websight.nl\/khalil-ibrahim-i-was-under-house-arrest\/"},"modified":"2011-09-12T21:08:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T21:08:00","slug":"khalil-ibrahim-i-was-under-house-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/khalil-ibrahim-i-was-under-house-arrest","title":{"rendered":"Khalil Ibrahim: I was under house arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"

The JEM leader, who has returned to Darfur, says he was treated like a political prisoner in Tripoli<\/STRONG><\/P>
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Dr. Khalil Ibrahim, head of Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) told Radio Dabanga on Monday that he was treated like a political prisoner in Libya through out his stay in the country since May 2010.\u201cI was in a room in Tripoli for more than a year. I was not allowed to move around or talk with anyone. I wasn’t allowed to step out except for the Friday prayers. And that too, I was accompanied by security guards,\u201d he said in an interview.<\/P>
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About his escape from Tripoli, he said that the Sudanese security services and the intelligence forces had been seeking to kidnap him.<\/P>
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\u201cThey had surrounded my hotel and were about to carry out their mission to arrest me when the JEM troops came to my rescue. They were faster than the Sudanese troops and led me out,\u201d the leader said.<\/P>
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Khalil Ibrahim said that his evacuation plan involved cutting across 4,500 kilometers of the Saharan desert in order to reach Darfur. \u201cJEM forces were equipped very well to handle the tough, winding roads in the deserts,\u201d he said.<\/P>
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He added that his escape also included surviving continued aerial bombardment by the Sudanese air force within Libya and inside Sudan as well as dodging land mines laid to target him.<\/P>
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He assured that the forces in his movement had returned to their positions in Darfur to its full strength.<\/P>
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‘Let’s join forces’<\/STRONG><\/P>
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On the other hand, Khalil Ibrahim also called for the Sudan People’s Liberation Moverment-North (SPLM-N), Sudan Liberation Movement \u2013 Abdul Wahid (SLM-AW), Minni Minnawi (SLM-MM) and all other resistance movements as well as marginalized forces in Sudan to cooperate and work together towards toppling president Omar Al-Bashir’s regime in Khartoum.<\/P>
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He appealed for a political and civil regime change and said that his group was ready to make all the concessions possible to make this happen.<\/P>
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\u201cI do not want any other position. I prefer be a camel herder in Darfur after overthrowing the Bashir government. I would like to call on all countries to support the efforts of everyone in the Sudan,\u201d he said.<\/P>
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‘Khalil’s return makes no difference’<\/STRONG><\/P>
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Meanwhile, Amin Hassan Omar, head of the government delegation at the Doha negotiations played down the importance of the JEM leader to Darfur. He asked for those involved not to personalize the crisis and said that Ibrahim’s return will not affect the ongoing peace building measures.<\/P>
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Amin Hassan Omar said that the government of Sudan and the Liberation and Justice Movement were the approving authorities in the province who could issue a general amnesty. \u201cWe are the ones who can ensure security on the ground by carrying out the completion of the Doha peace agreement,\u201d he said in a press conference.<\/P>
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In a joint press conference with the Liberation and Justice Movement (LJM) leader Dr Tijani Sese at the conclusion of the follow-up committee on Doha peace talks, Omar said that the implementation will begin in two weeks.<\/P><\/p>\n