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Rebel groups in Khartoum plan massive anti government raids

Gerald Businge — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:07:06 +0000

The Omara Bashir government in Northern Sudan is in trouble after intelligence reports indicated that the major rebel groups there are planning to carry out massive attacks onKhartoum.

The main rebel forces in Northern include the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement North (SPLM-N), the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF).

The Bashir government claims that the rebels troublingNorthern Sudanare being trained and supported by the National Resistance Movement (NRM). NRM is the ruling political organization inUganda. The senior advisor of president Bashir, Sheikh Mustafa Osman Ismail on Monday warnedUgandato stop the financial support it allegedly gives to the rebels fighting the Bashir administration.

Sheikh Mustafa also claimed that Southern Sudan and some European countries andUSAsupport the rebels fighting theKhartoumgovernment.Ugandahas already rubbished claims that it supports rebels fightingNorthern Sudan.

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Rebel groups in Khartoum plan massive anti government raids

Gerald Businge — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:32:59 +0000

The Omara Bashir government in Northern Sudan is in trouble after intelligence reports indicated that the major rebel groups there are planning to carry out massive attacks on Khartoum.

The Bashir government claims that the rebels troubling Northern Sudan are being trained and supported by the National Resistance Movement (NRM). NRM is the ruling political organization in Uganda.

The senior advisor of president Bashir, Sheikh Mustafa Osman Ismail on Monday warned Uganda to stop the financial support it allegedly gives to the rebels fighting the Bashir administration.

Sheikh Mustafa also claimed that Southern Sudan and some European countries and USA support the rebels fighting the Khartoum government. Uganda has already rubbished claims that it supports rebels fighting Northern Sudan.

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Human rights groups vow to arrest Sudan President Omar Bashir in Uganda

Gerald Businge — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 09:08:10 +0000

Human Rights Network – Uganda (HURINET – U) and Uganda Coalition on International Criminal Court (UCICC) have vowed to arrest the President of Sudan if he dares land in Uganda to attend the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region heads of States summit on 15th December.
The two CSOs say they have been dismayed by the remarks made by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Okello Oryem who publicly stated that Uganda has invited President Bashir to attend the conference and have no reason to cause an embarrassment by arresting him.

According to the CSOs Uganda is a state party to the Rome Statute of International Criminal Court and has domesticated the Rome Statute of ICC. It therefore has an obligation to arrest and surrender all persons whose warrants of arrest have been issued.

Addressing the press in Kampala, HURINET boss, Mohammed Ndifuna said inviting an international criminal suspect to Uganda not only betrays the fight against impunity which Uganda has for long championed but also betrays concerns and interests of victims of the most heinous
crimes both in Uganda and Dafur.

He calls on Uganda to revoke Bashir’s invitation or arrest and surrender him to ICC in an unfortunate event that he attends the summit.

According to Ndifuna, a number of Human Rights Organizations have already started securing a joint alternative domestic arrest warrant against Bashir incase Uganda fails to arrest him just like the Kenyan court.

President Bashir who is among the Great Lakes presidents invited to attend the summit due on 15th and 16th this month in Uganda was the first head of state to be indicted by the ICC, which accuses him of genocide and war crimes in Darfur.

Approximately 2.7 million people have fled their homes since the conflict began in Darfur in 2003, and the UN figures indicate that 300,000 people have died as a result of the unending conflict.

President Bashir says the conflict has killed about 12,000 people but that the number of the dead has been exaggerated for political reasons.

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