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 Justice & Equality Movement Sudan (JEM)
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25 September 2010
To: H. E. the Chairman of UN General Assembly
From: Justice & Equality Movement Sudan (JEM)
Your Excellency;
The Justice & Equality Movement Sudan (JEM) would like to congratulate Your Excellency on the successful convening of the General Assembly for this year, 2010, hoping for robust resolutions and practical steps to emerge out of its deliberations, addressing the issues of international peace, poverty and environmental deterioration which affect the future and well-being of global inhabitants.
First and foremost, JEM would like to reconfirm its genuine and absolute commitment to a peaceful, comprehensive and just negotiated resolution of the Sudanese problem in Darfur. JEM has always believed that only a peaceful solution can settle this conflict which began at the opening of this millennium.
JEM is ready to return to the negotiating table as soon as the reasons and obstacles that necessitated its decision to suspend its participation in the Doha talks are removed. JEM would also like to ensure that the United Nations would guarantee free and safe movement of its military and political leadership between Darfur, where its civilian and military constituencies exist, and negotiation venues.
We would like to take this opportunity to ensure to Your Excellency and through you to the world at large, that JEM strongly supports full implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) which was signed in Naivasha, the right of self-determination for southern Sudan and the prompt conducting of the referendum on the date prescribed in the CPA.
It is high time JEM raise the alarm at this important juncture when world leaders are meeting at the UN General Assembly, that the humanitarian situation in Darfur is gravely deteriorating due to the Sudan government policies hindering and blocking relief to its deserving recipients. This has been done in a number of ways, including expelling humanitarian organisations, scaring and kidnapping aid workers and UNAMID troops through its surrogate militias that roam Darfur state capital cities in full military gear, accounting to nobody, as it has the government’s green light. Furthermore, the Sudan government has shamelessly and publicly announced its “new strategy for peace in Darfur” based on “cleaning up” the IDP camps to remove this blunt evidence of a continued conflict. It is only logical that a forcibly displaced person would not willingly return to a village where no security or the least requirements for a decent living are guaranteed. It follows that the Sudan government would use force and harassment – as Kalma and Al Hameediya IDP camps has actually witnessed during the last couple of weeks – as a means of forcible repatriation.
The Sudan government is taking the global attention now focused on the south Sudan referendum as an act of abandoning the Sudanese problem in Darfur, and as a green light to a free hand in the region in return for its cooperation with the referendum. Should the Sudan government be allowed to pursue such a dangerous approach, God forbid, then the world would be promised a new bloody phase in history, including vicious genocides, forming part of a wide range humanitarian crisis in Darfur.
Khartoum’s “new strategy for peace in Darfur” puts the cart ahead of the horse by attending to post-conflict issues, such as voluntary return of IDPs and refugees, development projects, reconstruction, disarmament, etc. To attempt to implement such post-war projects during wartime circumstances would only lead to more war. It is therefore imperative – at this stage - to pay attention to peace making steps such as peace negotiation as an absolute priority for all stakeholders. But the Sudan government has proved by its inappropriate policy in this connection that it has no credibility or will towards genuine and comprehensive peace which would remove grievances of the people in marginalised regions and end the war for good. Furthermore, the government’s policy of reaching ceremonial and ludicrous agreements with entities which do not relate to the armed conflict in Darfur and in the absence of the real parties to the civil war, will not lead to peace on the ground. It will rather infuriate the situation; prolong the war and the sufferings of our people at the IDP and refugee camps in Darfur.
Accordingly, JEM would like to call upon the United Nations ...
FIRST: To exert genuine efforts towards stopping the vicious deterioration of the humanitarian situation at the IDP camps in Darfur, secure access of relief to such camps and prevent any forcible dismantling of the camps against the will of their inhabitants. JEM would also call upon the UN to protect relief convoys and provide safe environment for aid workers that would secure their noble activities against kidnappings and harassment.
SECOND: To ensure that the UNAMID forces are fully engaged in their basic mandate, without being dragged into the implementation of Sudan government’s mischievous schemes under the masquerade of “partnership”.
THIRD: To conduct an investigation into the reasons behind the failure to reach a just and comprehensive peace through the Doha negotiation forum despite a prolonged process, and the gratefully enormous generosity of the State of Qatar in its endeavour to reach peace in Sudan. The UN should then actively participate in removing the obstacles, and to introduce badly needed radical reforms to the management of the peace process in order to enhance a speedy, comprehensive and just peace in Darfur.
FOURTH: To engage in securing free and safe shuttling of JEM’s military and political leadership between their bases in Darfur and the peace negotiation forums. Continued access to JEM’s grassroots in Darfur during the peace negotiations is essential to achieve democratic participation of such civilian and military grassroots in the peace process, without which no implementation of potential agreements would be guaranteed, since JEM’s leadership decisions would be divorced from its bases and hence not binding upon them. We hope that the UN and the African Union (AU) would not fail in returning the negotiating parties, under their guarantees, to their hitherto overtaken positions, since that would establish a serious precedent and fatally affect the credibility of the two organisations, leading to their disqualification as peace brokers regionally, if not also globally.
FIFTHLY: To prevent Sudan government from implementing its “new strategy for peace in Darfur”, a “strategy” which, by all means, represents a renewed declaration of war, an intentional and blunt breach of the international humanitarian law in the region and a recipe for a new, bloody chapter of Darfur’s history.
With my sincere regards
Dr. Khalil Ibrahim Mohammed
Chairman, Justice and Equality Movement Sudan (JEM)
Tripoli,
Libya
Cc
- Members of the UN Security Council
- Secretary General of the United nations
- Joint International Mediator
- Qatari Mediator
- Chairman of AU Commission
- Secretary General of the Arab League
- European Union
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