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 اخبار السودان في الصحافة العالمية والعربية ....... اقرأ
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الأمم المتحدة تبرئ الحكومة السودانية من حادثة مقتل قرنق
يان برونك : شاهدت الدموع في عيني طه تأثرا لفقدان رفيق دربه
الخرطوم: اسماعيل آدم
برأت الامم المتحدة الحكومة السودانية من حادثة مقتل النائب الاول للرئيس السوداني الدكتور جون قرنق وقالت «ان الاحوال الجوية هي السبب المباشر». واعلن الرئيس السوداني عمر البشير عن تكوين «لجنة وطنية» بين الحكومة والحركة الشعبية للتحري والاستقصاء حول الظروف والملابسات التي أدت إلى سقوط الطائرة التي كانت تقل النائب الاول للرئيس السوداني جون قرنق والتي اودت بحياته في طريق عودته للجنوب من زيارة قام بها الى اوغندا.
وقال في خطاب مكتوب عبر وسائل الاعلام المحلية ان للجنة هدف توضيح الحقائق كاملة وإحاطة الرأي العام بتفاصيل الأحداث التي أدت إلى هذه الخسارة الوطنية الكبيرة.
وبرأ يان برونك الممثل الخاص للامين العام للامم المتحدة في الخرطوم الحكومة السودانية من حادثة مقتل قرنق، وقال في مؤتمر صحافي في الخرطوم امس «ان الحكومة ليست متورطة في تحطم الطائرة العمودية الرئاسية الاوغندية التي اقلت فقيد البلاد د. جون قرنق النائب الاول»، وحسب المسؤول الدولي فان كل من يتحدث خلاف ذلك فانة «غير مسؤول»، واكد انه سيبلغ «متمردي دارفور» بان الحكومة «ليست متورطة» في الحادث. وكان بعض مسؤولي حركات مسلحة في دارفور قد اتهموا الحكومة بالتورط.
واعطى برونك الصحافيين تفسيرا للحادثة، وقال ان «السحب كانت منخفضة جدا ثم ظهرت جبال امام الطائرة التي لم يكن الطيار متدربا عليها فاصطدم بالصخور.. مع العلم بان الطائرة كانت تسير بسرعة كبيرة جدا الامر الذي ادى الى الحادث».
وشدد برونك على ضرورة اجراء تحقيق في الحادث وتمنى ان لا ياخذ وقتا طويلا حتى لا تكثر الشائعات. ولفت المسؤول الدولي الانتباه الى انه شاهد الدموع في عينى علي عثمان محمد طي نائب رئيس الجمهورية لفقدان رجل صديق.
وقال برونك انه على ثقة بتشكيل حكومة الوحدة الوطنية في «الموعد المحدد»، وقال ان حدوث اي تاخير في تشكيل الحكومة «امر منطقي وليس هيكليا» واضاف «ليس من سبب لتأخير التشكيل».
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عن الاهرام المصرية 8/8 /2005
نفي أونابيتو الناطق الرسمي باسم الرئاسة الأوغندية مانسب من تصريحات للرئيس يوري موسيفيني بأن تحطم الطائرة المروحية التي كانت تقل الدكتور جون قرنق ربما كان نتيجة عمل متعمد.وأضاف بيتو في تصريحات نقلتها وسائل الإعلام السودانية أننا لا ندري أسباب تحطم الطائرة المروحية, وأن الاستنتاجات حول ذلك يجب أن تبقي لحين استكمال التحقيقات.يذكر أن الرئيس الأوغندي يوري موسيفيني لم يحضر مراسم تشييع جون قرنق وأرسل بدلا منه وزير دفاع بلاده, وذلك فيما يبدو أنه بسبب غضب الخرطوم لتصريحه الذي قال فيه إن حادث مصرع قرنق ربما كان مدبرا. وفي جوبا أبدت الأوساط الشعبية والرسمية السودانية ارتياحا كبيرا إزاء تأكيد سيلفا كير الزعيم الجديد للحركة الشعبية لتحرير السودان ورئيس حكومة الجنوب أنه سينفذ اتفاق السلام حرفيا وسيعمل علي بقاء السودان موحدا مثلما كان ينوي زعيم الحركة الراحل جون قرنق.وأضاف سيلفا كير الذي سيؤدي اليمين الدستورية غدا كنائب أول للرئيس السوداني أن قرنق مات وهو يدعو للوحدة ونحن مع الأهداف التي رسمها للحركة وسنسير عليها.وأوضح أن مبادئ قرنق الداعية إلي توحيد السودان لن تموت مابقيت حيا, وأضاف أننا سنسير علي خطاه لتوحيد السودان علي أسس من الحرية والديمقراطية والعدالة والعمل مع الحكومة لانهاء الحرب في دارفور وشرق البلاد ومحاربة الفساد والقضاء علي التهميش والجوع.كما زاد من الشعور بالارتياح تأكيد ومطالبة ربيكا أرملة قرنق في كلمة ألقتها في أثناء مراسم تشييع جنازة زوجها في جوبا كبري مدن الجنوب, قادة الحركة المعنية بتنفيذ اتفاق السلام دون تعديل وتناسي ماحدث والتفكير في المستقبل, وقالت بلهجة قوية ومتماسكة: لن أكون قد فقدت زوجي إذا ما ظلت الأطراف متمسكة بالسلام وحافظت عليه.. القادة يأتون ويذهبون وتبقي رؤاهم وأفكارهم.. قرنق أرادكم ويريدكم موحدين.. وطالبت الشعب بالتمسك بالوحدة والمجتمع الدولي بدعم عملية السلام والحكومة بمحاربة الفساد والقضاء علي الفقر وإعطاء المرأة والطفل حقوقهما.عودة الهدوءوفي الخرطوم عاد الهدوء إلي الشوارع بعد أسبوع من أحداث الشغب والتخريب التي اعقبت مصرع الدكتور جون قرنق.وقال الدكتور نافع علي نافع نائب أمين الحزب الحاكم إن أعمال الشغب التي شهدتها السودان خلال الفترة الأخيرة وراءها جهات تتربص بالسلام وتمت بدون علم المؤتمر الوطني والحركة الشعبية. وأضاف أن الأحداث لم تكن عفوية بدليل أنها استهدفت مناطق رسمية, فضلا عن أن مجموعات المخربين تم نقلهم في عربات إلي المناطق المستهدفة بالتخريب.تحذير أمريكييأتي ذلك في الوقت الذي دعت فيه الولايات المتحدة رعاياها إلي عدم السفر إلي السودان بسبب التهديدات الإرهابية المتواصلة الموجهة ضد المصالح الأمريكية والغربية بعد مصرع جون قرنق. وذكرت وزارة الخارجية الأمريكية في بيان لها أمس أن الولايات المتحدة حصلت علي معلومات حول تهديدات إرهابية موجهة ضد المصالح الأمريكية والغربية في السودان. وأوضح البيان أن الأعمال الإرهابية قد تكون عمليات انتحارية أو تفجيرات أو عمليات خطف.ودعا البيان المواطنين الأمريكيين إلي أن يدركوا خطر الاستهداف العشوائي للأهداف المدنية في الأماكن العامة ومنها المواقع السياحية والأماكن المعروفة بتجمع الغربيين فيها أو تلك المرتبطة بعمليات تجارية لها صلة بمصالح أمريكية أو غربية.وأكد البيان أن الحكومة الأمريكية قلقة جدا بشأن سلامة الطيران في السودان.
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جثمان قرنق جال على مدن التمرد قبل دفنه في جوبا اليوم وموسيفيني يطرح احتمال أن لا يكون تحطم الطائرة «حادثاً»...أرملة قرنق لمناصريه: إذا كان هو قضيتكم فقد صار جثة... وإذا كانت قضيتكم التهميش فتمسكوا باتفاق السلام
الخرطوم - فايز السليك الحياة - 06/08/05//
يوارى جثمان النائب الأول للرئيس السوداني زعيم «الحركة الشعبية لتحرير السودان» جون قرنق في مدينة جوبا الجنوبية اليوم وسط حضور دولي واقليمي وسوداني كبير. وفي حين قال الرئيس الأوغندي يويري موسيفيني ان تحطم المروحية التي كانت تقل قرنق «قد لا يكون» ناجماً عن حادث، قال مراقبون ان رحيل الزعيم الجنوبي يترك اسئلة معلقة حول مصير السلام ومستقبل الوحدة الوطنية لأكبر دول القارة السمراء في وقت يزداد فيه التوتر والهواجس من انفجار أحداث عنف جديدة كالتي حصلت في الأيام الأخيرة في الخرطوم ومدن أخرى وأوقعت مئات القتلى والجرحى بين الشماليين والجنوبيين.
ورفعت السلطات السودانية من درجات التأهب في الخرطوم وجوبا، عاصمة الجنوب، حيث ينتشر نحو 20 ألف جندي في هذه المدينة التي سيوارى فيها جثمان قرنق. وسيشارك في مراسم التشييع الرئيس عمر البشير والرئيس الأوغندي يويري موسيفيني ورئيس جنوب افريقيا ثابو أمبيكي ونائب رئيس نيجيريا ومبعوثون من الأمم المتحده بينهم يان برونك ووزيرة التعاون الدولي السويدية هيلدا يونسون والمبعوثة الكندية مينا جعفر ومسؤولون أميركيون وبريطانيون. كما يُتوقع مشاركة الأمين العام لجامعة الدول العربية السيد عمرو موسى.
وفي وقت تم الطواف بجثمان الزعيم الجنوبي الذي قُتل السبت بتحطم طائرته الأوغندية مساء السبت في جنوب السودان، في مدن نيوسايت وبور وياي ورمبيك والكرمك، علمت «الحياة» ان مئات السياسيين الشماليين ومناصري قرنق توجهوا الى جوبا على متن طائرات خاصة، فيما يصل البشير ومرافقوه اليوم الى مقر تشييع الجثمان.
وبدت ريبيكا قرنق، رفيقة الزعيم الراحل لأكثر من ثلاثين عاماً بينها اثنان وعشرون عاماً في أدغال الجنوب، متماسكة حين خاطبت مودعي زوجها بقولها: «قرنق زاركم كثيراً على رجليه، وهو يصلكم اليوم محمولاً على الأكتاف. فإن كانت قضيتكم هي قرنق، فهو الآن جثة هامدة. وإن كانت قضيتكم هي التهميش فتمسكوا باتفاق السلام واحرصوا على تطبيقه». ونفت ريبيكا ان يكون قرنق قُتل نتيجة لعمل اجرامي، قائلة ان «زوجي مثل (...) أكمل مهمته وحان وقت رحيله».
وتحرك جثمان قرنق عبر المدن التي كانت لفترات طويلة رمز نضاله، على متن طائرة بريطانية الصنع وسط 200 من جنوده. وكان لافتاً - على رغم هدوء الأحوال في الخرطوم - أن السودانيين يعيشون لحظات من الخوف والتوجس من اندلاع أحداث عنف جديدة في العاصمة بعد اكتمال مراسم الدفن. وسارعت الحكومة باعلان السبت عطلة رسمية في كل أنحاء البلاد لإعطاء السودانيين الفرصة للمشاركة في مراسم التشييع التي سينقلها مباشرة على الهواء التلفزيون الرسمي.
ويرى مراقبون ان رحيل قرنق «قد يترك فراغاً من الصعب ملؤه، إذ عُرف الرجل بقوة الشكيمة والعزيمة والذكاء وسعة الأفق وسرعة البديهة وخفة الدم وروح النكتة»، كما قال أحد الذين عرفوه لفترة طويلة. وشكل قرنق رمزاً للنضال على مدى 22 عاماً خاض خلالها حرباً ضد الحكومة المركزية وتمكن من استقطاب مئات الالاف ليس فقط من الجنوبيين بل أيضاً من الشماليين والمسلمين الى صفوف جيشه الذي بدأ الحرب في الجنوب ثم نقل القتال الى جبال النوبة والنيل الأزرق والشرق. ومنذ ان انضم قرنق الى «التجمع الوطني الديموقراطي» متحالفاً في المعارضة مع القوى الشمالية والإسلامية، أصبح يُنظر اليه بوصفه رجلاً قومياً ومحل اجماع وطني، حتى بشهادة الزعيم الإسلامي الدكتور حسن الترابي ألد خصومه في السابق والذي نظم «الجهاد» ضده حين وصول الرئيس البشير الى السلطة في انقلاب العام 1989.
وبرز قرنق بوصفه رجل سلام ووحدة حين قاد بنفسه مفاوضات نيفاشا في أيلول
(سبتمبر) 2003 ووقع اتفاق السلام مع الخرطوم في كانون الثاني (يناير) الماضي منهياً بذلك أطول الحروب الأهلية في افريقيا. وهو تولى في التاسع من تموز (يوليو) منصب النائب الأول للرئيس لمدة 22 يوماً فقط ليصبح أول جنوبي يتولى هذا المنصب الرفيع في السودان.
وبرحيله يرى مراقبون ان فرص الوحدة ربما تتضاءل وان السلام في السودان أصبح مهدداً. لكنهم يلفتون الى ان ما يطمئن هو ان الزعيم الجديد لـ «الحركة الشعبية» سالفا كير ميارديت أكد تمسكه باتفاق السلام الذي وقعه سلفه قرنق. وأصدر الرئيس البشير مرسوماً يعيّن بموجبه كير نائباً له، في المنصب الذي كان يشغله الراحل قرنق.
موسيفيني
ونقلت وكالة «فرانس برس» عن الرئيس الأوغندي موسيفيني قوله في مدينة ياي (جنوب السودان) حيث تجمع آلاف السودانيين لالقاء النظرة الأخيرة على جثمان النائب الأول السابق للرئيس السوداني: «يقول البعض انه حادث، قد يكون الأمر كذلك وقد يكون شيئاً آخر»، مضيفاً ان «كل الاحتمالات وارد».
وأكد موسيفيني: «قررنا تشكيل لجنة تحقيق دولية في السودان» مؤلفة من اوغندا وكينيا والولايات المتحدة وكندا وروسيا.
وتفيد الرواية الرسمية حتى الآن ان جون قرنق قضى في تحطم المروحية الرئاسية الاوغندية «ام اي-72» التي كانت تقله الى جنوب السودان مع 13 شخصاً اخرين بعد اصطدامها بجبال جنوب السودان نتيجة سوء الاحوال الجوية.
وأعلن موسيفيني «ان المروحية كانت مجهزة جيداً، انها مروحيتي التي كنت اتنقل بها دائما لكنني لا استبعد أي احتمال». واضاف «قد يكون الطيار أصيب بالذعر وربما كانت الرياح جانبية أو اصيبت أجهزة قيادة المروحية بخلل او ان هناك سبباً خارجياً»، مؤكداً «ان التحقيق سيشمل كل هذه الاحتمالات».
ورفض الجنرال سالفا كيير الذي خلف جون قرنق على رأس «الحركة الشعبية» التعليق على تصريحات موسيفيني. وقال كيير للمراسلين: «كل الاحتمالات وارد ولا يجب استبعاد أي منها».
وكان الرئيس موسيفيني والنائب الاول الجديد للرئيس السوداني سلفا كير القيا النظرة الأخيرة على جثمان الزعيم الجنوبي قرنق لدى مروره في ياي جنوب السودان أمس.
وجلس موسيفيني وكير برفقة قرينتيهما في الصف الأول من الحضور الى جانب وفد اميركي ترأسه مساعدة وزيرة الخارجية لافريقيا كونستانس نيومان والممثل الخاص للسودان رودجير وينتر.
ورفع آلاف الاشخاص الصلوات وهم يجهشون بالبكاء لدى استقبال الجثمان الى وسط ياي في ساحة الحرية. وياي هي احدى المدن الرمزية للحرب التي شنها «الجيش الشعبي» بقيادة قرنق. وعام 1997 استولى «الجيش الشعبي» على هذه المدينة الاستراتيجية بسبب قربها من العاصمة التاريخية جوبا حيث سيوارى قرنق الثرى اليوم السبت.
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Museveni Remarks Upset Sudan
New Vision (Kampala)
August 7, 2005
Posted to the web August 7, 2005
Steven Candia and Agencies
THE Sudan government is upset with President Yoweri Museveni's Friday remarks on the death of John Garang. It has urged Uganda to stop making "baseless statements" over the death of Garang, the Sudanese Vice-President, when investigations into the cause of the crash are still on going.
Museveni told thousands of mourners in the southern Sudanese town of Yei on Friday that the helicopter crash that killed Garang and 13 others may not have been an accident, contrary to official explanations.
Shortly after Museveni's remarks, Sudanese Information Minister Abdulbaset Sebdarat said the Khartoum government was "very upset" by Museveni's remarks.
Garang was killed in a July 31 helicopter crash, less than a month after becoming Sudan's new First Vice-President under a landmark January peace deal that ended a 22-year north-south civil war.
The Sudanese minister said that Khartoum was bothered by Museveni's statements because the Ugandan authorities had alerted Khartoum that the helicopter went missing "more than 12 hours later."
"He knows that the plane was Ugandan, its staff was also Ugandan and it departed from his country," the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) quoted the minister as saying.
"The Ugandan President also knows that the government had formed a fact-finding committee to investigate the crash incident with the participation of Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM)," he said.
The committee was due to kick off investigations on Saturday after Garang's burial, he added. "We urge the Ugandan government to give us any available information immediately," Sebdarat said.
Earlier in the day, the Sudanese Acting Foreign Minister Mustafa, Othman Ismail, said neither the Sudanese government nor SPLM were accusing anyone of involvement in any foul play that led to the crash.
"Some people say accident, it may be an accident, it may be something else," Museveni said, suggesting for the first time that the crash of his presidential helicopter, in which Garang was riding, may have been the result of foul play.
"I am looking at all options," he told a crowd of thousands of mourning southern Sudanese in Yei where Garang's body was brought as part of a funeral procession before his burial in Juba.
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© IRIN
John Garang
NAIROBI, 4 Aug 2005 (IRIN) - At least 130 people have been killed in three days of violence in Khartoum and other Sudanese towns following the death of First Vice President John Garang in a helicopter crash, the Sudanese Red Crescent reported on Thursday.
Leaders were calling on the Sudanese people to stay calm in an effort to contain violence that started on Monday.
"In Khartoum, 111 people are confirmed dead by the Sudanese Red Crescent, while 345 people were injured and evacuated from the scenes of violence," Paul Conneally, communication coordinator for the International Committee of the Red Cross, said on Thursday.
The death toll, he added, was expected to rise given the high number of those injured.
In a national address on Wednesday, President Umar al-Bashir called on the Sudanese people to exercise vigilance and self-restraint, the Sudanese news agency reported.
He also issued a decree establishing a national committee - in cooperation with the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) - to investigate the causes of the helicopter crash that occurred near the Ugandan border.
Nhial Deng Nhial, senior leader of the SPLM/A, said in a statement his movement considered the violence a direct threat to peace. He called for fortitude and wisdom in resolving and containing "these irresponsible actions".
"We would like to express, in the strongest possible terms, our total rejection of all the destruction and the infringement on the lives and properties of peaceful citizens," he said.
Jan Pronk, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Sudan, told reporters in Khartoum that while many people were angry and frustrated over Garang’s death, there was no need for rioting and that they should stop.
"I call on everybody, the opinion leaders, the police, the leaders of the communities, on fathers and mothers at home, also on young people who are leaders amongst themselves, to come to their senses," Pronk said.
Garang's wife, Rebecca, said in a statement carried by the Wednesday edition of the Khartoum Monitor: "If they loved him, they should remain calm and carry on with his vision. It is John Garang who is dead. The vision should be kept alive."
The Khartoum suburbs of Hajj Yusuf, Omdurman and Fithi Hab, and Kalatla and Mayo camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs), were the most unstable areas of the city while the centre of the capital seemed relatively calm, Conneally noted.
"The Sudanese Red Crescent is doing an excellent job and have more than 100 volunteers working in neighbourhoods and IDP camps where the violence was most intense," Conneally noted.
"The military are deployed in most of these areas and the police is fully deployed all over Khartoum," he added.
The governor of Khartoum State, Abd-al-Halim Ismail al-Mutaafi announced on Wednesday that the security authorities had detained over 1,450 people on suspicion of involvement in the acts of violence that rocked Khartoum.
In the southern town of Juba, the Sudanese Red Crescent had confirmed that 13 people were killed and 20 injured, Conneally said. The capital of Upper Nile State, Malakal, counted six dead and 37 injured.
"The situation in Juba calmed down somewhat," a local source said on Thursday. "Although there is still sporadic shooting and fighting - at night - and heavy military presence in the streets."
"On Monday, the situation was very explosive," he added. "The sky was all black with oily smoke, there was shooting, and they burned down the two main markets in Juba."
Garang's sudden death has raised fears, especially among southern Sudanese, that the commitments made in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) to end the 21-year civil war between Garang’s SPLM/A and the Sudanese government, could be jeopardized, analysts said.
Pronk said he was pleased with the reactions of the government of Sudan and the SPLM/A and their desire to continue with the implementation of the CPA.
He noted that the fact that there was no jockeying for power within the SPLM following Garang’s death was a very good sign of the maturity of the SPLM/A.
The SPLM nominated Salva Kiir Mayardit as its new chairman and proposed him for appointment as the new First Vice-President of Sudan. Pronk said Kiir had been with Garang from the beginning, and was - as a military commander- well respected in both the north and the south.
"He is the right choice," Pronk said.
Garang died on Saturday en-route to southern Sudan from Uganda, following a meeting with President Yoweri Museveni. Sixteen other people who were travelling with him in the Ugandan military helicopter also died.
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About Darfur
SUDAN: Interview with UN Special Representative Jan Pronk
[ This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations]
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Jan Pronk, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Sudan
NYALA, 4 Aug 2005 (IRIN) - The Sudan government signed a Declaration of Principles (DoP) on 5 July with two rebel groups, the Sudanese Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A) and Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), raising hopes for a swift political settlement of the conflict in the western region of Darfur.
However, major challenges remain before Darfur can enjoy peace, Jan Pronk, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Sudan, told IRIN in an interview in Nyala, the capital of South Darfur State, on 31 August. Below are excerpts from the interview:
QUESTION: What is your assessment of the current humanitarian and security situation in Darfur?
ANSWER: The humanitarian situation has improved, if you compare it with what prevailed when the UN became actively involved in mid-2004. At that time mortality was high. The mortality went down below the usual critical threshold. Many people are now in camps as IDPs [internally displaced persons] and a lot of humanitarian assistance is being provided: food, water, sanitation, health assistance, nutrition.
I am worried whether that will continue, because we are very much dependent on foreign resources and the situation is quite fragile. I cannot guarantee that it will remain so until the end of this year. Of course, you should never be satisfied because it is the [humanitarian] situation - in camps. Outside the camps it is very difficult, because food security has gone down and there is not much agricultural production any more because of the war. So more and more people in Darfur become dependent on foreign assistance. That is not a healthy situation.
The security situation has changed. There is no longer war between the government and the SLM/A. There is a ceasefire that is not breached to a great extent. Secondly, the Janjawid is attacking but to a lesser extent. There is no mass slaughter of African tribes. Most of them have fled their villages already, but still there are a lot of villages that are not being attacked on a mass scale. [But] you see still quite a number of people killed per month at the moment - about 100 persons - due to violence. To a great extent it is banditry, #####ng, crime, which goes hand-in-hand with a no-peace-no-war situation.
It is a much too high figure However [it is] 10 to 20 times as low per month as it used to be before the UN came in and the African Union [AU] sent in troops as requested by the Security Council, to Darfur. It is fragile - not secure - but better.
Q: What are the prospects for peace and what, in your view, is needed to reach a sustainable peace on the ground?
A: Peace has to be negotiated. It is a political solution to a conflict. Negotiations started in August last year, following the ceasefire agreement. These went up and down [and were] very difficult - four rounds with hardly any progress. The fifth round, which took place in June in Abuja, Nigeria, was much more successful. There was a breakthrough agreement on a DoP, which would be the guideline for the rest of the talks.
In my view, it would be possible to finish the talks before the end of the year. It might be possible to get sustainable peace before the end of 2005. But very difficult issues still have to be discussed: the sharing of power, sharing of wealth, decentralisation of powers, what to do with land ownership questions, etcetera.
It is not necessary to deal with every issue that is on the table, because it is a matter of an agreement, peace, between parties who are fighting - and not everybody is fighting. There is a group of Arab tribes and African tribes that does not participate in the war. And there is civil society. They have to be involved in all the talks and can be put on the agenda after the peace agreement. The peace agreement could be seen as the agreement to approach all the remaining problems peacefully. That means a two of three stages approach. It is possible, but difficult, because the government, now, is under a lot of pressure to be flexible in the talks and they do respond to the pressure. But, the other side, the rebel movements, are quite divided amongst themselves.
The commanders in the field do not listen very easily to their diplomatic and political leaders. That is one of the big problems: the capacity to negotiate by the other side. And the question whether there is a real political will on the side of the rebels to solve problems politically, rather than by fighting. They are betting on two horses. I think that the situation has changed due to that possibility to reach agreement on the DoP.
Q: Many SLA rebel commanders in the field in North and South Darfur are quite skeptical about peace and paint a grim picture of continued attacks and mistrust at the local level. Is there a disconnect between political aspirations for peace on the one hand and the reality of continued violence on the ground in Darfur, on the other?
A: That disconnect has always been there. The commanders do not trust their own political and diplomatic leaders. Through pressure and arguing, it is necessary to connect them with each other, which is not easy. Some of the leaders are jockeying for power. They are not in the field; they are outside. They are also being used, by a number of countries, it is very difficult to resist. They go from one to the other workshop, conference, wherever in the world. The commanders in the field see that happening and think they are not very well represented by their own leaders. And they also do have some private differences amongst themselves - some. Some people have been told: "If you fight, you get some outside support". But the same countries who made such risky statements will have to tell these people in the field: "If you fight, you won’t get any support any more from us; you have to participate in the political dialogue".
Many commanders are young, not experienced and are willing to take the risk and feel themselves much more comfortable in a fighting situation than in a political negotiation solution. They have not only a grudge, but a very legitimate claim: Darfur has been neglected, economically and socially. Culturally, also, in terms of many of the particular African tribes. And the slaughter, the ethnic cleansing which has taken place was so dramatic that it will be very difficult for leaders to change their own attitudes.
Q: In South Darfur, humanitarian organisations complain about harassment. How serious is it and how does it affect their operations and their willingness to speak out about certain human rights issues?
A: I think that this is not a very general feature. There are some forces in Darfur, who are harassing foreigners, NGOS, the UN, etcetera. They don’t like the international community taking up their issue. But that is not the mainstream. The government and the authorities in Darfur gave in to international pressure and they are willing to cooperate. There are many forces within Sudan who are having their problems with that new attitude of the government themselves. So it is not governmental harassment of NGOs and the UN; it is harassment by, let me call it, circles around military intelligence, which makes life quite difficult.
NGOs and others should understand that they are living here in an undemocratic society where there are many forces in the dark. They should understand that if they are being harassed, that it is not always the result of official policy and instructions coming from Khartoum.
Q: In his latest report on Darfur to the UN Security Council, Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, mentioned there was "little evidence of any serious efforts by the government of Sudan to disarm the Janjawid". Why is it so difficult, why is there so little progress, in this respect, when it is such an important issue?
A: They never wanted to do it, they can’t do it. They have a different understanding of [who make up] the Janjawid from the international community. And then the IDPs call everybody Janjawid. The government has indeed taken some steps to, for instance, disarm the officially mobilised persons in the Popular Defense Force.
They, through talks, also tried to control - with some success - militias which have stayed closely related to Arab tribes, in a reconciliation process. They do not control the real Janjawid, who they call outlaws, who they cannot stop, they say. Not at this particular time, because it's military is not allowed - by the international community - to take action. We do not want the military to become active, because [of] everything that happened. But they say, if we can’t use the military - our police are not strong enough. To a certain extent, it is a pretext. They are also saying "we only want to disarm them when the other party -the rebels- is being disarmed".
That is understandable, but it was not a condition, which had been accepted by the international community. The Security Council, has said, a couple of times, "you have to disarm". And that’s what we say: you have to disarm them. They didn’t do enough.
We need more AU troops to stop the Janjawid. We also need to talk, at a certain moment, with Arab tribes, who do have control over their militia, including the Janjawid, in order to address some of the concerns of these Arab tribes, because they also have concerns, which are being used as a legitimisation, by these groups, to take up arms.
It is a major problem, because the militia, the Janjawid, are ruthless. They don’t accept any international law, humanitarian law, whatsoever. They go, they kill. That is worse than any SLA or JEM rebel group, which always has a political aim. They kill, but chose their targets. They don’t go to kill innocent women, children and elderly people. They don’t go to kill civilians. That is what the Janjawid does, in order to have a terror-feeling, so that people flee. And that is, in my view, part of their ethnic cleansing policy.
Q: Aid agencies report that rape continues to occur on a large scale. What is being done about it?
A: There is the well-known problem of rape in Darfur; it is still prevailing. Many people in the government are in a state of denial, rape is taboo, they don’t want to talk about it, so they try to create the impression that it doesn’t exit. It does, it does.
It is an instrument of war, also, by the Janjawid-type of militia. It has to be addressed by the government - with the help of the AU and the UN - the government has to develop a policy. We are going very slow. They put down a new policy, which is good, in order to help any of the victims of rape. To, also, bring people - if they are known; who are rapists - to court, is not yet been accepted by all authorities throughout Darfur.
So it is a problem, quite a big problem, because it is the most vulnerable group which is affected. If there would be really acceptance and recognition of this major violation of human rights, the government could do more than it has done so far.
Q: There have been some reports about involuntary relocations and return movements? How large is the problem?
A: Returns ought to be voluntary. There is no indication whatsoever that, after the talks which we did have with the government - whereby we stopped their forced returns policy. Last year that changed. The government accepts it. They paid some money to Sheikhs to tell the people "why don’t we go home". Some people followed that. That is not enforced. People have the choice to stay and most people stayed.
Relocation is a different issue. There are camps which are unhealthy and which are totally insecure, where parts of the camps have been flooded. The government wants to have better sites. It is difficult to find sites, because of the land ownership. The government is not going to be strong vis-à-vis those landowners. They have found some other sites and they want some people to relocate to other places - I mean tens of thousands of people, part of two million IDPs. It has to take place that is also the view of the UN, but in a smooth manner and in consultation. There is not often consultation, or not often consultation until the very end, because there is a lot of resistance. In particular, because IDPs are afraid that relocations are the start of return. That is not the case, but it is difficult of course to convince them after everything that has happened.
There have been some relocations, again, recently, which took place without proper consultation with the international community. People were just loaded on trucks and brought to another place. But the other place is also not safe and not pleasant for these people because they are uprooted. There is of course the right of any government to decide where IDPs ought to be located. We do exactly the same in all western countries. We have a discussion with them in order to bring them to better consultation. That sometimes does have a success and then, after a while, they fall into the old habit. But we talk again, and again.
Q: What is the most pressing concern in Darfur right now and what should be done to address it?
A: There is no one thing more important than another: everything is dependent on each other. More security on the ground makes it possible to have better talks. Talks are necessary to get peace and security. That is necessary in order to have a better approach to all remaining problems. Humanitarian assistance has to continue, otherwise you slide backwards. I hardly dare to call one thing more important than the other: it is a comprehensive problem, a comprehensive conflict, and needs a comprehensive approach.
There is also a relation with the other conflicts in the country. Different wars: north-south, that war is over. The east, they influence each other [and] it is very complicated. Peace between north and south has indeed changed the whole climate. If that peace lasts, then it augurs well for a political solution in eastern and western Sudan.
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Tributes have been paid to former rebel leader John Garang at his funeral in southern Sudan, attended by thousands of mourners including African leaders.
President Omar al-Bashir pledged that Sudan's peace process would be implemented to the letter.
Mr Garang died three weeks after he became vice-president as part of a deal to end decades of conflict. His death sparked riots that left 130 dead.
An independent investigation into the cause of the crash is to be launched.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, who owned the helicopter Mr Garang was travelling in, said on Friday that the cause was not clear.
For more than 20 years, Mr Garang led the southern rebels in a civil war against the government and was seen as a symbol of hope by many in the south.
Crowds
Mr Garang's body arrived in the main southern town of Juba on Saturday after being taken to a number of towns in the mainly Christian and animist south to allow thousands to pay their respects.
The airport was guarded by a mix of soldiers from Mr Garang's Sudan People's Liberation Army and their former enemies, Khartoum-based elite Sudanese government special forces.
An honour guard carried the coffin off the plane as dignitaries looked on.
Mourners with black flags lined the streets from the airport and large crowds gathered outside Juba's main church for the open-air funeral.
Mr Garang's successor, Salva Kiir, assured mourners that the ex-rebel leader's vision of peace would not be allowed to perish.
"As sure as day follows night, the torch he has kindled shall not be extinguished. Not under my command," Mr Kiir said.
Mr Garang's widow Rebecca spoke of her pride in her husband, and urged people to remain united behind the peace accord.
The BBC's Peter Greste says burial in Juba, which Mr Garang's rebels tried but failed to take from rebel forces during the conflict, is a hugely symbolic move.
However in recent days thousands of Arab northerners have left Juba after riots destroyed many of the town's mostly Arab-owned shops and businesses.
'Iron hand'
Mr Garang steered the rebels through a bloody war against the Islamic government in Khartoum, which left at least 1.5 million people dead.
Garang fought for more than 20 years
He ruled the group with an iron hand, imprisoning or killing anyone who threatened to stand in his way.
But he managed to keep the disparate movement together, despite many disagreements.
The conflict in Sudan ended with the signing of a peace agreement in January and Mr Garang became vice-president in a new government of national unity.
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Bodies of Ugandan crew in Garang’s crash to be sent back from Sudan
Monday 8 August 2005 08:52
KAMPALA, Aug, 2005 8 (Xinhua) — Ugandan Minster of Internal Affairs Ruhakana Ruganda has said that the bodies of seven Ugandans who perished in the helicopter crash with John Garang on July 30 are expected to be sent back from Sudan on Monday.
Minister Ruganda was quoted by the state-owned newspaper, The New Vision, as saying on Monday that he was returning to help with investigation into the crash.
The Ugandan presidential helicopter Garang was traveling in went down in bad weather in mountainous terrain.
Garang, Sudanese first vice president and chairman of southern Sudan, was buried in Juba, the regional capital in southern Sudan, on Saturday, but since the crash the bodies of the seven Ugandan crew have not been returned home.
Officials from Uganda’s State House and the ministries of defense, works and internal affairs were meeting on Sunday to draw a full program of preparations to honor and bury the crew, according to a report here on Monday.
The New Vision reported that fifty-six Ugandan officials, including nine ministers and eight MPs and the army commander, joined thousands at the funeral of Garang in Juba on Saturday.
"President Yoweri Museveni, who on Friday expressed uncertainty about the cause of the crash, did not attend the burial. It was the Second Deputy Prime Minister, Henry Kajura, who led the Ugandan delegation that handed over the Ugandan condolence message to the Sudanese leader, Omar Al-Bashir. The delegation flew to Juba in three chartered planes," the report said.
Meanwhile, Sudanese Ambassador to Uganda Hassan Ibrahim Gadkorim has apologized for his government’s delay to release the bodies.
"We had a lot of confusion as a result of Dr. Garang’s untimely death. Now that Garang has been buried, the bodies will soon be flown home," said the Sudanese ambassador while addressing thousands of Sudanese and Ugandan mourners in Kampala on Saturday
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