Tension In South Darfur After IDPs Return From Doha Talks

27 July 2010 - (Darfur) – The south Darfur government has arrested two suspects linked to the attack on IDP’s who attended peace negotiations at the Qatari capital Al-Doha this month.

The suspects are believed to have rejected the peace negotiations, venting their anger by attacking those who participated in the talks in Al-Doha.

The south Darfur deputy governor Abdulkarim Musa said there has been tension in Nyala town following the incident.

He spoke to SRS from Darfur on Monday.

[Abdulkarim Musa]: “An armed group exceeding 100 persons attacked those who came and participated at Al-Doha, they brought about all these riots and a lot of disturbances. But it seems two of the attackers or those who opposed the Al-Doha talks were arrested and handed to the relevant authorities inside the camp, who later handed them over to the judiciary.”

The spokesperson of the IDP’s, Chief Salah Abdallah who was in Al-Doha said the attacks are not tribal but rather between those against the Al-Doha talks and those supporting the negotiations.

Abdallah claims there was an attempt on his life by elements allied to Abdul Wahid’s faction.

[Salah Abdallah]: “I was attacked and those who attacked me belong to Abdul-Wahid Mohamed Nur faction. This group is opposing the peace talks at Al-Doha; I’m personally among the people in Kalma camp who were given the opportunity to attend the negotiations. I was at the peace process at Al-Doha representing the IDP’s. In fact when we arrived we received threats from a group in the Kalma camp, they represent movements rejecting the peace negotiations at Al-Doha. We were threatened, in fact this threats we received them on the 20th, and on the 22nd two people came carrying weapons, they tried to kill me.”

The leader of the Sudan Liberation Movement, Abdul Wahid Mohammed Al-Nur refuted the allegations in a telephone interview he gave to SRS from Paris on Sunday.

[Abdul Wahid Mohammed Al-Nur]: “The government brought five to ten out of 250,000 and took them to Al-Doha. They were given money. Their program is to create sedition inside the camp. Their operation is a failure and our people know their problem well. Nobody can deceive them, we in the SLM and I as the chairman of the movement, at Kalma camp, all of them are Darfurians. No one belongs to Abdul Wahid all of them have the same course."

The leader of the Sudan Liberation Movement, Abdul Wahid Mohammed Al-Nur was speaking to SRS from Paris.