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Sudan’s SPLM sues Islamist daily for promoting hatred

Nov 24, 2006 (KHARTOUM) — Sudanese former rebel SPLM has sued an Islamist newspaper for promoting religious and racial hatred against the party in the country, a party official said.

The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement has said that it filed a case against the Arabic daily newspaper Al-Intibaha yesterday, accusing the paper of reporting stories that mobilize the public against the movement by promoting religious and racial sentiments to create ‘sedition’, SPLM secretary in Khartoum Paul Deng said in a press conference on Tuesday 22 November.

Deng told the Juba post that such sentiments would not help maintain the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, (CPA) pointing out that the newspaper is printing letters written by individuals from the ruling National Congress Party (NCP), which express opinions that conflict with the Interim National Constitution.

He appealed to the NCP’s leaders to stop making comments in the paper if they want their partnership with the SPLM to continue.

SPLM commander and Yassir Jaffar, a member of the security and defense committee in the national assembly, said that Al-Intibaha is trying to create a media war between the SPLM and the NCP to sabotage both the CPA and the Darfur Peace Agreement.

He stated that a movement opposed to the Government of National Unity was behind the paper.

The paper previously reported that the SPLM office in Amarat was plotting to carry out attacks on the police in Jabal Awlia.

According to Jaffar, the paper is calling for southerners to be deported from the north: “Such calls will jeopardize national security “, he warned.

Agok Makur, SPLM secretary for state affairs, said all the newspapers should abide by the national constitution and should avoid writing on topics that might bring the country back to “square one” at this particular time, “as all political forces are engaged in unifying the ranks”.

(Juba Post)

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