Darfur Rebel Group JEM Claims 22 New Top Rival Profiles
Sudanese News Updates
11 April 2009
Khartoum - A major Darfur rebel
group said 22 political and military leaders from a
rival faction joined its ranks on Friday, but a leader
of the faction denied any senior figures had defected.
Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) commander Suleiman
Sandal said the members of the Sudan Liberation Army's
Unity faction (SLA-Unity) who defected to his group
had brought with them fighters, supporters and
equipment.
"Five are political leaders and 17 (are) commanders,"
Sandal told Reuters via satellite phone from Darfur in
Sudan's west.
"They have joined JEM because they want to unify the
struggling in Darfur, and the Darfurian people cannot
achieve their demands when there are many factions and
fighting among them," Sandal added.
Sandal estimated that 90 percent of SLA-Unity's
personnel had switched allegiance to JEM, but a senior
member of the SLA-Unity faction denied anything more
than a small number of minor defections.
"This is not correct, it is really not correct," Said
Sharif told Reuters via phone from Tripoli in Libya.
"These people that left us are not leaders, they are
only soldiers," he said, putting the number at 19 and
saying they left two days ago.
Earlier this month, veteran rebel Suleiman Jamous left
the Unity faction and joined JEM to try to unify the
rebels.
JEM was the only Darfur rebel group invited to
February's peace talks with the Sudanese government in
Doha, but has said it will not attend further talks
until expelled aid groups are allowed to return to
Darfur and prisoners are freed.
International experts estimate 200 000 people have
died and 2.5 million have been driven from their homes
during almost six years of ethnic and politically
driven fighting in Sudan's west. Khartoum puts the
death toll at around 10 000.
The International Criminal Court issued an arrest
warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir
last month on charges of masterminding war crimes in
Darfur, and violence in Darfur has risen since the
indictment.
Sudan has also expelled 13 foreign aid groups and
closed three local organisations it accused of helping
build a war crimes case against the country's
president. - Reuters
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