SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Multiple sources – Sudanese Communist Party quits talks on power transfer in Sudan
1/8/19: Multiple sources – Sudanese Communist Party quits talks on power transfer in Sudan
Sudanese Communist Party Secretary-General Mohamed El Khateeb announced that the party has withdrawn from power-sharing negotiations with the military junta.
El Khateeb said that the political and constitutional power-sharing documents “stipulate the complete hegemony of the junta over the Sovereign Council,” citing the junta’s power to appoint the Ministers of Defence and the Interior to rule over Sudan’s security apparatus, and that the composition of the army will be changed by adding militias.
El Khateeb also said the the mission of the investigation report into the June 3 massacre, “was to blur the facts, and to attribute the crimes to unknown armed men and absolve the real perpetrators,”reiterating calls for an independent commission of inquiry under international and regional supervision.
He also called for the restructuring of the security apparatus, including the dismantling of the National Intelligence and Security Service and all government militias.