SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Radio Dabanga - SPLM-N: ‘National identity primary cause of wars in Sudan’

28/12/2019: Radio Dabanga - SPLM-N: ‘National identity primary cause of wars in Sudan’

Radio Dabanga reports on the insights presented by faction leader of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N El Hilu), Abdelaziz El Hilu at the University of Khartoum

El Hilu said:

-National identity is the primary cause of conflict in Sudan.

-Sudanese elites have not learned from past mistakes of insisting on coercive unity by “imposing” Arab-Islamic identity.

-The Darfur war is due to western Sudanese having different identity to central government in Khartoum.

-The proposed Constitutional Conference “merely represents the elite”

-Past peace talks and transitional administrations were wasted by elites.

-National unity is threatened by mass displacement, systematic persecution against specific groups, civil wars, lack of human rights, economic deteroriation and external interference.

-Self-determination and secularism remain primary obstacles during the current peace talks.