From: Biniam Haile \(SWE\) (eritrea.lave@comhem.se)
Date: Sun May 24 2009 - 02:39:38 EDT
Eritrean president slams former eastern Sudan rebels
Sunday 24 May 2009 05:00.
May 23, 2009 (KHARTOUM) - The Eritrean President said former rebels of
eastern Sudan should be held accountable of problems encountering the
implementation of a peace deal they signed with the government.
On October 14, 2006, Sudanese government and East Front rebels, composed
of the Beja Congress and Free Lions, signed in Asmara a peace accord
brokered by the Eritrean government and is aimed at ending a 12-year
armed conflict.
The leaders of the former rebel East Sudan Front are to be held
responsible of the failures in the implementation of Asmara Agreement,
said President Isaias Afwerki in an interview with two Sudanese news
papers today published in the Eritrean government official website.
"The problem should be properly studied and identified, and thus
resolved in a constructive manner," he added.
However President Isaias underscored the readiness of his government to
contribute to the resolution of the differences between the former
rebels and facilitate the full implementation of the accord that Eritrea
sponsored.
Since the signing of the Asmara Agreement, there were differences, and
dissidences between the factions of the former rebel group which
includes Beja and Rashaidiya tribes.
In August 2008 Amna Dirar, a senior member of the Eastern Front, and a
presidential adviser issued a statement suspending the membership of the
chairman of the former rebel group Musa Mohamed Ahmed who is also a
presidential assistant.
She accused him of trying to concentrate power in the Beja Congress and
using the conference to form policies that would then be pushed through
the coalition Eastern Front party.
Last week the Eritrean President slammed the former rebel Sudan People's
Liberation Movement which is the ruling party in southern Sudan.
President Afwerki denounced the corruption in southern Sudan and its
unclear vision toward the unity or the establishment of an independent
country in southern Sudan.
Eritrea in the past supported the SPLM and the Eastern Sudan Front in
their war against the Islamist government in Khartoum which had backed
the Islamist Eritreans.
Source: Sudan Tribune
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