Minawi Movement Boycotts French Organization’s Workshop

Sudan Events – Follow-ups

The Sudan Liberation Movement/Army, led by Minni Arko Minawi, announced its boycott of the workshop held by the French organization Promition on the war in Sudan in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, with the participation of the Rapid Support Militia in it.
The movement said in a statement on Wednesday, that it had received an invitation from an organization to attend the workshop held in Cairo during January 23-25 ​​under the title Developments in the War in Sudan, in cooperation with the foreign ministries of France and Egypt, and that the movement’s delegation met with representatives of the organization and clarified its position on the events since April 15.
He stated that it appreciated the organization’s efforts to find a solution to the Sudanese crisis, the movement’s readiness to cooperate to achieve the goal, and appreciated Egypt’s efforts.
The movement indicated its neutral position at the beginning of the war based on the call to resort to wisdom and reason, but the Rapid Support went too far in expanding the scope of the war and committed grave crimes, including genocide against a specific ethnicity in El Geneina, in addition to killing, burning, looting, and rape in most of the cities it occupied.
The movement said that in light of these atrocities, the movement will not stand idly by, and noted that Sudan is going through a stage of “to be or not to be,” and any attempt to divide its case under the justification of delivering aid to Darfur or granting a special security status to El Fasher is a step to create pretexts to serve hidden agendas to tear it apart into mini-states, and that the movement refuses to transfer any aid across the western border because the Rapid Support has been transporting weapons and military equipment under this pretext.
The movement affirmed its adherence to the unity of Sudan and the sanctity of its sovereignty, and that it places its hand above the hand of the people, the national institution and the Sudanese Armed Forces to thwart any plan aimed at destabilizing the nation.
It announced that after leaving the neutrality station, it will participate in any ceasefire arrangements in the Jeddah negotiations, and there will be no coordination outside it.
The movement said that it seeks to include the item on human rights and violations against civilians as a fundamental issue in all current and upcoming negotiations, and holds the Rapid Support responsible for the crimes it has committed since April 15, and demands that everyone who committed a crime against the citizen be held accountable, before sitting with them as partners in workshops, especially such as the workshop in which the movement saw only the same group that lined up behind the Rapid Support in the name of (TAGADDUM) and obeyed its orders.” Consequently, the movement boycotted the workshop and was not concerned with its outcomes.