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JEM Rejects Role in Darfur Peace Talks in Qatar

   Peter Clottey 01 August 2010
   A  2009  file  photo  of  Sudanese rebel Justice and Equality Movement
   (JEM)  leader  Khalil  Ibrahim  during a Darfur peace meeting in Doha,
   Qatar

Photo: AFP

   A  2009  file  photo  of  Sudanese rebel Justice and Equality Movement
   (JEM)  leader  Khalil  Ibrahim  during a Darfur peace meeting in Doha,
   Qatar

   The spokesman for the Darfur-based Justice and Equality Movement (JEM)
   says  his  group  has  rejected  an invitation to be part of the peace
   talks scheduled to resume Monday in Qatarās capital, Doha.

   Ahmed  Hussein  Adam  said  the  talks  will  do  nothing  to  end the
   escalating violence in the Darfur region.

   āJEM  is  not going to be part of that exercise which is going to take
   place in Doha because, like we said before, this is just a play. It is
   just  a p.r. (public relations) exercise for the regime that they want
   to  play  again. But, theĀ  crisis right now is that the government of
   Sudan  has  been  attacking our peopleā¦because they want to dismantle
   the IDP (Internally Displaced Person) camps to liquidate the course of
   the people of Darfur,ā Adam said.

   President  Omar  Hassan  Al-Bashirās government is scheduled to resume
   peace   talks   with   the  Liberty  and  Justice  Movement  (LJM),  a
   conglomerate of minor Darfur-based rebel groups in Doha.

   The  talks are aimed at finalizing a peace deal after the LJM recently
   signed a ceasefire agreement with President Bashirās government.

   JEMās spokesman Adam said the international community has the leverage
   to stop the ongoing atrocities in Darfur.

   āIf  they  (government) are serious about it, and if the international
   community is also serious about it, they have to stop what is going on
   there  (Darfur).  But,  actually  they  (government)  want  to  divert
   attention  from  what  is going on in Kalma and in the IDP camps right
   now in Darfur, in Nyala,ā Adam said.

   After  signing  a  peace  agreement  with  the  Sudanese government in
   February,  JEM  suspended further negotiations after accusing Khartoum
   of  continuing  attacks  on  its  positions  ā a charge the government
   denies.

   JEM  also  refused  to  participate in other peace talks involving LJM
   saying  the  government  in  Khartoum  is  not interested in finding a
   lasting solution to the Darfur crisis.

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