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Sudan forces arrest top Darfur militia chief
[Al Ahram] Sudan's counter-insurgency forces have tossed in the slammerYouse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! a powerful militia chief from Darfur accused by the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... of human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... abuses in the war-torn region, the official news agency said Monday. The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) arrested Musa Hilal, a former aide to President Omar al-Bashir  Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to ArabizeDarfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it. , near his hometown of Mustariaha in the state of North Darfur, SUNA reported State Minister of Defence Lieutenant General Ali Mohammed Salem as saying. The state minister said Hilal's son Habeeb was also detained, but did not specify when exactly the arrests took place. "They were arrested after festivities in the area but the security situation there is now stable," Mohammed Salem said in a statement to parliament. "They will soon be brought to Khartoum." On Sunday, fierce fighting erupted between fighters loyal to Hilal and an RSF unit near Mustariaha, in which the RSF said they lost 10 members including a commander. Mustariaha is the hometown and bastion of Hilal, whose fighters from the Arab Mahamid tribe have regularly clashed with RSF troops in Darfur in recent months. Posted by: Fred 2017-11-28 |
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