SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Sudan Tribune - Arman criticizes calls for self-determination by SPLM-N al-Hilu

28/10/19: Sudan Tribune - Arman criticizes calls for self-determination by SPLM-N al-Hilu

 Sudan Tribune reports that Yasir Arman, the deputy leader of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement led by Malik Agar (SPLM-N Agar) has criticised calls for self-determination made by the SPLM-N faction of Abdel Aziz al-Hilu.

 Arman said that al-Hilu’s demands for self-determination on an ethnic basis “that differentiates the local population on criteria other than the right of citizenship… leads to protracted ethnic wars.”

 He further said that South Kordofan and the Blue Nile state have Arab and non-Arab tribes that do not claim self-determination, and that the  Nuba ethnic groups that played an important role in unifying Sudan would not support the idea, as many of them now live outside the Nuba Mountains.

 Arman stressed that al-Hilu’s “divisive” demands for self-determination undermines the vision for a “new Sudan.”