AL-QADHDHAFI ARRIVES IN 'SISTERLY SUDAN'

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Sisterly FA 1944 Tripoli JANA in English dhdhi 1840 GMT 9 Sep 86
LD032221 Tripoli JANA in Arabic
1805 GMT 3 Sep 86
[Text] Tripoli, 3 Sep (JANA) - The constituent conference of
[Text] Khartoum, Muharam 5, Shahr al Fateh 9, Jamahiri
the nucleus of the Arab Revolutionary Committee movement in
News Agency - At noon today, the leader of the revolut
Lebanon ended its work yesterday and issued the following
arrived in the Sudanese capital Khartoum on a visit to siste
statement: Sudan.
On the 17th anniversary of the Great September Revolution with
A huge official and popular welcome was given to the leade
which the Libyan Arab people culminated a series of giant civil victory and defiance. Heading the reception at Khartoum ini
achievements and triumphed over the treacherous Atlantic
national airport were Mr. Ahmad `Ali al-Mirghani, the chairm
aggression against the Jamahiriyah which is considered an
and members of the Council of the State, a number of minist
advanced vanguard base in the realization of the aspirations of senior officers of the Armed Forces and police, the (wo
the Arab masses and their pan-Arab objectives of unity and
indistinct] members of the people's committee at the Lib
liberation. Arab Brotherhood Bureau in Khartoum.
At a time when freedom is being consolidated in the Jamahiriyah,
On concluding this massive rally an exhibition was opened
when people's authority being firmly established and socialism is
playing with photographs the crimes committed by U.S. terro
being achieved and when the heroic operations of Arab rev-
administration and the failed aggression launched against: Gr
al-Jamahiriyah, also, lots of literature was distributed expos
olutionary forces fighting against the Zionist enemy are being
the U.S. terrorist policy against peoples in struggle.
escalated, the first constituent meeting of the nucleus of the
revolutionary committees movement in Lebanon convened from
1-3 September 1986 on the soil of the Great Jamahiriyah under
The leader of the revolution gave a statement, whilst resting
the airport lounge, to press, news agencies, local and inter
the banner "for a dynamic revolutionary movement in Lebanon".
tional broadcasting stations reporters.
The convening of this meeting, based on penetrating rev-
At the beginning he expressed joy at his visit to Sudan after
olutionary perception with logical analysis of Arab reality (?and)
Transitional Military Council has fulfilled its promise a
the political systems which have demonstrated their bankruptcy
handed authority over to the Sudanese people, which also com
and incapability of achieving the masses' aspiration of exercising after the Sudanese people was able to resume power followi
power, confirms that the only guarantee for the triumph of the the recent elections.
era of the masses is by building a dynamic revolutionary move-
ment in which the thoughts of leader Mu'ammar al-Qadhdhafi
The leader asserted that by establishing people's authority,
are epitomised as an idea and in practice.
the ruling tools disappear and the fueds between tribes and eth
and local minorities and races come to an end. He added "by t
The meeting was needed to create an instrument of revolutionary
establishment of a jamahiri regime, all these problems end a
action which will incite Arabism in Lebanon in order to detonate
the people rules itself by itself".
a people's revolution . and establish a jamahirih society so that the
masses become the possessors of political decision and hold
The leader praised the revolutionary activities in Sudan whi
power, wealth and weapons with the guidance of the Green Book
led to the 6 April Revolution and brought down fascism and t
- their guide toward the final liberation of humanity from all dictatorship of Numayri-U.S. and Egyptian regime's agent
instruments of injustice, subjugation, oppression and tyranny. the damned traitor.
This meeting, which is the beginning of its constituent work, is The leader added: "We shall struggle until the treacherc
devoid of any characteristics of organized partisan work, and,
Egyptian regime crumbles and with it all the puppet Afric
consequently, is a revolutionary initiative which works for orga-regimes that recognised the Zionist enemy follow suite and t
Zionist enemy itself vanishes".
nizing a dynamic revolutionary movement that would allow for
a wider poliarization of the real revolutionary force which would
pursue revolutionary struggle, so that it will work outside the
All along the road from the airport to the capital Khartoum, t
framework or guardianship of any party of whatever form or
Sudanese masses rallied chanting for the Great al-Fatih Re
olution and its leader and Arab unity, waving portraits of t
type.
leader and green banners, calling for the downfall of the U.S. a
its agents. They chanted: "Committees are everywhere a
al-Qadhdhafi is in Sudan..", "By life, by blood, we protect y
The meeting adopted a revolutionary action plan for the Leb-
anese arena and at the pan-Arab and international levels.
Ai-Qadhdhafi?" and "One Arab homeland...one Arab army.."
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The leader had left Entebbe Airport this morning at the end of
a 3-day visit during which he held a series of meetings with
President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and the members of the
Ugandan People's Resistance Movement, the members of the
Supreme Council of Islamic affairs and the students of the
ideological preparation college.
He said: "These activities will escalate in order to reach its final
stage, which is the establishment of people's authority".
The leader confirmed Great Jamahiriyah's full solidarity with
Sudan, in meaning and form and with all that it possesses. He
said: "I came here to assert this solidarity".
The leader stressed that the whole Arab people should follow
what has the great Sudanese people done and topple all dictator-
ships, reactionaries and seperatist regimes.
The leader emphasised the necessity of investing the action of the
heroic Sudanese people in its unionist framework to achieve Arab
unity so that it will not be subjected to diminishing and crumble
and to protect the gains of this nation by Arab unity.
The leader declared that Great Jamahiriyah is ready for unity
with Sudan.
In his reply to a question concerning the resumption by some
African states to their relations with the Zionist enemy, the
leader said: "First, the number of such countries is not more
than the number of one handsiders..and that side that encouraged
those countries to resume their relations with Zionism, was the
treacherous Egyptian regime". [sentence as received]
The leader indicated: "Those states protest and tell us if the
biggest Arab state has an Israel Embassy in its capital, how come
you blame us not to establish such embassies in our countries".
The leader asserted that the most horrific and the greatest
historic Egyptian treason was the thing that caused us to lose the
gains we accomplished in Africa against Zionism.
The leader pointed out: "All those states had severed their
relations with Zionism, but after the Egyptian regime's
treachery, they used that as an excuse to make us lose all the
gains we registered against Zionism in the African Continent and
in the world".
A big popular and official farewell was given to the leader of
victory and defiance headed by President Yoweri Museveni. Also
took part in the farewell ceremony the deputy president of the
resistance Movement, the prime minister, the ministers, senior
army officers, state officials and large crowds of the Ugandan
people who rallied around the airport since early morning.
After the Allah-U-Akbar anthem and the Ugandan national
anthem were played the leader inspected the guard of honour
which stood in attention to salute him. The leader waved in salute
to the huge crowds of the Ugandan people which answered with
chanting for the life of the leader of the revolution and for the
downfall of imperialism.
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Responding to a question on contacts with John Garang to end
the war in south Sudan and establishing peace, the leader said,
"Naturally, Garang used to be our ally, in fact we trained him
and armed him because he was launching a revolution against
Numayri. But as soon as the heroic Sudanese people and its Army
made the April 6 Revolution, we stopped everything and allied
ourselves with the Sudanese people and its Army after the
toppling of dictatorship and the filthy puppet rule at the head of
which was Numayri.
"We told Garang that our alliances was for the salvation from
the Numayri dictatorship and now that Numayri had fallen by
the April 6 Revolution, there is no need to continue fighting and
opposition at all. But most regretably, Garang continued his
opposition to the regime in Sudan and he says that he wants to
free the whole of Sudan".
The leader added: "I do not believe that Sudan is in need for
liberation or for someone to liberate it. But it is in need for
development of its activities until it reaches the level of popular
democracy, unionism and socialism. But, despite that, we keep
on the pressure on Garang and use all means of alliance that
existed between us until he lays down arms and negotiate".
The leader went on: "Garang considers himself as a rev-
olutionary, leftist and even jamahiri.. In fact he too is a believer
in the third universal theory and the green book. He says what
goes on in Sudan is still within the right-wing. But I believe this
is a step towards democracy and can be developed. We still press
Garang until he lays down his arm and negotiate. We may be
successful in the future together with Ethiopia in this respect and
to end this unrest".
In his response to a question on Hassan II disengaging from the
Oujdah accord between Great Jamahiriyah and Morocco,
theleader said: "This indicates that the present Arab rulers are
unable to fulfill the masses' demands. They are helpless and
yielding to pressures. In my belief, most of the ruling tools in the
Arab homeland are weak and incompetant to achieve any public
demand of this homeland because Arab public demands are of
unity, socialism, progressiveness, possession of power, defeat of
imperialism and facing up to Zionism at a time most Arab rulers
are incompetant and demoralised and even when we accomplish
a unity step, it is aborted and finished as what happened". The
leader added that Hassan II has met the enemy's prime minister
and dismantled unity, and it is better that we disengage unity
because he had betrayed".
He said: "Betrays and disengages unity...a funny affair".
Al-Qadhdhafi Addresses Rally
LD100924 Tripoli JANA in Arabic 0700 GMT 10 Sep 86
[Text] Khartoum, 10 Sep (JANA) - The brother leader of the
revolution yesterday evening attended a big public rally held at
Qubbat al-Mahdi in Omdurman in his honor. The rally was
attended by the chairman of the Sudanese Council of State,
Ahmad'Ali al-Mirghani; members of the council; Prime Minis-
ter Sadiq al-Mahdi; a number of ministers; political and national
figures of Sudan; and tens of thousands of Sudanese.
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The bather leader addressed the masses, which chanted for the
long life of the Great 1st September Revolution and its leader
Mu'arnmar al-Qadhdhafi.
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his severed tail [Numayri], the Zionists and the Americans and
all their filthy alliance began to believe that the will of this nation
had died and that its great people had turned into a flock of sheep.
He said that the revolution of the Sudanese people has debunked
all these falsehoods and turned the balances upside down, making
them reconsider all their designs which were based on the belit-
tling of the Arab nation and its living forces and its ability to rise
in revolution and to secure deliverance.
The brother leader began his speech by saluting the Sudanese
popular masses and said: I thank God that our joint struggle
was crowned with clear victory over the fascist forces that were
hostile to our people in Sudan and the masses of our Arab nation.
These force, were a tool in the hands of imperialism and Zionism.
But the era of oppression and dictatorship and forgery has been
exposed at the hands of the sons of the Sudanese people by their
Rajab revolution, the revolution of the 6 April during which the
heroic Sudanese people joined hands with their army and stood
on one side of the barricades isolating the agents of America on
the other side of the barricades.
He said the Libyan Arab people who stand by you and the Arab
nation at large are grateful to you because you have liberated the
20 million Sudanese Arabs' will, which had been forged and
rigged.
He said: Many years were lost with the will of our Sudanese
people being rigged and forged by those fascists who misled us
all for quite a long time. Finally, it became clear that what has
happened since May [revolution by Numayri] and until the April
revolution was a domination by a backward ignorant fascist
dictatorship that was not equiped to lead the great Sudanese
-ople.
He said that by the 6 April revolution, the Sudanese people raised
the moral of the entire masses of the Arab nation after that moral
was weakening and deteriorating.
Addressing the masses, the brother leader said: You have
carried out your revolution at a time when despair prevailed over
the whole of the Arab homeland and doubt-casting had reached
its climax and spread talk about the death of the Arab masses
and even the death of the Arab will and the death of the living
forces in the Arab homeland. The state of affairs was such that
the interned Sadat managed to strike an alliance together with
his deposed lackey with his American masters and their tool
Zionism. They hragged and lionized and created a flagrant open
alliance in defia. of this nation's will and with no regard to its
ability to act and take' initiative. They laughed much, but then
they cried much in the end.
He affirmed that the revolution of the Sudanese people has come
to affirm that the Arab nation has not died and that the Arab
will has not died and that its living forces have not been killed
and will never be killed however far the oppressors went in their
actions, and in their alliances with the enemies and however they
belittled this nation. For this nation is capable of routing them
and belittling their filthy alliance. It is also capable of wresting
victory from amid the debris of despair and the casting of doubts
on its capabilities.
The brother leader said that the revolution of the Sudanese
people on 6 April came at a time when the enemies, with their
spite toward the masses of the Arab nation and its living forces,
went beyond all description, so much so that the interned Sadat,
He said that the Arab nation should stand in reverence and
respect and admiration for the Sudanese people, who staged a
popular revolution that reflected the suppressed nation and was
a valiant defiance on the part of the Sudanese people and their
Army toward the United States and its forces and of the ruling
reaction in Egypt.
He pointed out that the severed tail [Numayri] was, during those
hours, placing his being in the hands of the United States and the
traitorous Egyptian regime as well as in the filthy hands of
Reagan and the other filthy hand of Husni Mubarak. He believed
that he who strikes an alliance with the United States and its
agent regime in Egypt could never be toppled. It was this illusion
that made him feel reassured and able to flout his people, the
masses, and the soldiers and officers.
The severed tail, the brother leader pointed out, believed that his
traitorous alliance with the United States and its agent regime
in Egypt would facilitate the continued imposition of his dom-
ination over the Sudanese people and his flouting of them. The
brother leader said that your people who rose on 6 April replied
to this illusion by giving a raspberry to the severed tail, to
Reagan, to Husni Mubarak, and to reaction and imperialism, and
a thousand raspberries to America and its agents.
He said all secretions of the period of the severed tail with all
their repercussions have been wiped out by the fire of the people's
revolution in Sudan. I once again thank God who crowned our
joint struggle with success. I have come once again to Khartoum,
which I missed after having been deprived of visiting it for long,
lean years.
He said: Thanks to your revolution and thanks to the alliance of
people and army, during.that memorable day the barriers that
separated us during these lean years were destroyed, and those
who tried to disseminate disunity between the same family in the
same Arab nation have failed.
He said the regime of the severed tail tried to transfer emnity and
hatred directed against him in person and against his regime to
our brothers in Sudan, whom we love and who love us.
He added that the severed tail tried to transfer the hatred
directed against himself to the street; he wanted the sons of the
same people to hate one another.
The leader added that the tail failed to do this and he did not
succeed in transferring hatred to the sons of the Sudanese people,
but he confirmed the hatred existing between him and the
Sudanese people.
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He said, we are witness to a difficult period lived by the sons of
the Sudanese people. The severed tail continually tried to dis-
perse the revolutionary and political forces of the Sudanese
people and tried to confiscate their liberties and rights. He
pointed to the suffering of Sadiq al-Mahdi and Al-Sharif al-
Hindi in exile.
He added: At this moment we should admit, in this connection,
that these forces suffered hardship and sacrifice for the sake of
the freedom of the Sudanese people and for the victory of its
people's revolution.
The leader indicated that the Libyan Arab people shared the joy
and sadness of these forces without knowing that they would
personally assume power.
He said: We stressed our backing for these forces because we are
certain that they carry the cause of the Sudanese people.
He added: We backed them because they are oppressed and
chased people. We are with the oppressed anywhere on earth; at
the forefront of these are our brothers and kinsmen who were
subjected to the oppression of [Numayri's] fascism which bla-
tantly allied with the enemies of your people and nation and
defied the Sudanese people, with the treasonous and agent and
reactionary regime in Egypt.
He said, there was a conspicuous defiance toward the Sudanese
people; they ridiculed you, when the severed tail was considered
to be the Egyptian vice president in Sudan, as Faruq was king of
Egypt and Sudan.
He said we are with the Egyptian people and with our brothers
in Egypt until the second agent and dictatorship in Egypt falls.
The brother leader pointed in his speech to the plan drawn up by
the American colonialist circles, with the consent of the tail, to
make Sudan subservient to the Egyptian regime. He pointed,
during a historical review, to the dominion theory from the era
of Pharaoh kings till the buried Sadat and his agent deputy
[Numayril.
He said this tail was carrying out this plan to make Sudan a mere
servant to the agent ruling regime in the vanquished capital
[Cairo], thus forging the will of 20 million Sudanese and hinder-
ing it through his hoarse voice which was being injected with
orders from the oppressed capital [Cairo].
He added that we bet on the people's revolution in Sudan, while
the tail continued to flout the Sudanese people. He stated that no
voice should be above his voice, but this brave people blew up the
revolution of 6 Altayr [April] stressing that its voice is the one
which will remain and the one to be eternal, and it sent the tail
to the dustbin of history.
The leader saluted Al-Ansar masses which organized this big
public rally. He said that these masses together with the sons of
the Sudanese people have destroyed hordes of Britons on this
Arab soil since the alliance of the foreign Albanian family of
Muhammad 'Ali with British colonialism to enslave Sudan.
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He said that Al-Ansar masses under the leadership of "Al-
Mahdi" have recorded legends in our history, and epics of which
the Arab and Islamic nation is very proud. We consider that
period of our Arab and Islamic history to be a heritage for all of
us.
The brother leader ridiculed the belittling by the subservients,
such as the buried Sadat and the severed tail and Husni, of the
ability of our Arab people to fight. He said that these filthy agents
are a bunch of ignorants, they did not study history, revolutions,
and uprisings recorded by our Arab people in its most glittering
pages.
He added the bunch of agent rulers believed that the Arab nation
is weak; they pretended to forget the convoys of martyrs sacri-
ficed by this nation for the sake of its freedom. He said that these
agents thought that the Arab masses are a copy of their filthy
coward examples.
The brother leader said: Today by you, we prove to them that the
Arab nation was not those traitors. For the Arab nation is great
by its heritage, glory, and heroism. It is constantly capable of
offering more convoys of martyrs for the sake of victory over its
traitors who surrendered its reins to the colonialists, encroached
on it and belittled it.
Brothers, I must affirm here that your brothers in Libya share
your feelings of the tragedy through which you have been living
in conditions of starvation and drought. We shared your feelings
of agony over the death of our children in Sudan from starvation
and the continuous lack of rain, which were the result of God's
dissatisfaction with the corrupt regime. He pointed out that
thousands of Sudanese people had arrived on foot in their country
Libya. Unfortunately, thousands of them have perished on the
way because of starvation, thirst, and the long distance.
We always wondered how the Sudanese people could suffer from
thirst and starvation when it has rivers like the Blue Nile and the
White Nile running in its land. This is a true tragedy indeed. But
we heard at the time as well of the severing of limbs and hands,
the imprisonment of women and children, and the enforcement
of God's restrictions [Hududu allah]. He added that the Caliph
'Umar ibn al-Khattab suspended the enforcement of these
restrictions during al-Ramadah year, yet the tail persisted in
enforcing them strictly under conditions which were very close
to those prevailing in the Al-Ramadah year.
The brother leader said that at those hard times, the Sudanese
people rallied their forces and staged the revolution and tri-
umphed. Since that moment we turned our capabilities toward
supporting the Rajab revolution, the revolution of the Sudanese
people. We declare here our utmost regret at the continued
anti-Sudan action.
Speaking of the situation in Sudan, the brother leader said: From
the position of my pan-Arab and African responsibility, I shall
do my utmost so that Sudan may move toward building itself and
bandaging its wounds, cultivating its land and creating its new
industrial revival.
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He pointed out that Sudan has no need now for the amputation
of legs and hands or for whipping and the like. Neither does it
need the problems of the differences of race, language, or tribe.
He pointed out that these problems would constitute obstacles on
the road of our Sudanese people.
The brother leader said that the alliance with Ethiopia was
established because it is a progressive country that supports the
causes of the Arab nation. He added: I instigated a revolution
against Haile Selassie, the agent of America, until he was toppled
by the revolution which responded to our call. We will not betray
the revolution we instigated. Besides, it is a progressive revolution
opposed to imperialism and reaction.
Concerning his relations with Colonel Garang, the brother leader
said: He visited me in the tent that was bombed by the Americans
and presented his revolutionary program to me saying that he
wants to liberate Sudan from the dictatorship of the tail Numayri
who was turning Sudan into an American base. The brother
leader added that at the time when Sudan needed cultivation,
wheat, and water, the Americans were preparing the ground for
what we thought was agricultural reclamation but which turned
out to be the creation of bases for their American rapid interven-
tion forces.
The brother leader added: Garang told me that Sudan was being
turned into an American base, and this was true. He told me that
the limbs of the Sudanese were being amputated and the Suda-
nese were being whipped and persecuted in the name of Islam
when Islam had nothing to do with these trivialities, and that he
felt it was his responsibility to liberate the Sudanese people.
Truthfully, I have found this man to be a revolutionary. He is one
of the jamahiris who believe in the Third Universal Theory and
the Greek book. This is a fact. Garang has attended with me a
number of ideological meetings and we have helped him against
the tail and against America which was trying to turn Sudan into
a base for its forces. Garang entered the fighting. Then suddenly
the Sudanese people and Sudanese Army staged their revolution
in the month of Rajab, the 6th of April, and toppled the dicta-
torship and expelled the Americans. America evacuated its citi-
zens by transport planes forcfear of the wrath of the Sudanese
people, because America is the bitter enemy of the Arab nation,
and the Sudanese people form a part of the Arab nation.
I phoned Mengistu on 6 April 1985 and congratulated him on
the events in the Sudan. He said: I, too, congratulate you on the
revolution in Sudan. After that, I telephoned Garang and told
him that the common enemy and dictatorship and America's
agents have been toppled and that you must lay down your arms
and join the revolution. I have asked him to become a member of
the military council just as I had asked the remaining brothers
in Ethiopia and Libya to join the revolution and that was what
actually happened: At that time political and military rev-
olutionary leaders returned to Sudan and joined the revolution,
except for Garang who told me that he believes that what had
happened was only a change of leadership and not of policy. He
said that he would wait to see if a change of policy took place and
then would decide to join.
Unfortunately, the brother leader said, brother Garang contin-
ued with the fighting until this moment. As an ally and as
corevolutionaries and co-jamahiris, I have repeatedly asked him
to stop fighting. Garang can never be a reactionary or an agent
of imperialism. He is a revolutionary and this is a point that
should be understood.
He [Al-Qadhdhafi]said that his [Garang's] position now is wrong.
I condemn this position, and I have informed him previously that
Sudan now does not need fighting, or sieges, or aircraft being shot
down, but it does need national unity. It needs to cultivate, to
build factories, education, health, construction, and progress. It
does not need bomb explosions, killings, highway robbery, and
blowing up bridges. This action is not required at the present
period; it is very harmful from the point of view of nationalism.
He said that there must a reason for Garang's continuation in
this action. The reason could be beyond Garang's movement, and
includes the existing factors in this region.
He added, I listened to brother Sadiq al-Mahdi and I felt that
matters have reached a point: Either to lay down arms and to
start negotiations between the sons of the Sudanese people north
and south, and also that an alliance of friendship and cooperation
between the two neighboring countries, Ethiopia and Sudan,
should take place, or the Sudanese Government should shoulder
its national responsibility and take up action, despite the con-
sequences, to which it can see no alternative. In reality, I would
not like to see matters reach this point. All I want for Ethiopia is
progress because it is a revolutionary and progressive country; we
wish it unity and consolidation. We also wish our people in Sudan
unity, peace, and construction. I do not want to hear the noise of
bombs and explosion.
He said, we should hear bombs and explosions in occupied
Palestine against America's forces, the sworn enemy with whom
we should not negotiate, nor reach truce nor peace. The people
of Sudan should unite during this period and I will carry out my
duty towards Ethiopia and Garang.
He added, there is one very important thing which we should
understand because these problems could stem from it: It is that
if Arab patriotism weakens, then chaos will start, separatist
regionalism will begin and like a body when it weakens, all
microbes which were sleeping will wake up to devour it. If the
call for Arab unity becomes weak then the call for separation will
become stronger everywhere in the Arab world. He pointed out
that Sudan is a very particular state. He said that undoubtedly
the overwhelming majority in Sudan are Arabs and there is no
one who could deny that we, the Arabs, conquered Sudan and
settled in Sudan with all our Arab tribes present now in Sudan
everywhere. This reality should be very strong and we should
never deny it and I will reject anyone who denies it. This is an
Arab state; its overwhelming majority are Arabs. He indicated
that Sudanese tribes, according to Arab history, are the very
same Libyan tribes which are the same tribes in Iraq and in
Mauritania. He said there are minorities which exist not only in
Sudan but in all countries. He pointed out that Sudan penetrated
deeply into Africa and assimilated other lands and non-Arab
tribes, but they are Sudanese now. But if we are to think about
tribalism, regionalism, and sectarianism then this would be like
an earthquake which will sweep through all African countries
and not only Sudan.
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He added: If we were to cause this volcano to erupt, it would
shake the whole of Ethiopia, Kenya, and Chad. He pointed out
that half of the people of Chad are Arabs and 95 percent of them
are Muslims while only 5 percent are non-Muslims. He added 5
percent of them are blacks. He added that Chad consists of a
group of tribes and that the northern parts of Chad differ from
southern Chad and that eastern Chad is all Arabs. We all know
that the regions of al-Salamat, al-Mahamid, and al-Rshidiyah
are all Arab and are an extension of the Sudanese tribes. All those
in the central, eastern, and southeastern regions from Abeche to
(?Atinali) near Ndjamena, and Oum Hajar and Oum Damm also
near Ndjamena, are all Arab, but Chadian.
The brother leader pointed out that if the racial issue were to be
raised, all countries in the region would be divided. He pointed
out that, for example, Chad would become divided into 3 or 4
countries because of the deep differences among its tribes which
are scattered in the north, the south, the east, and the west, and
Garang would thus become a phenomenon of the African divi-
sion.
For these reasons, he said, I affirm that to make demands in such
matters will only serve imperialism, even if they are made by
revolutionaries.
He pointed out that he does not think that Ethiopia would permit
such secessionist calls because they would harm Ethiopia itself.
We, for our part, have exerted all our efforts for the sake of
Ethiopia's unity. He pointed out that the Ethiopians say that if
Eritrea were to attain independence, it would mean the indepen-
dence of all the Ethiopian provinces on the ground that Ethiopia
consists of a union of different religions and nationalisms.
He said, I shall have direct contact with President Mengistu and
with Garang. I do not want Sudan, Ethiopia, or the region to get
embroiled in conflicts at the present stage. He affirmed that we
are in need of African unity now. We need to resist imperialism
and racism and we need cooperation in the field of building and
progress.
The brother leader stressed the importance and need for a return
to the call for Arab unity under the banners of pan-Arab nation-
alism with full force and fierceness in order to change the Arab
map and face up to time which will work against us if we lag in
realizing this call.
The brother leader pointed to the pitfalls of repeating the dom-
ination experience of the tail Numayri and said: Your struggle
for the liberation of Sudan was not aimed at reaching power but
at changing the Arab map through the establishment of unity.
The brother leader called for immediate unity between the Great
Jamahiriyah and Sudan, affirming that the present time is
opportune for the proclamation of the unity of the people in both
countries. He pointed out that any force that opposes unity must
be exposed and bared, must be resisted and fought on the ground
that it is an enemy of the Arab nation, its future, and its hope for
a free honorable life.
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He said that unity at the present phase is not an emotional call
but a necessity for the survival of the Arab existence. He pointed
out that the anti-Arab nation plan aims at the annihilation of the
Arabs and at turning them into red Indians.
The brother leader said that all the indications affirm to us that
American imperialism and the Zionists have decided to turn the
Arab people into red Indians and that they have embarked on
repeating the experience of the red Indian on Arab soil.
He said that American imperialism has decided to make the
Zionists a substitute for the Arab nation and has decided to turn
the Arabs into a collection of bare-footed sheperds and fishermen
living on the margin of life.
He added that the agents of America among the Arabs must
understand that their friendship is false, since the American plan
aims at the creation of a Zionist state in the heart of the Arab
homeland, as has actually happened in Palestine. The plan also
aims to enable the Zionists to dominate the sources of water and
rivers in the Arab homeland.
He said that there is something important that should be under-
stood by the Arab agents: America has no friends. It only believes
in agents and in the slogan: "If you are not an agent, then you
are my enemy." Thus America understands that Al-Qadhdhafi
is its enemy because he is not an agent for it, and consequently
he must be killed.
He added that the next stage in the imperialist plan is to enable
the Zionists to take over the water resources and the sources of
energy in the Arab region, pointing out that in the event of
Zionist readiness to carry out this action, America will enable
the Zionist enemy to capture the Arabian Peninsula and the
Fertile Crescent, and this means the disappearance of Iraq, Saudi
Arabia, Kuwait, the Emirates, Libya, and Algeria. He said that
this plan aims in its final stages at securing Zionist control over
the Arab homeland and at securing American imperialist monop-
olist interests in the Straits of Gibraltar, Bab al-Mandib, the
Suez Canal, and Hormuz. He added that America realizes that
none of its lackey Arab regimes can protect these interests
because they are liable to fall at any time through a popular
revolution, as the case was when Libya was an American base
and through the revolution it was transformed into a force hostile
to America and into a stubborn adversary of America.
He said that the barbaric American-Atlantic [NATO] aggression
on my brick-built house, in a rampage unprecedented even during
the Second World War, aimed at killing me and at capturing
Libya and North Africa, and at controlling the Mediterranean
and the Arab homeland, and at delivering them into the hands
of the Zionists, in a move within the American strategy of
advancing toward the Soviet Union. He said that the Americans,
who went as far as to use their bombers against my house and
country and who are now thinking of using their intercontinental
missiles against an Arab state, are reaffirming that they have
reached the final stages in their hellish program to annihilate the
Arab presence and to hand over the Arab land to the Zionists.
The brother leader reaffirmed that Libya, which fought bravely
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and courageously, is in the final analysis a small state compared
with the giants and that any Arab state is a mere strip of paper
to the gigantic superpowers and can be swallowed. He referred
in this connection to the experience of Grenada and what Nica-
ragua is currently experiencing. He said that Arab unity alone
can realize strength and can assert the capability to confront the
American tyranny and defeat the might of America and liberate
our land and build our new civilization. He renewed his appeal
to the Sudanese popular masses and their forces to decide on
unity between Sudan and Libya and to check those who oppose
it or turn their back on it. He said that we should realize the
danger staring us in the face and threatening our current sit-
uation. He reaffirmed that the only outlet from such a danger is
unity, the changing of the Arab map, and the bringing into being
of a single Arab identity, which is the only means to put an end
to separatist and regional ambitions and to confront America and
the Zionist enemy.
Tens of thousands of Sudanese citizens shouted from the bottom
of their hearts when the brother leader arrived at the venue of
the rally - they shouted long live the great Al-Fatih Revolution
and its leader. They interrupted the leader's address several times
with applause and with revolutionary slogans. Among the slogans
voiced were: Welcome, welcome 0 Al-Qadhdhafi; Rev-
olutionaries along the path of the Mahdi and al-Mukhtar; Long
live the Arab people's struggle; Long live the African people's
struggle; God is great and praise be to Him; One Arab people
and one Arab army; We are ready, 0 Al-Qadhdhafi, to respond;
To hell with America; and, The Arab people have come to know
their right path.
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AL-MAJALLAH Interviews Garang on War's Course
PM051318 London AL-MAJALLAH in Arabic
20-26 Aug 86 pp 19, 20
[Interview with Sudanese People's Liberation Movement Leader
John Garang by Muhammad Ahmad Hisham in Addis Ababa;
date not given]
[Text] The war in southern Sudan has been and continues to be
the number one item on the agenda of Sudanese Prime Minister
and Al-Ummah Party leader Al-Sadiq al-Mahdi. One of the
most significant developments concerning a solution to this crisis
materialized a few weeks ago. The first meeting between Colonel
John Garang and Al-Sadiq al-Mahdi was held at a private home
in Addis Ababa made available and guarded by the Ethiopian
authorities.
No solution was reached for the problem at the meeting which
lasted 9 consecutive hours. Despite the difference in viewpoints,
it was agreed to continue the consultatons, contacts and peace
efforts through the meetings of the Liaison and Coordination
Committee emanating from the Kokadam Declaration. If the
meeting with Garang at the end of July is considered an impor-
tant point in solving southern Sudan's crisis, then the visit
Al-Mahdi paid to the Soviet Union last week assumes a special'
and significant character at more than one level because this visit
can contribute to "loosening" all the knots that it has en impos-
sible to solve in Addis Ababa.
Al-Majallah has interviewed Col John Garang in Addis Ababa
on many of Sudan's hot issues. Following is the text of the
interview:
The Sudanese prime minister and leader of the Ummah Party
and the [spiritual leader] of Al-Ansar, Brother al-Sadiq al-
Mahdi, delivered a speech at the beginning of the rally in which
he greeted the brother leader of the Great al-Fatih Revolution
on Sudanese territory. He stressed that the Sudanese people
harbor love and appreciation for the brother leader and for the
Libyan Arab people because they stood with the Sudanese people
during their great tribulations when the tyrant executioner
Numayri was torturing the Sudanese people and when his appa-
ratus was used for harming Libya, its revolution, and its leader.
He said that Sudan today should play the role of a bridge between
its Arab nation and the African Continent; the Sudanese people
are today going through a new experiment for realizing their
freedom. He pointed out that the Sudanese people, despite the
apparent party differences, are proceeding toward a strong cohe-
sive unity. But these people are today the target of those who do
not want the Sudanese people to become independent and to see
daylight. They are intriguing against the Sudanese people, par-
ticularly in the sedition which southern Sudan is experiencing
today. He stressed that the people of Sudan are against any
aggression on the Arab nation, and addressed the brother leader
by saying: "You can regard this people as being with you against
any aggression which you may experience; we are with the
Libyan Arab people because our destiny is one."
[Hisham) What are the new developments in Sudan that pressed
you to meet with al-Sadiq al-Mahdi?
[Garang] Our meeting with Al-Sadiq al-Mahdi comes within the
framework of the People's Movement's [SPLM) general policy.
Prior to Numayri's fall, we had openly called for holding a
national conference on 2 March 1985. Our policy is to meet with
the country's influential political forces. We pointed out this in
the statement concerning the movement and we were prepared
to meet anybody. But after 6 April, everybody was busy with the
distribution of positions. Two months later, official contact was
begun between us and the government through Dr al-Jazuli's
message. We answered the message in September and initiated
numerous contacts which resulted in the Kokadam conference
and declaration.
[Hisham] Why wasn't the SPLM represented in Khartoum in the
wake of Numayri's fall?
[Garang] The answer lies in what happened after Numayri's fall.
Numayri's defense minister and his chief of staff of the Armed
Forces which we had been fighting assumed power. What hap-
pened on 6 April is that Numayri disappeared but his agencies
continued to be present.
[Hisham] But the change that had taken place has culminated in
the establishment of a democratic system. Doesn't the SPLM
believe in the current democratic system?
[Garang] The existing parties and movements were not armed.
Prior to and since the revolution, we have been and continue to
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