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The SudaneseRevolutionaryFront

The High political Committee

December21st, 2011

Dear Faroug Abu-Issa,

Chairman of the National Consensus Forces Council (NCF),

Ladies and Gentlemen members of the council and representatives of

political parties, trade unions and civil society organizations,

Warm greetings,

We, in the High Political Committee of the Sudanese Revolutionary Front(SRF) are pleased to address you via this letter as a starter of a formal

dialogue between two of the forces of the democratic change and as a

continuation to the collective work of all forces of the Sudanese people

that struggle for change and for the overthrow of the Salvation Regime

by way of employing all possible array of struggles which were

historically tested by the Sudanese people especially the civil peaceful

Intifada and the popular armed struggle which has been invigorated by

the sacrifices and blood of the sons and daughters of our people in

towns and rural villages. The Sudanese people experience inOctober1964 and April 1985, demonstrated that the popular armed

struggle have had supported and strengthened the civil and peaceful

Intifada. As you might all know, the forces that make up the SRF, have

popular base and supporters in towns and rural areas all over the

Sudan, and we believe in the integration and convergence of all forms,

methods and tools of popular struggle to overthrow the regime. We

would like to take this opportunity to highly appreciate your commitment

in upholding the banner of resistance against dictatorship andtotalitarianism.

We need not to underline the importance of the watershed moment

passing before our eyes which must be seized by our people to

overthrow the regime whose sun has set and its strength has faded and

became a voice from the past of dictatorship and totalitarianism. The

regime is under siege by the anger and a curse of the people after it

divided the country and insulted its citizens and was unable to provide

decent living for them. This is happening in the Sudan while we are


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witnessing around us, starting with our close neighbors, people are in

uprising and raising high the banners of freedom and democracy.

Ladies and gentlemen members of NCF,

Our country is witnessing a broad upsurge in the rural areas and towns,

especially among the youths, women, and the marginalized in rural

areas and the urban poor. The people in Sudan will neither forgive any

reversal, confusion, distraction and divisiveness of the current course

nor accept the dissipation of the potentiality of unifying the forces of

change under whatever pretext. We would like to reiterate and

emphasize the followings:

Firstly: The SRF is ready to work jointly with other political forces to

reach a national consensus to overthrow the regime through the

adoption of the dual approach of the popular uprising and the popular

armed resistance in a complementary and harmonious manner. We

must disregards calls for dialogue with the regime or for constitutional

reforms as these calls are intended to infuse perplexity among the ranks

of the opposition under the claim of exploring a third approach other than

the one of overthrowing the regime. Thus, it is incumbent upon us all to

put forward clear and unequivocal slogans about our ultimate goal ofoverthrowing the regime. To achieve that goal, you should continue your

commitment to peaceful civil action and you will have our support and

the effective participation of our supporters, and on the other hand, we

will keep up our armed struggle without respite or truce or bilateral

agreements which proved their failure.

Secondly: The SRF is a democratic organization with declared

objectives of restructuring the Sudanese state and lays the foundation

for a citizens based, democratic and social just State. Hence, all the talk

about the racial and ethnic composition of SRF, in essence, is a racial

and ethnic attitude in itself and an age-old ethnocentric bias and the

Khartoum regime is grandest ethnically-based institution there is. Our

people of Sudan way forward is to work jointly to lay the pillars of a

national consensus and in that spirit we are addressing you today.

Thirdly: The continuation of the NCP regime in power will lead to further

disintegration of the Sudan. The guarantee to the rest of Sudan unity liesin the removal of this regime instead of collaborating with it. It has been


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proven without doubt that the policies of the current regime divided the

Islamic movement itself let alone the Sudan whose division is now an

evident reality.

Fourthly: The establishment of a strategic and stable relation betweenthe Sudan and the Republic of South Sudan will not be attainable

without the overthrow of the NCP regime and the establishment of a

democratic government whose interests prevail via peaceful coexistence

with neighboring countries and the international community.

Fifthly: Please find enclosed all the documents that have been approved

by members of SRF, and we look forward for a democratic dialogue that

is mindful of the issues of the country and its citizens and lays the

foundation for an agreement between the forces of change on the

necessary arrangements pertaining to the post NCP era.

Sixthly: lastly, the SRF have already embarked in dialogue with

significant political forces in Sudan, which have welcomed the formation

of the SRF and expressed their wishes to join it which in turn

strengthens and serves the interests of the forces of change. We are

now on the threshold of convening the first national convention of the

SRF which will be a historic and an important event for the struggle ofthe forces of change and the marginalized and the objective of

restructuring the Sudan State power center. We would like to affirm here

that our ultimate goal is not to reshuffle government positions based on

the old system of rule, but to reach a consensus with other forces of

change on how the country should be ruled according to a new national

program for building the new Sudanese state, and restructuring it so that

it serves the interests of the marginalized of all ethnicities especially the

women.

With our utmost respect and appreciation.

The High Political Committeeof the SRF

1. Dr. Al-Raih MahmoodGouma

2. Abu-AlgasimImam

3. AhmedTugudLisan4. Yasir Arman


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