Sudanese President Orders Negotiating Team Back, Declares Public Mobilization

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Sudanese President Orders Negotiating Team Back, Declares Public Mobilization

Sudanese President Omar Hassan El-Bashir ordered Monday evening his negotiating team to halt its mission and return home immediately from Machakos, Kenya.

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Sudanese President Omar Hassan El-Bashir ordered Monday evening his negotiating team to halt its mission and return home immediately from Machakos, Kenya.

Addressing the funeral ceremony of "martyr" Khaled Ali Abdullah who was killed by the rebel Sudanese People's Liberation Army (SPLA) in Turit town, Bashir declared public mobilization and urged the youth to get involved in Jihad (holy war).

"The candle of Jihad will never fade at a time when Muslims are being murdered," he said.

Bashir, the commander in chief of the armed forces, also ordered the government army to open fire on all fronts without any exception.

He instructed the army to intensify its operations in the southern province of Juba to restore the two towns of Turit and Kibweita as well as all other positions that were recently captured by the SPLA.

"The rebel leader John Garang and those backing him do not know us and attempted to apply pressures on us," Bashir said, noting that "all pressure policies were a failure."

"We are sure of victory at the end," he underscored.

The SPLA captured the key government garrison town of Turit in southern Sudan on Sunday.

Sudan's state radio has accused the SPLA of escalating military offensives to expand the area of southern Sudan that would be self-ruled according to the July 20 preliminary agreement.

On July 20, the Sudanese government and the SPLA signed an agreement on the separation of state and religion and the right of self-determination of southern Sudan, two key issues for ending a 19-year-old civil war in Sudan which claimed nearly 2 million lives.

The two sides began a second round of talks in Kenya on Aug. 12 in an effort to reach a final agreement.

Since the outbreak of the civil war in 1983, the SPLA had been fighting for greater autonomy of the mainly Christians and animists living in the south.

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