Unofficial Translation by Amal Hamdan

The Civilian Front to Stop the War and Restore Democracy

The Founding Statement - 27 April 2023

(Arabic original here)

 

We, the factions and sides that have signed which includes:

·      Resistance Committees

·      Civil society organizations

·      Political parties

·      Armed groups

·      Student and professional bodies

·      The preparatory committees and professional unions

·      Public figures, academics, cultural and media (personalities), religious symbols

Are working towards peace and to reassure the people of Sudan and to ensure the country’s unity, sovereignty and stability.

We recognize that the hidden and ultimate goal of the ongoing war is the militarization of life in our country and to eliminate the roots and seeds of civilian, democratic rule for which the December Revolution strived (to achieve) and to flatten the domination of the National Congress Party.

Based on our new reality, as a result of the war which erupted on 15 April and its consequences, we have decided to announce our efforts, through the Civilian Front to Stop the War and Restore Democracy, to achieve the following goals:

First: To work to immediately stop the war, to silence the guns, and to work to provide urgent humanitarian, medical, public services and environmental needs to citizens in affected areas;

Second: To work to return to the a comprehensive civilian transition to democracy;

Third: The military institutions’ complete departure from political and economic life;  

Fourth: To reforming the security and military, which includes (creating) a unified, professional army, through peaceful steps and under the umbrella of a national civilian transitional democratic process;

Fifth: To block the plans of the former regime to return to power and its current attempts to militarize life against civilians under the banner of war and the attempts of Islamist coups;

Sixth: To confront (and challenge) the rhetoric of bias and affiliations based on ethnic, tribal, regional and religious grounds, and to resist propaganda, terrorist campaigns and hate speech, and to bolster the values of (equal) citizenship and peaceful coexistence;

Seventh: To completely reject external intervention into national issues, with the exception of international efforts to halt the war and to provide humanitarian aide and to find a comprehensive, just peace;

Eighth: To achieve the aforementioned goals, we, the Civilian Front to Stop the War and Restore Democracy, will employ all our capabilities and expertise available, through peaceful, tested means based on our extended experiences struggling against all forms of tyranny and totalitarianism;

Ninth: We announce our agreement to jointly cooperate with representatives of the signatories (in this Front) and to develop effective coordination mechanisms to take rapid decisions and to implement across Sudan, beginning in areas of humanitarian aide and the media, and to address the public and international (communities), and to work to broaden participation to include national figures and forces, with the exception of Islamist groups and the disbanded National Congress Party and their allies, in order to unify the forces of the Revolution.

In conclusion, we confirm that we stand together in the Civilian Front to Stop the War and Restore Democracy, and that we are open to the participation (with us) of: all civilian forces who oppose efforts to overturn the December Revolution, opponents of the war, opponents of militarization of civilian life, supporters of restoring a civilian transition and establishing a civilian democratic rule and to achieve the slogans of the glorious December revolution through freedom, peace, justice in a civilian democratic state.

Our people will ultimately triumph over tyrants.

The Civilian Front to Stop the War and Restore Democracy.

April 27 2023

 

Signatories:

Resistance Committees:

  • Al-Hajj Youseff Neighbourhood Committee

  • Al-Dali and Al-Mazmoum Resistance Committees – Sinnar State

  • Abu Hajjar Resistance Committees

  • Al-Daweem Resistance Committees

  • Resistance Committees from the Bahri Industrial Area

  • The Coordination Committee for Resistance Committees in East Nile

  • The Coordination Committee for Resistance Committees in the White Nile

  • The Committees in Bahri

  • The Resistance Committees in Al-Hashaba – White Nile

Political Factions and Components:

  • The Forces for Freedom and Change

  • The Original Arab Baath and Socialist Party

  • The Sudan Liberation Movement led by Abdel Wahid El-Nur

  • The United Democratic Party -The General Command

  • The Civilian Coalition of Forces from the Nuba Mountains

  • The Coalition of Civilian and Political Forces in East Sudan

  • The Sudanese Liberal Party

  • The Republican Party

  • The Popular Front for Freedom and Justice

  • The Nasserite United Front

  • Beja Council Parties and Movements

  • The Opposition Beja Council

Unions and Professional Bodies:

  • The Sudanese Journalists Syndicate

  • The Information Technology and Communications Syndicate – Khartoum Branch

  • The Association of Syndicates for the Two Nile University Professors

  • The Association for Sudan’s Science and Technology University Professors

  • The Sudanese Professionals Association

  • The Association for Professors from Al-Jazira University

  • The Association of Engineers from Khartoum University

  • The Association of Engineers from Sudan University

  • The Association of Workers in the Oil Sector

  • The Council of Graduates from Khartoum University

  • The Cooperation of Sudanese Unions

  • The Professional Association of The University of Imam El-Mahdi Professors

  • The Alliance of Democratic Lawyers

  • The Association of Administrative Officers

  • The Association of Bankers

  • The Sudanese Teachers Committee

  • The Emergency Lawyers

  • The Democratic Association for University Professors and Sudanese Higher Institutions

  • The Coordination Body for Engineering Sectors

  • Sudanese Artisans Association

  • The Taxes/Accountants’ Committee

  • The Democratic Association for Artisans

  • The Democratic Association for Medical Labs

  • The Preparatory Committee for Private Sector Teachers

  • The Association of Democratic Teachers

  • The Association of Democratic Engineers

  • The Association of Democratic Lawyers

  • The Preparatory Committee for the Syndicate of Freelance Craft Workers-Khartoum State

  • The Association of Revolutionary Professors from Kordofan University

Civilian Demands’ Bodies:

  • The Mechanism to Unite Revolutionary Forces

  • The Coalition of “Return is Impossible”

  • The Coalition of Student Movements

  • The Front for Students

  • The Coalition for Unifying the Revolutionary Forces in the White Nile

  • The Association for Families of the 2018 December Revolution Martyrs

  • The Civilian Association

  • Civilian Laboratories

  • The Union of Sudanese Writers

  • Initiatives for the Sake of East Sudan

  • The Body Uniting Nubians

  • The Confederation of Civil Society Organizations

  • The Bahri Youth Initiative

  • The Supreme Authority for Sufism

  • The Sudanese House Forum

  • The Union of Liberal Youth

  • The April 6 Association for Strategic Studies

  • The Eastern Culture Center

  • The Sudanese Group for Human Rights (The Gurfna “We are Disgusted” Movement)

  • The Progressive Sudanese Movement

  • The National Association for Persons with Disabilities

Women’s Organizations:

  • Women’s Political and Civil Groups (Mansum, Al-Harasat)

  • The Kandakat Coalition Umm Durman

  • The Kandakat Coalition East Nile

  • The Kandakat Coalition Bahri

  • The Kandakat Coalition Khartoum

  • The Northern Kandakat Gathering

  • The Democratic Women’s Union

  • The Forum for Women in the Forces for Freedom and Change

  • Sudanese Women Against the War

  • The Center for Lawyers for Change

  • The Campaign of Women Against the War

  • The Women’s Alliance

Individuals and Prominent Personalities

1.     The author and human rights activist Mohammad Badawi

2.     Professor Ahmed Al-Safi

3.     Journalist Mohammad Atiq

4.     Dr. Bakri Al-Jak

5.     Dr. Afaf Mustafa

6.     Dr. Sinaa Thaki Abu Samra

7.     Abdel Rahim Abazyed

8.     Dr. Hashem Mukhtar

9.     Sarah Ahmed

10.  Dr. Mahmoud Taj Al-Deen

11.  Artist Tayyib Dhou Al-Bayt

12.  Abdal Baqi Mukhtar

13.  Walid Hamid Mohammad

14.  Izza Al-Rasheed

15.  Artist Adel Muslim

16.  Artist Abu Baker Sayyid Ahmed

17.  Artist Mustapha Al-Sunni

18.  Ambassador Abdallah Baasher

19.  Dr. Al-Tijani Abu Qasisa

20.  Dr. Al-Taher Othman Madawi

21.  Qassem Mohammad Mahmoud

22.  Ambassador Awad Mohammad Al-Hassan

23.  Ambassador Ibrahim Abdel Moneim

24.  Ambassador Adel Hussein Sharqi

25.  Engineer Adel Ali Ahmed

26.  Mehdi Dawoud Al-Khalifa

27.  El-Hadi Nafath Allah

28.  Engineer Qamar Al-Dawla Abdel Qader

29.  Engineer Mohammad Al-Hassan Abdel Rahman

30.  Professor Adel Majzoun Hassab

31.  Engineer Ahemd Salah Nouh

32.  Dr. Abdel Salam Sayyed Ahmed

33.  Dr. Baqer Al-Afeef

34.  Ambassafor Hala Babibiker Al-Nour

35.  Author and novelist Hamour Ziyada

36.  Filmmaker George Kuka

37.  Journalist Rasheed Saaed Yacoub

38.  Huda Shafeek

39.  Human rights activist Muaz Hadra

40.  Dr. Ismael Wadi

41.  Journalist Othman Fadl Allah

42.  Dr. Adeeb Yousef

43.  Rihab Hamed

44.  Journalist Abdel Rahman Al-Amin

45.  Journalist Shawki Abdel Atheem

46.  Journalist Mustapha Sari

47.  Journalist Fanz Al-Sheikh Al-Silk

48.  Mohammad Al-Shabik

49.  Journalist Jaafer Al-Sabki

50.  Professor Abdel Lattif Tayfour

51.  Mohammad Ahmad Mukhtar Sheikhu

52.  Hunan rights activist Ghada Shawki

53.  Journalist Al-Sir Al-Sayyid

54.  Writer Hossam Hilali

55.  Abdallah Deidan

56.  Aisha Ahmed

57.  Ahmed Mukhtar Khalifa

58.  Craftsperson Hussein Khalil Halfawi

59.  Dr. Rihab Khalifa

60.  Lawyer Khalil Takras

61.  Artist Kheir Al-Masah

62.  Musician Abdo Hamed Al-Nil

63.  Article Mohammad Abdel Aziz Shabaka

64.  Omar Ashari

65.  Abada Kamal Al-Deen

66.  Ambassador Noureddine Satti

67.  Journalist Mohammad Naji

68.  Archbishop Ezekiel Kendo Kumir-Archbishop of the Episcopal Church of Sudan

69.  Reverend Luca Paul Kuku

70.  Zahra Haider

71.  Rabiha Ismael

72.  Naamat Awad Al-Hajj

73.  Muwahib Al-Majzoub

74.  Iman Khalifa

75.  Ossama Nur Abd Al-Sayyid

76.  Izzedine Haroun Harika

77.  Dr. Hatem Al-Mahdi

78.  Fatah Al-Rahman Al-Badawi

79.  Dr. Wajdi Kamal

80.  Issam Al-Deen Al-Zayn

81.  Abdel Majid Mohammad Adam Azraq

82.  Mohammad Khalil Hassab Allah

83.  Al-Taher Bashri Ali

84.  Raffit Abbas

85.  Mohammad Jamal Al-Sheikh Madani

86.  Madani Abbas Madani

87.  Dr. Salah Al-Amin

88.  Amhed Mukhtar

89.  Ezzedine Al-Amda

90.  Ramah Mohammad Ateem Salama

91.  Mohammad Al-Fayyed Mansour

92.  Dalia Daqna

93.  Theater designer Ghadir Mirghani

94.  Al-Tayyeb Bashir Al-Tayyeb

95.  Artist Issam Mohammad Nur

96.  Human rights activist Jamal Ali Al-Toum

97.  Musician Mujahid Bashir

98.  Nasif Bashir

99. Dr. Salah Al-Amin

100. Abdul Moneim Abdel Wahab

101. Musician Abdo Hamda Al-Neel

102. Dr. Majida Mohammad Ahmed

103. Journalist Israa Zein Al-Abadeen

104. Journalist Salafa Abu Dhafeera

105. Ahmad Izzideen

106. Ismael Mohammad Ali

107. Abdallah Adam Khater

108. Feysal Hadhra

109. Muhja Ashraf

110. Musa Abdel Qader

111.  Mohammad Hamdan Abdallah

112. Al-Tayyeb Bashir

113. Journalist Aza Ayra

114. Hassan Al-Bhashari

115. Journalist Amal Awad

116. Ahmad Khoder

117. Awad Al-Toum

118. Ammar Sulieman

119. Journalist Mansour Ahmed Othman

120. Journalist Jamil Al-Fadhel

121. Abdel Baqi Jabara

122. Ammar Qassem Hamouda

123. Engineer Ahmad Qassam Mukheir

124. Nidal Abdel Wahab

125. Naaman Ghazali

126. Dr. Sulieman Baldo

127. Author Fathi Al-Daw

128. Mudther Teyseer

129. Mohammad Salah

130. Dr. Majdi Ishac

131. Dr. Fakhredeen Awad Hassan Abd Al-Aal

 

For a complete database of resistance committee press releases, as well as the latest statements, visit: ResistanceCommittee.com