Unofficial Translation by Amal Hamdan
The Civilian Front to Stop the War and Restore Democracy
The Founding Statement - 27 April 2023
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