Sudanese Report Execution of 4 Who" Helped Coup
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N:El•J YORK THiES, Tuesday, 2.0 July 1971 -..-;- ~"';r~· ...... , I.... cl t; : .i ----...:.:-·.,. .'I . - f ~~· ·\.,··IJ~f'o,,· ,. ,, .. ~ d' ·~ was itM!Hrl'teel REPORTED OUSTED . full support to the new in t he Sudan. Sudanese airports were Head of Coup Is Sai(f to Be ported to have been closed Army Major Dropped by communications were PoronrltiW'I Nimeiry as_ Communist cut. According to the . press agency, Khartoum and ' I, • the rest of the country were f. ~ :' .·.: ; ... :, "j,. • ~ \ o - , I ~I). • I I I'. t quiet. _., I I Last November, shortly after 'parties and ~de sharp tum General Nlmeiry agreed to link to the let't that alienated the 'the Sudan with Libya and cOb&etVltive elements. Syria, he abruptly ousted Ma He nationalized banks, jor Atta, Maj. Farouk Osman ~apers and a number of Ham~dallah and Lieut. ,Col. concerns. He made •nnli··uuv· Babikr ei-Nur Osman. ing expeditions to Moscow visited Communist China last Nlmeiry Accused 3 year. General Nimeiry accused the But while tying himself closer three of having betrayed to the Soviet bloc, he vowed secrets to a foreign power and in Febrauray to "crush" Su disclosed that they had op dan's Communist party. He posed federation. said the Communists ln April, President Anwar el· orders to join a single govern· Sada t of Egypt moved toward ment: party and had planned a another variation of the Feder co.up against him. General ation plans, agreeing with Niuneiry was the unquestioned Libya and Syria to form a un strongman, serving both es Ion after plebiscites next Sept. chairman of the Revolutionary I. Because of internal opposi- Council and Premier. No Official Confirmation According Middle East Major Atta declared on Sudanese radio that the Suda nese people were for "true revolution" aimed and for ·all against im1oerialist-l reactionary schemes." Independent 15 Years The political situation in the Sudan has been t roubled since the country gained independ ence from Britain more than 15 years ago, and the troubles T.. New Yorl< TlmM JuiJ 21, 1971 increased after General Nimeiry tion in the Sudan, General headed a military coup on May Nimeiry did not joiq the move 25, 1969, that ousted a shaky ment at that time but Iatel' an regime headed by President nounced that th Sudan would join after the internal political Ismail el-Azhary. 1 situation had been put in order. A large Communist party in I' the Sudan, although legally No Resistance Reported after General Nimeii:y BEIRUT, Leoanon, July 19 . power, has retained con- (AP)-The Iraqi press agency _, .. ___ L,_ influence in the reported today that Sudanese It has strongly troops supporting Major Atta policy of alliance with moved into Khartoum behind a column of tanks • and seized Government buildings and !he An Iraqi press agency .dis . rtldio station without meetmg patch from the Sudan last night any resistance. said tlW. Major Atta had prom In a policy statement o~er ised democracy for "all popUlar the official Omdurman rad1o, organizations," an evident ref Major Atta vowed to link the Sudan even closer with Com erence to the Communist party. mun·ist and Socialist countries He was also quoted as than General Nimeiry had done. said that local rule The indicated 'that he granted to the dissident . I NEW YORK TD1ES' Wednesday' 21 July 1971 With the overthrow of General Nimelry, the Sudan learly bas lurched to the ·left; but what this will mean n specific policies must await further actions of the new seven-man Command Council. Only two immediate results seem certain: restoration of full freedom of maneuver for the largest Communist movement fn Africa and the Arab world, and another setback for Arab unity, already battered by Iraq's break with Jordan and Morocco's charges of Libyan complicity in the abortive coup against King Hassan II. General Nimeiry, ousted after 26 montfJs in power, tried to take the Sudan into the Arab Federation, due to be created in September with Egypt, Libya and Syria participating. He had fired last November three of the officers who led the coup against him this week because they had opposed Federation, allegedly at Communist instigation. He bad also arrested scores of Communists and charged them with treason against his regime. Sudanese membership in the Federation now seems out of the question, and this damages not only Arab unity but Egypt's leadership of the Arab camp. The Command Council is also dissolving institutions established by Gen· eral Nimeiry after the models created in Egypt by his friend and mentor, the late President Nasser. The way would seem to be opening for a significant increase in Soviet influence in the Sudan. The new rulers promise some form of home rule for the south, where a black, partly Christian minority bas fought for autonomy for many years, despite savage reprisal by an army made up mostly of Arab-Moslem northerners. Such promises are famil!ar, so the long· suffering southerners will be highly skeptical. Others will doubt the capacity of the new regime to succeed where numerous governments have failed in the fifteen years of Sudanese independence, especially when it more pn~uc~ Nffi'l YORK TD1ES , Wednesday, 21 J'uly 1971 New S~danese· Regime Acts to.End Curbs on. Reds By RAYMOND H ANDERSON conditions permitted. "alliance" of classes to build a fqrced to seek co-existence. special to Tile Ne; y.,-k Times . Today, the office.rs ~ho de- Socialist society. The new regime announced CAIRO, July .. 20-The new posed G,eneral · Nm~e1ry an- The council also gave itself that the S};ldan he':lce~orth military Government in the nounced the fonnat10n of a full power to ad . t f. would be a ~emo_cratic mde· s d d d l"ft new seven-member command . mJms er a 11 a pendent repubhc WJ•th fuH sov· u. at move tot~y to 1 t r;- council with Colonel ai-Nur fa1rs of the country and warned eignty for the people, on whose ~nc JOn~ on e t co~n [;? Osman as chainnan and Major that. any subversion_ would-. be behalf the Revolutionary Com• . ommun st ~ovemen an ~. o - Ata as deputy chairman. First pu_mshed by exe~utJOn C?r Jm- mand Council will govern." Jshed . Egyptian-style poh~Jcal reports from the Sudan la:t pnsonment. All airports m the The tone of the announce· formatwrls recently orgamze~ night about the coup indicated count~ were rep<;>rted closed. ment was clearly against any by the deposed. le~der, Maj. that Major Ata was the head of ~ohtl~al tunnOJI h~s pre- move for unity with Egypt, Gen. G~afar ~1-N_JmeJry. the rebels va1led m the Sudan smce the Lib a and Syria, as General ~r~m1er N1m1nry an~ ot~er . · . country gained independence NirXei had led ed. offl.Clals of the . pro-Egyptian Major Ata was a_ppomt~d to- from Britain 15 years ago, with ry ~ reg1me that was ousted yester- day as Commande1 m Chief of diversity of conflicting political d f T" day were reported under ar- the anned forces. parties ranging from the Com- . U. S. Rea y or Jes . rest in Khartoum, the Sudanese The four other members of munists to Moslem sects and Special to The New York T im•• capital. General Nimeiry seized the council were identified as separatists demanding self-de- WASHINGTON, July 20 - power on .1\:t~Y 25, 1_9~9, from Col.. Moh~mmed Ahmed a!- termination for rebellious non· state Department officials said a weak CIVJhan coaht10~ Gov- Sheik,· Maj. Moh~mmed Mag- Moslem tribes in the south. today that ·there was no reason ernment and struggled, m the houb Osman, Maj. Mohammed The Sudan fell under the . · the Su· face of internal dissent and in- Ahmed ai-Zein and Cap. Mua- military dictatorship of Lieut. to believe the coup .10 creasing economic difficulties, weya Abdel Hai. Gen. Ibrahim Abboud from dan would affect Umted States to form ·a non-Communist ' The new council issued de- 1958 until 1964. The civilian efforts to achieve a Middle East "Arab Socialist" Government crees today releasing 49 per- coalition Government that was settlement. similar to that in Egypt. sons under political detention, f01med in 1964 under Premier . Charles W. Bray 3d, the He was ousted by a group of presumably · Communists, and Mohammed Ahmed Mahgoub State Department spokesman, opponents headed by three of- suspending all publications ex- was torn by political feuding also told reporters that the ficers he expelled ·rrom the cept the paper of the. armed and was an easy victim for the United !'States had repeatedly last November in a quarrel forces and The Nile Mirror, a 1969 coup of General Nimeiry. expressed its regret over the over plans to link the Sudan weekly of the Ministry of Premier Nimiery abolished Sudanese insistence on break· with Egypt and Libya in a fed- Southern Affairs, which is political parties, but the Com- ing diplomatic relations after eration. headed by Joseph Garang, a munist movement was too the 1967 Arab-Israel war. The The officers ousted ~n No· Communist. · powerful to be supressed, and United States, Mr. Bray said, is vember were: Lieut. Col. Babakr The council ·also invalidated the Premier found himself ready to resume the ties. ai-Nur Osman, Maj. Farouk Os- all previous decrees, and secu- , _____________......;.. _________ _ man Hamadallah and Maj. Has- rity regalations, and abolished l hem el-Ata. the intelligence agency and Opposition to Plan Charged local governmental bodies. General Nimeiry charged Striking at the political sys that the ousted officers had tern that General Nimeiry had fought the federation plan at a~tempted to organize on the , the instigation of a Communist pattern of the Egyptian struc- l faction headed by Mohammed ture; the council dissolved the ; Abdel Khalek Maghoub, secre- executive committee of the Su- 'I tary of the ostensibly banned danese Socialist Union and or- , Communist party.