Arab and North Africa region of La Via Campesina issues Solidarity to Sudanese People
At the recently concluded regional meeting of the ArNA members of La Via Campesina, the peasant unions issued solidarity to the suffering people of Sudan that includes workers, farmers, and agricultural workers, who are trapped in a senseless war that broke out in April 2023, and continues to this day.
Here is the full statement;
The member organizations and associations of the LVC gathered in Tunisia on May 10 and 11, 2024, during the regional meeting in the Arab and North Africa Region, and after examining the dangerous and delicate situation and the suffering of the Sudanese people, including workers, farmers, and agricultural workers, throughout the senseless war that broke out 15 April 2023 to the present day, which claimed the lives of more than twenty thousand citizens, left fifty thousand injured, and displaced more than 8.5 million citizens from Khartoum State, Al Jazeera, Darfur, Nile Al-Obeid and most of the cities of Sudan, with a daily increase of more than 20 thousand citizens, with the almost destruction of industrial means of production and most health and educational services facilities, and the looting of all central markets, crops, and means of transportation, the region:
1) Strongly condemn the absurd, reactionary war that is funded and supported by regional powers in the service of imperialism.
2) It’s a shame that this war is part of the fierce imperialist attack against the Sudanese people and their national and democratic forces in order to weaken Sudan and thwart its revolutionary path, which was paved with the sacrifices and blood of the martyrs, to continue plundering its resources and striving to divide it once again.
3) Call for an immediate halt to this senseless, reactionary war and launch an appeal to all progressive and liberal forces in the world to organize a broad solidarity campaign with the Sudanese people and stop this war.
4) Declare its absolute solidarity with the farmers and agricultural workers who were subjected to the ugliest types of persecution and repression, as they were expelled from their villages, their crops, homes, and all their property were confiscated, and they were subjected to the ugliest types of torture, displacement, and killing.
5) Demanding to stop campaigns of arbitrary arrest of leaders and release of all detainees and those imprisoned from the resistance committees and the national, democratic, and popular forces.
Together to stop the absurd, reactionary war in Sudan!
Together to defend and protect farmers and agricultural workers!
Together for the slogan: “Freedom – Peace -And justice “The revolution is the people’s choice!
Tunisia on May 11, 2024
La Via Campesina – ArNA