DOHA — The head of Darfur's largest rebel group, the Justice and Equality Movement, said peace talks that began on Wednesday between the Sudanese government and another rebel group will be fruitless without his movement.
"Peace is impossible without the JEM," Khalil Ibrahim told Al-Jazeera television when asked about the negotiations in the Qatari capital Doha between Khartoum and the Liberty and Justice Movement.
"What is going on in Doha is a falsification of what our people want" and "what comes out of it will not be peace," Ibrahim added. "The Doha process has gone off course, and represents nothing more than what the Sudanese government wants".
Without naming names, he said "they fabricate movements to negotiate with, and these movements obey everything from the Sudanese intelligence services".
The Liberty and Justice Movement began talks in Qatar with the Sudanese government on Wednesday aimed at reaching a peace deal by mid-July.
The two sides, which signed a framework accord in March establishing a ceasefire, will hold direct negotiations through five committees, said a statement from Qatari Foreign Minister Ahmed Abdullah al-Mahmud and Jibril Bassole, a mediator for the United Nations and the African Union.
