On Thursday night 20^th of August 1998 US missiles bombed Al Shifa factor, claiming that the said factory was producing deadly VX nerve agent for terrorists. The new owner of the factory who bought it as recent as end of last March claimed that the plant was a Pharmaceuticals factory.
It is important to state at this juncture that the US action is a clear violation of international law and that the National Islamic Front is actively engaged in training, supporting and exporting terrorism and in using chemical weapons in the civil war against civilians in southern Sudan and the Nuba mountains. Furthermore the NIF regime is involved in the storage, production and usage of chemical weapons. The junta ruling Sudan does not hesitate to use weapon of mass destruction, inside or outside the country to achieve its evil aims.
Terror unleashed by the NIF regime is not only directed against the US government, but in the first place against the Sudanese people and their representative of political, trade unionist and military leaders and activists.
By its aggressive act, the US government has handed a favor to the NIF regime. The regime has used the incident to divert world attention from the daily crimes it commits against the Sudanese people.
Solidarity with and support to the struggle of the Sudanese people and its representative the National Democratic Alliance is the only way to topple and eradicate NIF regime in the Sudan.
We welcome calls on the calls on the UN to send a fact finding mission to the Sudan. However we would suggest that such a mission should not limit itself to the Al Shifa plant, but should investigate all military and weapons factories.
We avail ourselves of this opportunity to once more call upon fraternal parties to redouble their efforts in solidarity with the struggle of our people against the reign of terror imposed by the NIF regime in the Sudan and for democracy, peaceful solution to the civil war and the establishment of a new civil and progressive Sudan.