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Wednesday, April 25, 1990 / University Daily Kansan
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Zaire to replace government President lifts ban on opposition parties, will allow elections
The Associated Press
KINSHASA, Zaire — Bowing to weeks of pressure, President Mobutu Sese Seko said yesterday that he had lifted a 20-year ban on opposition parties and would let a multiparty government replace his within a
Thousands of Zaursa, chanting, singing and waving branches, poured into downtown Kinshasa, the capital, and blocked the streets to cheer the president's decision.
Mobutu, absolute ruler since Nov. 24, 1985, announced in a nationally broadcast speech that he was setting up a transitional government to rule until free elections could be conducted. No election date was scheduled.
"I am taking leave of the Popular Movement for the Revolution," said
Mobutu said three parties would be allowed at first. His Popular Movement for the Revolution, which under Zaire's law is the country's government, no longer will have any special status; he said.
Mobutu, 59. He said he would no longer be head of the party that supplanted the government in 1970 but would remain as president at the request of the people.
Mobutu said one leading opposition figure, Etienne Tahisekedi, was released from detention yesterday and his Union for Democracy and Social Progress party was left in power. He has been several other opposition groups, whose leaders are in exile, would be selected as the third legal party.
he said the constitution would be rewritten and a transitional govern-
establish until elections were held. The elections will produce a new government by April 24,1991, he said.
in recent weeks, Mobutu had been battered by a wave of unprecedented criticism.
He began a tour of Zaire in January, seeking public comment on his rule. Thousands of replies were sent in from business groups, churches, unions, students and individuals. He spoke at the memorial and Moubtu, accusing the president and his cronies of corruption and monopolization of power.
and monolithism to pop.
The country's Roman Catholic bishops compared Mobutu's rule to a monarchy.
Mobutu did not reply directly to the criticism but promised that the will of the majority would be respected.
After taking power 25 years ago, Mobutu, a former journalist and army sergeant, ran the former Belgian Congo almost as a personal
Like most African presidents, Mobuta asserted that one-party rule was the only way to avoid tribalism. In the country's first five years of independence, she probed police in fighting attributed to ethnic or racial conflicts.
Since 1970, every citizen of Zaire has been automatically registered as a member of the official party. Opposition groups were brutally repressed, and Mohotu claimed 80.9% of the vote in presidential elections.
he renamed the country Zaire and ordered Zaireans to replace their Christian names with African names.
Sudan government executes 28 officers
The Associated Press
KHARTOUM, Sudan — Sudan's military government yesterday executed more than half of the participants in an alleged coup attempt less than 24 hours after the coup was crushed.
A statement broadcast by official Radio Omdurman said 28 officers, including three retired generals and a brigadier, were executed by firing squad after a summary court-martial.
Military tribunals continued to work. A colonel was acquitted but the trial of other officers accused of being involved in the coup was still going on.
going on.
L. Gen Omar Hassan el-Bashir's ruling junta, which took power in its own coup June 30, said the coup attempt crushed Monday was the second phase of a coup plot originally
put down in Marck
Government spokesmen said that 30 officers were brought before the court-martial after their arrest Monday and that 20 officers and civilians arrested after the March incident also were on trial.
The statement did not specify how many suspects remained awaiting trial.
On Monday, el-Bashir said the abortive coup was masterminded by "the alliance in coalition with the outlaws."
"The alliance" was possibly a reference to political parties disbanded by el-Bashir after his junta took control of the country June 30.
The government has often used the term "outlaws" to refer to the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army, which has been waging a seven-year insurgency seeking autonomy and
greater economic reforms for the country's three southern provinces.
The government statement yesterday also did not make clear why Col. Hassan Abdalla Atta, a pilot, was acquitted. There were reports he was granted clemency in exchange for testifying against the others.
"Death by firing squad has been implemented, and the trials are still going on for the rest of the participants," said the statement read on Radio Odumanr and distributed by the Sudan News Agency.
the board.
The executed officers included the two retired senior officers accused of leading the alleged plot. They and the others were charged with "high treason and mutiny against the legitimate government," the official statement said.
The alleged coup leaders were identified as retired Maj. Gen.
Abdul-Kadir al-kadarun and Brigidah Mohamed Osman Hamid Karrar. Other retired flag officers reported executed were retired Gens. Khalid al-Zain Ali, a pilot, and Osman Idris Balol.
In addition, four colonels, one retired, and five lieutenant colonels, two of whom were retired, went before the firing squad.
A member of el-Bashir's 15-officer military council, Brigadier Osman Ahmed al-Hassan, promised "a fair but prompt trial to anyone involved in the abortive coup attempt." His statement appeared in an interview published yesterday in the newspaper Al-Sudan Al-Hadith.
per Rooftop per Yesterday, Radio Omdurman broadcast a stream of telegrams in support of el-Bashir. A pro-government demonstration was announced for last night.
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