# Alleged "coup plot" in Sudan; now what?
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**Created:** [September 26, 2004, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alleged-coup-plot-in-sudan-now-what/266190 "2004-09-26T19:28:17Z")
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2004, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alleged-coup-plot-in-sudan-now-what/266190/1 "2004-09-26T19:28:17Z")
More news from Sudan: The governor of West Darfur (where a genocidal guerilla war rages between nomads and farmers) has accused the opposition Popular National Congress of a plot to overthrow the goverrnment. The PNC denies the charges and says the evidence was fabricated. 70 PNC members have been arrested and at least one has died in custody. See [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3659268.stm](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3659268.stm) and [http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-sudan-darfur.html](http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-sudan-darfur.html) (second link is to a _New York Times_ story – registration is required but free).
This apparently has nothing to do, directly, with the civil war – more or less on hold for the moment – between the government and the secessionist southern provinces.
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> The party of detained Islamist PNC leader Hassan al-Turabi say evidence, including the discovery of arms caches and military uniforms, was fabricated.
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> The PNC’s Europe representative denied they were arming rebel movements in Sudan’s troubled Darfur region.
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> Security forces say they seized 100 Kalashnikovs, 10 RPG mortars and other weapons from an arms cache in a suburb of the capital Khartoum over the weekend.
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> Mr Mahboub says that although the PNC and rebel movements in Darfur share the same ideology - the belief in the decentralisation of power and wealth - the PNC does not back their armed resistance.
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> Violence has escalated in Darfur since the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) and the Justice and Equality Movement (Jem) rebel movements took up arms against the government in February last year.
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> Tens of thosuands of people have been killed in the conflict, with many atrocities blamed on the pro-government Janjaweed militia.
See also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudan) and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History\_of\_Sudan#Civil\_strife](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Sudan#Civil_strife).
What next? Is any of this going to spill over into other countries? Will the international community get involved?