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C , Coy Se oF FT NY 100-56680 “Since the new Government, led by General Aboud, who took over following the military coup d'etat in November, came to power, there has been a systematic campalgn.. of repression. The Farmers' Union, the Workers' Union, and the Anti-Imperialist Party, all of which had chosen delegates to send to the All-~African Peoples! Conference at Accra in December, were declared to be 'Communtst-led' and therefore illegal and were dissolved; the elected delegates were refused permission to attend the Accra Conference, "THERE ARE QUITE a number of Sudanese here in Moscow, many of them students at the University. During the 2ist Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the congress received greetings from the Communist Party of The Sudan. Since the Communist Party is now banned in Sudan, no names were attached to the greeting. "vet the new Government of Sudan announced that any Sudanese who was in the Soviet Union {not just . in Moscow) or in any East European Republic at the time the greeting was announced, would be arrested upon return to the Sudan. This is about as high-handed as it is possible to be. "WHOLESALE ARRESTS have been made in the Sudan on the undefined grounds that the victims are 'revolutionaries.!' The leaders of the Sudan Youth Organization have been arrested and their organization has been dissolved, again on the grounds that it is 'communist-led, ' "TS THE Communist Party strong and active in Sudan, I asked rather tactiessly, I afterwards thought. Tne group of Sudanese friends looked at me, smiled, and wisely said nothing at all. Later one of them said that any leader, any organization which the Government fears for any reason, or which the Americans in Sudan find to be 'un-cooperative' is promptly declared to be Communist, and is harrassed.