Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Region of Sudan حزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي - وطن في السودان | |
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| Founded | 1970 (1970) |
| Headquarters | Khartoum |
| Ideology | Ba'athism Saddamism |
| National affiliation | National Consensus Forces |
| International affiliation | Iraqi-led Ba'ath Party |
| Colors | Black, Red, White and Green |
| National Assembly | 0 / 426 |
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TheArab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Region of Sudan (Arabic: حزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي - وطن في السودانḤizb al-Ba‘th al-‘Arabī al-Ishtirākī - Waṭan fī al-Sūdān), previously known as theArab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Country of Sudan, is apolitical party inSudan. The party is the Sudanese regional branch of theIraqi-led Ba'ath Party inSudan. While the branch has always been small, accounting for an estimated 1,000 members in 2003, it has been able to have a bigger impact than what its meager membership numbers would suggest, mostly due to Iraqi financing of the branch.[citation needed]
After collaborating with theArab nationalist Sudanese government for years, the Ba'ath Party broke off relations and became an opposition party in 1990; this would have disturbed Iraq if Sudan had not supported it during the1991 Gulf crisis.[1] In 1990, the party was composed largely of students who had studied inBa'athist Iraq. The party, which was small in 1990, was influential in certain sectors, and was opposed to theNational Islamic Front and was staunchlysecularist. Members have historically been torn between the Ba'ath and other secular party movements, such as theSudanese Communist Party. Despite Saddam Hussein's amicable relationship with theRevolutionary Command Council for National Salvation, the body ruling Sudan at the time, the Ba'ath branch was oppressed by the authorities. Later in 1990, 26 Ba'athi military officers were executed inKhartoum after a failed military coup.[citation needed]
In 2002, a group led by Mohamad Ali Jadein broke away from the branch and established the independentSudanese Ba'ath Party, which has no affiliation with either the Iraqi or theSyrian-led Ba'ath Party.[2] The following year, after the2003 invasion of Iraq, 80 Sudanese Ba'athists were allowed to return to Sudan under the condition that they would stay out of politics.[citation needed]
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