Hamas: “Abbas is becoming a mini-dictator”

Thursday June 28, 2007 22:54 by IMEMC Staff

Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, stated that the recent decrees issued by President Mahmoud Abbas regarding dissolving the armed groups, are transforming his into a “mini dictator” in this area as he ordered the arrest of dozens of Hamas members in addition to ordering the arrest of Fateh members who oppose him, according to the Hamas statement,

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The statement accused Abbas of ordering his loyal security forces to arrest members of Hamas and other Islamic groups, and that those members are being interrogated and tortured.

Hamas added that when Abbas ordered that all “armed militias should be dissolved, his security forces continue to arrest Hamas supporters in the West Bank”.

The official spokesperson of Hamas in the West Bank issued the following statement;

“We repeatedly warned that these decrees aim at collapsing the Palestinian democracy, and trying to use the momentum in order to impose political and legal facts on the ground,  facts that come through alliances, on the regional and international levels, with the American plans in the region”.

“These decrees are demanding the clean weapons, the weapons of resistance, to be withdrawn, while the real militias and real assailants keep their weapons and direct them against their people, these weapons that they want to remove are the weapons that are resisting the occupation in Nablus, Jenin, Ramallah and everywhere in the occupied West Bank”.

Hamas also slammed the Sharm Al Sheikh Summit, in Egypt, which brought together president Abbas, King Abdullah of Jordan, the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, and the Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, and said that the results of this summit were implemented on the ground when the army killed on Wednesday thirteen Palestinians in an invasion to the Gaza Strip.

Furthermore, Hamas added that it is willing to hold talks with president Abbas but “not before he cancels all of his recent decrees, and not before he adopts “the clean resistance”.

 The movement also accused security forces loyal to Fateh, of carrying repeated attacks in order to create further clashes.

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