South Sudan’s former detainees unveil peace plan to stop war
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June 27, 2015 (JUBA) - The group of South Sudanese former political
detainees who have now re-joined president Salva Kiir’s government
have unveiled a plan to bring peace to the country, asserting rescuing
the country from collapsing was the priority.
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Former cabinet affairs minister and G-10 team leader Deng Alor with
former justice minister, John Luk Jok, after their arrival at Juba
Airport on 1 June 2015 (Photo Moses Lomayat)
The G10 membership were reinstated on Tuesday back into the ruling
SPLM faction chaired by president Salva Kiir . A leading member of the
group, Pagan Amum, was reinstated as the party’s secretary general.
Former cabinet affairs minister, Deng Alor Kuol, who was also
reinstated as member of the political bureau told Sudan Tribune on
Friday that their national priority was to stop the ongoing conflict
and bring peace in order to return the country to stability and order.
“The national priority now is peace. This requires unity and working
together," Kuol said.
He explained that the current conflict started within the SPLM party
and that a solution to the conflict must come from the leadership of
the party.
"The reunification of the SPLM leadership is very important. Unity of
the SPLM is paramount because this is a historical party. It is the
party which brought the peace and the independence,” he argued.
He said once the unity of the SPLM leadership was achieved, the issues
of peace, reconciliation and healing will be given full attention,
saying the SPLM leadership would then focus on them as the next step
to ensuring the return of peace and stability.
“So the priority now is stopping the war and (this process) requires a
united leadership. The next step after the reunification is to bring
peace and then start the process of reconciliation and healing," he
added.
Kuol revealed that they have now embarked on the process to complete
reunification of the party, pointing out that efforts were being made
to bring on board the armed opposition leadership led by former
vice-president, Riek Machar.
However, Machar’s opposition group said they would not accept a
“half-baked” reunification process that only dwells on “mere”
reinstatement to leadership positions without addressing the reform
agenda and leadership issues that caused the crisis within the party.
They said they first wanted to see the Arusha roadmap agreement
translated into a new constitution for the party as well as complete
work on the party’s basic documents such as internal regulations,
manifesto, code of conduct, etc, in Arusha. Also full implementation
of a final agreement on intraparty dialogue, they said, would be
connected to a peace agreement in Addis Ababa.
The former ‘former detainees’ led by Amum on Thursday met with Machar
in Nairobi and agreed on the need for further bilateral intraparty
dialogue in Arusha.
A summit that will include a number of regional heads of state and
government in the presence of president Kiir and opposition leader
Machar is also scheduled to take place in Arusha soon.
Kuol said the summit is to bring back all the SPLM family to evaluate
the progress made with regards to the reunification agreement of the
SPLM.
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27 June 09:55, by Mi diit
The so-called former detainees or now Kiir’s agents should not be
used after their surrender to Kiir to try to sell their surrender
project to the rebels. What is the use of reinstating to positions if
the root causes of the conflict are not addressed? Crisis will
reignite again within months. It is better to address the issues once
and just go to Juba to implement them.
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27 June 11:53, by Ayuen deng
Midiit my friend
Unification of SPLM will bring peace back to south Sudan and a
solution to dying Dinka and Nuer youths just because of political
interests of our leaders,so let’s support this Unity of Splm.
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27 June 11:33, by Nyesi Ta
The irrelevant, the confused, the jobist, the opportunist, and the
most corrupt SPLM officials are now back with the killers in Juba for
their personal interest and for the sake of securing the jobs they
lost when they were fired by Kiir Al Awiir, the incompetent driver who
once described the SPLM as a vehicle w/o a reverse gear. They r w/ the
gov’t and should shut the fuck up & serve their master
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27 June 11:54, by Akol Liai Mager
Riek Machar and Taban Deng will be welcomed back to Juba soon
and whoever wants to remain in Bush is absolutely up to him or her to
carry his/her own cross. Those who will refuse peace then will be
pursued until they denounced violence and accept non-intimidated
dialogue in Juba. War started in Juba and the process to end it should
be in Juba.
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