Rights body calls for new mechanisms to South Sudan peace process
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September 3, 2017 (KAMPALA) - The Centre for Peace and Justice (CPJ)
has called for an inclusive revitalization process in South Sudan’s
peace process, saying isolating the country’s rebel groups from the
peace process could mean prolonging the war in the East African
nation.
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Ethiopian FM and Chairperson of the IGAD Council Workneh Gebeyehu
shakes hands with President Salva Kiir in Juba following a meeting
with the IGAD foreign ministers on 24 July 2017 (IGAD photo)
CPJ’s coordinator Tito Anthony says the plan to exclude the armed
opposition leader, Riek Machar from the peace revitalization forum or
resuscitation of South Sudan peace deal could delay the process.
The official called for a new approach, involving both war parties
with full participation of political leaders in and outside the
country.
"We need both President Salva Kiir and opposition leader Riek Machar
for fully present in South Sudan, to allow the transitional justice
processes take place especially the accountability and reconciliation
part because they have direct responsibility for the four years
conflict in the country and must be personally involved in
reconciliation and accountability processes,” Tito told Sudan Tribune.
The CPJ director further warned that the recent IGAD revitalized peace
process lacks a ground base, saying it focuses on one side of the
conflict and was likely to fuel the ongoing conflict in the country.
"Peace cannot be achieved in South Sudan when the armed opposition
allied to the SPLM (IO) Machar faction is out of the revitalization of
the 2015 peace agreement,” stressed the official.
“I urge the regional leaders to be serious to achieve peace in the new
country or collaborate with international actors to initiate a new
political process that will bring peace in South Sudan,” he added.
In June, East African leaders at an extraordinary summit meeting held
in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia called for the revitalization of the 2015
South Sudan peace accord, saying the agreement was the only solution
to end the conflict.
The South Sudanese government, however, said the revitalization forum
by the regional, which mediated the 2015 peace deal should not be
another platform for negotiation of the new peace agreement between
the two factions to the conflict.
IGAD is an eight-member economic bloc that brings together Ethiopia,
Djibouti, Somalia, Sudan, Eritrea, South Sudan, Kenya and Uganda.
Over a million people have fled South Sudan since conflict erupted in
December 2013 when President Salva Kiir sacked Riek Machar from the
vice-presidency. Tens of thousands of people have been killed and
nearly two million displaced in South Sudan’s worst ever violence
since it seceded from Sudan in 2011.
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