KHARTOUM (07 Dec.) – The SPLM will continue to organize demonstrations against the ruling National Congress Party of President Omar al Bashir. Secretary General of the SPLM, Pagan Amum said immediately after his release that the SPLM will continue to demonstrate until president Omar al Bashir starts fully to implement the Comprehensive Peace Agreement between the North and the South.
Pagan Amum at first had refused his release, requesting for clarification. After he went out from detention he spoke angrily about the beating of the Northern SPLM leader Yassir Arman who had to be treated in the hospital. Pagan Amum said that Arman was okay after he received treatment. Asked whether Pagan Amum is going to negotiate with the government he answered angrily: ‘Which government? What do you mean with the government? We have no negotiations at all. We continue to demonstrate until the NCP implements the CPA’. The NCP came into power after a military coup in 1989 while the country was ravaged by civil war.
In 2005 the NCP and SPLM signed a Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) after almost twenty years of civil war. The agreement included provisions for sharing of wealth and power and the right of self-determination for Southern Sudan to be decided in a referendum in 2011. The border issues between North and South (Abyei) is one of the most contentious disputes between the parties. The outcome of the census (population count) was highly disputed by the SPLM and also the current voter’s registration in Northern Sudan is under severe criticism. The opposition is almost excluded from having any influence of the ‘electoral processes.’ Also the fifty percent share from oil revenues is not fully paid out to the South, according to the SPLM and independent monitoring group Global Witness.
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