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SOUTH SUDAN - THE LAND OF RUSTLING OF WINGS AND PEOPLE TALL AND SMOOTH M.M.NINAN investigations. On March 4, 2009 Sudanese President Omar al Bashir, became the first sitting president to be indicted by ICC for directing a campaign of mass killing, rape, and pillage against civilians in Darfur. The arrest warrant for Bashir follows arrest warrants issued by the ICC for former Sudanese Minister of State for the Interior Ahmad Harun and Janjaweed militia leader Ali Kushayb. The government of Sudan has not surrendered either suspect to the ICC. Darfuris today continue to suffer and the innumerable problems facing Sudan cannot be resolved until peace is secured in Darfur. According to UN estimates, 2.7 million Darfuris remain in internally displaced persons camps and over 4.7 million Darfuris rely on humanitarian aid. Resolving the Darfur conflict is critical not just for the people of Darfur, but also for the future of Sudan and the stability of the entire region. In May I983 a rebellion had taken place at the headquarters of the Sudanese army battalion at Bor the Jieng soldiers of that battalion relocated to Ethiopia, followed by other deserters from Pibor and Pachalla. These rebellions led to the creation of a new movement, the Sudanese People's Liberation Army (SPLA), formed around Colonel John Garang de Mabior, a U.S.-educated leader of the Dinka people. At first the SPLA campaign was a small—scale guerrilla conflict. The SPLA attacked government facilities more or less at random in the traditional cattle rustling mode. Dr. John Garang de Mabior Atem (1945 – 2005) SPLM/A Founder and Chairman, First Vice President of the Sudan and President of the government of Southern Sudan. Eternal Father of the nation of the Republic of South Sudan The SPLA and government signed a peace agreement on January 9, 2005 in Nairobi, in Kenya and John was sworn in as the First-Vice-President - the second most powerful person in the country - 30
SOUTH SUDAN - THE LAND OF RUSTLING OF WINGS AND PEOPLE TALL AND SMOOTH M.M.NINAN following a ceremony in which he and President Omar al-Bashir signed a power-sharing constitution. Simultaneously, he became the premier in the southern Sudan. This administration had limited autonomy for six years, at the end of which there would be a scheduled referendum regarding secession. No Christian or southerner had ever held such a high government post. In late July 2005, Garang died after the Ugandan presidential Mi-172 helicopter he was flying crashed. Salva Kiir Mayardit, another Dinka, born in 1951 in the Bahr-el-Ghazal region followed as Vice-President of Sudan. He joined the liberation war early in his life beginning with the Anyanya 1 in the early 1960s and had risen to a fairly senior position by the time the war ended in 1972 with the signing of the Addis Ababa Accord. Thereafter, he joined the national Sudan army in which he served until 1983 when he joined SPLM/A led by Dr Garang De Mabior. Following the death of Dr John Garang in a helicopter crash Salva Kiir Mayardit was chosen to succeed to the post of First Vice President of Sudan. South Sudanese voted overwhelmingly in favour of independence from Sudan in January 2011, with 98.83% majority. South Sudan became an independent state, with Salva Kiir Mayardit as its first President. 31
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