North America Nuer support Telar Deng for SPLM secretariat
Nuer Community Supports Telar Deng to Become SPLM’s Secretary General
Press Release
October 4, 2007 — The leadership of UNCONA welcomes the news that Mr. Telar Deng wants to contest as the Secretary General of SPLM. There are so many reasons why the SPLM will benefit from the leadership of Telar. First, Mr. Telar is a liberal person who believes in Western style democracy. Second, he is easy-going and open-minded fellow who will get along with different tribes who are members of the SPLM. Third, he is known for promoting South-South dialogue. The people of South Sudan should congratulate him for being one of individuals who brought about Wunlit peace conference of 1999 where the Nuer and Dinka chiefs met to end tribal conflicts.
There is no doubt as the Secretary General of the SPLM that he will resume supporting South-South dialogue. Currently, there are so many problems facing South Sudan. As the ruling party in South Sudan, the SPLM needs a Secretary General who shall come up with modalities of resolving social problems that face the Government of South Sudan (GoSS). Mr. Telar is the best candidate who could approach problems of the South through the lenses of human rights. The problem of disarmament in all Southern regions needs to be tackled by constitutionally minded fellow who respects human rights.
Although other candidates for the post are heavyweights, Telar is the most competent in formulating policies which shall bring about lasting peace in the South. The other candidates are not as competent as him when it comes to the experience of South-South dialogue. Furthermore, Telar is a multi-ethnic individual who can get along with any tribal chief in the South. A Nuer chief in Bentiew would think that Telar is a Nuer because he is very fluent in Nuer language. He is also known to speak other tribal languages. A candidate like him does not need an interpreter in Waat to talk to chiefs about the CPA.
The Nuer community throws its support behind Telar Deng. We appeal to H.E. Salva Kiir Mayardit to ignore the politics of tribal accommodation in order to let Telar become the Secretary General of the party so that he shall take the South forward.
For contact:
John Gatluak Kam
President of Union of Nuer Community in North America (UNCONA)
Email: [email protected]
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North America Nuer support Telar Deng for SPLM secretariat
Govt officials supporting training of young radicals
highly confidential intelligence brief availed to Sudan Mirror disclosed the training of a batch of 30 recruits from Greater Equatoria in Hantoub Gezira last June under the command of three senior security officers of national security. The training ran through June 10-21 this year and was attended by “carefully selected and chosen”recruits. The recruits “have special files about the backgrounds in the organization in Khartoum”. According to the intelligence brief, the courses were designed “to build a special force loyal and dedicated to carry out jihad in the South and to implement tough orders given to them”. Equatoria was chosen for the training base because of comparative advantages, the report noted. “Most of the Southerners who are in charge of security in the South and some who are integrated in the high security position in the North after the CPA are of less education and knowledge about security matters”. During the opening session of the Hantoub course, a top adviser to the GONU told the recruits that because of the comparative advantages “the penetration of military installations and government institutions plus eliminating the key leaders in the South as esay targets”. Intelligence reports also disclosed that similar training of students from other parts of Sudan have taken place in Kassala, a development that sources in GoSS say confirms the determination of the North to dilute the Comprehensive Peace Agreement. According to intelligence reports, Sudan’s Second Vice President Ali Osman Mohamed Taha was accompanied by high ranking government and security officials during the opening of the training program at Hantoub Gezira. The government and security officials present were identified. The report noted that hate speech directed at the non-Muslims characterized that opening session. In addition, there was a posthumous slur on Dr John Garang as well as denouncement of Muslims working closely with GoSS. The reports quote Vice President Taha as having called on the Muslims in the South to take up arms as he “was ready to put the oil revenue in Sudan to support the war in South Sudan to liberate the South from the infidels backed by the Israelites”. He declared that time had come for the people of Sudan to united against the “infidels”. He remarked that the war in the South Sudan took 21 years but that the new crusade to liberate the South would only take 21 days. The Vice President further disowned the CPA, saying they signed the agreement under international pressure and that the North should not have done so. He announced that plans for other similar Muslim youth training programmes covering the ten southern states especially in Equatoria were underway. According to GoSS intelligence reports, the Muslim youth training had been organized the Islamic elites in Khartoum. The programmes include training on the use of explosives and explosive belts as well as recitations of the spirit of terrorism in Jihad war. The other subjects are aptly titled: “How to exploit the churches” and “The spirit to die in the name of God”. The learning is complemented by video shows for 10 hours a day on jihad suicide operations and handling explosives in public places. The reports say the recruits do not return to their universities at the end of the training but are assigned special tasks in Khartoum to monitor the movements of members of the military and politicians from the South.