Sudan partners mark the 4th anniversary of peace in Malakal
January 9, 2008 (KHARTOUM) — Sudan government partners marked today the fourth anniversary of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in the capital of Upper Nile State, Malakal, where they called for reconciliation and preservation of 2005 peace.
The celebration of the CPA this year was calm and the signatories of the peace agreement for the first time stopped blaming each other for the ill-implementation of the fragile deal. President Omer Hassan Al-Bashir and First Vice-President Salva Kiir Mayadrit putted aside their difference and called for reconciliation of all the Sudanese.
Al-Bashir in his speech at Malakal Stadium, said that the CPA is the biggest political achievement in the country since its independence in 1956. He also stressed that peace will not hold unless it is supported by five objectives: national reconciliation and peaceful coexistence, resolution of Darfur conflict, self determination for southern Sudanese, making unity attractive, and the organization of the general elections before the end of the fourth year of the CPA.
While Salva Kiir said that the SPLM is committed to the peace agreement and to his partnership with the National Congress Party of Al-Bashir. He also underlined he would not lead the country back to war again. However he signaled the need to resolve the pending issues.
Al-Bashir and Kiir wore a Shilluk dress called “Lawha” before to address the celebration.
The President of the Republic inaugurated Renk-Malakal Road, 72 km, and a of facilities in the capital of Upper Nile including electricity and water stations and the city branch of Bank of Southern Sudan.
He was received at Malakal airport by Salva Kiir Mayardit, and the members of Southern Sudan government.
The CPA signed on January 2005, ended more than two decades war that left 2 million dead. The deal created a national unity government, and another semi-autonomous government for the ten states of southern Sudan. It also organizes a democratic transition in the country through general elections in 2009, and allows southern Sudan to vote for self-determination in 2011.
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Sudan partners mark the 4th anniversary of peace in Malakal
To: Donkey or Bashir.
Bashir, you are a dead man walking stopping commenting on anything that concerns peace and find a place you will be burried or resign. Start thinking about how the hell is going to look, maybe it will looks like Khartoum or Damazim.
You should have start to make that peace looks attractive before but not now. I wish I was there to call an over to you donkey. Allah give and take in a misserable way that took
Sadam and you are next. Go so we can have enough space donkey jalap.
Always hawa (fresh air).
Moses Kuocgoor
Sudan partners mark the 4th anniversary of peace in Malakal
Mr.Emo,I love you and every other Sudanese, but your comment is very long and carried too much bias on Dinka tribe. The questions are how do you know the Dinka tribesmen are the killers? Did you hear it or you went and investigated the killing? And by the way, have you ever been in Juba? If not how do you know? This is a rumor. We need to be careful when we hear information from within the tribe we belong to. we must believe in what the government of Southern Sudan has reported in the media or news.
To frank, you are so pragmatic to put the challenge Dinka as if Equatorians have clear records in Southern Sudan. I don’t believe what you have written is correct. Why Dinkas attempt to kill people of Equatoria while they had not killed them during the civil war when most of them had refused to join the SPLA and preferred to sniffer them in the forest? That was the right to revenge what the criminals of Equatoria did, but I did mean all Equatoria people but those who thought what the SPLA was doing did not work. Besides of this, the government does not belong to Dinka, it’s belonged to every citizen.
My advice is that let us not finger-point each other without proper evidence. If we routinely use false accusations based on hatred the rift will grow between tribes, which I believe is not appropriate to create division among ourselves. I surely understand that we are not enemies we know our common enemies who denies our citizenships, religion, and tries to destroy our cultures. This is where we can focus on to win the war and take back our country. The Arab minority tribe in Sudan has been oppressed many Sudanese by split us up into enemies of ourselves. By doing so, we finger-point each other for no reason.
When we talk politic I understand that we must be careful not to betray or expose our problems in the south. This means that we open doors to enemies, believe it or not, the Arab Sudanese understand the area they use to weaken us but if we control our problems within us they can not get a chance. I remember when you called the SPLA soldiers militias while you know their records. Let us be careful indeed in dividing ourselves instead of united ourselves.
In general, I love you gentleman and I advise you to stop using division language. You never know you may be a leader in Southern Sudan. This is the stage to develop leadership and relationship among us.
Moses Kuocgoor
Sudan partners mark the 4th anniversary of peace in Malakal
Mr. Emo, You have taken it personally but this is not the way I look at it. I don’t think that it is fair to use or show your attitudes to us. We have possessed the same attitudes but this is not the right place to reveal it. I believe what we are trying to discuss here is to find out the solution and send it out to our leaders to justify the killings.
This does not do with the Dinka tribe or Equatoria people, it is about those who killed the innocent citizens in Juba. Nobody likes that anyway but as far as you don’t have power I don’t think your writing will solve the problems. It is going to create tension between Dinka and Equatoria tribes.
Besides that I thought I was trying to communicate with an educated person who knows how to look at the crime in different angles. I agree with you that you are fighting for your rights but you need not to generalize the whole Dinka tribe. You and I do not know how the killing occurred and this should make you understand that those who are killed might be criminals.
I know you are not in Southern Sudan you live outside the country and this may tell me that what you are trying to say might not be 100% correct. I will not stop to tell you that what you have written would not justify the situation and will not stop the militias from killing those who collaborate with the Arabs in Juba.