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SPLM apologizes to northerners for committing mistakes against them during the civil war |
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Tuesday, 31 July 2007 |
 In Khartoum, the SPLM commemorated the second anniversary of its leader at the Khartoum Stadium. The Secretary General of the SPLM, Pagan Amum, apologized to the northerners for mistakes the movement committed upon them during the civil war. Mr. Amum called on all the political parties in the country to also apologize for their mistakes. Mr. Amum accused the National Congress Party of not willing to implement the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA).
 Miraya FM reporters at the Khartoum Stadium reported that members of the National Congress Party did not participate in the celebrations causing questions to be asked by the people. However, to analys on the commemoration of Dr. John Garang death, Miraya FM John Wani conducted an exclusive interview with the chairman of the United Democratic Front, Peter Sule, and asked him about what challenges is Sudan facing due to the absence of Dr. John Garang in the political arena of the country. Peter Sule said: "It is true that the death of John Garang, the late leader of the SPLM and of course also in a wider context, great leader of all south Sudan died and his death was very tragic, because he has just signed the agreement and he came to the country and spend twenty-one days. That tragedy left a very indelible mark in the conscious of all south Sudanese, this is a fact. Second, his death left a very big vacuum, not in the sense that we will lack leaders; the question is whether the leader will be of the same quality, the same charisma, and the same force as of the first, so to the question whether his death affects the southern unity, I will say with respect to me it has been affected and affected very greatly". Miraya FM: You know the vision of Dr. John Garang was for a one united Sudan, do you think the vision is still holding within the SPLM? Mr. Sule said; "That view was qualified; you see John Garang qualified that. He said of course he as a person he would want the country to be one like everybody, like all of us. When we were born, we did not know this difference existed and we came to be aware about it. Of course one would have wished the country to be one, if only these hypocrisies, these barbarism: John Garang qualified the thing by saying that although he wanted the country to be one it is left for the government to make this unity attractive. If the southerners are not made to look at the unity as an attractive thing then the southerners of course during the plebiscite would vote for the country of their own. And so this is what I would say, he qualified his statement by these things.
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