SUDAN / SPLM PAGAN AMUM

Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) South Sudan's ruling party has accused the National Congress Party (NCP) based in Khartoum of backing militias with the intention to cause "genocide" in the semi-autonomous region as it approaches independence. UNMIS

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:37
• Production Date: 14 March 2011
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS ASSISTANCE MISSION IN SUDAN - UNMIS
• Subject Topical: POLITICAL CONDITIONS; POLITICAL MOVEMENTS; PEACE AND SECURITY; POLITICAL CONDITIONS
• Geographic Subject: SUDAN
• MAMS Id: U110314e

Description

TORY: SUDAN / SPLM PAGAN AMUM
TRT: 1:37
SOURCE: UNMIS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ARABIC / NATS

DATELINE: 13 MARCH 2011, JUBA, SUDAN

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, Pagan Amum Secretary General SPLM arriving in Juba
2. Med shot, Pagan Amum seating at VIP lounge
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Pagan Amum, Secretary-General, Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement (SPLM):
“The country is in crises, because the National Congress Party has been planning and working to destabilize South Sudan, from before the referendum until now. They have step up their destabilization of South Sudan by creating, training and arming and financing various militia groups in Southern Sudan, with the aim to cause destabilization of Southern Sudan and with the aim to affect the peace that South Sudanese have won.”
4. Wide shot, journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Pagan Amum, Secretary-General, Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement (SPLM):
“We call on the security council of the United Nations to investigate the conduct of the NCP and the plan of the NCP to destroy the South, to destroy peace in the South and we have detailed information.”
6. Med shot, Pagan Amum chatting with journalists

Storyline

Pagan Amum, Secretary General of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), South Sudan’s ruling party has accused Khartoum’s National Congress Party (NCP) of backing militias with the intention of destabilizing the region as it approaches independence.

Talking to reporter in Juba on Sunday (13 Mar), Pagan said that President Omer Al-Bashir’s NCP “has been planning and working to destabilize South Sudan, from before the referendum until now.”

South Sudan has now suspended talks with Khartoum, accusing the NCP in the north of plotting to overthrow the southern government.

Pagan added that the NCP have been arming Arab tribes along the border between the north and south so that they carry out genocide like they have done to the African people in Darfur.

He urged the United Nations (UN) Security Council “to investigate the conduct of the NCP.”

Last week, the UN mission in the country (UNMIS) voiced its growing concerns over the civilian impact of the continuing operations by the SPLA against a militia loyal to General George Athor in the state of Jonglei.

The clashes between the two groups have been reported since January, when voters in Southern Sudan overwhelmingly approved a referendum to secede from the rest of Sudan later this year.