On developments in Southern Sudan
Sudan, Politics, 6/11/2001

The UN coordinator for emergency aid Kenzo Osheima has announced that the practices of the rebellions in southern Sudan forced almost 30,000 Sudanese civilians to leave their houses.

News reports quoted Osheima as saying in a statement that the practices carried out recently by the rebels raised concern because it resulted in further deterioration of humanitarian conditions in the region, and endangered the delivery of other hundreds of thousands of citizens.

Meanwhile, The Sudanese former vice President Joseph Laqou has strongly denounced the southern Sudan rebel movement led by John Garang, stressing that this movement is placing obstacles before achieving peace and using the people of southern Sudan for serving a plan that they have no connection to.

In a statement issued on Saturday in the Sudanese daily al-Sahafi al-Dawli in Nairobi, Laqou denounced the demands set by the rebels movement to halt pumping of the Sudanese oil, noting that oil was not the reason behind the war. He added that the rebel movement is creating claims and placing obstacles before peace.

Laqou explained that he is, at the meantime, making political moves with several intellectuals from Southern Sudan abroad in order to unify the people of the south and halt the war which was set by Garang and his allies. He added he will take part in the conference to be organized by the Sudanese churches council for Southern Sudanese in London by the beginning of July.

He also talked about a peace proposal he made stated the halt the war and the Sudanese government to carry out al-Khartoum agreement with certain amendments which state returning back the executive council for the people of the south of Sudan.

Worthy mentioning that Laqou had visited al-Khartoum in May with Daniel Kout, the governor of the higher Nile and met with government officials and with the leader of al-Ummah party al-Sadeq al-Mahdi.

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