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SPLM-DC accuses southern Sudan authorities of arresting its supporters in Upper Nile

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July 26, 2009 (KHARTOUM) — the SPLM Democratic Change accused Southern Sudan authorities of briefly arresting its local leaders in Upper Nile, saying the arrest "aim to deny our party the right to practice politics"

Earlier this month, Dr Lam Akol, the leader of the SPLM-DC, accused the SPLA of arresting five supporters in Wadakona of Upper Nile State on July 4, 2009 and one supporter in Wau town.

However the southern Sudan army denied the accusation saying "The allegation against the SPLA by Dr. Lam is a big lie aiming at discrediting the SPLA."

The former foreign minister Dr Lam Akol, founded last June the SPLM-DC after a long latent crisis with his former party the SPLM. He said he wants to save the SPLM from the "abyss" and said that its leadership are "bankrupt" and "undemocratic".

On Saturday, the Sultan of Southern Sudan Murle tribe in Khartoum, William Lisho, after a meeting with Dr. Lam Akol that one thousand people from the tribe joined the SPLM-DC. He further said that SPLM main stream had failed to maintain the security for the people in the south.

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24 Forum messages

  • The dictatorship of the SPLM will only intensify since the disastrous Abeyi ruling. I urge all southerners to rethink their loyalty to the SPLM and look around you and see what they have done to the South. They have talked the talk but have they walked the walk?

    I believe the SPLM-DC is the only hope for the South and I would rather have an academic like Dr Lam Akol a lecturer in Chemical Engineering than a bush fighter who buys his PHDs for $100,000 from Southern Sudanese money as my leader.

    I congratulate the noble Murle Tribe for taking this step.

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  • SPLM-DC Oyeee!!!!!!!.:

    Through democracy we will have better life. People of South must have their choice. People who want democracy you have the party now which is SPLM-DC. We all southern have fought the war and chared the death to have security,job, better life, and chared the all things, but SPLM deny some its people. They started calling their nephew in their language(Whatkei ba taan),looting public property, lands grabbing. Murle tribe you are the people who need peace in the South because you want democracy. SPLM-Dc Oyee....... Oyeeeee.

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    • Targeting SPLM-DC supporters shows that they are gaining ground all over Southern Sudan. Old tribal SPLM clique are losing while we are growing each and every day.

      You can arrest people, but you can’t stop them from thinking and chosing what is best for themselves. We’ve decided to step out past the smelly house of the deformed old SPLM due to lose of direction and vision within its current leadership. No force under the sun can deny us this legitimate right.

      SPLM-DC will prevail and SPLM will parish, it’s just a matter of time and the misused money that is still keeping some people around them.

      Long live SPLM-DC...

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  • Hey Dr Feign Lam Akol,

    The whole Southern Sudanese people see you and your arrogants will never drive you anywhere. We know that you are blind fooling yourself that you are a politician, but you don’t know that you are a disaster to yourself. Lam Akol, how many parties have you formed now and you have never succeed? My advise to you is that, if Arabs people from the Northern Khartoum rendered you with some money in order to distort the SPLM/SPLA, then I hope you will end up eating that money without putting forth the aim strategies of being bribed by the Arabs. Those supporters being arrested by the SPLM/SPLA were maligning or spreading a wrong bias with which the SPLM/SPLA don’t want. I do supported the SPLM/

    Second, Mr Lam Akol, if you see that people are not in need of your party, then why don’t you go back to Khartoum and work as a sanitation manager whereby you can go and dig a latrines, toilets and a sewage canals for the Arabs people in the Northern Sudan? Or you can tell it to Salva Kiir so that he can hired you in that position because you are not worthy to be a politician.

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    • I think that,Mr.Lam Akol accusation is something most people will never accept or talk about it. We all know him long time ago and also worked with Sudanese govenment.He didn’t do anything to southern during his administration.He just like to disturbing people with many different things somebody educated person might never talk about. For instance, he just talking about SPLM while he has nothing to do for us in south sudan. However, he had been a foriegner minister and cooperated with sudan government to destray peace between South and North. Therefore, we need to stop him not to spreading falses statement on our government. Mr.Lam always like to get something for himself. This is what is do all the time. He care about himself not for us we southern. By Daniel Khot Duoth

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  • We are tied of SPLM-DC accusation, how many time SPLM-DC have been accusing other, and how many time SPLM-DC been advise to be quiet till the referendum. SPLM-DC now accusing all Southern Sudan include all party, particularly Upper Nile which is belong to NCP because the competent authority in Upper Nile is NCP. SPLM-DC becomes SPLM-LIAR

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  • Shame on whoever supporting money minded Lem Akol,he has no vision in Southern Sudan at all.His interest is to get money.Anyway,let him bark as much as he needs but last he will curse the day he was born.

    Sudan people’s liberation movement is not a donkey on which anybody is free to take a joy ride.They know they fought that was/is to restore the rights and dignity of the Southerners in Southern Sudan. Critic Ngueny from Bot town

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    • To Mr Axan,Joseph,Critic and others Comrades:

      You guys who defend the administration that dose not have security,to its people ,give job to people who are not qualify just because they are their families,support people who take some people their land. Do not forget that those whom their right being denied have their families in SPLM/A and they are not going to accept abuse the SPLM is doing to their people. We need democracy in South to avoid conflict between people of south because we fought Arab for democracy. So, if SPLM is thinking that it dose not want democracy in South then this is another issue. CPA was brought by the world to save the citizen of south Sudan for being victims of violence, but not for SPLM. Please tell your leader to be careful with steps they made which is Communists ways.

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      • Dear brothers for both SPLM and SPLM-DC, I would like to say that playing politics with direct insults may ot help us a lot. I have seen all that you people have written about SPLM and SPLM-DC. I have known the SPLM I can say all the pros and the cons of the SPLM. I can also do the same for SPLM-DC, but the issue here, if you are supposed to be cooked, where will you prefer to be cooked, in the fire or in the a pan? If a lion is chasing you and you fall into the river to cross it for safety and are drawning, where will the person who wants to save you to take you? Across the river or back to the bank side where the lion is? I want to know like anythinker would, why should the SPLM-DC choose to begin their compaigns Murle other than any other place? If we could ask, how many of the murle people really now what is happening within the country in the context of politics? What per cent of Mule people can distinguise between PLM and SPLM-DC?

        This a food for thought for a wise decision making.

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        • Dear Southerners, Lam Akol and his team are weakness element of the South so let them shout and we progress with mean objectives to liberate the South. Lam Akol is a big Collaborate toward the South freedom and he is a man of himself than to think for his Nation. Akol went to the communties whereby people influnce through money and food to change what they were doing. I heard from colleagues in his comment that, the current government of South have no good security but I don’t see where Mr. Akol will get enough forces to provide protection to Southerner while his community personal are few in the SPLA since majority of them are working with North. We southerners are not working for our family benefit but for South so whoever think for few money he get from Bashir will not continue staying with us in the South until he change his name and he will not get leadership of South forever.

          Ajus

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        • Dear mr Lio Abi:

          Your question is good mr Lio, but you should have known what have been going on in the South since the CPA agreement up today if you are true south. To make it simple Murle people and all southerns are looking for place that has peace, security and save place to live in except those who are beneficiary from present of insecurity in South. Not all people want violence. SPLM-DC has been com paging in all states in south Sudan, event some of its members was arrested by SPLM in Upper Nile, Yambio, and Jongli State,I think you heard that. SPLM-DC is every where in South, do not be cheat by those who take it personally to SPM-DC Chairman. They just need to keep people of South in problems.

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      • Oduok and Oshay,

        put in mind that Demacracy can not be brought about by forming useless party that do not serve snd reflect the interests of the people who support it,Akol formed and joined too many parties and the visions he purportedly claim have not succeeded. He had been in SPLM/A,why do you think his visions did not succeeded.frist of all Lam is not a democratic and reformist but a very simple dictator,authotarian and a traitor for the south.

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      • Southern Sudan is still in a "Could War" my friend we have no room to accommodate coward comrades that speak from the other side of the river. Lam can not and will not lead the south because simply he is our biggest traitor being fed by our enemies, we have lots of political party in the south, and After 2011 referendum we will choose carefully from those southern political parties for a more better government that will meet our peoples desire. But until the referendum 2011 SPLM/SPLA will play this political games being played by Bashir, weather militarily or politically. SPLA wayeeeee……SPLM wayeeee……. STRUGGLE continues!!!!!!!

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  • This man call Dr.Lam is a dangerous lame, dead soul in South Sudan, to leave him living mean allowing more worms to spontaneously come up. So what is the solution, dissolve his political party and incorporate him again to South Sudan political Life in high position, instead of discording him to make havoc. because if we see closely, Dr. Lam Akol the Lame is a curse person in South Sudan. He like to be a president in South Sudan, a position which Dinkas don’t want to evacuate it.

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    • I had that there is the airplane crash with two Dr in the SOUTH.They were heading for their compening the SPLM_DC in the ground,but unfornately the plane crash near the upper nile state

      supporter take care for your life due to bad thinking of these people very well as you can make it for future adition

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      • Greetings to all of you commentators. I’m a new member to this website. There are numerous whys that make me to become one of the members of this website-that is I have been reading many news articles on variety of issues happening directly or indirectly in Sudan as well as commentaries issued by some members of this website also known as Sudan Tribune to a particular topic(s)of the day.

        Anyway the subject of today that I’m going to comment on is"SPLM-DC accuses Southern Sudan authorities of arresting its supporters in Upper Nile." I believe we all know who Dr.Lam Kol is right now. He is fomenting, "he is carrying slanderous and dangerous motives with him prescribed in his heart and marked on his back by NCP to spread them all over southern Sudan and other Sudan states against SPLM to relief himself from the past and prensent failures of his which he blames on SPLM. And some of us also aware of his either past or present and future activities. To point out some of his past activities we know that Dr.Lam Kol who recently founded new Sudan party was former soldier and member for Sudan People Liberation Army/Movement(SPLA/M) which was good. Some of the activities that Dr.Lam is doing right now are very various which are either annoying or not heart-breaking to some population in the Sudan. I’m not in position of going deep into Dr.Lam’s vision with his new divisive party he created in a wrong time to exacerbating issues in Southern Sudan, but I doubt none of his ideas are different from SPLM’S ones. So,a person of such nature is hard to convince especially due to his historical symbiosis with the Khartoum government.

        To those who blame SPLM for something that requires profound knowledge supposedly acquired from advanced academical institutions. I’m an SPlM partisan I do not accept their bad conducts or condemn them. We are on the verge to form a country. We all know that to build a house, in this case a country elsewhere on the earth does perfectly mean through easy times. Every stable or unstable sovereign states in the world right now is created by both encountering complexity and simplicity on way. It is obvious to any logical person with sheer common sense and mind to perceive and announce that SPLM is a young government that has just come out of the bush without proper and effective implements to make a country flourish and prosperous. It is evident that it has been staging war against the oppressors not in Northern Sudan, but in Khartomum to free the marginalized Sudan population from south to north,east to west and central etc. We know that SPLM vision has been drawn by our fine men,women and comrades both who are still at hand with us and those are in Heavenly Father’s(God) hands Frankly speaking,I’m a patriot, I admire and willing to defend and die for my will be country and for my people if the above report is true well,then I’m on the side of Southern Sudan authorities. I’m backing them up for arresting those people not only in Upper Nile State, but also those in other southern Sudan States who blindly support Dr.Lam’s wrong party created at the wrong time. Those literate people who support Dr.Lam new party should understand that that party is not going to take them anywhere because this is not the right time for such things to be formed in Southern Sudan due to the fact that unity among ourselves is most needed to concentrate on our real enemies who have been threatening our existence since long ago. To those who are illiterate across the ten states of Southern Sudan I do not blame you for being illiterate because some of you were born in bad times and hence have no chance to the opportunities that the rest of the world is enjoying. However,I hope you listen to the message and advice and directions given to you by an SPLM, true liberator and nationalist. Therefore I do not have much to say but there is something crook I sense from the people of Southern Sudan and Northern who comment on this site.I have seen high volume of tribalism among my dear fellow Southern Sudanese who comment on this site as well as an awkward sentimentality and spirit of regionalism which need to be cast out immediately and ignorant attitudes of those who support the Khartoum oppressors. We know that such attitudes will never take us to achieve our dear goals. I’m sure Southern Sudan will be our country soon. Let us eliminate tribalism,Clan ism,Regionalism and division and all other forms of slander among ourselves so that we can perfectly turn our will be country southern Sudan into better,safe,free and just and fascinating place in which to reside.

        Have a nice day By Mass

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  • Mr. Leo

    I did not want to answer any question but the questions you raised appeared luny and crabby for me in some ways. Any way let me answer you numerically to help you understand better:-

    1. You said how many Murle know what is going on in the country? I am Murle so tell me what I don’t know that you know better than me so far.

    2. You claimed that Lam started his campaign in Murle? I think this question proved to me that, you are a lost sheep with no knowledge about what is going in the country because SPLM-DC was started in Khartoum, the general secretary is from Equartoria, SPLM-DC claim to have recieved good number of supporters in Equotoria, Upper Nile and in Bhar El Ghazel before anything came up about Murle. Also the SPLM-DC representative in Canada is Dinka, I know very big guys from every tribe in southsudan are in SPLM-DC coats but you don’t have idea about that, here I don’t understand the point you are driving to.

    Mind you body, democratically people don’t joint political parties based on tribal lines. Instead, people choose parties according to the believes and the principles of the party, what each and every individual sees as the benefit to the nation or personal interest.

    Please Mr. Leo stop finger pointing when it comes to the choice of political party because I know even at the moment, 99% of Murle population is purely still under SPLM.

    Hence, I don’t even know what you are talking abou and after all your questions are very inefficacious.

    God bless.

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