NCP Alleged To Be Backing Up Clashes in Abyei

3rd March 2011 – (Juba) –The secretary for external affairs at the Abyei Referendum Forum alleges that the NCP is backing the current clashes in Abyei to destabilize the proposed south Sudan state.

Doctor Biong Kuol Deng addressed a press conference in Juba on Wednesday.

[Biong Kuol] “We have come at a very critical and very dangerous point in our history because the N-C-P has refused to accept the decision of southern Sudanese- that they want their own country. And so they are saying, yes, you have your country but this country is not going to be stable. It is going to start with wars between the north and the south and also supporting militia elements within the south to continue to destabilize the south. So, for them, they have not accepted this notion of south becoming an independent state. They are still trying their level best to ensure that even if they may not stop the masses of southern Sudan to become independent and enjoy freedom, they could at least destabilize, at least make it difficult for the new state to start with nation building process.”

Doctor Deng is urging the U-N Human Rights Council to look into the issue.

[Biong Kuol] “I call on the United Nations especially the U-N Human Rights Council and International Human Rights Organization to put pressure on the government of Sudan and especially the N-C-P leaders to stop this madness. What they are doing is madness because they are dragging the Sudanese people into a situation whereby we are going to continue to slaughter each other.”

Abyei was to hold a separate referendum concurrent to that of southern Sudan to decide whether to join the South, or remain in the North Sudan.

However, the vote delayed as the SPLM and the N-C-P could not agree on who is eligible to vote in Abyei.