The on-going
Sudan's peace process in Kenya has now reached a crucial and a critical stage
after the parties had signed two agreements on Security Arrangements and
Wealth-Sharing on 25th September 2003 and7th January 2004
respectively. However, there remain two contentious issues to be resolved: the
Power-Sharing and the issue of the three central marginalized areas of
While the issue
of the three marginalized central areas remains unresolved and difficult to
settle, however, information had leak out and from reliable sources that the
negotiating parties in
Having studied
carefully the two agreements signed so far by the two negotiation parties and
also what had already been leak out into the media form Naivasha peace talks, we
the under signed Nuba leaders of political parties, civil society organisations
and intellectuals are extremely concerned and would like
to draw your attention and the attention of the two negotiating parties
as well as the Troika to the following Nuba’s demands:
1.
The people of the
2.
We demand that the negotiating parties should commit themselves to the
definition of the
3. The ‘Popular Consultations’ agreed by the negotiating parties must be binding
and should not rule out the options, including the followings:
Nuba;
(b) Join a Southern state with the same guarantees;
(c) Become
an independent state.
4.
The joint integrated military units from the Government and the SPLA
forces should not be deployed in the
5.
Since the land is the major issue which is one of the reasons of this
long conflict in Nuba Mountains, as many Nuba lands had been confiscated by the
authority and converted into large mechanised farming and the landlords were
convicted and driven out of their lands which they depend on, we demand that
Nuba Mountains region should have its land
commission, with strong power to set land policies and
investigate and make recommendations on:
(a) The incorporation of customary land law into land status;
(b) Review of post-1989 rural land registration with a view to
identify which are Legitimate and which are not.
(c). The redistribution of land seized illegitimately during the post
1989.
(d) A policy on pastoral land rights; and
(e)
Gender equality in land rights.
6.
Self-rule to the
rule of law, democracy, fair election and human rights.
7. The international human right monitors must be deployed in the Nuba
Mountains during the interim period.
8. The Nuba self-rule government should have clear percentage of both wealth
and power
sharing stipulated in the peace agreement
9. The peace agreement should contain comprehensive economic recovery plan
that will deal with rehabilitation, resettlement, reconstruction and development
in the
established for the development of the area during the interim period.
10. The implementation mechanism for the self-rule must be robust and clear with
international guarantees.
11.
The
for all Sudanese nationalities.
Signatories:
(1)
United
(2)
SARRD (
(3)
Nuba Survival Foundation
(
(4)
Ru’ya Association (
(5)
NMIAD (
(6)
NMIDRF (
(7)
Nuba Intellectual-male (
(8)
Nuba
Intellectual -female (
Copy to:
British
Special Envoy for Peace in
Norwegian
Special Envoy for Peace in
Italian,
Special Envoy for Peace in
G
o S Peace Delegation
SPLM/A
Peace Delegation
Cdr.
Abdel-Aziz AdamEel-Heilo, Governor of
Contact Address:
Nuba Survival Foundation,
Tel./Fax no: 44+ 20 8893
5809 E-Mail: nubasurvival38@aol.com