| | Background to the Present Situation in Southern Sudan Today, the Southern Sudan is once more a bloody war zone with several thousands of Southerners, predominantly from Upper Nile (capital: Malakal) and Bahr el Gazal regions (capital: Wau) having grouped together under the umbrella of SPLA/SPLM 'which has been founded to spearhead armed resistance against Numeiri's one-man no-system dictatorship and to organise the whole Sudanese people under the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), a movement which belongs to the whole Sudanese and which will fight tirelessly for their Unity, Peace and Progress (Garang, March 1984). |
