Minni Arcua Minnawi

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Minni Minnawi with George W. Bush

Minni Arcua Minnawi (* 1968 or 1969) is the leader of the largest faction of the Sudanese Liberation Army (SLA / M). He belongs to the Zaghawa tribe .

Under Minnawi's leadership, his SLA / M parliamentary group was the only one of the rebel organizations in Darfur to sign a peace agreement (Darfur Peace Agreement, DPA) with the Sudanese government on May 5, 2006 in the Nigerian capital Abuja . He stood against the SLA Unity faction of Abdel Wahed Mohammed al-Nur and against the Islamist JEM . In August 2006, Minnawi was appointed as the top Sudanese functionary in the Darfur region, as chairman of the Regional Interim Authority of Darfur and as main adviser to the president, making it the fourth highest member of the presidency. The negotiations in Abuja were unsuccessful and the agreement was never implemented. The violence increased in the period that followed, as the factions that had not signed now also fought against Minnawi. Since then, Minni's faction has been fighting on principle on the side of the government, but according to Amnesty International , members of his faction attacked civilians in the Korma region, 70 km northwest of al-Fashir , between July 4 and 8, 2006 . About 72 people were killed, 103 injured and 39 women raped. The attackers cited the rejection of the peace agreement as the reason.

On September 14, 2006, Minnawi declared that he did not object to the deployment of a UN peacekeeping force under UN resolution 1706 , in contrast to the Sudanese government. In March 2007 it was reported that Minnawi was viewing his eight months in office as a disappointment / failure. "If there was the political will from Khartoum, the situation in Darfur would be calm."

In April 2008, Minnawi left the government informally and settled in the north of Darfur, where he has been mostly since then, complaining about the government's attacks and the lack of a peace process. Reasons for this turning away from Minnawi are, on the one hand, the incomplete support of his own people after the signing of the peace treaty - in May 2008, a Minnawi commander and his group left the opposing SLM Unity , a group that had previously separated from Minnawi had renounced, on the other hand in the purely formal meaning of his high government office, because "the lack of any equipment in his office shows that he is not involved in decisions and - in the best case - learns about them from the media." As a consequence Minnawi returned to South Sudan, declared the 2006 peace agreement a failure in December 2010 and his organization was ready to fight again.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NPR, July 28, 2006 gives the age of Minni Arcua Minnawi as 37 years
  2. ^ Sudan (Darfur): Korma: yet more attacks on civilians. Amnesty International, July 31, 2006
  3. ↑ Sudan rulers don't want peace-former Darfur rebel. Reuters, March 6, 2007
  4. ↑ Darfur Minawi rejects Sudan's fifth census. Sudan Tribune, July 27, 2008
  5. ^ Wasil Ali: Sudan's senior presidential assistant condemns deadly Darfur camp attack. Sudan Tribune, August 28, 2008
  6. ^ Minawi's commander joins a Darfur rebel faction. Sudan Tribune, May 30, 2008
  7. ↑ Annette Weber: Power structures and political camps. In: Bernhard Chiari (ed.): Guide to history. Sudan. Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn a. a. 2008, p. 75
  8. ^ Sudan rebel chief ready to battle Khartoum. AFP, December 12, 2010 (Relief Web)
personal data
SURNAME Minnawi, Minni Arcua
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Leader of the largest faction in the Sudanese Liberation Army
DATE OF BIRTH 1968 or 1969