South Sudan's first Vice President Riek Machar has accused rival military leaders who announced he had been deposed as party and armed forces leader of trying to block the country's peace process.
The military wing of his SPLM/A-IO movement said on Wednesday it had removed Machar, who helped push his partner, President Salva Kiir, to a peace deal in 2018 and the subsequent formation of a unity government, for undermining reforms.But in a rejoinder issued late on the same day, Machar said those who had issued the statement were no longer members of the movement's military command council.
The main aim of the move was to stop the forces from being integrated into the national command, one of the outstanding key objectives of the peace deal, he said. That sparked the massacre of hundreds of civilians in Juba from Machar's Nuer ethnic group and brutal ethnic violence and revenge killings. The bloodshed spiralled into a civil war that killed 400,000 people and triggered Africa's biggest refugee crisis since the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
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