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March 8, 2011 |
Any resolution of the Abyei dispute must address the root causes, which are:
• the marginalization of the Ngok Dinka within the systems of parliamentary and
local government since the 1950s;
• the progressive annexation of their territory by the Misseriya, ( semi nomadic Arab trib. herders) with support of
successive Khartoum regimes since the 1970s;
• the abrogation by Khartoum of the referendum promised in the Addis Ababa
Agreement of 1972;
• the mobilization of Misseriya militias in the recent civil war during the 1980s and
1990s as a continuation of the policy of annexation.