One of the four South Sudanese politicians whowere detained for months after fighting broke out last year says the United Nations and African Union should impose a peace deal on South Sudan's warring sides if they cannot reach one themselves.
"If we fail to reach an agreement as South Sudanese, particularly the warring parties, then the IGAD countries should impose it," former SPLM Secretary General Pagan Amum told South Sudan in Focus.
"If the two warring parties defy the IGAD region, then the IGAD countries should seek the support of our continent. And the last resort would be to seek international community intervention through the Security Council of the United Nations, because South Sudan cannot and should not be allowed to fall into chaos and widen the areas of disorder and chaos in this continent," he said.
Amum and 11 other high-ranking political figures were detained in December last year on suspicion of being part of what
Amum has been attending the South Sudan peace talks, which are brokered by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD). The latest round of Information Minister Michael Makuei blamed the rebel side for causing the talks to falter. He said the rebels had reneged on an earlier agreement on the number of cabinet positions in the national government.
are lacking the desire of seeing South Sudan return to peace."