Changes to Sudan’s Interim Constitution annul Bill of Rights

<p>The recent constitutional amendments definitely annul the Bill of Rights of the Interim Constitution and the civil rights stipulated in the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), according to the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N).</p><p>Yasir Arman, SPLM-N Secretary-General, commented to Dabanga that the constitutional amendments were passed in the parliament on 5 January “destroyed all the gains the Two Areas (South Kordofan and Blue Nile states, RD) achieved in the CPA”. The CPA was signed by the Sudanese government and the SPLM in January 2005, after years of negotiations, ending the 22-year civil war between the southern Sudanese SPLM and the government in Khartoum.</p>
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