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Though General Gatwech is the leader of the SPLM-IO Kitgwang faction and deputized by Olony, Olony maintains a separate force as the chairman and commander in chief of the Agwelek forces.
On Sunday, the two men signed two separate agreements with the Government of the Republic of South Sudan providing for the integration of their forces into the South Sudan People’s Defense Forces (SSPDF).
In a presidential order read out on the state-own South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation (SSBC), Kiir pardoned Gatwech and Olony for waging war against the state throughout the seven-year-old conflict.
Gatwech and Olony have been members of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition since the outbreak of the conflict, but the two men fall out with First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny in August last year over government failure to implement peace deal in letter and spirit.
They attempted to remove First Vice President Machar as the chairman and commander in chief of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army in Opposition leading to opposition infighting that has killed dozens of soldiers on both sides.
Last Sunday, they signed an agreement with the government of South Sudan in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, officiating a process to integrate their forces into the South Sudan People’s Defense Forces.
It’s good gesture which south Sudanse will to be we need peace . Our country have been looted by our politican and outsiders please please please by this time you are there to make a different so our citizens should have a fresh breathing ,
Save this letter to the spirit of peace and love to all South Sudanese parties our position us ordinary South Sudanese people we stand for peace
Peace is good always but it should be reality and legal through out the country
When and where ? did South Sudanese killed themselves for no reason
And come up with point of agreement at last and that should be condemn by the constitution and to all the leader who May serve the land for while.