Yasir Arman
Yasir Arman | |
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ياسر عرمان | |
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| Secretary General ofSudan People's Liberation Movement-North | |
| Assumed office 2011 | |
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| Born | October 5, 1962 Tabat City,Al-Jazira,Sudan[1] |
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Yasir Said Arman(Arabic:ياسر سعيد عرمان;born October 5, 1962) is aSudanesepolitician and a leading figure in theSudan People's Liberation Movement(SPLM). He was the SPLM's deputy secretary-general for the northern sector and its spokesman.[2]Initially he was presented as the SPLM candidate for theApril 2010 presidential election,but the party later chose to boycott the presidential election. After South Sudan's independence on July 9, 2011, and the creation of a separate SPLM party in theRepublic of the Sudan(North Sudan), Arman has become thesecretary generalof the SPLM-N.
Arman is one of the leaders who helped draft and signed theNaivasha agreementof the Comprehensive Peace Agreement that ended the war between the north and south of Sudan in 2005. He was the head of the SPLM quota for the parliamentary faction.
Childhood and youth
[edit]Yasir Arman belongs to theJa'alin,an Arab tribe indigenous to Northern Sudan; he was born in Tabat City in the state ofAl Jazirah.He joined theSudanese Communist Partyas a student in the mid-seventies.[1]
Arman was accused of involvement in the deaths of two pro-Islamiststudents at the Khartoum branch ofCairo University(nowAl-Neelain University), but was subsequently acquitted of the charges in court.[1]
SPLM activist
[edit]Arman left the Sudanese Communist Party and joined the SPLM in 1987. He became very close to the former leaderJohn Garang.Arman was appointed as a military leader and spokesman.[1]
Yasir Arman was arrested with other leaders in December 2009 after attempting to conduct a demonstration inKhartoumto protest against legislation passed in theparliament of Sudan.[3]
SPLM-N (al-Agar)
[edit]After the secession of South Sudan, Arman remained in theSPLM-Ngroup in Sudan.[1]In the 2017 split of SPLM-N into SPLM-N (Agar) and SPLM-N (al-Hilu),[4][5]Arman joined the SPLM-N (Agar) faction, becoming its deputy chair.[6]
Personal life
[edit]Yasir Arman is married to a daughter ofSultanDeng Majok,one of the sultans ofSouth Sudan,and has four children.[citation needed]
See also
[edit]References
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- ^"Sudanese ex-rebel leader arrested: Twitter".Al Arabiya English.2021-10-25.Retrieved2022-01-31.
- ^Al Jazeera
- ^"Al-Mahdi rejects linking peace in Sudan to secular state".Sudan Tribune.12 January 2020.Archivedfrom the original on 2020-01-13.Retrieved16 January2020.
- ^"SPLM-N Agar warns against renewed fighting with al-Hilu in Blue Nile".Sudan Tribune.2017-12-16.Archivedfrom the original on 2019-12-19.Retrieved2019-12-19.
- ^"SPLM-N's Arman arrives in Khartoum".Sudan Tribune.2019-05-26.Archivedfrom the original on 2019-05-26.Retrieved2020-01-24.