Lam Akol Ajawin

This has fuelled rivalry between Lam Akol Ajawin of Democratic Change (ex-SPLM-DC) and Martin Elia Lomuro of the South Sudan Democratic Forum as to who is opposition leader...

'Before CPA in 2003 we integrated four or five different factions that had been fighting us for example that of Lam Akol [Ajawin]...

Lam Akol Ajawin's SPLM-Democratic Change the main opposition party albeit one with little influence insisted elections should not be held while the country was at war...

' These rebels are newly labelled the South Sudan Resistance Movement (SSRM) which has reminded South Sudanese if reminder were needed of Riek's 1991 rebellion with Lam Akol Ajawin which saw similar massacres and nearly destroyed the SPLM...

Riek's partner in the 1991 split from John Garang the Shilluk warlord Lam Akol Ajawin signed multiple agreements with Field Marshal Omer el Beshir's regime and went on to serve in the post­-2005 Government of National Unity (GNU) in Khartoum later standing against Salva in the 2010 election...

Riek's partner in the 1991 split from John Garang the Shilluk warlord Lam Akol Ajawin signed multiple agreements with Field Marshal Omer el Beshir's regime and went on to serve in the post­-2005 Government of National Unity (GNU) in Khartoum later standing against Salva in the 2010 election...

That was when Nuer forces loyal to Riek who with Lam Akol Ajawin had just split from the SPLM massacred hundreds of Dinka civilians...

The factional fighting soon spread to the army headquarters at Bilpam leading to fears that the military could splinter along ethnic lines and result in widespread communal violence as happened following the 1991 split in the SPLA which was led by Riek and Lam Akol Ajawin...

With the purge of the party's high command now clearly unsuccessful Salva's offer of amnesty to dissidents such as Jonglei rebel leader David Yau Yau and Lam Akol who returned to Juba in late October looks like a bid to shore up dwindling support...

He first blotted his copybook by joining Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon when he and Lam Akol Ajawin split from John Garang de Mabior's SPLM in 1991 though he later returned to the fold...

Not only did he and Lam Akol Ajawin split (and nearly destroy) the SPLM in 1991 that year's Bor massacre by his men has not been forgotten nor has his signing of 1997's Khartoum Peace Agreement and his red carpet treatment by the National Islamic Front (now NCP) regime...