Aguil Chut Deng:'We need peace for the people of South Sudan'

Aguil Chut Deng is a South Sudanese activist and Australian. She and other women advocated during the IGAD peace talk between the South Sudanese warring parties. Since she moved to Australia in the 1990s, Aguil kept travelling between Australia and South Sudan as the voice for peace and women. Years before the independence of South Sudan in 2011, Aguil advocated for the separation. However, recently she was accused of being a Government supporter by the opposition groups who accused her of being a government propaganda machine, and she denied it.

Comrade Aguil Chut Deng at SBS studio Source: SBS

After the December Crisis, Aguil, a member of the ruling party SPLM, found herself at odds with her former colleagues in SPLM (Sudanese People Liberation Movement) in Opposition and the former detainees. According to Aguil; she believes most of the former ministers or associates were responsible for the mess within the ruling party. She accused them of being the people behind the misuse of public funds. Here is the interview.