SPLA-Nasir

SPLA-Nasir
LeadersRiek Machar
Lam Akol
Gordon Kong Chuol
Peter Par Jiek
Dates of operation28 August 1991 – January 2002
AlliesSudan Government of Sudan
Opponents Sudan People's Liberation Army
Preceded by
Deserters from SPLA
Succeeded by
SPLA

The SPLA-Nasir was a splinter faction of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), a rebel group that fought in the Second Sudanese Civil War. Originally created as an attempt by the Nuer tribe to replace SPLA leader John Garang in August 1991, it gradually became coopted by the government. The break away of Riek Machar from SPLM/A resulted in Nuer ethnic group massacring Garang's ethnic Dinka from Bor in the Bor massacre in 1991. This split resulted in the 1994 National Convention of New Sudan in Chukudum.

The splinter group gets its name from the Nasir Declaration, the document written by the group prior their secession.[1]

  1. ^ Akol, 13