How SPLM reproduced the system it once fought

The tragedy of post-independence South Sudan is not merely the persistence of conflict or economic collapse; it is the deeper irony that the ruling Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-In Government (SPLM-IG) has gradually reproduced the very political system against which the liberation struggle was waged. What was once a revolutionary movement dedicated to dismantling marginalization, authoritarianism and ethnic domination has, in the eyes of many observers, evolved into a governing structure that mirrors the practices of the old…