Peter Lorot

Peter Lorot is a former officer who served with the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) during the Second Sudanese Civil War (1983-2005). He broke away from the SPLA in 1999 with a Didinga force based on Chukudum, in Budi County of Eastern Equatoria State in South Sudan. In the resulting conflict many people were displaced. As of April 2011 Lorot's forces were still not reconciled with the de facto SPLM government.

In 1999 there was extreme tension in Chukudum between the Dinka-led military authorities and the Didinga people, fueled by a history of humiliation, harassment and violence since the SPLA moved into the region in 1985. When a Dinka was promoted in place of Lorot, he and several supporters assassinated the Dinka officer and took to the woods. In September 2000 Non-Government Organization (NGO) personnel were evacuated from the area due to concerns that conflict might erupt between Lorot's forces and the SPLA. The next month Lorot attacked SPLA forces around Chukudum. Since the SPLA had followed a policy of integrating people of different communities into their forces, the SPLA troops attacked by Lorot were Didinga and Toposa people, rather than the Dinka people against whom Lorot was hostile. A report of the fighting said Lorot seemed to be supported by the government of Sudan.

In May 2001 the Danish pilot of an ICRC plane was killed while flying over the region. The plane had been forced to descend briefly to 2,000 metres (6,600 ft) for technical reasons, and had just climbed back to its assigned altitude. An SPLM spokesman said the SPLA had no forces in the area, and "therefore puts the blame squarely on the government of Sudan and its allied militias", including Lorot's group among these. The government in Khartoum had accused the SPLA of involvement, but the SPLM said the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) controlled Kapoeta town and was responsible for the incident because it directed Lorot's operations. According to an SPLM spokesman the incident occurred west of the Didinga Hills, about 65 km (40 mi) south of Kapoeta, over territory that was mostly controlled by pro-government militias led by Captain Peter Lorot.

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