 The Second Sudanese Civil War had begun in 1983 as a response to the status of the underdeveloped South Sudan in relation to the administrative and economic center of Khartoum.The southern rebel groups quickly became dominated by the Sudan People's Liberation Army under John Garang, an ethnic Dinka.However, by the end of the 1980s there was increasing discontent with the lack of any mechanisms to highlight issues within the Movement and seek redress.