A group calling themselves the “Murle Intellectuals Committee” in Jonglei State is organizing to meet the rebel leader David Yau Yau to start the peace process.

A member of the committee, John Towan said the peace process will immediately start after getting official permission from the President.

“We are going to Pibor to be on the ground because here is not easy, you know just to talk to him on phone is not enough, but we plan to sit with him physically to talk to him physically; these are plan as committee we are working on it,” he told Eye Radio.

Mr. Towan said that once the discussions start, there is a high expectation that Yau Yau will accept the peace deal.

“We know our hope that Yau Yau is going to accept the peace and we will decide and we are looking forward that Yau Yau really t accepts the peace, but in our hope we know that Yau Yau is going to accept. Yau Yau is not going to fight the government,” he said.

During the commemoration of the Martyr’s Day, the President asked the Murle elders to try their best in talking to Yau Yau to respond to his amnesty.

Last week, former rebel leaders under South Sudan Defense Forces met with officials of the SPLA to work out plans of integrating over five thousand of its soldiers into the national army.