SSLM/A CONDEMNS UNITY STATE GOV’T FOR PLANTING ANTI-PERSONNEL MINES
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SSLM/A CONDEMNS UNITY STATE GOV’T FOR PLANTING ANTI-PERSONNEL MINES
FOR IMMEDIATE PUBLIC RELEASE
SOUTH SUDAN LIBERATION MOVEMENT/ARMY (SSLM/A), MAYOM
Sept, 6, 2011
The SSLM/A condemns the SPLA Division Four for planting Anti-personnel
mines which are now hampering free movements of civilians in Unity
State. The Gov. of Unity State, Maj. Gen. Taban Deng Gai, ordered the
SPLA army to plant Anti-personnel mines in major highways of the state
to harm civilians and blame the SSLM/A. It came to our attention that
the State Radio has been spreading propaganda for the last two weeks
accusing the SSLM/A for planting mines in major highways frequently
used by traders and civilians.
We want to assure the civil population of the Unity State that the
SSLM/A had never planted anti-personnel mines in the highway going to
Nhial Diew and Mayom Counties because we don’t have forces there. As
the people of Unity State know, the SSLM/A has no forces in areas
where mines are allegedly planted. What the State Radio is alleging is
a smear campaign to tarnish the image of the Movement fighting to
liberate the people of South Sudan in general and Unity State citizens
in particular.
Since the SSLM/A started war of liberation in March, our Movement
never planted anti-personnel mines because it is the violation of
international laws which outlawed their use. Besides, our forces do
not have anti-personnel mines that they could plant let alone lack of
interest to use them. The SSLM/A has been fighting using AK-47s
captured from the SPLA army. Whenever the SSLA engages the SPLA in a
battle, it is the latter that usually plants mines to defend its
garrisons. SPLA forces are the ones which buy anti-personnel mines
using oil revenue to kill the people of South Sudan.
We have made it clear that the government in Juba does not care about
the welfare of the people of South Sudan. Instead to focus on
developing the South by channeling resources to food production, the
SPLM’s regime is busy buying weapons and anti-personnel mines to kill
its own people. The money the SPLA army spends on purchasing
Anti-personnel mines a year could build roads, clinics, agricultural
schemes and clean drinking water. The SPLM’s regime spends half a
billion dollars a year to purchase weapons to kill its own people who
demand democracy. Any democratic government which is driven by
policies of transforming the lives of its own citizens could not spend
such amount of money on weapons while its own people languish in
abject poverty. South Sudan is a newly independent state which is
faced with serious economic and social problems that need wise use of
meager oil revenues.
Therefore, the SSLM/A calls upon the people of South Sudan to topple
Kiir’s regime and replace it with democratic government which would
spend money on development. The pressing needs of the people are clean
drinking water, hospitals, roads and food. Importing weapons to kill
people would not resolve the root causes of rebellion in South Sudan.
What made the people of the South to rebel against the SPLM’s regime
is because the Juba’s elites failed to deliver peace dividends to the
people. Since the signing of the CPA in 2005, $7 billion dollars had
been stolen by the corrupt guerrilla elites. To add insult to injury,
the small clique of the guerrilla elites denied people the right to
change them via ballot box using the SPLA army in 2010 elections. In
any country where people are denied both development and democracy,
the people have a right to overthrow corruption monarchs and replace
them with democratically elected representatives. The case of Egypt is
something that should inspire the people of South Sudan to liberate
themselves from guerrilla dictators in Juba.
For contact:
Information Department SSLM/A Headquarters Mayom, South Sudan Email:
[email protected]
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