Nuer Community of North America Calls upon UNMISS To Stop South Sudan Government for Killing People In The Name Of Peace
For Immediate Release Nuer Community of North America (NCNA) The newly elected Nuer Community of North America’s leadership is appealing to UNMISS to start the New Year 2013 with new beginning in South Sudan. To set up a committee that would stop President Salva Kiir's regime and the SPLA killing people in the name of peace. To stop these falsest peace processes with the combatants and oppositions, especially in Nuer areas after the failed attempted to assassinate spiritual Mr Dak Kueth on December 17, 2012. The recent killing of independent writer known as Isaiah Abraham ( Ding Wuol) is a sign of desperate by the government to eliminated the oppositions. On April 23, 2011, according to the Associates Press, the report said, “The three U.N. reports obtained by The Associated Press are the first accounts of mass civilian casualties in the southern village of Kaldak caused by soldiers from Southern Sudan. One report was labeled "Confidential & Sensitive Information," another was "UN RESTRICTED," and the third had no apparent classification. There however, it is clear that the SPLA and the government of South Sudan have hidden agenda. This UN report concluded, “A U.N. security assessment said the motives of the clash were tribal and political. Tanginye's force is predominantly from the Nuer community, while the majority of southerners are Dinka. The Nuer is tribe has had a long-running feud with the Dinka, and most southerners are against the integration of rebel groups, many of which are Nuer, into the military's ranks.” Source: NBC NEWS On July 23, 2011, according to the BBC the headline was “A key South Sudanese rebel leader, Col Gatluak Gai, who this week signed a peace deal with the government, has been killed. Colonel Gai began his rebellion following elections last year, after the candidate he supported for state governor was controversially declared to be the loser. This week Col Gai signed a peace agreement with the South Sudan army and was due to be reintegrated into it. A fellow rebel told the BBC he had been lured into a trap by the army, which then assassinated him.” Source BBC Here again, the Nuer community of North America acknowledge that the spiritual leader Mr Dak Kueth was lured in to the same false peace accord by SPLA and Kuol Manyang Juuk. The SPLA started the talks with Spiritual leader around November 5, 2012 to December 15, 2012. The SPLA used the same tactics that results the clashes of December 17, 2012. The Nuer Community of North America condemned with the stronger term these unlawful killings of civilians and this pure assassination attempted to Spiritual leader Mr Dak Kueth In this particular case however, the SPLA seem to forgot where all these begun, since the SPLA launched disarmament campaigned last March, the relationship between the Nuer Youth under the command of Bor Doang and the regime in Juba has been characterized by bloody clashes and mistrust. The Nuer Youth clashed many times with SPLA because the policy of disarmament was a unilateral action which didn't take into account the demands of the Nuer community for safety and protection. The concerns raised by Nuer Youth during the commencement of disarmament in Jonglei state are well-founded and are based on experience and the failures of the government to protect the communities disarmed in the past. In 2006, the SPLA (Republic of SPLM's military wing) conducted disarmament in Lou Nuer hoping to end insecurity, gun violence and crimes. However, the disarmament in the past didn't bring about peace because it failed to address the biggest cause of insecurity in Jonglei state, that is, cattle rustling among the tribal communities in the state. After Lou Nuer were disarmed in 2006, more people were killed by cattle rustlers afterwards more than before the time of disarmament because Murle cattle rustlers exploited the situation. Reliable organizations like International Crisis Group noted that 2006 disarmament did not bring about peace. It however exposed Lou Nuer to more insecurity and deaths. Based upon the statistics of massacres after the misguided disarmament of 2006, the concerns raised by Lou Nuer regarding disarmament in March this year cannot be dismissed by a responsible government without providing alternatives. Unfortunately, the regime of Salva Kiir was carried by emotions as a result of Nuer Youth reaction of the massacre of six hundred women and children in Uror County in August, 2011. When Nuer Youth under the command Bor Doang invaded Murleland to disarm the cattle rustlers who massacred the Nuer, the decision was taken as a result of the failure of the government in Juba to protect Lou Nuer from repeated Murle attacks after they were forcefully disarmed in 2006 without safeguards. The Nuer community repeatedly appealed to the government to deploy the SPLA forces to protect the disarmed communities in 2006 but to no avail. After the Nuer Youth decided to protect their communities after Uror massacre by taking the war to cattle rustlers, the regime in Juba reacted negatively by blaming the Nuer who were victims of repeated massacres. It was clear to us that the SPLA (Republic of SPLM's military wing against its own people) forces deployed in March in the name of disarmament were instructed to fight the Nuer Youth. There was no doubt in the minds of the Nuer community that the disarmament policy came about as a result of panic expressed by Governor Kuol Manyang, who harbors hidden agenda to see more insecurity and massacres in Nuerland. It was Kuol who armed the Murle Youth in January 2011 in the name of fighting George Athor's rebels. The same weapons he distributed to Murle Youth were used to massacre the Nuer in Uror County. It is the belief of Nuer community of North America’s leadership that the policy that could bring peace in Jonglei state cannot be a unilateral action by a rogue governor who has hidden agenda. Disarmament must be a multilateral effort of all communities in conjunction with the government and the UNMISS. Any disarmament, which doesn’t take into account the failures of 2006 disarmament, is poised to fail miserably. It is in fact a tragedy that the government of South Sudan could embark on disarming communities in Jonglei without convincing them how to protect their cattle from cattle rustlers. Salva Kiir has a duty to take into account the failure of 2006 disarmament, which occurred because the SPLA did not have any plan to protect the disarmed communities after the disarmament. The primary concern of any human being in the world is security. No human would accept to be disarmed if it would lead to more insecurity and the loss of lives. In South Sudan, cattle are everything to the communities and the owners cannot be disarmed without concrete plans to protect their cattle from outsiders. After the massacre of 2011 in Uror County, many people within Nuer community are convinced, based upon 2006 experience, which any disarmament that does not consider the statistics would only expose Nuer community to more massacres. If reasonable people run the government in Juba, they would substantially agree with Nuer community because the misguided disarmament of 2006 did not bring peace but more deaths and insecurity. It is our advice that the UNMISS must stop these false peace process by SPLA and Juba government as the evident is too large to ignored. On December 15, 2012, Spiritual Dak Kueth accepted to meet with the delegation of Kiir's government to discuss the modalities for peace. The spiritual leader Dak Kueth accepted the invitation thinking that the government was genuinely expressing the desire for peace. However, it became abundantly clear that the government was not interested to talk to him when SPLA forces laid ambush to assassinate the delegation of his side led by Bor Doang and Dak Kueth on December, 17, 2012 at the very location the two sides agreed to meet to discuss peace. After failing to achieve their objective, the SPLA (Republic of SPLM's military wing against its own people) attacked the spiritual Mr Dak Kueth on December, 18, 2012 and burned down several villages and killed dozen women, children and elderly. We therefore demand a quick action by the UNMISS to stop these senseless killings of civilians by SPLA and SPLM due to mistrust between civilians and the regime in Juba. The intervention of the UN would achieve a genuine peace in Jonglei and South Sudan in general because such a process would culminate into a peace treaty that would address the failures of 2006 disarmament and the current failures of the SPLA to protect communities. Signed by: Gatluke Chuol Reat, Chairperson, Nuer Community of North America (NCNA) Contact: (226) 600-2703 Tut Wal Ruot, Vice, Nuer Community of North America (NCNA) Gai Bol Thong, General Secretary, Nuer Community of North America (NCNA) Contact: (206) 307-7357 Diang Bol Dual Sec. of Information, Nuer Community of North America (NCNA) Elizabeth Chol Lam Sec, of Woman affairs, Nuer community of North America (NCNA) Abioth Mark Chuol Sec, of Finance, Nuer Community of North America (NCNA) Email: [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
