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BY: DANIEL WUOR JOAK, Juba, FEB/11/2014, SSN; PEACE TALKS IN ADDIS ABABA The second round of peace talks between the SPLM Resistance Movement and the government of South Sudan which is supposed to commence today on 10th February 2014, in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa has been indefinitely postponed (next week) as result of lack of implementations of the previous secession hostilities agreed by the parties involved in IGAD mediation. These include the release of all political detainees without any exception, immediate withdrawal of Ugandan troops, withdrawal of JEM and other SPLM/A-N forces which were invited officially by Juba government. The participation of all stakeholders including civil society organisations, religious leaders, all various political leaders etc will make it more inclusive for all South Sudanese stakeholders. Unfortunately, the seven released political detainees who were flown to Kenya on 29th January 2014, by the Kenyan authority have been denied participation in the peace talks by the Kenyan government with ill-advice from Juba. As well as the release of the other four detainees demanded who are still languishing in Juba notorious state prison or ghost houses located at different locations in Juba town. President Salva Kiir labelled them as coup plotters who allegedly attempted to overthrow his government along with Dr. Riek Machar, former vice President of the Republic of South Sudan now heading the SPLM/A Resistant Movement in opposition. The other important key players in South Sudan politics whose presence being purposely denied by President Salva Kiir in Juba to take part in the peace talks are Madam Rebecca Nyandeng de' Mabior - presidential advisor on Gender and Human Rights and widow of former President of the government of South Sudan Dr. John Garang de' Mabior and Dr. Peter Adwok Nyaba - former Minister of Higher education. Peace in South Sudan cannot come to its logical conclusion because the stakeholders are categorically denied participation by the government in Juba and their regional allies. MASSACRE OF OVER TEN THOUSAND NUER IN JUBA This was just a ploy being fabricated intentionally by President Salva Kiir and his cronies allies both internally and externally to implicate the innocent accusers as coup plotters in order to justify their sinister plan against the potential opinions within the SPLM hierarchy. Ironically, President Salva Kiir has succeeded in eliminating some of his potential enemies, the Nuer, by ordering head of his private army "Presidential Guards" Major General Marial Chenoung, commanding a force numbering 3000 soldiers stationed at Luri garrison - some few kilo metres from Juba town to systematically massacre Nuer civilians residing in Juba. Initially, Nuer community have a population of not less than one hundred thousand including the government officials and other organised forces. The death rates among the Nuer civilians following the fighting in Juba that occurred on 15th December 2013, within the Presidential Guards and subsequent massacres which happened on 16,17, 18 and 19 December is recorded by survivors as 10.740 death in total mostly children, women and elderly people. Most of the victim's bodies were dumped in River Nile while the rest of the bodies burned to ashes by using petrol whereas Red Cross and SPLA soldiers collected the rest of the bodies and buried them in mass graves as their murderers attempted to conceal evidences by dumping bodies in the River Nile or burning them to ashes by using kerosene. UGANDA INTERVENTION IN SOUTH - SOUTH CONFLICT President Yoweri Museveni has made the biggest mistake that he had never done in his lifetime before. As a former revolutionary fighter who fought many successive wars against political injustices right from Idi Amin, Milton Obuti and Tito Okello to free Ugandans from the yoke of dictatorship. He cannot blindly support a murderer regime under leadership of visionless leader who does not differentiate between comrade and enemy. In order for Uganda to qualify to wage a long lasting war for 30 years or more in South Sudan, Uganda must first recognise their legitimacy in South Sudan before committing resources and other internal implications including uprising and coup d'état in Uganda. It is very costly and let President Museveni not take the war in South Sudan for granted. In South - South conflict, it took Cdr. Samuel Gai Tut and Dr. John Garang de Mabior five good years as from 1983 - 1988 with losses of not less than twenty thousand lives for control of South Sudan while at the same time fighting their common enemy - Sudan. It also took Dr. Riek Machar and Dr. John Garang 11 years following the split of 1991 - 2002 to reconcile their differences on how to champion the cause of the people of South Sudan against successive Khartoum regimes. CPA came as a result of unity between Dr. Riek Machar and Dr. John Garang respectively after realizing that their differences would not serve their people's common purposes. President Museveni should give himself 20 years to win the war in South Sudan. But where will he be by then while he is aging. The Nuer people fought the British Colonial Power with spears and eventually brought down Royal Air Force (RAF) in 1927 with their spears. If he wants to know about the Nuer People of South Sudan, please led him read these two books "Shadow in the Grass" British in South Sudan from 1898 - 1956," By Prof. Robert O. Collins or The Nuer Conquer, by Raymond C. Kelly - Michigan University Press 1985. Let him not waste his time by supporting a loser. The British know Nuer People of South Sudan better then anybody and that is why they are not talking in Museveni's warfare. Just wait and see. Dr. Riek Machar is not Joseph Kony, Utu, Mobutu Seke seko nor El Shabab of Somalia. He has people fully and ready to die for him. Yes, Museveni supported Dr. John Garang against Dr. Riek Machar as he is now supporting Salva Kiir against Riek Machar. But mind him that blood is thicker than water. President Salva will one day join Dr. Riek as Dr. John Garang did it in January 2001, in Nairobi without President Yoweri Museveni's consent. The oil of South Sudan is their sole property. No matter who is going to manage it whether Slava or Riek, it will remain the same. At last, the beneficiaries shall be South Sudanese people. DR. RIEK INVOLVEMENT IN THE FABRICATED COUP D'ETAT Dr. Riek Machar for sure nor his associates being implicated in the coup d'etat were not involved at all. They are all victims of political conspiracies being manufactured against them by their known political detractors who have been looking for loopholes all along to get rid of them as to give room to weak and wicked characters within the SPLM leadership to merge to top positions. President Museveni should read the South Sudan politics clearly from how his friend President Salva Kiir is panicking and his calling for his intervention in internal affairs of South Sudan militarily within one week. Unless Uganda stays in South Sudan for 100 years this is where his friends shall remain in power. As long as Uganda leaves South Sudan, they will definitely follow them the same day to Kampala. For they will not have any protection any more in the country. KIIR LEGITIMACY OF BEING AN DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED PRESIDENT IS NO LONGER VALID He has already abused it by massacring over ten thousand innocent Nuer civilians in Juba in front of UN, foreign diplomats, NGOs agencies, human rights representatives, religious leaders, civil society organisations and all the stakeholders. If he was to be a president in western world he should have automatically resigned the same day. This elections of 2010, was done under a united democratic Sudan and had nothing to do with South Sudan, which was born later. Kiir is a gross human rights violator who does not deserve to be honoured for he had abused his constitutional rights by offering his sole dignity to his foreign helper Yoweri Museveni of Uganda to protect his leadership. He has sold our country to Uganda for protection period! A Dinka or Nuer has nothing in Kiir Mayardit business. He has sold us all. The unity of our divided and venerable people must be worked out without him. SUDAN AND ETHIOPIA HAVE ROLES TO PLAY IN THIS CONFLICT As far as South Sudan is concerned, it is actually a former colony of Republic of Sudan until 2011, when South Sudan attained its independence on 9th July 2011. The resources South Sudan have including the oil was exploited by Sudan before the independence. This should not be taken for granted by Uganda, which has nothing to do with historical sovereignty of South Sudan. The same with Ethiopia, which shares the same historical and cultural relations with people of South Sudan where the Nuer who formed the majority in Gambella region have common cultural and historical ties with their kinship in Jonglei, Unity and Upper Nile States in the Republic of South Sudan. The resources of South Sudan, which are mainly located in both Upper Nile and Unity State, Ethiopia and Sudan, have a great say over them. If it is a matter of winning friends and allies by offering the oil at any price, Nuer in the three states of South Sudan have more rights to offer to any dealers at any rates. And this will be done if needs arise. Both Ethiopia and Sudan should stop Uganda from meddling in South Sudan internal affairs. In order to bring this war to an end, Uganda troops must withdraw from South Sudan soil immediately. Their presence does not solve our problems instead it is fueling the on-going conflict in South Sudan on tribal lines. Uganda has taken sides in supporting the Dinka led government under leadership of President Salva Kiir Mayardit against Dr. Riek Machar Teny whose support draw mainly from Nuer ethnic group. POWER SHARING FORMULA IS THE LAST RESORT The two opposing parties must agree to compromise their differences for the sake of unity of the country with condition that the issue is solely left to them to resolve it. Uganda must leave people of South Sudan alone. As far as their involvement to our internal crisis is concerned they do not need to be part of solution at all. Uganda has taken side in the conflict and does not need to be part of solution. The past Uganda's involvements in regional conflicts starting with Rwanda, Congo, Central Africa Republic, Somalia and South Sudan, Uganda does not qualify to be a peacemaker in the Horn of Africa under IGAD mediation. US and it allies should take notice of this appeal seriously as an opinion of the masses in the opposition areas and urgently take it into full consideration. *By: Daniel Wuor JoakExecutive Director, African Centre for Human Advocacy (ACHA)ACHA is dealing with issues related to Democracy, Good Governance, Human Rights, Rule of Law, Accountability and Advocacy all over Africa ContinentThe author was a former MP in (SSLA) & Minister of Education, Science & Technology in Upper Nile State, MalakalHe can be reached through this e-mail: [email protected] <[email protected]>* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob. 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