‘Juba Hypocrites’ and the Empty Call for National Dialogue!
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By: Justin Ambago Ramba, UK, DEC/19/2016, SSN;
While the world community is commemorating the 3rd Anniversary of the
December 2013 Juba Massacre, the same genocidaire regime chose to
distract everyone’s attention by releasing a speech by the same
president announcing the commencement of a so-called National
Dialogue. A Dialogue with a tyrant, my foot!
Notwithstanding the fact that I didn’t listen to the speech while it
was being read out by Salva Kiir Mayardit himself, nonetheless, I have
read through the entire document of the speech dated 14th December
2016. My personal conclusion is that this is just another
well-ruminated speech prepared for him by his speech writers who often
engage more on the what should be said but not necessarily what can be
done.
The Call by dictator Salva Kiir Mayardit for a National Dialogue under
his auspices and yet oblivious to his personal role in the current
crisis if anything to go by is itself utterly absurd.
With the demise of the Agreement for the Resolution of the Conflicts
in South Sudan (ARCISS) in July 2016 following the failed attempt on
the life of SPLM-IO’s Chairperson and Commander in Chief, Dr. Riek
Machar Teny in Juba, the Transitional Government of National Unity
(TGoNU) legally ceased to exist.
Whatever is there now, is simply what the International community and
the outgoing President Barrack Obama’s administration would like to
maintain as a face-saving exercise, no more, no less.
Let me be very sincere with those who continue to think that anything
good can still be achieved under the pathetic leadership of General
Salva Kiir Mayardit, General Taban Deng Gai, General Kuol Manyang
Juuk, and General Paul Malong Awan, that they are indeed hostages of a
‘Big Lie.’ For it is these generals who chose the path of violence as
a way of addressing South Sudan’s political issues.
The generals would like to remain relevant to the politics of the
country, and they can only achieve that by further dragging the entire
country into more devastating, yet senseless civil war. I wish to
believe they have reached their goals so far. To come out of it is not
what they can be entrusted to accomplish.
Characteristic of Salva Kiir Mayardit and coterie, they have often
portrayed themselves as peace loving people, but wherever they go, a
trail of blood follows them. Maybe this little extract from the
president’s Independence Day Speech can serve to shade light on what
often trademarks his speeches and essentially, they are all about
empty promises that the least sophisticated South Sudanese doesn’t
even buy into anymore:
“It is my ardent belief that you are aware that our detractors have
already written us off, even before the proclamation of our
independence. They say we will slip into civil war as soon as our flag
is hoisted. They justify that by arguing that we are incapable of
resolving our problems through dialogue. They charge that we are quick
to revert to violence. They claim that our concept of democracy and
freedom is faulty. It is incumbent upon us to prove them all wrong!”.
Does anyone need reminding that the genesis of the 13th July 2013
crisis was a breakdown in dialogue within the ruling SPLM party!
The people of South Sudan deserve to have a better leadership than
those murderers masquerading as statesmen. War is obviously not the
best way to go about addressing national issues, yet this is what
Salva Kiir’s regime has opted for. But there must be an end to this
destructive war.
And while there is an urgent need to restart the process of a peaceful
settlement, Salva Kiir will always be part of the problem and never of
the solution.
Hence, until we can all see that this is the case, worse things will
likely continue to happen in this new country while the culprits with
the blessing of the inaction of the international community continue
to enjoy financial and moral support in the regional and beyond.
No one with conscience including President Barrack Obama and his
entire administration can miss seeing the many squandered
opportunities that could have saved South Sudan should the situation
continue to deteriorate, which indeed is already the case.
For many observers, including the UN Commission on Human Rights in
South Sudan, headed by South Africa’s Yasmin Sooka and Adama Dieng, UN
Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, have recently warned
that the current violence, much of it inter-tribal and increasingly
directed at ethnic cleansing, is sliding towards genocide.
Repeatedly, Sooka has said: ‘The stage is being set for a repeat of
what happened in Rwanda and the international community is under an
obligation to prevent it.’ The last time was on 1 December after
visiting South Sudan with her commission.
Sadly indeed, nothing tangible has been coming from the African Union
although we all know that the AU’s Constitutive Act permits forcible
intervention in the case of genocide, crimes against humanity or war
crimes.
As the number of South Sudanese who have abandoned their homes because
of this war has already surpassed the one million mark, the crucial
importance of the International community to continue with the
provision of the much needed humanitarian assistance without hindrance
cannot be overstressed.
However, a real process to reverse the precarious situation on the
ground in South Sudan necessitates a new inclusive political process.
This process MUST be outside South Sudan to enable the participants
the freedom to delve into the various root causes of the conflict.
And whether they like it or not some very painstaking decisions must
be reached to re-structure the future political, social and economic
outlook of the new country be it in one piece or several pieces.
Yet the very crucial step must begin by immediately operationalizing
the Hybrid courts for South Sudan to consider all the crimes committed
in the period that started from 13th December 2013 to date. While
preparing for all these, it is also important that Salva Kiir and his
regime are held responsible for the demise of the ACRISS.
All leaders who are responsible for war crimes and offenses committed
against humanity must also receive targeted sanctions in forms of
travel bans and freeze of ALL their assets.
Finally, the time has come for this country to be put under severe
forms of the arms embargo to stop this brutal and savage regime from
continuing its vicious assaults on unarmed civilians cowardly using
lethal Helicopter gunships and jet fighters.
It is the time that the international community comes to the
realization of the wrong path the Obama administration has imposed on
it by erroneously giving recognition to Salva Kiir-Taban Deng regime
in Juba. They will come to regret it if they are already not doing so.
It is the time that they see the administration for actually what it
stands for, as it is bent on imposing its violent kleptocratic nature
on the country with wider ramifications for the entire region. Kiir’s
regime is presiding over a pariah state that deserves isolation and
not embracement.
Author: Justin Ambago Ramba. A Concern South Sudanese Citizen and a
Voice for the Voiceless.
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Chief Abiko Akuranyang Tangwo!
December 19, 2016 at 6:45 pm
Dear All Of Us (Members-SSN)
Before,in the Sudan,Northerners Arabs,had deceived Southerners
repeatedly without ever shown any shame on their words on mouths.They
said before South Sudanese boys in the South,boys,north is sweeten
place.If you were going to north,you were not going to return in the
South in north as a pretext! But,if they had known first of all that
north is being sweetened,why did they leave north for South after all!
We are looking today after the truth! Nothing else but the truth!
We now,have known President Salva Kirr,who he is! He is calling
for national dialogue.National Dialoque is not a right answer for the
crisis in the country after all! What is needed is that PEACE so that
roots of the conflicts in the country in the government,must be dug
out on the ground on the surfcace! Again,he is making a serious
mistake altogether! He truncates Riak Machar in the rebel leader in
Opposition forces.How can National Dialogue can be achieved without
his rival Riak Machar??!! Riak Machar,has to be included and all other
south Sudanese political parties.Military commanders,must be excluded
in National Dialogue! He is always very optimistic that his handpicked
Vice President Taban Deng Gai! Taban Deng Gai,he is misleading him on
Riak Machar matter on his absence! After all,he is completely
DONE!!!!!!! He wants only to make a better living on President Salva
Kirr administration!
To me,to bring peace in the country,what I need is that peace
first! Second National Healings! Third,no international community
involve! Let South Sudanese,by themselves,sort out the troubles by
themselves in the country in the government period!
Sincere Stopping Anger!
Abiko!+
MO.USA
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BILL KUCH
December 22, 2016 at 8:14 am
Chief Abiko,
There is no doubt that, it was you yesterday as it is you
today. And today whatever you are, will be the same as you will be
tomorrow. I had no doubt on who you were!!! All Equatorians are the
same impostors. The best Equatorians are the dead ones!!! And one of
those was the journalist Dr. Samson Kwaje as a good example.
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Roberto
December 23, 2016 at 9:34 am
Dear Justin Ramba
Kiir is lunatic. He dismantled the peace agreement. Now he
wants to consolidate power through National Dialogue. South Sudan does
not need National Dialogue right now. it needs a new peace process.
Kiir’s Dialogue does not bring accountability, justice, and reforms
but peace agreement does. He is obsess with power and he will cling to
it at any cost. There will be no lasting peace in South Sudan as long
as this idiot Kiir remain in power.
Roberto Kosongo ( Bana Equatoria )
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info@southsudannation
December 23, 2016 at 4:25 pm
Roberto,
Actually, this so-called National Dialogue called for by
Kiir unfortunately smacks and plainly stinks of a conspiracy to evade
the serious problems of Kiir’s failed presidency and the degenerate
one-tribe hegemony that has precipitated and perpetuated the horrific
misrule in the country.
Also, you can see that all the appointees to the so-called
National Dialogue are political dead-weights and extinct intellectual
dinosaurs. From Lagu to Abel to professor Machar Kaschol and et al,
many are already physically and morbidly hampered by senile dementia
and other ailments to an extent that they can’t physically sustained
even one straight hour of deliberation on the hot issues facing the
country.
What Kiir and his miscreant tribal advisors have done is
to plainly bluff the nation and the world that he, Kiir, is being
inclusive by ill-intentionally resuscitating long-deactivated
political and historical figures, the likes of Peter Cirillo and
Joseph Lagu, whom he had cynically neglected, ignored and marginalized
since 2005 as he, Kiir, chose rather to promote the devilish ‘Jieng
Council of Evils.’
In 1983, Jaafar Niemery wisely resolved the serious
dilemma among us, South Sudanese, by the unilateral promulgation of
redivision into the three separate states. Perhaps another similar
action is needed.
Editor
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Alex
December 19, 2016 at 8:09 pm
Mr Rambogo it is people like you who does not want peace to come
to S. Sudan will always try to undermine any attempt to bring peace in
the country. No body who has the suffering of his people will always
be trying to prevent making of peace. It is a well known pact that,
America can not enforce among us S. Sudanese but they can help us to
build confidence among ourselves. Rejection of any peace attempt is
the evidence of your leader Riack Machar calling of arm resistance.
You are trying to cover they eyes of the people to see you people a
who love peace but the reality speech by itself. A person who is not
interested in peace will always try to bring any reason to block any
kind of peace. It is true Riack Machar followers have no peace with
anyone. Riack Machar seperated with Gadet and up to now they can not
unite. Raick Macher rebelled against the government and up to now he
is renegading any signed peace process. Riack Machar is even is
disagreement with splm in opposition of Taban Gai Deng. Anybody who
defers with Riack Machar is either an enemy or has been bought with
money. The group of Riack Machar has a different thinking and their
thinking is outside the world of civilized humanity. They believe in
language of violence and their form of so call democracy they are
fighting for is to be be enforced by force. Their theory is you are
either with us or you are not with us. You accept our thinking or you
are bought with money. Machar’s rebels are killing civilians in
Kajokeji, Yei, Yambio and Unity state yet they claim they have been
targeted while the whole world have heard how Machar rebels killed
innocent civilians on Yei road, killed innocent refugees in Lasu and
looting and killing people in Yambio.
So it is not a surprise to see you to argue down the call for
national dialogue. Your leader has decleared armed resistance against
the government defying the call by the international community, IGAD,
TROIKA, EA , AU and the church leaders for peace. The only peace
Machar’s supporters want is peace that is on their own terms. Where on
earth can a peace be enforced by one group? Machar and the group are
violent people who without shame even went as far accusing Kiir of
buying America, Ethiopia, Kenya , Uganda and AU with money. Machar
group are the people preaching hate yet they are the first people to
point to other people.
The only way out is for those who are peace lovers to come to come
out and pursue the path of peace and leave the war mongers. These
individuals can not be allowed to drag the country back to war. We
have seen how these ruthless war mongers are attacking government
forces in Kaya, Morobo,. Yei, Nimule Road and in Leer. They are the
first to attack and they are the first to run to media to wadge media
propaganda that, the government is fighting their forces. Let us leave
these group and they will join the rest of the peace lover if time
come. What we want to tell them is that, the government is interested
in genuine peace but it will not allow any group to detect it. All S.
Sudanese should own the peace and it should not be an outside enforced
peace.
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Elias Yongo
December 20, 2016 at 8:23 am
It is interesting Alex reading your views against well-thought
opinion by Dr. Ramba. You put all the blames squarely on Riak; but I
thought you do not make peace that you are alluding to with friends.
Commosense will tell you that you make peace with your ememies. I am
afraid the current thinking in Juba is to eliminate all the enemies.
How many times have we asked, in the name of the president, for
forgiveness and reneged on it while planning evil! Unfortunately the
president has never been sincere in all that he says. Most of the
things he does are to get a breathing space when things get tough to
allow him plan even more evil. Why can’t south sudanese try something
different like UN trusteeship than moving in a circle while everybody
is suffering including yoursef; unless you are also a thief! The so
called leaders have failed us time and time again. They are doing the
exact same thing, if not worse, that made south sudanese took up arms
against the jalabas. Before honest human beings these guys have no
face to show. Truth be said.
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Eastern
December 20, 2016 at 7:18 pm
Yongo,
Alex and cohorts want people to respond to this bogus call
for dialogue the way African leaders do; Festus Mogae is already
upbeat about the proposal.
The problem of Africa is the leadership style of African
leaders. Kabila is failing his people in DR Congo, Nkuruziza is
failing Burundi, Kiir is failing South Sudan, Yahya Jamme has failed
The Ghambia, etc. African leadership style is a liability. African
intellectuals like Wole Soyinka are tearing up their Green Cards over
the outcome of foreign elections instead of contributing positively to
reign in African leaders that have gone astray. AU is a farce!
The solution to South Sudan’s predicament doesn’t lie with
those old folks lined up by Kiir to guide the ‘national dialogue’
rather it lies with us the social media generation. I thought Angelo
Beda had passed on; was surprised to see him lined up for the task at
hand!
I have read this article from the East African which I
wish to share with you folks through this link:
http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/OpEd/comment/What-AU-and-Wole-Sonyika-can-do-deal-with-Jammeh-genie/434750-3491786-dhixhwz/index.html
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cos
December 20, 2016 at 1:45 pm
Shame on you Alex,what haven’t you seen on the ground?
Bro money should not betray you like what Judas did to Jesus Christ.
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Bismark
December 21, 2016 at 8:21 am
Alex,
To be honest, you lack patriotism. From your writing you seem
to benefit from the brutal system of a tyrant by name Salva Kiir
Mayardit and that is why you are writing this nonsense to prop his
government. Ask yourself as to what type of achievement can be got
from that type of dialogue. Ask yourself again is the condition for
dialogue right. Look at lack of freedom of speech, press and
association in the country. Look at the war going on. Look at the
murder and torching of innocent people in the country!! South Sudan
does not need to appease the press with nonsense. People need peace
first and then they can decide on what political programme to embark
on to direct the country and its people to progress. You should shut
your foul mouth on issues that affect people who have nothing wrong to
you.
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Alex
December 22, 2016 at 8:24 pm
Mr Bismark to be sincer I hate people who want war. This
is time for us to reconhcile and give our people to rest. I think any
man who has humanity in his heart will not talk of war or refusing
peace. So the proposal is going ahead and we leave the war mongers.
You have no place in the civilised society. No more blood letting
because of positions. What lack of freedom of press when your
supporters are writing openly they have captured Kaya, Morobo, Yei,
Kiir is dead, Cirilo killed and SPLA killing, have you heard one of
the writer arrested because of misinformation. The journalist who was
deported was writing things to promote genocide that is why he was
deported. There is no freedom of press for those who want to preach
hate speech and for those who want to incite war. Peace loving people
and the Church is going to spearhead the national dialogue. We know
your leader has decleared resistance that is why you people are
bringing up all the nounses. You are only afraid to say we are for war
not peace otherwise a peace lover will never get tired in search for
peace. To conclude, Brother Bismak, war mongers has no place this
days. No country will support war mongers accept Sudan. So the choices
lies in your hand
Alex
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Gatdarwich
December 20, 2016 at 7:24 pm
Dr. Ramba,
The supposedly national dialogue is evidently not a national one
but tribal dialogue between Madi(presided by Paride Taban),
Dinka(headed by moses machar), and Murle(represented by Ismail konyi).
We the NaathNation, Chollo, and the rest of the tribes are not in it.
We, the NaathNation will not and shall never dialogue with the
killers of our children, women, and the elderly full stop
We (NaathNation) shall only recogcile and do peace dialogue in the
hell of fire. An EYE for EYE retribution is what the engineers-killers
of over 20,000 Nuer in Juba–December 2013 need and shall eminently get
period
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BILL KUCH
December 21, 2016 at 7:54 am
Ramba of the U.K.,
Take it or disregard and do what you normal do. If you don’t
believe in it then there is no reason of complaining. If your will or
wishes are not met, then don’t even think about it and do what you
usually do. I don’t like it too.
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Hoiloom
December 22, 2016 at 4:21 pm
Dr. Ramba,
Those who still believe Kiir can deliver peace are deceiving
themselves. The call for national dialogue while at the same time
committing genocide under the watch of the international community is
a farce and also an insult to the victims. How can this be a national
dialogue when opposition parties are not involved in the process or is
Kiir trying to reconcile with his friends? The only road to peace is
full implementation of ARCISS which is dead and buried since July 8
incident. My heart aches for our citizens who can no longer celebrate
Christmas since December 2013 up to date.
Merry X-mass to all my fellow citizens on SSN.
Hoiloom
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BILL KUCH
December 23, 2016 at 4:58 am
Hoiloom,
Whom do you think need peace than the other? Who cares they
will both feel it.
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False Millionaire
December 23, 2016 at 2:25 pm
Mr Yongo,
Look at Libaria,Central African Republic,Sira Leone,Somalia and
DRC,what good do u see the UN trusteeship has brought to them?
If u are up to your sincere sense of consciousness,RSS isn’t a
naturally poor banana republic like those countries.That’s why supper
powers like US and Uk are leading the push for a UN’s trusteeship.If
they succeeded one day and made it to last for 20 years,unstate minded
elites like u would still be alive to take over the country.
And what would u do?Running the same failed state as the SPLM/A
elites have been doing.
That’s why it best to sue for a clear break.If no other means of
changes could be possible,support the idea of A US/UK take over for a
lengthy period of 100 hundred years minimum.They would loot the
natural resources but with a minimum return that would permit social
and economic developments before the country could become independent
again under state minded elites.
One should never be unmindful that UN’s trusteeship is charged
with thieves worst than those of the SPLM/A.
Once given the chance,they would knoe the country and masses down
to the last bone.
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