opposing sides. There are basically no leaders on both sides but a bunch of self-serving opportunists; some of which are either making names for themselves or settling old scores.
Aleu
Ayieny and Telar Ring Deng are hitting back at Pagam Amum for having advised
President Kiir to have them dismissed from SPLM in 2008. We all know why Pagan
is being targeted and only a dumb law brain would not put that into account.
President Kiir is too naïve to see that Amum wouldn’t be convicted in a court
of law in which real law and justice is practised. Who doesn’t remember what
Aleu Ayieny told Pagan in 2008? Who doesn’t remember that Telar and Aleu blamed
Pagan Amum for their dismissal?
People
like Northern Bahr El Ghazal governor, Malong Awan, who is Kiir’s very close
ally, hates Dr. Majak D’Agoot with passion. Malong and Bol Madut made a lot of
noise to late Dr. John Garang de Mabior in the late 1990s to have Majak removed
from Bahr el Ghazal as the area commander. With influence on Kiir now, it’s no
brainer Majak is now being set up for death or political vilification. Only
lawyers who’d want to shame the profession of Law in South Sudan would convict
people like Majak and Amum.
We
also know the well-documented dispute between President Kiir and Oyai Deng
Ajak. Their enmity goes back to their years in Operation Jungle Storm (OJS) in the
90s when SPLA was almost finished by Omar El Beshir and the fundamentalist
National Islamic Front (NIF). It’s no brainer Kiir, as the total man now in
South Sudan, would want to show Oyai Deng Ajak that there’s a new boss in town.
There’s no more Dr. John to help Oyai!
I
don’t understand why President Kiir, a man praised by his peers in the SPLA and
SPLM as a very humble man, doesn’t see that indicting the remaining four
political prisoners is a dark spot on his political legacy. The president is
trying to prove his accusers right. Yes, he’s just done and good job!
We
live in a world of ‘proofs.’ The case against the four political detainees is
dirty. It has so much hate mixed with it! It has a very bad history dogging it!
Give it up Mr. President ku coxe baai
piny! (safe the nation!)
Lies, lies, lies! Ateny Wek!
We
all know that politics is about lying. Clever lying! However, there are lies
that transcend that ream of livable lying. The presidential spokesperson, Ateny
Wek Ateny, who doesn’t seem to know his real role, talks without checking his
facts. He’s obsessed with the ‘failed coup attempt’ and ‘Riek Machar’ that he’s
forgotten that he was hired to present the presidency and President Kiir in a
respectable light. Ateny has succeeded in embarrassing the president. Bravo
Ateny! You’ve presented President Kiir with remarkable buffoonery! Why do these guys hate the president this
much?
Every
word coming out of Ateny’s mouth is a great embarrassment to the president of
the republic of South Sudan. I urge Mr. Ateny to either research his facts
before going to the media or resign. He’s a great embarrassment to the
president; however, no one seems to care because Kiir’s allies are after
destroying the president and his legacy! Wake up Mr. President! Yiin Riak! (You’re being destroyed by your
close friends) Lo baai (go home!)
Lies!
Lies! Lies! Moses Ruai Lat!
In
the same light rebels’ spokesperson, Moses Ruai Lat, is another lies processing
mind. Any town captured by rebels is left destroyed and the civil population
left terrorized or killed. But Ruai minces no words in claiming the rebels
don’t kill civilians. Who then kills civilians and destroys these towns? Bor,
Bentiu, Malakal, Leer and Mayendit…all destroyed. Who actually destroyed these
places if the rebels claim they didn’t? Is god destroying these places? Is some
devilish ghost doing the job?
If the
rebels know their forces are destroying towns and killing civilians, then why
isn’t anyone being held accountable. The rebels are projecting themselves as a thuggish
and murderous lot with no political agenda. It’s time the rebels started to act
like people who say what they claim. Let’s see you protect civilians instead of
terrorizing them. Let’s see the rebels hold accountable those who commit
atrocities! Let’s see the rebels being serious about inter-tribal dialogue!
Mr.
Lat is very articulate and I hope he’ll tell us how the rebels can reconcile
being ‘pro-democracy’ and ‘pro-destruction’ at the same time!
Blame Game!
The
government blames the rebels and the rebels blame the governments. While the
guns are killing innocent civilians, the lies are killing the future of South
Sudan and destroying any iota of hope for a possible end to this idiotic war.
The
government is not able to protect Nuer in Juba. MPs are in the UN compounds and
Nuer ministers sleep in fear. Yet the government is lying to us that it’s in
full control. Everyone would be at home in Juba with no one in the UNMISS
compound if we had a government.
The
government claims they’ve arrested over 100 people who committed crimes against
Nuer civilians in Juba! We need to know these faceless people and we need to
know who commanded them to kill. Otherwise the government isn’t serious and
Nuer people will not take the government seriously!
The
Rebels have too committed atrocities of unspeakable magnitude but none of
Riek’s supporters has ever called the media to address these issues! Ruai and
Gatdet Dak should address the atrocities committed by Rebels in order for the
public to know they are serious about ‘democratizing’ South Sudan. How can you
blame the government if you are committing the same atrocities with mindless
banditry and savagery? Stop being bandits or stop the ones among you who are
committing atrocities! Show that you care! Show that you are not some puppets
and mindless loud speakers!
I also
urge President Kiir to get out of the compound and talk to the people. Let the
lies stop. As you hide in your mansion in Juba, Aleu Ayieny, Telar Ring and
Makuei Lueth are busy destroying your legacy! The world now sees you as a
mindless, dictatorial president because of these people! Wake up or you’ll end
up in prison! Free yourself from the likes of Telar!
One Ethnic Group as a fighting force
I
have no any idea what Riek’s end game is. Riek had a genuine political case
until he supported a rebellion. While I agreed with Riek and his colleagues in
the SPLM’s Political Bureau that change and transparency was important, I don’t
agree with the current rebellion regardless of what it’s being claimed to
represent.
Civilians
are being killed and Riek is not even showing any iota of remorse. I’ve never
seen or heard a single press release sending a message of condolences to South
Sudanese of all tribal and political stripes. How does Riek think he cares
about South Sudanese? When does Riek think he’ll start being a national leader?
A national leader doesn’t rely on one tribe! If you can’t convince other tribes
to join you then give it up! You are destroying Nuer!
Riek
should know that using a uni-tribal fighting force removes any veil of any
fight for a national agenda. If other tribes aren’t supporting the rebellion
then it’s time for a rethink of that step. Relying militarily on one ethnic
group is to condemn the Nuer who support him to total annihilation, just like
Riek said of John Garang’s tribe in 1991.
What’s
Riek’s end game? He led his colleagues in the SPLM down by supporting a
rebellion. He’s now seen that the released political detainees have refused to
join his group in the peace talks. It’s time Riek stopped projecting Nuer
people as a nationality prone to rebellion. It’s time Riek stopped using
innocent young Nuer people for his political agenda. It’s high time Riek calls
his own sons and daughters to come and fight alongside him and stop using poor
Nuer sons and daughters for his selfish interests.
Stop!
Stop killing young Nuer people! Who will develop Nuerland if you’re sending
innocent Nuer to go and kill innocent civilians? Who’ll develop Nuerland if you
are sending young Nuer sons and daughters to be slaughtered by paid Ugandan
mercenaries?
If
Riek cares about young Nuer sons and daughters then he should tell them to lay
down arms and come to the negotiating table. The sooner Riek stops the
bloodshed the better.
As much
as I still remain optimistic, I’m afraid South Sudan risks being another
Somalia!