VP Machar, Malok, Rebecca Nyandeng Clash Over Bor Atrocities
Mahou Chadhal Mahou
4 December 2011
Juba — The Vice President, Dr. Riek Machar Teny officially re-apologized to Bor Community over 1991 atrocities between Nuer and Dinka Bor. He revealed this yesterday in the national celebration of independence of South Sudan organized by Greater Bahr el Ghazal Community Leadership Council at Nyakuron Cultural Centre in Juba.
“I would like to apologize for the killings of Bor people by those soldiers who were loyal to me and this was a failure to the respect of human rights,” Teny admitted. He added, “The split should not be taken as a taboo; I did not make a mistake as Elijah claimed.”
He also explained the root causes of the split which he said had three reasons one: self-determination of the people of South Sudan, two: democracy within the SPLA leadership and three: respect of human rights.
Teny added that he was the leader of the split of 1991 as he remarked, “Dr. Lam Akol should not carry the cross of the split because he was not the leader but it was I in which I may be a coward if deny being the leader but I am not.”
He appealed for the formation of the truth and reconciliations commission to ensure unity, which is our national primary responsibility in the country. This should not be done to the politicians only but to our army and police and this could be achieved through law.
In the same development, former Governor of the Bank of Southern Sudan Elijah Malok Alueng thanked the people of Greater Bahr el Ghazal and Equatoria region for having greatly defended the movement after Nasir factions of 1991 among the people of Upper Nile region.
He acknowledged that without the people of Bahr el Ghazal the movement would have collapsed and this is how history could be made at the darkest hours.
Alueng appreciated President Kiir that since he took power at New Site, President Kiir never looked back until he attained independence. He called Kiir as a true nationalist. He also added that Dr. Riek Machar Teny apologized during memorial ceremony of Late Dr. John Garang this year for having committed atrocities in Bor.
He posed a question that goes, “If Upper Nile has sensitive positions in the government such as Vice President, Defense, National Security, and Secretary General of SPLM and others why should the region be engaged in unnecessary rebellious? He further asked the Vice President to take a lead in order to overcome such insurgencies.
Meanwhile Nyadeng De Mabior also appealed to the people of South Sudan that they are good at forgetting the past and future, but remembering where they are now.
She urged the people of greater Bahr el Ghazal to advise President Kiir correctly so that he could lead us properly. Nyadeng also asked Vice President Riek should also apologize to the people of Equatoria and Bahr El Ghazal for the consequences of the 1991 split and not only to the people of Bor.
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