Nuer call for mobilization with other tribes against current government of president Kiir
The Nuer Youth Executive leadership is profoundly disturbed to inform the whole world that the Nuer Youth leader, Peter Tut Hoth, was detained at 6 am in Juba by ten armed members of SPLA Military Intelligence (MI). The reason for his detention is because he scheduled a meeting of the entire Nuer community to take place on Saturday, October 20, between 1â5pm.
On October, 19, 2012, the security agents of the government warned the leadership of Nuer Youth not to go ahead with the meeting. However, the Nuer Youth Executive leadership rejected the intimidations and decided that the meeting should take place as scheduled.
The whereabouts of Peter Tut Hoth is unknown and the entire Nuer community is concerned about his safety. He was picked up by heavily armed security agents all of them from Dinka tribe. He was pushed with the barrels of AK-47s and one agent was heard calling him Nyagat (fifth columnist). The way he was picked up is a cause for concern because our community fears that the security organs may be torturing him by now.
In 1990s, any Nuer deemed as âNyagatâ by the SPLA leadership was likely to be executed in prison. The behavior of the SPLA guerrillas has not changed with the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) and anyone detained by the SPLA is subject to torture. Besides, the fact that Peter Tut is a Nuer and the security agents who detained him are Dinka is another factor that should cause concern.
Tribal hatred is now on the rise in South Sudan because the SPLA C-in-C has endorsed a policy which targets Nuer community. The Nuer are being regarded as enemies of the state who have no constitutional rights.
Despite the arrest of the leader of Nuer Youth, the meeting took place as scheduled and was attended by all Nuer members of Parliament, ministers, civil servants and army generals including the SPLA Chief-of-General-staff, Lt. Gen. James Hoth Mai.
The Nuer community in general discussed the problem of detention of Maj. Gen. Simon Gatwec Dual, Maj. Gen. Gabriel Tang, Maj. Gen. Mabor Dhol and Brig. Gen. Gatwec Joak. The Nuer community unanimously passed the following resolutions:
1. Lt. Gen. James Hoth Mai, the SPLA Chief-of-General-staff, was dismissed from Nuer community because he violated bylaws of Nuer community which required all members to observe the rights of every Nuer such as right to life, liberty and security of the person. The Nuer general assembly found him to have participated in the assassination attempt against Maj. Gen. Gabriel Tang, Maj. Gen. Mabor Dhol and Brig. Gen. Gatwec Joak. He is also found to have endorsed the illegal detention of Maj. Gen. Simon Gatwec Dual.
Since the Nuer community bylaws required all the members to promote human values such as freedom, justice, equality and the rule of law, James Hoth violated all these principles and is seen to have turned against the values of the community. He is therefore dismissed from the community and was told that he would never participate in any communityâs activities.
2. The Nuer Youth in South Sudan were mandated to educate the Nuer in the rural areas about the governmentâs policies of discriminating the Nuer. The youth are tasked to mobilize the Nuer community to defend themselves from imminent threats of extermination.
3. The community resolved that Maj. Gen. Simon Gatwec Dual, Maj. Gen. Gabriel Tang, Maj. Gen. Mabor Dhol and Brig. Gen. Gatwec Joak should be released as soon as possible. If the Dinkaâs government failed to release them, the Nuer Youth are given the responsibility to express their disapproval for their illegal detentions through demonstrations, petitions and mobilizing Nuer chiefs.
4. The Nuer community urged all Nuer members of parliament, military officers, politicians and civil servants to resign from the government of Salva Kiir and stay in their houses. The youth advised elders that the Nuer should not take part in the government which is killing them.
5. The assembly resolved that the Nuer should form an alliance with other South Sudanese who are against oppression and injustice. The Nuer youth are mandated to work with other South Sudan youths who believe that the people of South Sudan deserve a government which respects human rights, ethnic equality and justice.
For contact:
James Gatluak Chol
Information Secretary
Nuer Youth Executive Council
Juba, South Sudan
Email: nueryouthjuba@hotmail.com
Information Secretary
Nuer Youth Executive Council
Juba, South Sudan
Email: nueryouthjuba@hotmail.com
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Am indeed disturbed,disappoint,devastate and discouraged by the about intimidating letter from Nuer Youth Exective Concile in Juba.With no fear or favor, I wish to condemned their dismissal of SPLA chief of general staff General James Hoth Mai as Nuer member by Nuer Youth. However, Gen.James Hoth Mai is one those who are performing the task with a lot of dedication,commitment,integrity and patriotism as assigned to them by the government.Therefore,if Nuer community viewed that as being against or violating their community’s bylaws then it wouldn’t make absolutely any sense at all to any patriotic leader or member of south Sudanese whose sole responsibility is to promote peace and stability in that republic. I undoubtedly believe that Kiir’s government dose not neither belong to Dinka nor Nuer communities as they calmed to be but the entire South Sudanese people from diverse communities across the country and never will such thing happened in future.It’s indeed shameful,malicious,reckless and Muppet for Nuer Youth to repetitively posting such intimidating letters to the public but instead ought to use polite and logical means of defending their leaders. Finally,I also totally disagreed with Nuer Youth not to call people who came from their community as their leaders but the leaders of South Sudanese people entirely.