Pagak Rebels General Conference, another 15th Dec calamity or way forward for better exit out of pit?

By Deu Lueth Ader

Pagak General Conference for Rebels group headed by Riek Machar holds ambiguities, but nevertheless two conflicting perspectives probably would emerge out of the conference.

First and foremost, the rebel’s high command since the eruption of the rebellion has never met such that to re-organize and re-structure its ranks, hence two things would be on top of the agenda. New policies would be adopted by the leadership of the rebels as to how people are mobilize to join the rebellion, or otherwise the rebels may resort to conscript them should they decline to do so, for both warring parties are competing over victory point before any political settlement is achieved. The rebels in a military sciences’ point of view want to maintain an upper hand instead of being underdog of the fight, therefore; the possibility of opening a new phase and fronts of fighting would likely be endorsed in the conference.

Secondly, and paradoxically; some prominent members within the leadership of rebels have been advocating for peaceful settlement and urging themselves to lay down guns but their voices are apparently inaudible, for there is no peace through barrel of gun other than forfeiting lives. There is an instantaneous call for urgent peace now not tomorrow and desist from covert activities aiming at escalation in order to save the lives of innocent civilians who have been suffering in dignified silent countrywide. The reward for the lives perished in the aftermath of current war is none other than peace and leave aside the grudges of being mocked by X or Y for the sake of peaceful co-existence.
The awful day 15 December is approaching let everyone be hopeful for your conference’s outcomes, be it fruitful rather than revulsion.

Though it is yet uncertain if the government would permit the UNMISS to transport the rebels field commanders to where the conference is expected to be held, or UNMISS itself may refuse to cooperate, for it has all along been seen by the Government as another hidden cell executing Rebels’ agenda and no longer a neutral element that can stand in the middle of the crisis without bending on either side. But if conference convenes make sure that relentless and persistence to materialize objectives through fighting would be detrimental to the national stability and social fabric, for Government would not stay idle and let you carry out your military activities freely. Government would as well consolidate its forces as you do in a pretext to eschew the annihilation of the country and Constitution; however urge yourselves not to vilify the principles of peaceful settlement and give the IGAD a chance to look into it such that a robust outlet is engendered.

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