UN SANCTION: A THREAT TO PEACE & STABILITY IN SOUTH SUDAN

I believe imposing sanction to world youngest nation called the Republic of South Sudan will not be an applicable methods of addressing its contemporary situation as world has seen it. It will be another way of declaring battle against South Sudan by international groups instead of coercing the two aggressive parties and IGAD mediation club to speed up on ultimate peace deal in order for South Sudanese innocent civilians to live in harmony among themselves as one people of one destiny.

Sanction is not the opportunity of bring peace back to South Sudan or else but a devastation to mostly affected South Sudanese people livelihoods who are pursuing aide from international humanitarian agencies . If we impose sanction on South Sudan, then we are no longer different with two warring parties in South Sudan who have caused these dehumanization crimes against innocent civil population. However, many international communities and individuals are portentous sanction should be impose to South Sudan because of their unwilling to reach final peace deal which ideally explicable in some perspective, but hazardous to countries like South Sudan who is still an infant nation on earth.

When U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on two generals who were accused of killing innocent civilians on both side in South Sudan’s ethnic violence, the violence burst between supporters of President Salva Kiir and those loyal to his former vice president turn rebel leader Riek Machar last 15 December after disagreement on their reform in government system. The US imposing individual sanction on two warring parties both sides because of their actions during South Sudan crisis. Major-General Marial Chanuong and his rival Gen. Peter Gatdet Yaak has no assets to be freeze by US in its territory.

The US sanctions which were announced against Gen. Peter Gatdet, an army commander fighting Juba government and loyalist to Riek Machar, and Major-General Marial Chanuong, commander of presidential guards. They entail freezing any of their assets in the United States and blocking U.S. individuals or companies from dealing with them. Well, the sanction is now on operation and there is no change in behaviors of making peace as a priority regardless of ten of thousand being killed. The way to achieved is through negotiation and giving IGAD mediation support they deserve to do their best to bringing peace back to South Sudan.

All international bodies, United Nations, African Union and IGAD mediation has done their part in restoring peace in South Sudan, but the commitment from the two warring parties still lacking. It will be the role of international and regional bodies to pressurizing the two warring parties to accept and implement the cessation of hostility agree upon them to pave the way forward.

We all know very well that the decade wars South Sudan fought against Khartoum regime because of its racism, Arabization and Islamization toward South Sudanese people, their grandfathers and fathers took up arms against Khartoum to have free and just democratic nation on earth.  South Sudan didn’t have its independent without international community supports. The stand and support of international community especially United States of America, United Nations, African Union, European Union and  others organizations shown to South Sudan during struggle for independent is also needed at this current crisis but not sanction as their support to South Sudan

Many South Sudanese innocent civil populations are in dire need of humanitarian’s assistant from international community whom South Sudanese populations consider as their brothers, sisters and friends but imposing sanction again to South Sudan will be a threat to peace and stability whom South Sudanese people have been yearning for so long .

<p>©Mading De Manyok 2014</p>