To US John Kerry, envoy of Uncle Tom’s son: The case of Nuer against Dinka can’t be ruled by Hybrid Court.
5 min readBy David Aoloch Bion.
May , 7, 2015 (SSB) ‘’We are holding this conference when we are about to mark the first anniversary of the Juba genocide carried out by President Salva Kiir against his people killing over 20,000 innocent lives of Nuer people in less than a week. The massacres against Nuer in Juba triggered the present civil war’’, SPLM/A IO Riek Machar tribal statement at Pagak Conference.
Yesterday, in Nairobi, the US Secretary of State, John Kerry announced that the US government had allocated $5 million that will be used to set up Hybrid court to bring to book those responsible in South Sudan crimes.
So, who are the criminals? What are the crimes? Before we answer question, first let us look at the two famous quotations in the conflict. . First quote is from SPLM/A IO leader Riek Machar and here I quote ‘’We are holding this conference when we are about to mark the first anniversary of the Juba genocide carried out by President Salva Kiir against his people killing over 20,000 innocent lives of Nuer people in less than a week. The massacres against Nuer in Juba triggered the present civil war’’ Riek said this tribalistic statement when he opened conference in Pagak .
The second is from Sudan Tribune web site and this quote has been repeated 867 times since December 17 , 2013 ., the first day it appeared on the web site and here I quote ‘’ the war erupted in mid-December 2013 when political debates on reforms within the ruling Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Movement (SPLM) turned violent, further escalating into tribal conflict pitting Machar’s Nuer ethnic group, who were from the onset massacred in the capital, Juba, against Kiir’s Dinka community and their allies including foreign Ugandan forces’’
According to the above two quotes, the criminals and their crimes are identified already
Therefore, it is time to call a spade a spade not big spoon. The criminals are Dinka . The crime is the killing of 20, 000 Nuer people in the quote of Riek Machar.
Before some were calling me a tribalist , according to Riek Machar speech in Pagak , who is tribalist Number one ?
Secondly, are those claims of Dinka killing 20,000 Nuer justified?
In the night of December 15, 2013, there was a fight between soldiers inside J1 and soldiers who want to enter J1 by force.
In morning, the soldiers inside J1 led by President Kiir said , it was military coup to take J1 by force . On the other hand , the soldiers who were trying to force their way into J1 led by Riek Machar , said it was a mutiny , triggered by the selective DISARMING OF NUER TRIBE MEN BY DINKA TRIBE MEN . Whose version of the story is correct? Whose version is incorrect?
One week later, Riek Machar claimed that 20, 000 Nuer were murdered in Juba, coining the phrase JUBA MASSACRE.
Without questioning it validity, authenticity and accuracy and verifying it. The World believe it as we have seen US Secretary of State, John Kerry , the envoy of Uncle Tom ‘s son announcing millions of Dollar to set up their imperialist Hybrid court so that South Sudan taste wrath of imperialism.
Accountability is good for stabilization of South Sudan
And What if those who are witch-hunted to account refuse to account? What if they clean their spears and say we are not going to that court., What will happen? What if they say we are not going to court until Riek Machar first go to court for 1991 crimes and after that we can go , what will happen ?.
Riek Machar and Sudan Tribune are not alone in their premise that that ‘’narrowed down’’ the conflict from national conflict to ‘’Dinka – Nuer conflict’’.
Many senior government officials admitted to AU Commission of Inquiry that 20,000 Nuer were massacred in Juba by the private army of Dinka . They went ahead and clarified it that it is not whole Dinka but it is only section of Dinka from Warrap and Aweil who killed 20,000 Nuer .
So , it is clear now who is going to court and what are the charges . it is President Kiir, Paul Malong Awan , Amrose Riny and Maj .Gen Bol Akot . The crime is 20, 000 Nuer killed in Juba.
The Dinka from Greater Upper Nile, Lakes State and Western Bare el gazal are free from heinous crime committed by the section of Dinka from Warrap and Aweil.
it is the responsibility of Dinka of Warrap and Aweil to hand over these four men in near future , or it is their responsibility to do it Nuer way .
By Nuer way i mean to stand with someone whether right or wrong like Nuer did with Riek Machar . All Nuer stood with Riek, whether he was right or wrong.
Or do it my way , i mean , my way is People to People peace , People to People Reconciliation , not imperialist and neocolonial Hybrid court of John Kerry and the son of Uncle Tom , US President Obama .
People to People reconciliation oblige Nuer to come up with real list of names of the people killed by the Dinka in Juba and oblige Dinka to come with real list of names of the people killed by Nuer in Bor , Akobo , Baliet , Bentiu , Unity Oilfields . Then the two people come up with the solution like in Wunlit Conference .
Am saying this because Nuer who started the conflict by coup and cover it up by lying that they were being disarmed by Dinka , lying that 20,000 of them were killed in Juba by Dinka are celebrating that Dinka are going to court , Salva Kiir is going to court .
First of all , the country is at war. Peacemaking needs balancing of competing demands for accountability and punishment for the so-called criminals, who killed your so-called 20, 000 Nuer with the need to reconcile differences and move forward.
Atrocities as envoy of Uncle Tom’s son John Kerry put it must be balance with big picture in the society; here I mean wider social harmony in the society.
So celebrate your Hybrid court but remember it can be turned into civil war as you turn the coup into civil war with an eye blind
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