The Tactics to Overthrow the Romantic President and to Consolidate the Power
7 min readBy Majook Deng, Aweil, South Sudan
June 10, 2015 (SSB) — The back-door of the long terms politically planned by Dr. Machar to come to power in shortcut for the beginning of his two failed coup attempted in 1991 and repeated again in 2013, Kiir became unwell in his position claiming that, Machar’s going to repeat 1991 massacre in Bor of the failed coup attempted to overthrow the rebel leader of SPLM/A (founder of the nation of the republic of south Sudan) Dr. Garang De Mabior Atem Aruay. After rumors about a planned coup surfaced in Juba in late 2012, South Sudanese President Salva Kiir began re-organizing the senior leadership of his government, party and military in an unprecedented scale.
In January 2013 Kiir replaced the inspector general of the national police service with a lieutenant from the army, and dismissed six deputy chiefs of staff and 29 major generals in the army because the allegations and rumors from the security intelligence. In February 2013 Kiir retired an additional 117 army generals, but this was viewed as troublesome in regards to a power grab by others. Kiir had also suggested that his rivals were trying to revive the rifts that had provoked infighting in the 1991-2002 when Machar planned to throw the late founder of the republic of south Sudan Dr. John Garang.
In 23rd July 2013, Kiir dismissed Vice President Riek Machar, one-time leader of the Nasir revolt, along with his entire cabinet. Kiir suspended the SPLM Secretary-General Pagan Amum Okech and forbade him from leaving Juba or speaking to the media. The decrees elicited fears of political unrest, with Machar claiming that Kiir’s move was a step towards dictatorship and announcing that he would challenge Kiir in the 2015 presidential election but Riek Machar’s impatient and he have had no longer to awaiting till 2015 general election. From there!! I do blame un-civilizing leader in our country because have had no politically plans to maintain the situation very well. Machar’s said that if the country is to be united, it cannot tolerate “one man’s rule (Kiir).
Kiir disbanded all of the top-level organs of the SPLM party, including the Political Bureau, the National Convention and the National Liberation Council in November 2013. He cited their failed performance and the expiration of their term limits.
Although Machar and Kiir are both members of the SPLM, they stem from different tribes with a historically of conflict. Kiir is an ethnic Dinka, while Machar is an ethnic Nuer troublesome men. Some observers reject ethno-tribal explanations of the conflict as overly simplified.
COURSE OF THE CONFLICT: “The Two Failed Coup Attempted 1991-2013 Continuation by Former Vice of South Sudan Dr. Riek, Dr. Doomsday or prophetic of Dooms”
Initially Mutiny (Criminal)-The South Sudanese Sudan Tribune reported clashes breaking out in the Munuki neighborhood late on 15th December in South Sudan’s capital, Juba, between members of the presidential guard but that has been denial by Gov’t officials and called it; the propaganda to framing the president. Kiir also claimed that the fighting began when unidentified uniformed personnel started shooting at a meeting of the SPLM afternoon on Sunday 15th Dec 2013. Former Minister of Higher Education Peter Adwok said that on the evening 15 December after the meeting of the National Liberation Council had failed, Kiir told Major General Marial Ciennoung to disarm his soldiers of the “Tiger Battalion,” which he did.
Adwok then controversially claims that the officer in charge of the weapons stores opened them and re-armed only the Dinka soldiers. A Nuer soldier passing by questioned this and a fistfight then ensued between the two and attracted the attention of the “commander and his deputy to the scene.” Unable to calm the situation, more soldiers got involved and raided the stores. It culminated in the Nuer soldiers taking control of the military headquarters. The next morning, he says that Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) reinforcements arrived and dislodged the mutineers. He then explained standard procedure:
Military doctrine dictates that once a contingent of mutinous troops has been dislodged, appeal is made for their surrender and then disarmed. Those who remained loyal (to the president) are also disarmed to prevent bad blood. The loyal troops of Tiger, hailing mainly from Warrap and Aweil, have not been disarmed. In fact, they are the ones rampaging Juba, looting and shooting to kill any Nuer in the residential neighborhoods.” That is I called lies official by Adwok, he really brainwash and angry for his removal in the position of cabinet.
Adwok was then placed on a list of wanted politicians, to which he said “this may be my last contribution, because, as I said, I’m waiting for the police in order to join my colleagues in detention.” On Christmas Day, five days after his controversial publication, Adwok was arrested and held for two days. He was later detained at the Juba airport when attempting to leave the country. His passport was also confiscated” because he is betrayal to the nation as a whole.
Kiir said that the government was then “in full control of the military situation” and Machar’s on run and that those “criminals” responsible for the attack would be brought to justice. On 21 December, the government announced on Twitter its unconditional readiness to hold peace talks with any rebel group, including Dr. Riek Machar. Kiir spoke in a Christmas message that “innocent people have been want only killed. There are now people who are targeting others because of their tribal affiliation…It will only lead to one thing and that is to turn this new nation into chaos.”
Machar spoke for the first time since the crisis began on 18 December in which he said he was not aware of any coup attempt, but instead blamed Kiir for fabricating such allegations of a coup in order to settle political scores and target political opponents. He also said the violence was started by the presidential guard, which was founded by Kiir and told to report directly to him instead of the military. He added: “My bodyguards at the vice presidential residences were summarily executed. They attacked it with tank shells and then burned. It is rubble now. They fired on my residence and I fled. My life was in danger; my colleagues were being arrested for no reason Machar’s remark. They are not plotters, it was not a coup. Nobody wants that.”
Instead, Machar maintained that Kiir “used [Machar] as a scapegoat” to enable him to purge the SPLM of his rivals and avoid reforming it. Machar’s always used his tribesmen to fighting and to achieve his political interest. He also commented that “the violence is turning tribal and they are killing people in Juba,” depicting the people in Jonglei rising up to take on the majority Dinka. “Some really heart-wrenching acts have already occurred where Nuer soldiers have been attacked and killed, Nuer government officials, even those serving in the offices of Nuer ministers, and ordinary citizens suspected of having participated in the fight against the government.
JOK MADUT JOK WROTE: “If the SPLA engages Gadet and possibly Riek and Taban, then we have an all-out civil war in South Sudan, a mere two years after independence, and making good all the predictions by outsiders that South Sudanese will have limited capacity to build a peaceful nation” and “sounds of gunfight, traversed with heart-shaking mortar and tank blasts, and which have continued sporadically well into today Wednesday morning, have all spread fear in the population, leaving them hostage to the madness of a few power-hungry men…[the uncertainty centres on] the fate of political stability in the whole country.
The SPLM-affiliated youth group condemned the attempted overthrow of Kiir and a statement read: “We the SPLM-concerned youth group rejects in totality the notion and culture of using violence as a means to attain retain or transfer power. The conflict is not between the Dinka and Nuer, but between government and those who lost power in the July reshuffle. We urge security forces to act with restrain in order to avoid the conflict from taking an ethnic dimension”.
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