South Sudan needs economic life support, not deadly armed force, Princeton Lyman
5 min readBy Emmanuel Monychol Akop, Juba, South Sudan
July 21, 2016 (SSB) — During the Kigali Summit; South Sudan was the topic agenda. The African leaders agreed that they will solve their own problems, without the intervention of other nations from outside Africa. But Ban Kimoon was at the back scene, with his mouth, probably stuffed with Dollars, engaging, possibly bribing regional leaders to urging them, to support a regional intervention into South Sudanese internal affairs.
Even Whitemen who have benefited from South Sudan, like Princeton Lyman, a senior adviser to the president of the United States Institute of Peace and served as the US Special Envoy for Sudan and South Sudan from 2011 to 2013 , is busy writing, urging his corners that a deadly force be deployed, that South Sudanese needs “life support” by placing the country under the UN Trusteeship in, say ten to fifteen – citing Kosovo and East Timor as good examples of success of the UN.
He is ironically right. Yes it is true that South Sudan needs life support after it is sucked dry of its resources by the so called international experts, who come as friends, PR their companies and take away our money. South Sudan is on its knees, because almost everybody, not just our leaders has participated in looting South Sudan.
The life support that we need as a country is – not deadly force – it is the money we all siphoned out, as the UN employing foreign nationals on the national jobs calling them experts on South Sudan – but as a way to take away South Sudanese money, whether donated or generated through the oil revenue. South Sudan needs life support from the INGoS that are working day and night, stealing our money through the expertise that brings little expertism to South Sudan but more destruction and spying.
The international community should understand that silent majority of South Sudan is against the millitant approach to South Sudanese internal conflict, and we are aware that the West is behind the power they called African soltuion to African problems in Kigali – this is sugar-coating.
There is no denying it; South Sudan is under siege from greedy neighbours , the unsympathetic international community, their hosts of spies, sleeping in our hotels and some of the nationals who were once the leaders of the government of South Sudan, now roaming the world, using the resources they stole when they were leaders to destroy South Sudan, selling its sovereignty in the name of struggle for leadership.
South Sudanese are speaking out in large numbers, across the country. The silent majority is standing with their country – they will not accept neighbours who benefited from us over the years to turn against us and humiliate us by forecfully handing our country to foreign rule.
If the rest of the region, Africa cares for its 54th state, then they should open their eyes to facts. What are those facts? IOs are moving back to government in large numbers. IO leadership under Hon Taban Deng and Ezekiel Lul are clear on this – no foreign military intervention in the internal affairs of South Sudan. Dr Riek Machar is hiding, thinking that foreign forces will come to install him. No. wherever he is, he should be informed that only elections will make him our President, not foreign forces.
During the clashes that predated 9 July, several nationality IDs of the IO soldiers and bodyguards of Dr. Riek Machar collected at the battle scenes showed that he brought in a well trained Ethiopian army, mainly from Gambella. We have obtained a good number of those IDs of Ethiopian soldiers and we will publish them soon. But one of them is James Chuol Nyuon, born in Gambella Ethiopia, of Ethiopian nationality, Ethiopian soldier of Gambella branch, ID Service number 1000135220737.
This is the indication that Dr. Riek Machar harboured power takeover in Juba, and this has totally failed, promtping him to hide, possibly, out of shame for the mindless loss he has caused Ethiopain soldiers, for a failed mission and possible accusation for his political miscalculation by the IO military who are defecting back to government in large numbers across the three regions of South Sudan. Now, this is the truth.
When such criminal activities occur and there is a rush from neighbours to bring in more forces, we cannot be shocked that the region is coming for regime change, because they are not questioning Ethiopia – why or how comes Dr. Riek Mahar had Ethiopian soldiers? Under a fair game, Dr. Riek should be condemned by the region for bringing Ethiopian soldiers who attacked the presidential palace, not the other way round.
Emmanuel Monychol is Editor-In-Chief of The Dawn English Daily newspaper in Juba and British Chevening Scholar. You can reach him via his email: Emmanuel Monychol <akuotgoor55@gmail.com>
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