The Troubling Coincidences: The Three Telling Incidences in South Sudan

By Kur Wel Kur, Adelaide, Australia

Wednesday, December 18, 2019 (PW) — At the outset, I am sorry to the readers whose valuable time would be channeled into reading this long post. It isn’t my desire to bother you, my countrymen and women, and those interested in the affairs of our beloved country—South Sudan with what would seem as spamming. But what’s in this post is close to my heart. With these words, I welcome you.

SANCTIONS ON TWO MINISTERS

US administration announced sanctions on the two ministers of our dearest country: Honourable Kuol Manyang Juuk (of Defence and Veteran Affairs) and Honourable Martin Elia Lomuro (of Cabinet Affairs).

This is like a joke, a child play, because the two ministers are accused of “obstructing the peace process”. It’s a joke because it’s an epitome of the biblical proverb of talking about a speck in someone’s eye, while a bothering log is untouchable in one’s eye.

The US administration is diverting its fear in her crumbling foreign policy where she has been outflanked by two power-competitors: China and Russia! And every trial of her dirty tactics is failing. So placing sanctions on anyone in the realm of South Sudan power is an easy target.

As a reminder, one of the US administration dirty tactics is the presence of the UNMISS in our beloved country. The acronym stands for UN Mission in South Sudan. Think about it! What mission? Peace? Or war? Or US agency to keep South Sudan dangling in her (US) paws? 

Your choice, your understanding. However, for me, I will go this way: US herself, in the form of UNMISS, is sabotaging peace for her own political and economic gains. 

Take the example of the wrongly labeled trucks, trucks full of arms.

“11 United Nations trucks carrying weapons”, were stopped, a few kilometres away from IO held areas, and searched in 2014. What was found in a shipment of “general goods”, shocked our nation. The UN puppets hopped on a defensive stance, trying to downplay the shocking crime by saying that their employees wrongly labeled the trucks! 

11 trucks?  All of them wrongly labeled? 

This was a dumb answer given to whom they thought as little-heads, but they didn’t know they were dealing with the masters of secrecy and military intelligence.

So, their own rule was shoved into their faces: the rule is, “that UN arms should be transported by air only in the country for security reasons”. And their arrogance and ignorance were silenced when they were asked if all those arms belong the Ghanian peace keeping force, what were landmines for? Hilde F. Johnson with her qualifications and experience couldn’t save the dirty organisation she was working for.

So, now: who’s obstructing peace in South Sudan?

My failure to understand those, especially IO supporters and officials, celebrating sanctions on the two ministers, come when they fail to understand that our peace won’t come from outside. We, as South Sudanese, will cultivate and harvest our genuine peace.

The sanctions are senseless, and helpless to those suffering in little confined areas due to UNMISS scaring tactics. My countrymen and women, supporting IO, is like supporting a tendril of a decaying plant, or a tentacle of a dying monster.  US is on the decline. Trump. Race war (black lives matter). Intelligence agents (e.g. Edward Snowden) running away with sensitive information.

So, my take: the sanctions coincide with the coordinated attacks of Murle bandits on villages of Bor.

COORDINATED MURLE ATTACKS

One would be mistaken, and terribly wrong if one thinks that the attacks were random. We are in the peace process. The areas of Murle are flooded, and the water level hasn’t subsided that much, leave alone dried up. 

Murle bandits don’t carry out their criminal activities in the wet season, because of easy footprints. I know there’s exception to this behaviour, and that’s when it is pouring. They can attack in a pouring rain so that the torrents wash off the footprints.

My guess: those bandits were used as human-traps to trigger the government action. And then, a demonic pit bull would rush into military actions on South Sudan. 

It’s the same reason why US forces are almost everywhere, including  in South Korea that’s in a stone’s throw  distance from the most feared country–North Korea. If one soldier is touched, even by a stray bullet, US will be ready to go to war, to avenge that one soldier. 

South Sudan is up for grabs. So, the coordinated Murle attacks are TELLING, and so do, the “discovery of methane”.

METHANE DETECTED FROM SOUTH SUDAN

These people never cease with their useless and meaningless tricks. This kind of language, of trick, was used to colonise Africa, to spread “gospels”. Climate Change is another agenda. Rockets, and satellites are orbiting the earth. What amounts of Carbon dioxide do they exude into the atmosphere?

However, what bothers me is its coincidence with the sanctions. The glaring dots are easy to connect. What’s to follow is obvious to miss. And it’s all amiss. Their next move is to send a “group” scientists to monitor the methane level in our wetlands. WHAT A JOKE? A “group of scientists”, or a group of spies? 

While IO is running around with some blood money, money use to bribe supporters, the country is being drove into its ruins. For nationalists, and patriots, the big picture needs to take the central stage. And all internal issues later.

And for those who are supporting sanctions, you’re supporting what you don’t know. Rushing for foreign powers is a disaster. A disaster we have witnessed in Afghanistan, a bottomless hell with the bluest flames in Iraq, and a burial of thousand years civilisation in Libya. Our great country is larger than any of us. 

Finally, I am aware of some of our frustrations. Lack of basics. Refugees everywhere. The citizens are struggling with what are supposed to be human rights. And some discouraging slogans: “we liberated this country” that has become empty, or worse an intimidating threat to others. Without progressive agenda, some our beloved citizens are seeing no sense of independence.

So, Hilde F. Johnson’s words and arguments in her two books are endorsed or even idolised.

But still our dearest country can’t be a muscle-testing ground for the world power competitors. Foreign powers mustn’t interfere with our government. They  ( foreign politicians) think they are genius at governing, but they’re not. They’re sitting on three hundred years old governments, and still they’re struggling with their issues. The only thing they do well is blanketing them (their weaknesses) from the world view.

Be bless;

Be alert.

KNOWLEDGE TRAPPED In A BARBED WIRE.

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