[RwandaLibre] South Sudan: Another Rwanda in the Making

South Sudan: Another Rwanda in the Making



By Stephen Par Kuol

December 27, 2013 (SSNA)



Having come to term with the embarrassing truth that genocide in

Rwanda could have been prevented, the world leaders under the

leadership of Bill Clinton of the United States in 1994 vowed: "never

and never again shall there be another Rwanda in the 21stcentury", but

in many other betrayals to humanity, it happened again and again in

the watch of the United Nations and its founding super powers!. It is

now happening in South Sudan again and the UNIMISS in Juba is doing

exactly what the French troops and the United Nations Peacekeeping

Mission did in Kigali during that time of Rwanda genocide. Helde

Johnson in her diplomatically unacceptable exotic miniskirts is still

praising Kiir and his killing machine ( Dootku Beny or rescuing Kiir

brigade) for bringing the situation back to normal in the national

capital. What Ms. Johnson's mission has managed to do in this tragic

time of calling is setting up an open concentration camp around

UNIMISS compound in Juba where they are providing nothing to save

lives from other natural hazards such as Juba blazing sun, hunger,

disease and thirst as the door to door lynching of Nuers continued

until yesterday, December 19, 2013 when I narrowly escaped the reddish

eye bolt of the ongoing onslaught. I therefore , write to inform New

York and the entire international community that UNIMISS's mandate

under the United Nations Resolution Number [S/RES/2109]

underscoring UNIMISS's role in protecting civilians, improving

security and supporting peace building efforts is administratively

abandoned exposing the civil population to genocide in South Sudan.



Just like the deadly complacency in the case of Rwanda, the United

Nations Mission in South Sudan( UNIMISS) has left the crisis to Kiir's

genocidal operatives and the rebels to figure it all out. It goes

without informing the records that there were many feasible steps to

prevent the genocide that would have been taken in the case of Rwanda

but they were all ignored and the genocide happened. The history is

repeating itself and genocide is happening once again in South Sudan.

Those who argue against this assertion must consult the book for

correct definition of genocide. Genocide is a Greek word for killing

a race or an ethnic group. Geno is the race or an ethnic group and

cide is the act of killing. The Modern International Criminal Justice

has defined it as a systematic plan of a political authority to

eliminate a specific ethnic group. In political term, the targeted

ethnic group is politically convicted of a collective guilt by the

state with jurisdictional authority in a given state territory. This

is how it happened in Rwanda and that is how it is now brewing in

South Sudan. The Nuer Community from which Riek Macher hails is

currently lynched to collectively punish them for Riek's alleged coup

and rebellion.



Even if we accept it for the sake of argument that Dr. Riek Machar

and his armed rebels still pose danger to Kiir's Government, but do

we the unarmed civilian pose that threat now in Juba? Why should my

colleagues like Lam Chuol Thicuong , Honorable Jal Thiech, Brigadier

General Martin Kueth Peat and Ustaz Reath Thoan who have nothing to do

with the mutiny named coup lose their lives because of their ethnic

identity if this is not a genocide?



The preliminary stock of the Nuer civilians killed so far between the

December 16 and 19 makes more than half of the death toll reported so

far in Juba. According to eye witness report from the battle field,

the real casualties of the military confrontation were 27 soldiers

only. These other casualties were cold blood victims of Dootku Beny

Brigrade, a private armed force of President Kiir in akin to Hutu

ENTERAHAMAWE composed mainly of Dinka boys from Greater Bar-Elghazal

states of Northern Bar -elghazal and Warap. The Dinka language

meaning of "doot" is recuing or reaching. It was privately and

specially equipped to protect Kiir from perceived threat posed by the

Nuer elements in the SPLA proper. In their genocidal operation,

Dootku Beny and Kiir's security operatives have turned the national

capital into a festive heaven for vultures and other scavengers as the

corpses begin to decompose around the city suburbs. Many innocent

victims have been murdered in 107 township, Jabel ,Gurei, Gudella and

Manga residential areas where those butchers hunt only for those who

speak Nuer language. Many of the Kiir supporters including family

members of Kiir's cabinet ministers have been killed even in

ministers' residents.



Being the nature of the beast, genocide knows neither maverick nor

moderates! That is why Nuer ministers and intellectuals who are Kirr's

strong supporters had to be evacuated to safer enclaves within the

city where they are either protected by armed relatives or people

closed to the president where they are compelled against their own

conscience to condemn the so called attempted coup in the media. Other

than that, they have no other use for this rogue regime. Retrieve the

last Presidential Press Statement declaring curfew and the ongoing

state of emergency which General Kiir declared in his sub- conscience

thorough a slip of the tongue but was politically corrected by his

shivering chicken ministers before the press. This secretly declared

state of emergency has made it a nightmare to be a Nuer now in Juba.

Evidently, there are few moderate Hutus among our Dinka cousins in

Juba to protect their Nuer cousins at the time of this writing. With

the death news from Juba, the SPLA forces are now confronting one

another along ethnic line in various barracks across the country.

Events on the ground have their own dynamics and should this continue

unabated, revenge killing will ensue plunging the entire nation into

the abyss of genocide that could be worse than that of Rwanda. Let us

face it; we are at the apex of genocide by all legal and political

meaning of the word. The International Criminal Court (ICC), which

has the jurisdiction to prosecute crimes of genocide has legally

defined it to mean any of the following acts committed with intent to

destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or

religious group, such as:



(a)killing members of the group;



(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;



(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated

to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.



While many cases of group-targeted violence have occurred throughout

history and even since the Convention came into effect, the legal and

international development of the term is concentrated into two

distinct historical periods: the time from the coining of the term

until its acceptance as international law (1944-1948) and the time of

its activation with the establishment of international criminal

tribunals to prosecute the crime of genocide (1991-1998). Preventing

genocide, the other major obligation of the convention, remains a

challenge that nations and individuals continue to face. Lack of

preventive diplomacy at the United Nations has rendered advocacy

against genocide futile. Preventive diplomacy is practiced only where

there is a vital interest of the super powers in the balance. .A

nascent landlocked fragile state like the Republic of Sudan South is

nobody's business.



So, only South Sudanese intellectuals, civil society and political

leaders must rise to the occasion to reverse the unfolding catastrophe

by doing the following:



1. Bringing pressure to bear on Kiir and his henchmen to release all

prisoners of conscience and stop the ongoing genocide in the country.



2. Urging the United Nations and the African Union to intervene with

all the powers they have as quickly as possible.



3. Appealing to our SPLA gallant forces to stop repeating the 1991

fratricidal killing. They must protect their comrades from other

ethnic groups to avoid more revenge killing.



4. Convening a serious national peace conference to seriously discuss

the unfolding despicable situation.



5. Urging Dr. Riek and his group to accept dialogue as the only way to

avoid escalation of the situation. South Sudan is a traumatized nation

without another mental and physical gusto to fight another civil war

especially the brewing tribal war. Dr. Riek must avoid commanding

genocide like what Kiir is doing now. He must also practice the peace

and reconciliation he was calling for before Kiir sidelined him.



6. Finally, I personally urge my fellow Nuers in South Sudan uniform

to avoid genocidal revenge to honor their own struggle and blood of

our martyrs which delivered us the independence we are now

dismantling.



Honorable Stephen Par Kuol is a former Deputy Ambassador of the Sudan

to the United Republic of Tanzania and the State Minister of

Education in the recently overthrown Government of Jonglei State by

Dr. Riek Machar's forces. He is also a researcher and freelance writer

on academic topics pertinent to Human Right and Post-conflict Criminal

Justice Administration. He can be reached via stephenkuols@yahoo.com /

kuolpar@yahoo.com .



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