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BUL COMMUNITY IN DIASPORA CONDEMN THE KILLING OF
INNOCENCE CIVILIANS IN MAYOM COUNTY BY THE SPLA
TO: H.E.LT. GENERAL SALVA KIIR MAYARDIT, THE 1ST
VICE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SUDAN, THE
PRESSIDENT OF GOSS AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF
SPLA
CC. GOSS MINISTER OF DEFENCE LT. GENERAL NHIAL
DENG NHIAL
CC: SPLA CHIEF OF STAFF LT.GENERAL JAMES HOTH
MAI AND HIS DEPUTY FOR OPERATION LT. GENERAL
WILSON DENG
CC: H.E. GOSS MINISTER OF
HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS AND DISASTER MANAGEMENT
JAMES KOK RUEA
Your excellences:
It is
an honour for us, we the citizens of Unity
State, particularly, we the citizens of Mayom
County, to communicate our view to you about the
ongoing killing and displacement of civilian
population in the Mayom County. We are so sad
for this barbaric act that has been committed
recently by the SPLA soldiers, the same army
that is mandated to provide security to these
civilians.
Your excellences, on May 24th 2011 “South
Sudan’s army set fire to over 10,000 homes in
Mankien area in Mayom County.
http://www.sudantribune.com/SPLA-set-fire-to-over-7-000-homes,39010;
Sudan Catholic Radio Network confirmed same
report. And a credible report from the ground
confirmed that payam of:
Watnam,
Lony,
Loath, Bore, Ruathlual, and the Riak payam”
have being burned to the ground by SPLA army
deliberately. This indicates to the average
Southern Sudanese that SPLA failed to provide
basic protection to the Mayom county citizen;
instead, the SPLA soldiers are reported to have
conducted systematic and targeted serial killing
against the Mayom county population.
The killing and the
targeting of civilians dwellings in the Mayom
County are serious human right violations, and
we strongly condemn any violence act against
civilians, we denounce both implicitly or
explicitly punishment against the people of
Unity State and Mayom County in particular. This
kind of deliberate targeting of civilians can
never and would never be justified anywhere in
the world, and we strongly ask the SPLA to take
measurable steps to protect civilians and bring
these individuals who committed these kinds of
acts to justice.
Your excellences, the SPLA soldiers are reported
to have raped young girls, and older women and
are engaged in wide spread killing of civilians
that are perceived or allegedly accused by them
as the supporters of the rebels. These kind of
actions clearly violated human right laws, the
UDHR article 5 say: No one shall be subjected to
torture or cruelty, inhuman, or degrading
treatment or punishment, this article applies to
both civilians and prisoners of war (soldiers),
we strongly believe that SPLA has violated this
article many times in the Mayom County incident.
The SPLA army is supposed to be conventional army that protects its citizens wherever they reside throughout South Sudan. Your excellences, a report from the ground confirmed that SPLA soldiers burned 65 people into their houses, they also blazed local crops intentionally, and many hundreds of thousands people are displaced as the results of this immoral act. It’s also well documented that Dinka of Warrap State raided over 7 hundred thousand cattle, and over 5 hundred goats from Mayom County within last three weeks, yet the current Governor of Unity State did not utters a word, the SPLA
commander for division four obviously failed to provides protection to civilians of Mayom County from Warrap cattle raiders. We the citizens of Unity State, Mayom County in particularly, ask your leadership in this critical time of crisis to set-up a team to investigate these atrocities that are committed against our people by the SPLA; we cannot longer watch our livinghood being destroys by both SPLA army and thugs from the Warrap State, no more. Your excellences under the UN charter, UDHR article 3 says: Everyone has a right to life, liberty and security. And we strongly believe that people of Mayom are being deprived of this basic universal right, both GoSS and SPLA must make every effort to demonstrate that they cares about the lives of Mayom County citizens. The citizen of Mayom County deserves peaceful existing like any other citizens of South Sudan who are enjoying their right to life, liberty, and security.
Your excellences, we the citizens of Mayom
County need your urgency action in these
matters, we still believes that your government
(GoSS) values humanity as set forth in the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Our long
struggle to achieve this freedom from the
oppressors in the Northern Sudan should not be
denied to the civilians of Mayom County in this
modern time.
Mr. President, we want your leadership to investigate and bring accountability, we believes that both current governor of Unity state and the division 4 commanders should be hold accountable for the atrocities committed against the Mayom County civilians under their watch. They both have failed to protect civilians and ignored the rule of laws. Both Division 4 commanders Maj. Gen Koang Chuol Ranley, Maj.Gen James Gatduel Gatluak and Lt.Gen. Governor Taban Deng Gai never comes out to condemn neither the killing of civilians by the SPLA nor the raiding on the civilians by the Warrap thugs. Above all, the atrocities that have been perpetrated by the SPLA soldiers are committed under their watch; they are responsible for all these acts. It’s the responsibility of the GoSS and the SPLA to hold these individuals accountable for the crimes against the citizens of Mayom County.
We
also demands that Governor, Taben Deng Gai, and
military commander of division four, Maj.Gen
James Gatduel Gatluak to publically condemns
these acts of violence, their silence suggest
that they are glorifying the killing of these
innocence civilians. Furthermore, we calls on
the Governor Taban Gai and Zonal commander
Gatduel to publically condemn violence against
civilians population immediately, they must
exercise their individual power and
responsibility to stop the endless death and
destruction that is happening right now in Mayom
County.
Your excellences, we want to bring this issue into your attention, that we the citizens of Mayom County in Diaspora are not happy about the ongoing killing and destruction in Unity State. We counted on your leadership to bring this to an end immediately
.We are asking GoSS leadership especially James Kok Ruea to response to his excellence Charles Machieng Kuol and others honourable MPs from Mayom County who has appealed to your ministry for humanitarian aid intervention in the County to assist the affected citizens for their basic wants. Your excellence James Kok, it is already rainy season in the South Sudan, which means that civilians they have no place to turned to, we calls on you to act with sense of urgency to addressed their basic needs. The situation is exacerbated by the fact that over 7 hundred thousand cattle and over 5 hundred goats from Mayom County have being raided within last three weeks by the gangs from the neighbouring Gongrial East and Twic counties of Warrap state. The long term impacts are huge and your ministry must demonstrate to Unity state citizens that GoSS cares about their well-being.
In conclusion, Mr. President, people of Mayom County have been being victimizes long enough; SPLA must act like conventional army and provide enough protection to them. We, the citizens of Mayom County in the Diaspora will also monitor the situation closely. We will continue to collect more evidence through all means possible, including the use of satellite technologies. Our community in Diaspora will continue to collect report on the ground activities that violate the human right. We are in the process of collecting satellite imagery of the area and we plans to compared the two periods, before attack and the after the attack. We hope to analyze these data for more evidence of destruction that is being done against these innocence civilians.
We will work with our international partners,
Human right watches, European commission, and
U.S special envoy to Sudan, Enough Project,
Satellite Sentinel Project, Waging Peace group,
and many others peace loving individuals to end
this killing and destruction in our State,
particularly in Mayom County. We will collect
further data from the NGO and personal
testimonies, and witnesses from the ground in
the County. Your excellences, enough is enough;
we cannot tolerate inhuman treatment of our
people any more. Your Government must find a way
to solve this injustice practices in Unity
State. Our ultimate goal is to bring a peaceful
resolution to the ongoing barbaric acts in our
State, we hope you be our partner on this Mr.
President.
Signed by Bul Community
Association leadership in North America and
Australia
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