فى ذكرى مذبحة الضعين 1987

Quote: Gross human rights violations were committed by late Garang’s forces against a number of ethnic groups in Southern Sudan, which included massacres. One of the worst massacres committed by Garang was the war he launched against the Gaajaak sub-clan of Jikany Nuer in 1985. The war was launched against the whole sub-clan simply because of an argument over fish between a villager of the sub-clan and an SPLA soldier. The villager went fishing with some of his colleagues, caught a fish and was ready to take it home. Some SPLA soldiers came to the river, and as it was common behavior among the forces at that time, wanted to take the fish by force from the villager. The villager resisted and was then shot dead by one of the SPLA soldiers. Villagers from a near by village heard the gun shot, rushed to the scene and found their colleague dead. They immediately retaliated by killing a number of SPLA soldiers on the spot. The remnants of those soldiers run for their lives back to Bilpam, which was the then SPLA General Headquarters on the Ethiopian border. They reported the incident at the Headquarters. The SPLM/A leadership was furious and decided that the whole sub-clan be disciplined by wiping them out of their villages. This is how the war against the Gaajaak sub-clan of the Jikany Nuer started in 1985, resulting in untold massacres of human beings and their cattle. Many people who used to hear the late Garang commenting on the territory occupied by the Gaajaak sub-clan before the war knew that the fish incident was used as a pretext for war against the Gaajaak. Dr. Garang used to tell his Bor intellectuals that the territory occupied by Gaajaak was in fact a Dinka Bor land. He used to explain that the Dinka Bor community was displaced from the land during the Nuer expansion from Bentiu in Western Upper Nile hundreds of years ago. Perhaps by wiping out the Gaajaak from the territory, he would have encouraged the Dinka Bor community to resettle in the land so that they border Ethiopia and resolve their current status of being landlocked in the Bor’s tiny territory in Jonglei. He was not happy also with the way the Nuer inhabit a huge territory without being isolated by other tribes, which extends from Western Upper Nile bordering the Nuba Mountains in Southern Kordofan in the north across the River Nile in Upper Nile region up to the Ethiopian border in the East. Dr. Garang dispatched both late Kerubino Kwanyin Bol and late William Nyuon Bany to personally command that war against the Gaajaak sub-clan. For those of you with short-lived memories, late Commander Kerubino Kwanyin Bol was the Deputy Chairman of the SPLM and Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the SPLA forces. He was number two to Dr. John Garang. Late Commander William Nyuon Bany was the Chief of Staff of the SPLA forces; the post previously occupied by Comrade Salva Kiir Mayardit and currently occupied by Comrade Lt. General Oyai Deng Ajak. You can imagine how Garang was determined to entirely wipe out the Gaajaak by launching those powerful military commanders to massacre the unarmed Gaajaak sub-clan. Both Kerubino and William went to the battle fields to personally command the fighting. The war resulted into untold losses where thousands of people were killed, several villages completely wiped out and burnt to ashes. However, the SPLA won some of the battles but lost the war against the community! Dr. Garang failed to get the territory back to Dinka Bor community. The two parties finally decided to stop the fighting and came back to the peace table and forgave themselves for the sin. That crime against the humanity committed by Dr. Garang against the Gaajaak community might have been forgiven but not forgotten. Of course the Gaajaak community may not file criminal cases in The Hague against those three most powerful leaders of the SPLM/A at the time because they are no longer with us on this earth. As a member of the Gaajaak community, I personally ask God to forgive late Garang and his colleagues. Similar atrocities were also committed against other ethnic groups in the South such as the Toposa, Murle, etc. by Dr. Garang’s forces in the 1990s. All are documented!

(عدل بواسطة Biraima M Adam on 03-18-2008, 03:49 AM)
(عدل بواسطة Biraima M Adam on 03-18-2008, 04:13 AM)

Quote: Bor massacre: in the name of democracy Thursday 30 August 2007 03:00. Printer-Friendly version Comments... “Garang didn’t like semblance of institutions of structures of democracy within the Movement. He is interested in running the Movement as his personal property.” -Riek Machar, “Sudan Massacre,” 1991 By Mading Ngor August 28, 2007 — Calling for democracy in the SPLM/SPLA was the sorry mask the Nasir Faction wore to justify their heinous, shameful, uncivilized, mindless, genocidal and cruel massacre of August 28th, 1991 of which some say more than five thousand civilians were killed. According to a journalist in the “Sudan Massacre,” posted on Youtube.com, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZIT_g4FCV0, “It is impossible to know how many people died. Some say more than 5000. Many ran from their villages to hide in the swamp and were slaughtered there; some were strangled, others were shot.” But to me, both the initial phase of devastation and the aftermath of the massacre are not to be underestimated. The brunt of the Bor massacre might have been comparable to modern Darfur killings in scale but don’t take my words for it. Perhaps time will tell the exact magnitude and scale and only then will things heat up for Riek Machar to stand trial in the Hague, alongside with Joseph Kony that Riek Machar is pathetically mediating for the end of his doomed cause in northern Uganda. Riek Machar is just another human rights abuser masquerading as peace mediator for another shady character – ancestors have mercy. With my own eyes, leaving my village, around central Bor in 1991, walking along the roads, I saw dead cows and humans lying on each side of the road, no exaggeration, until I reached the end of Bor south (Pariang Abei) without missing a sight of such an horror. In trying to make sense of the phenomenon, some southern Sudanese scholars have in their books written of a wide support the Nasir Faction garnered at its primordial conception in 1991. In their explanations, lost in the books, the (SPLM-Nasir) was formed as a genuine Movement to redress what the breakaway faction saw as increasing plunge into authoritarianism and autocracy in the SPLA/SPLM under the chairmanship of the late Dr. John Garang. Riek Machar charged that “Garang didn’t like semblance of institutions of structures of democracy within the Movement. He is interested in running the Movement as his personal property,” (Riek Machar, “Sudan Massacre,” 1991). Later on, the unnamed authors and their books went on, the Movement splintered after many dissenters learned about the human rights fiasco in Bor- far worst than the supposed monstrosity of the rival faction – SPLM Torit they had predicted to remedy. Despite overwhelming evidence recorded in video tapes, then Riek Machar dismissed the killings in Bor as mere propaganda. In “Sudan Massacre,” he is quoted as saying, “I cannot just say kill the Dinka Bor, no, not at all. They’re using it as a human rights violation; am aware of that. I think it’s propaganda.” He added: “We don’t love killing. It’s not a good character. It’s not part of my description. Garang today has no troops. If he had troops we would have been fighting here. Most of his troops are wiped out in Bor. And anyone else who wants to fight knows that his fate might be the same with those who were wiped out in Bor.” Moreover, countering the rhetoric of the Nasir Faction warlord in “Sudan Massacre,” Garang dwelt on forgiveness but declared that“Even if I forgive them, they will be known in history as people who stabbed the Movement in Southern Sudan in the back. They will be known as people who at the point of victory when we were going to win in Juba, they stabbed us in the back. The people of the Sudan will judge that.” Sixteen years on, Riek Machar has continued to evade the eyes of the so-called human rights organizations who seemingly are blind to the atrocities Riek Machar and his Nasir Faction have committed in Bor and elsewhere. For those who would like to bury history, not everyone is amnesiac about the past. In 1991 our people were brutally murdered in the name of democracy; how best would one end than to repeat Garang’s utterance that “Democracy had been so much beaten up these days that even the devil can come and say he is a democrat and people will listen to him."? When Riek was in Bor recently, I was painfully reminded of the violence of 1991 when I saw the warlord Riek Machar (Sudan Tribune August 18th) being greeted in Bor town, again on another stupid mission . May justice be done and lest we forget! *Mading Ngor is a journalism student in Canada. He can be contacted at [email protected]

(عدل بواسطة Biraima M Adam on 03-18-2008, 04:04 AM)

Quote: القائد كاربينو، يبلغ من العمر 51 عاماً حين مقتله، ويعتبر أول من أطلق شرارة الحرب الأهلية فى السودان لحرب دامت 16 عاماً حتى مقتله، قد قتل على يد إحد قيادات الحركة الشعبية لتحرير السودان. وقد صادف أن تم أستقبال حادث موته بالترحاب بالنسبة لعمال الأغاثة الذين يتهمونه بأنه وراء مقتل عشرات الألاف من المواطنين فى مسقط راسه، أقليم بحر الغزال، فى خلال حرب وحشية لا رحمة فيها أستمرت ثلاثة سنوات قبل مقتله. كما يلام القائد كاربينو على المجاعة التى راح ضحيتها 60 ألف سودانى من الذين فروا من مليشياته حيث ماتوا جوعاً وبالأمراض فى عام 1999م.