فى ذكرى مذبحة الضعين 1987

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, 05:04 AM)