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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