The SPLA committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in Unity state of South Sudan

The SPLA committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in Unity state of South Sudan
Dear Nuer Comrades!

I salute all of you in the name of Peace and in the name of Southern Sudan.

The Proverb says “He who talks without thinking is like he who shoots without aiming”.

The SPLA forces are trying to provide for you SECURITY from your own FEEBLE MINDED and AIMLESS rebels, like General Peter Gadet and other useless guys like George Athor.

What you people should have written about would have been dialogue between the rebels who are operating in your area and the GOSS Government. SPLA are just rescuing you.

The letter which you have written clearly shows that the rebels have taken control of you otherwise, what you people have written is a mere day dream and you have SINED against God and against the whole World, calling the World’s Greatest NAMES for an issues which has no evidences.

Self respect is what makes up a human being, not because you simply walk, see and talk to people. War crime is EASY when it comes to writing it, and if you are asked to explain, you will be quaking.

STOP!!!.. drawing the World’s attention for nothing.

I would like to end my comments with a wise saying: “THE DEVIL YOU KNOW IS BETTER THAN AN ANGEL WHICH YOU HAVE NOT SEEN”.

The Government of the SPLM that you hate is better than whatever Government you are expecting, and yet you have not seen it.

The SPLA committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in Unity state of South Sudan
Gatluke Choul Reat,

SPLA is the official army of Southern Sudan. They are obligated to protect the civilians from internal threat (militia Gatdet) and external threat in case of the Northern SAF. If this is what you called war crimes then I think you have a real issue that the world you’re calling upon will bear no solution to. You are one heck supporter of a militia in a suit of concern citizen of South Sudan in North America. The list is long; you are not a lone…

Lou Nuers are historically known for raiding cattle from Murle and Dinka. The Murle encounter that behavior too, that is what happened when they killed some 200 hundreds Lou Nuers. Where does the government fit in here in your opinion? Or you disapprove the disarmament that the government carried out against its entire population? Don’t you know Murle was disarmed as well?

I just wonder what kind of education you people go for that evolves you into demagogues and not intellectuals capable of solving complicated political issues like the ones facing South Sudan at the moment. You live in North American; did you ever find a group of men loitering in the shopping malls with guns? A trip to a library would have served you better than all the time you put into writing that pathetic article. All the irrelevance nonsense’s you alleged against the SPLA and the South government don’t deserve a minute of discussion in this century.

My plain advice is stop glorifying demons (Gadet, Athor Gatwech Chan, Galuak, David, Ayii and many other demagogues like Deng Riak Koryom and other quack politicians of his like. Start condemning those and your children will set their feet in the footsteps of those you condemn and envy today in the SPLM and SPLA.

By the way I am half-Nuer, and I won’t be surprised if you disapproved that too. Anyways, good luck with your case

The SPLA committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in Unity state of South Sudan
To LL Reuben and Eye Afe Eye

Please give me your real name if you mean to be true human being

Here is my proof to you and bad news for the so call SPLA/M

Civilians killed in South Sudan battle
Confidential UN report documents attack on men, women and children

Msnbc.com

By JASON STRAZIUSO, MAGGIE FICK

JUBA, Sudan— Southern Sudan soldiers attacking a rival ethnic group fired indiscriminately on unarmed men, women and children at a remote Nile River village, killing or wounding hundreds of civilians, according to witness accounts in a confidential U.N. report.

A U.N. team that traveled to the village 11 days after the April 23 killings saw more than two
dozen corpses and said grass-roofed mud huts clearly contained many more bodies, but the toll of 254 dead civilians from a local official has not been independently verified.

The three U.N. reports obtained by The Associated Press are the first accounts of
mass civilian casualties in the southern village of Kaldak caused by soldiers from Southern
Sudan. One report was labeled “Confidential & Sensitive Information,” another was “UN RESTRICTED,” and the third had no apparent classification.

The Texas-sized south voted in January to secede from Sudan and becomes independent
in July. It has been strongly supported by the U.S. and other Western nations.

While the Khartoum-based Sudanese government has been vilified for carrying out
genocide in Darfur and for invading Abyei — a central region contested by the north and
south — last month, the reports obtained by AP raise serious questions about human rights
abuses carried out by southern forces, known as the Sudan People’s Liberation Army, and
about how much control their leaders have over them.

One survivor said the southern soldiers “shot at anything that was moving or standing” amid
the riverside scrub brush.

The U.S. has provided between $150 million and $300 million worth of “transformation
initiatives” to the southern military, the Switzerland-based Small Arms Survey
reported last year, including a training regime focused on advising southern forces in
operations, intelligence and communications.

Slate: So much for peaceful division of Sudan

It was not immediately clear if any of the southern soldiers involved in the April 23
killings in Jonglei state had been trained or equipped by the U.S. The unit is commanded
by Lt. Col. John Mama Korog, one of the U.N. field reports said. The No. 2 commander was
identified as Maj. John Goang Galluak.

The southern military’s spokesman, Col. Philip Aguer, told AP on Thursday that 165 people
died in the battle, including 30 civilians. Mixed among fighters the SPLA battled were women
and children, some of them armed, Aguer said. If civilians were killed, it was in the crossfire,
he said.

The U.N. team came by boat May 4 to Kaldak, which is accessible only by river, to look for
unexploded ordnance and learn about the clash between the SPLA and a former rebel
group that had been supported by the north and was commanded by Maj. Gen. Gabriel
Tanginye. The fighting had erupted over old ethnic and political rivalries.

Korog at first was “very defensive and refused to answer any questions,” the U.N. patrol
report noted, until the team explained it was supporting the SPLA and removing unexploded
munitions.

From a distance, the U.N. team saw that the battlefield was marked by numerous bodies.
Birds of prey circled overhead. The U.N. team reported it was prevented from reaching the
site by Korog, who said it “would not be safe.”

The team then walked into the civilian village, whose inhabitants were mostly members of
the same ethnic Nuer group that most of Tanginye’s fighters belonged to.

“As we entered the village it was obvious that most huts contained dead bodies. The swarm
of flies and the stench provided clues to locate bodies,” the unidentified author of the U.N.
patrol report wrote. There, the U.N. members encountered Moses Geyjang, a civilian
administrator of the municipality who wanted to speak without the SPLA overhearing.

Geyjang said that once the battle outside the village ended, the southern troops came to
Kaldak and targeted civilians, who ran toward the Nile where many were shot, the U.N. report
said. Geyjang said 254 residents had been killed. That number has not been verified by U.
N. or U.S. officials who did after-battle assessments.

When the U.N. official asked Geyjang where the rest of the bodies were buried, Geyjang
said the military had dumped them into the river. Korog had previously told the U.N. team
that it would see bodies washing up on shore, but Korog said these people had drowned
while trying to flee across the river.

Geyjang told the U.N. team that southern military forces had looted the village, taking
most of the residents’ clothing. Even when the U.N. visited 11 days after the killings, the civilians appeared to be in dire straits.

The report’s author said he saw “civilians eating grass and leaves from trees.”

“Unburied corpses, burnt houses, scattered food supplies were seen all over in the area of the visit,” another U.N. report stated.

At a hospital in nearby Malakal, a 40-year-old woman told a U.N. human rights team that a southern soldier shot her 2-year-old in the head, killing the child instantly, as she ran with the toddler to the river. The woman was wounded in the back and leg.

A 38-year-old woman told U.N. investigators that she was shot at point-blank range by a
soldier in the market. When asked why she thinks she was shot, she said that the
southern forces didn’t differentiate between men and women.

“The SPLA just shot at anything that was moving or standing,” the woman said.

A male victim told the human rights team that southern commanders ordered their forces not to shoot civilians but many did so anyway.

“I saw many more dead bodies lying on the ground, many of them men and women who
numbered more than 120 to 200 dead bodies on the banks of the White River Nile,” said the
35-year-old man, who was shot in the left leg and back.

One photo taken in the weeks after the fighting showed a rotting corpse, with bones
protruding, in a field next to a metal can marked “USA” in blue letters. That can is the
type given out by the U.S. Agency for International Development and often contains
vegetable oil.

The southern military had wanted the surrender of Tanginye, a warlord sponsored
by the north during the north-south civil war that ended with a peace agreement in 2005
that called for the south’s independence referendum. It wanted his men to integrate
into the SPLA, but something went wrong with the integration attempt and it ended in gunfire.

A U.N. security assessment said the motives of the clash were tribal and political. Tanginye’s
force is predominantly from the Nuer community, while the majority of southerners
are Dinka. The Nuer are an armed cattle-herding tribe that have had a long-running
feud with the Dinka, and most southerners oppose the integration of rebel groups, many
of which are Nuer, into the military.

That long-running feud could explain why troops were reported to have disregarded
orders from field commanders and targeted civilians, including women and children.

Gen. Jasbir Lidder, the second-highest official for the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Sudan,
said in an interview that there were “heavy casualties” on both sides “and quite a few civilian casualties” in Kaldak.

An unclassified cable sent to Washington after a team from the U.S. Consulate visited Kaldak
said the evidence did not demonstrate a mass killing of noncombatants. Sixteen bodies were seen by the U.S. team, including two women. The U.S. officials visited 15 days after the
battle. Because of security and time restrictions, the U.S. officials did not see the entire battle site.

Antje Ruckstuhl, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Southern
Sudan, said the ICRC and the Sudanese Red Crescent Society were asked by government authorities to bury 18 rotting corpses on May 11 and 12. “A few women and a few minors” —
potentially including an infant — were among them, she said.

Land mines delayed the ICRC from accessing the area to bury the remains, she said.
Aguer, the southern military’s spokesman, noted his army had battled the north as a guerrilla force for decades and hasn’t yet achieved 100 percent discipline.

“We are transforming the SPLA from a guerrilla to a conventional army and at the same time
we are reorganizing in which we are accommodating people who have very little
training, in discipline and in the army, so there is no doubt in between you can get incidents of indiscipline,” he said. “It will take us some time.”

A Western diplomat in Juba said top leaders order the troops to behave according to
military law, but that a guerrilla mentality might still exist on the ground. The official spoke on
condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the topic.

In a second recent incident involving the SPLA and a sub-clan of the Nuer, local officials
accused the military of looting and burning Nuer huts, and a group of elders in Unity State wrote to world leaders that crimes against humanity were committed, including the burning of homes and killing of civilians. No independent groups have confirmed the allegations, though Medicins Sans Frontiers
treated gunshot victims afterward. Many SPLA members in Unity are also Nuer.

That fighting erupted May 20 in the western part of oil-rich Unity state when forces led by
Peter Gadet attacked the SPLA-controlled village of Mankien. Mayom County
Commissioner Charles Machieng Kuol said by phone Thursday that 7,800 women and
children were displaced and that civilian killings and displacement by the military is
sometimes intentional.

Lidder, the U.N. official, confirmed a “heavy displacement of civilians and there are also killings, that’s a fact.” Aguer said the Unity State allegations must be investigated.

Analysts say Southern Sudan must address its tribal tensions or risk further conflict. The International Crisis Group said in a recent report that tribal violence threatens civilians and further polarization of ethnic groups.

“In recent months soldiers have committed serious abuses against civilians in the context
of military operations against the rebels,” said Jehanne Henry, Sudan researcher for Human
Rights Watch. “The SPLA needs to take steps to ensure soldiers do not commit such abuses.
They need to improve command and control over soldiers and … hold soldiers accountable for crimes committed against civilians.”

Good luck and you name will appeared and ICC list soon too

Thank
Luke

The SPLA committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in Unity state of South Sudan
Omoni Jrs

What are you talking about, Bias? You did not read the article otherwise you just being bias your self.

Here is the List

Gen. Kirr
Gen Hoth Mai
Gen Gatduel Brig. Taban
Ge. Koang

How many Nuer and Dinka in the lists?

Luke

The SPLA committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in Unity state of South Sudan
The case of Gatdet here is his declaration there is nothing to do with SSNIAHR

SOUTH SUDAN LIBERATION ARMY SSLA.
The MAYOM DECLARATION

My fellow citizens of South Sudan,

DATE: 11/4/2011

Today it is historical day in South Sudan as country and its people. It is a day that will go dawn in history of new nation for second phase for our liberation struggle against unjust rule by our sons and daughters in the SPLM led government. From the start, we thank all Southern Sudanese for their free choice which all of us had tirelessly worked for and resulted to be the Republic of Southern Sudan on the 9th of July2011.

My fellow citizens,

Our nation had groomed a monster that will swallow generation after generation in terms of bad leadership and extreme level of corruption which poisons our values and tradition that rejects thefts in our midst. It is a fact that the comprehensive peace agreement was a landmark in the history of the Sudan in general and South Sudan in particular. It set the country on the path to democratic transformation and the respect of human rights.

For South Sudan, CPA promised the people of the South the exercise of the right of Self-determination though an internationally supervised referendum, instituted government that was, for all practical purposes, independent politically, economically and security wise. It is true that we had been running our affairs by ourselves without interferences from Khartoum, but our bad administration in Juba always point finger to Northern Sudan to cover their failure.

Is it logical that the disappearance of billions of pounds from our finance be blamed on the North?

My fellow citizens,

What we saw in the six years of the interim period was a complete deviation from the path set by the CPA. There is an absolute failure in the area of good governance. For instance our entire nation has witnessed rampant corruption on the top echelon of GOSS. It is shocking that only five years in government, the private bank accounts of the leadership of GOSS in foreign banks fatting from Zero to tens of millions of Dollars! Little wonder that the more than 20 billion dollars of oil revenue received by GOSS could not be seen in terms of tangible services delivery in areas such as health, education, water, etc. Our children went without schools while the Children of our leaders enjoyed the best education in foreign lands. Our people continued to die from treatable diseases while those in charge and their families visited the best hospitals abroad. In fact, the current leadership of GOSS never felt the sense of belonging to the South for their families continued to stay in their expensive mansion in east Africa, America, Australia, etc. These leaders of GOSS continue to siphon off the meagre resources of the South bleeding our people dry. Who is now the enemy of our people?

It is crystal clear like a noon day, that the accounts of GOSS were never audited for the last six years of the interim period. The noise and empty statements of zero tolerance of corruption in Juba is bogus and hollow because none in Juba is capable of doing so for they are all in the thick of it.

My fellow countrymen,

Your armed force, SPLA, is in a miserable state. It is budgeted more than 40% of the total budget of GOSS every financial year. Yet, your soldiers are poorly paid and some of them have not received any salary since the CPA was signed! The General high command eats up most of the budget allocated to the SPLA. Furthermore, many officers are not given assignments and promotion system is so discriminative to the extent that many have been in one rank for almost ten years. The wounded heroes had been forgotten and even the families of the martyrs are neglected.

The law and order has broken down as police is poorly trained and its functions are taken over by private armies, and unconstitutional security, the so-called, Special Branch, whose bulk are one family and one ethnic group. The judicial system is politicised and a good number of judges do not deserve to sit on the bench. Hence you cannot speak of the rule of law in Southern Sudan under the current injudicious leadership.

In the states the security has broken down due to tribal and sectional fights gripping the South as the traditional leaders are deprived of their traditional authority. County commissioners have turned the counties into fiefdoms and their misbehaviour has become a source of insecurity. On the political level, the SPLM leadership continues to pursue the politics of exclusion within itself and outside it. It denies the other Southern political parties the right to propagate their ideas and present their political program to the people. Above all, the SPLM leadership used SPLA high command to intimidate other leaders in the South reducing the level of our supposedly national army to a party militia. The noises of victory by the SPLM in the last elections in the South are preposterous and ludicrous, we in the SPLA know the truth.

The exclusion politics of the SPLM has generated extreme disillusionment with the SPLM among the people of South Sudan. However, many people were restrained from taking action by the fact that everybody was awaiting the conduct of the referendum. This was misread by the SPLM as impotence and inability to do something.

The leadership of the SPLM was abusing our patriotism for their narrow interests. Again after the result of referendum was announced, the SPLM reneged on the resolutions of the South -South dialogue conference on post-referendum arrangements thus throwing away the last chance for the South to close its ranks. Now that the people of South Sudan have voted for a state of their own, now is the time to say enough is enough.

My fellow citizens,

To bring to an end the suffering of our people, and stop the glide of our newly born state into an abyss under the current corrupt gangs in Juba, I have decided, today, to denounce and reject the evil practices against my people by GOSS leadership. The objectives we intend to achieve include the following:

The dissolution of the current government of Southern Sudan to be replaced by a national broad-base government agreed upon by all the South Sudan political parties,

A meeting of all the South Sudan political parties shall be convened immediately to discuss and agree on the transitional process and form a transitional government of South Sudan that shall prepare the newly born state for independence,

The army of South Sudan shall be taken care of and transformed into a truly professional national army.

The transitional government shall carry out general election in the Republic of South Sudan within two years to elect the Constituent Assembly that shall promulgate the permanent constitution of the Republic of South Sudan. Priority to be given to services delivery to our people.

Take practical legal steps to bring all those involved in corruption to account.

Dear Compatriots,

We remain committed to the letter and spirit of the CPA and shall negotiate in good faith with the government of the North the outstanding post-referendum South-North issues.

I appeal to the officers, NCOs, men and women of the SPLA to abandon the clique in Juba and join us in the struggle to set South Sudan on a correct path as the difficult task of joining the club of nations of the world.

Struggle continues,

Victory is certain!

Signed:

Major General Peter Gadet Yak; Former commander air defence and deputy commander of division three SPLA

Brigadier General Carlo Kol; Deputy Commander of joint integrated units Juba SPLA

Hon. Col. Bol Gatkouth Kol; Former Member of Parliament, SSLA Juba SPLM.