Is LRA a cover for secret service operatives deeds in South Sudan ?
Is LRA Being Used To Cover Up Criminal Deeds Of Other Secret Service Operatives in South Sudan?
By Peter Lokarlo Marsu*
July 7, 2006 — Is LRA Being Used To Cover Up Criminal Deeds Of Other Secret Service Operatives in South Sudan?
A closer and painstaking observation on the trend of the savage assaults on the civilian targets in South Sudan reveals cautiously rehearsed covert and diabolic operations, stealthily organised and pitilessly executed by forces other than the Uganda’s LRA. It is becoming noticeably irresistible to dismiss the perception that at least a foreign country and a handful of local cohorts perhaps on the pay list of a different secret agency have a hand in the slaughter of the innocent South Sudanese civilian population.
The apparent discernible drive behind this criminal act is to compel the government of South Sudan to throw out Joseph Kony and Company from South Sudan. Such a subterfuge would obviously accomplish the mission of the conniver once and for all.
We thus need to build up analytical acuity to assist us comprehend and unlock the jigsaw puzzle of the alleged LRA’s unprovoked belligerence. One would ponder at length and ask a number of sensible questions such as: what would the LRA benefit by ambushing a pickup vehicle hauling GTZ’s employees in Juba city? Absolutely nothing except being christened blood thirst murderers. Are there other concerned parties elsewhere who would derive explicit gain by having the LRA smashed and jettisoned overboard? If the response is in the affirmative, then we don’t need to look far in our speculations. Perhaps we could go further and propound another question: Did the killing of the Russian road construction worker in Juba last month hold any correlation with Joseph Kony and Company’s objective of striving to violently overthrow the government in Kampala? Evidently not, accordingly Kony would not in any case have delivered a blow to the government of South Sudan by mounting an attack in Juba at the same time when his peace delegation was in town, being hosted by the same government and ready to meet the Uganda government’s representatives to the peace talks, let alone the monetary influence of the balance of the $20,000 still in his bag.
The video footage showing him being interviewed by the BBC reporter on the Congo-Sudan border never revealed any semblance or vestige of insanity in the ICC indicted rebel leader, nor his lieutenants.
Lacking access to media coverage and consequently being unable to refute any allegations of atrocities and sadistic behaviour and practice on his organization, Joseph Kony was always the culprit. His movement is being exploited to cover up criminal deeds of probably a foreign secret service operatives posing as businessmen in South Sudan.
One source of allegation categorically claimed that the gunmen while assaulting the GTZ’s employees were heard exchanging lexis in the Acholi Language. This is absolutely ludicrous, daft, incredible and a visibly low-priced misinformation strategy, calculated to deflect focus and consequent investigations on the real criminals. No any sensible person carrying out such a sordid and highly risk assignment would imperil his physical life by disclosing his identity in that manner. I think the use of the Acholi Language was a deliberate gambit by highly trained clandestine agents, who are also well drilled in the art of camouflage and espionage to incriminate the LRA rebels in order to hasten their expulsion from South Sudan by the government in Juba.
It is anybody’s guess as to who is behind the chain of those callous attacks and murders. I am not pointing an accusing finger at anyone, as I have no substantial and ample evidence to back my suspicion, but I am convinced that, this is irrefutably a shrewd and fair analysis of the situation on the ground
These observations are not tantamount to supporting Joseph Kony and his group, or to absolve them from their wrongdoing. Perceptibly, we hardly obtain any tangible reward by sympathizing with the LRA, and I don’t think they have got anything in store to offer to Uganda, given their total absence of political clout and tarnished portrait in their country, resulting from their nearly two decade-bloody campaigns with the government of Uganda, but I believe that Africa’s conflicts and divergences should always be resolved via peaceful mechanism, and that is through dialogue and consensus without resorting to armed confrontation.
The government of South Sudan has consequently embarked on the correct path by proposing and facilitating a dialogue between the LRA and the government of Uganda in order to reach an amicable political settlement and prevent further blood letting.
Lamentably instead of securing applauses and veneration we always get a stub on the back for all our hard work. This will not be allowed to persist, as GOSS’s tolerance level is not elastic in the face of such spiteful and unwarranted provocative acts, furthermore the authorities in South Sudan don’t any longer believe in turning the other cheek.
The government of South Sudan must exert maximum effort to hunt down the perpetrators of the heinous crimes and bring them to justice. GOSS is duty-bound to avail security to everyone living in South Sudan including foreign companies and their personnel. A lax security measure is irresponsible of a government and must thus be addressed and rectified with urgency.
Those cowards and criminals alongside their cunning masters must understand that they are not likely to remain elusive for long. Their surreptitious cells will before long be exposed and sooner or later, they will come to grips with the stark reality.
* Peter Lokarlo Marsu is a Sudanese based in Australia. he can be reached at [email protected]