Malakal rampage, a tantamount to treason
By Peter Lokarlo Marsu *
Nov 30, 2006 — It is undeniably a poignant and utterly reprehensible demeanour for the SSDF forces to enter into a conspiratorial cabal with the National Islamic Front forces of Omar Al Bashir and slay their own people in South Sudan. Such a debauched and appalling savagery act cannot be rationalized by any civilised standards.
The SSDF felons have certainly espoused and are fully executing the calculated series of plots on behalf of their masters in Khartoum on the people of South Sudan, especially in the Greater Upper Nile region where enormous deposits of the country’s oil is found. Gabriel Tang and his SSDF criminals are nothing but hordes of loathsome bandits who will never hesitate to sell even their mothers for some paltry takings. It is unfortunate that the last nail in the coffin of the CPA is going to be hammered in by some illiterate Southerners in army uniform who are paid to carry on that dirty job by the genocide regime in Sudan.
The government in Khartoum is the primary culprit for engineering the whole saga that culminated into the carnage in Malakal city. Omar Al Bashir condones the maintenance of various paramilitary groups in South Sudan for the sole objective of undermining the autonomous government in Juba. This has been the cornerstone policy of the National Congress Party since the beginning of the adoption of the cessation of hostility agreement more than a year ago, between the SPLM and the intransigent NCP. SPLA soldiers have the right to return fire in self-defence against any cowardly and unwarranted assaults carried out against their forces by the combined forces of doom as it did occur in Malakal.
The World Community must sturdily denounce the monstrous regime in the Sudan for its culpability in creating anarchy in South Sudan as well as undertaking acts of terrorism in Juba. The recent armed attacks in and around Juba is the handiwork of this despicable and bloodthirsty criminal government in Khartoum. Omar Al Bashir and his unruly and wicked defence minister Lieutenant General Abdel Rahim Mohamed Hussein cannot dispute these facts, which are backed by evidence of irrefutable proportions.
The so-called general Gabriel Tang must be au fait with the fact that Al Bashir and company are only interested in the oil in greater Upper Nile State but not him and his cattle rustlers.
A group of unpatriotic elements has issued a press statement glorifying the blood bath in Malakal. This is a plain indication of savage mentality. How would you rejoice in killing your own people and at the same time claim to be nationalistic? This is contrary to the dictates of moral conscience.
Those tribal bigots must have off pat or commit to memory that executing perfidy in collusion with the NCP is tantamount to treason. Sadly, the United Nations Mission in Sudan did nothing other than issuing a strongly worded condemnation and calling for calm. Is that the prescribed role of the UNMIS contingents, the forces that costs the United Nations $1billion annually in maintenance? Do they have to sit back and watch the killings? Is the job of UNMIS only limited to extracting unexploded ordinances in South Sudan? Does that docile disposition tally with the terms of their deployment in the region? UNMIS is expected to have a wider and clear-cut mandate of intervention in the event of the two sides that are party to the discord get entangled in armed confrontation, as was the case in Malakal City.
Mr. Koffi Anan, the UN Secretary General should move swiftly to address this blatant violation of the cease-fire by Omar Al Bashir and his genocide cabinet.
* The author is a Sudanese based in Australia. He can be reached at [email protected]