Bashir is welcome to Juba
This paper had been removed by the Sudanese security service in Juba from The Citizen edition of August 23. Last June, FVP Salva Kiir Mayadrit inaugurated the new headquarters of the National Security and Intelligence Service (NSIS) in Juba. Many of the SPLM officers are involved in the control of the press as the one who disallowed this paper.
By Nhial Bol
August 23, 2008 — Sudanese President Al-Bashir plans coming to our capital Juba in Central Equatoria State in order to hold talks with leaders of the various organs of the Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) and civil societies. It is a welcomed move towards national reconciliation and national healing.
I welcomed President Al-Basir on behalf The Citizen management because he is coming with all organs of his government as well as his National Congress Party organs. Our agenda as civil society members is that our President should be encouraged by the President of GOSS to resolve the issue of the 1992 massacre in which the Sudan Armed Forces killed nearly 800 people in Juba.
In the joint Council of Ministers the incidents of 1992 in which our citizens were killed by the members of SAF should be discussed and a resolution taken involving both apology and compensation. The relatives of the victims want to know why their dear relatives, sons and daughters were killed by Al-Basir’s regime. I learned the relatives of the victims will line up at the airport road to welcome President Al-Basir because he was the one who ordered the killings of 1992. I hope President Al-Basir will stand and answer the questions of the relatives of the 1992 victims.
I urge him to arrange a meeting with the relatives of the 1992 victims. There is no way for President Al-Basir to improve relations with the people of Southern Sudan unless he recognizes that his regime killed more than 800 civilians in Juba–women, children, daughters and men. Some of us welcome his visit because is is a chance for the relatives of victims of 1992 to present their case to the Commander-in-Chief and demand accountability for the circumstances of their dear ones’ deaths.
As a witness of 1992, I see the visit as an important step towards national healing because there is no way our citizens would have forgotten the Juba Massacre of 1992.
Nhial Bol is the editor in chief of The Citizen daily. He can be reach via email: [email protected]
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Bashir is welcome to Juba
Guys I want to remain you that a blind has no medication to be brought back to a normal life and this apply to those Arabs, al abshir was born as a sadist and its his entire culture and belief,therefore we as Southerner for our own safety we must not talk of making any reconciliation with Arabs. A man called an Arab has been as a worse creature on current world due to their problems of terrorism, shria laws and all bad stuff, imagine now in Nigeria, people are facing a hug amount of punishment under Islamic shria laws, and if we are happy with such things to happen in Sudan and South in particular then it would be our own decision to make a relation with those monks. However if we believe that al basher has anything to do with South he must not hide the entire affairs on his back, why did he reward Egypt with 35 cars instead of giving them to South so that it would contribute to the development in South, ministers of local governments in Goss are lacking problems of transport it means those cars would have been distributed three to each of ten states in South. how many lives did we lost under Arabs regime, I will never propose this issue even he is not suppose to come to Juba since he was working toward us but I would admit this just because we need to that the CPA is in progress.Lets see what he is going say about what had happened.There is one thing we have in South which need a wise move on it.