By Mayian Tot,
Opinion
August 7th,2014 (Nyamilepedia) — December 15. 2013, fighting break out at the presidential guards military headquarter in Bilpam Juba. It was establish thereafter that the genesis to the fight was brought about when President Kiir ordered the commander of the presidential guards. Mej: General Marial Ciennoung to disarm the guards at Join Integrated unit (JIU) in Juba military barrack.
General Marial Ciennoung execute this high executive orders and assembly the guards at the parade and begin to disarm them. Simultaneously, while the guards are being disarmed, the Dinka unit are secretly and swiftly being re-armed while the Nuer unit within the guards are not re-armed.
When this top secret conspiracy was exposed. The presidential guards second in command a Nuer by ethnicity physically confronted General Ciennoung to the motives why the Dinka unit are being re-armed while the others are not. This physical confrontation between the two senior commands and the secret re-armament of the Dinka-guards has prompted the Nuer guards to break into armory’s store and in the process re-armed themselves too like their Dinka comrades thus break- out the fight between the two units emerged.
Being out-numbered by the other guards with their fierce warrior hood bravery, the Nuer unit within the Dinka dominated guards had established themselves in full control of the barrack within less than an hour of the fierce fight. Forcing the pro-Kiir’s guards to flee in disarray.
Firmly in full control on the ground of self-defense, the Nuer guards did not advance to attack the presidential palace, airport, radio-television station or other vital governmental institutions as they have no motives to overthrow the incumbent regime at the time rather than to fight in self-defense.
For these Nuer guards at the time, –the fight had nothing to do with the neither state nor civilians. They believed it was a misunderstanding that led to the bloody confrontation among themselves [the presidential guards] and to them it was not an organized coup d’état to take over the government.
However, for these reasons the breakaway Nuer force had virtually remained at the military barrack in self-defense awaiting the authority to swiftly intervene and amicably address the incident that led to the infighting within the guards. Their approach was a clear-cut military self-defense and any military logic would dare not sum the above events as military coup d’état in any case possible.
Military science and/or military doctrine would strictly cited the above scenarios as a conscious self-defense and would not agree to President Kiir’s claim of Coup d’état. Of important, the so-called coup d’état was in facts –a self-engineered coup by President Kiir himself and was swiftly executed and implemented by General Marial Ciennoung the head of the presidential guards as these evident proved beyond any reasonable dough.
Nevertheless, while the breakaway army was firmly in control of Bilpam military barracks. The then army Chief of General Staff was venturing on a double dealing tactic, organizing the military force and other reinforcement to dislodge the breakaway force from the barracks on one hand. And simultaneously, was communicating with the breakaway forces convincing them that the government will decisively address the incident.
Having been convinced was the biggest grave and fatal mistake that the breakaway forces have ever adhered to.
Because, the following day, a huge military reinforcement armed with tanks and other heavy weaponry launched a gruesome attacks on Bilpam military barrack against the breakaway Nuer unit subsequently dislodging them out of the barrack. Thus began the door-to-door ethnic cleansing of the innocent unarmed Nuer civilians in Juba.
After the barracks assault, the SPLA Kiir’s loyalist, the presidential ethnic militia, the security apparatus and the other organize force swarmed in to Juba neighborhoods ensuing house-to-house ethnic cleansing to which the Interior Minister called ‘’ clean-up operation’’. Tanks were used to run over houses, unarmed Nuer men identified with their facial marks are rounded up, children women and the aged are delivery executed. Forcing the Nuer civilians to swelled into UNMISS Camps for protection in large numbers.
These rampaged killing of ritual violence, decimating innocent unarmed civilian of Nuer ethnicity with brutes’ savagery went on for some days in the following suburbs; Jebel, Mia Saba, Lologo, Gudele, Eden, and Newsite, Khor Williams and Mangaten.
Consequently, 10,000 innocent civilians were killed in just a matter of days and to cover up this ritual animosity dead copses were thrown into the river, some burned while others were secretly buried at night during the curfew hours in mass-graves by the security agencies.
It was learned thereafter that the motive for disarming the guards and secretly tramadol sale no prescription re-arming the Dinka unit within the presidential guards was an end route mission to arrest Dr Riek Machar Teny and the other entire reformist thus silencing the voice of internal party democratization, transformation and the overall leadership contest once and for all.
According to some explanation, Dr Machar and the Nuer ethnicity form the core power bloc that threat Kiir’s overall ethnic-domination. He Kiir therefore had organized and executes this barbaric massacre to remove this perceived threat once and for all. His core plans was to either killed Dr Machar or force the entire Nuer society including Dr Machar into full submission to his reign of ethnic domination and thereafter rule South Sudan like his personal kingdom.
These kinds of dangerous mindsets are the one that continue to bedevil South Sudan with wholesale destruction, killing with impunities with its humanitarian catastrophe.
Meanwhile, general consensus within the Nuer Community has it that Kiir has made a grave mistake because killing innocents Nuer civilians will not force the Nuer people to submit themselves to his genocidal regime. In facts it has made them to be more determine to fight and defense themselves to the last man.
The genocidal regime must be remained that, historically the Nuer People had neither submitted to the Turks, Egyptian, and/or to the Mahdi’s state with their destructive slave-trading merchant nor did they surrender fully to the Anglo-Egyptian administration.
But had resisted them all to the point that in January 1929 the Nuer were the first civilians on record to be air-bomb by the Anglo-Egyptian Colonial Government of the then Sudan, ruthlessly using R.A.F /bi-airplane. Machine-gunning –firing on Nuer’s villages killing both domestic animals and peoples so as to force them into submission. But this plan didn’t succeed either.
It goes largely without a dough that ‘’The Nuers’’ were the first and the only people in the whole history of Sudan to have had brought down (bi-airplane) by a traditional hand held tool or weapon known in Nuer language as ‘’WEITH’’ injuring two pilot on the due cause. In short the Nuer had never submitted them to become slave to others, never in their entire history.
Anyway, when the horrendous news of Juba December 15 massacre reached Nuer towns, counties and villages. Nuer in SPLA begins to split and defects to SPLM-IO in large numbers and youth begin to take up arms to defense their villages, counties and towns against the genocidal government.
Meanwhile, the SPLM-IO had to effectively organize itself into armed resistance so as to neutralize the state’s ethnic cleansing and fights back in self-defense. This resistance movement was borne and is firmly rooted in the fundamental human right to survival.
The freedom fighters that had joint the revolution had did [so] not out of ethnic hatred or a quest to dominate other ethnic groups. But because it is their natural human rights to fight back in self-defense.
The rights to self-defense is the right to survive. Self-defense is a natural human reaction to any given threat; be they perceived, real or imagine. That is to say, violence is confronted with violence and war is opposing war until such time that the situation warrant either defeat, victory or compromise-able peace treaty.
The freedom fighters firmly understood that freedom, liberation and human progress are not easily achieved. They’re attained through relentless sacrifice determination and courageous commitments.
Of important, challenges death and setback are part and parcel of any given struggle. In most cases, what is paramount in any struggle is that, the leaders at the forefront commanding the struggle must minimize its error of judgments so as to reduce give away victories at grave human’s cost.
They must learn not to repeat previous mistakes once identified. Moreover, they must also effectively capitalize on their opponent’s weakness thus solidified their political and military strategic strength.
If the genocidal regime thinks that military muscling is the ultimate solution, then so be it. The freedom fighters are more than determine to liberate themselves from the genocidal regime. There is no turning back. It’s not the weapons or how heavily armed you’re that win battles. It is how committed and determine you’re that secure you victory.
These freedom fighters are undefeatable, and fighting them is not an easy matter. They wield practical combating skills and they marshal these skills to war like a double-edge sword.
Sharp on offensive and tough on defensive. The genocidal regime had used state military arsenals, Cluster bombs and hire foreign mercenaries, such as JEM, SPLM-N, and UPDF only to come fight one ethnic group and yet the freedom fighters remained undefeated.
Mayian Tot is a concern South Sudanese reachable via totmayian@yahoo.com.au
