Press Statement,
April 15, 2022 — We, the members of Dok Community in Europe, are deeply appalled and saddened by the Leer massacre which has been orchestrated by the armed youths from Koch and Mayendit Counties. Since late march 2022 and early April 2022 respectively, armed youths from Koch and Mayendit counties have been continuously carrying out sporadic attacks around Leeh, Buoth, Luahl, and adjacent areas—killing, destroying, looting civilians’ properties and rapping women and burning elderly people—and people with disabilities alive in their houses/huts. The armed youths from the two counties executed such heinous acts with the command and orders from the commander of the SSPDF battalion (stationed in Rupkuai of Mayendit County), Mr. Gordon Koang Biel, Koch County Commissioner, and Gatluak Nyang Hoth, Mayendit County commissioner. The reasons behind their continuous attacks on civilians remain unclear, and it was never explained publicly.
Despite having a peace agreement under implementation processes in the country and the existing authorities in Leer County, the two Commissioners never explained their intentions to carry out attacks in the entire villages in Leer County.
Yet the worst events happened from 8-11 April 2022, where armed youths of over 10,000 heavily armed matched to the entire villages including Leeh, Padeah, Gandor, Kuinyala, Tay in the east and Kur, Guat, Tieb, Dhornor, Kuilier, Koam, Dar, Komagub, Bow and Geer in the central area to Pilieny, Thoor, Thorchieng, Toulong, Thonyor, Wathlual all the way to Adok Port in southeast. Adok Port represents an economic hub for the entire Unity State due to the fact it is a focal point for trade. While in Adok port, the armed youth perpetuated mass killing of civilians in all villages, raped and abducted women and girls, looted civilians’ properties and burned down entirely Adok port. In these villages, there is not a single house left standing. All houses are heartlessly razed to the ground, because of this, all civilians are forcefully displaced into swamps and the UNMISS Protection of Civilians’ Site in Muon. The armed youths invaded almost the entire villages of Leer country with the exception of the County HQs (Leer Town). The level of atrocities being committed in Adok port alone is beyond description.
We, the members of Dok Community in Europe, strongly condemn the killing of innocent civilians, rapping and abduction of women and girls, burning of civilian shelters and looting of civilian properties in the strongest terms possible. The killing of unarmed civilians, and rapping, and the abduction of women and girls are unacceptable. What does our national constitution say about the killing of civilians? In our knowledge, the massacre in Leer County amounted to war crimes and crimes against humanity. It is the gross violation and abuse of human rights, specifically the right to life, the right to subsistence, and the right to shelter according to the 1948 UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights. These rights are ratified and incorporated into the national constitutions by most member states of the United Nations with aims to be protected. Unfortunately they were grossly violated and abused without restraint by the armed youths from Koch and Mayendit counties, under the command of and orders from their county Commissioners, respectively. Therefore, such large-scale violations and abuses of human rights in Leer County must be diligently investigated and those responsible must be held accountable in the court.
We have learnt with caution that President Salva Kiir has formed an Investigation Committee headed by Hon Manoah Peter Gatkuoth to investigate the massacre and gross human rights violations and abuses in Leer County. This is laudable and commendable yet not enough because we think the Leer massacre and human rights’ violations and abuse could not happen while the peace agreement exists in the country. This is equally important to address because there exist constitutional post holders in Unity State and Leer County who are constitutionally mandated to oversee, protect and defend the community’s interests and well-being, including their lives, properties and shelters. These constitutional post holders include Dr Nguen Muonytuil Wejang, Governor of Unity State, and Mr Stephen Taker Riak Dong, Leer County’s Commissioner. Despite the fact that they are mandated by South Sudan’s constitution to protect the civilians and restore the peace and order in the entire Unity state, they failed miserably to exercise their constitutional mandates and assignments. Therefore, we, the members of the Dok Community in Europe:
1. Call for the removal of both the governor of Unity State and Leer County’s Commissioner for failing to protect and defend the helpless people in Leer County;
2. Call for the removal of two Commissioners of Koch and Mayendit Counties respectively for overseeing, ordering and commanding the attacks on and the killings of civilians, abduction and rapping of women and girls, burning down of civilians’ shelters and resources, and looting of their properties. In addition, the two commissioners must be investigated and held accountable in the court of justice by the independence judges;
3. Laud and commend the formation of an Investigation Committee on the Leer Massacre by the President of the Republic yet we underscore that such a committee is not enough. Thus, we call for an independent investigation by the AU, UN, EU and/or any relevant international organisation to systematically document the gross human rights’ violations and abuses in Leer County and account those responsible and save the course of justice;
4. Underscore the fact that the killings and burning down of civilians’ shelters—are direct alarms of the conflict dynamics in South Sudan—and thus it should not be neglected. This is because the large-scale violence in Leer County is insofar politically motivated. There exists enough evidence to account for the massacre in Leer in the wider context of the conflict in South Sudan. For example, the speech of the notorious commissioner, Gordon Koang Biel in Mirmir Town in a recorded audio, suggests that the rampage in Leer County is not a coincidence. It is a deliberate act well planned and strategized in advance. Therefore, it must be independently investigated and held Mr Koang Biel solely accountable;
5. Call on President Kiir to quickly establish a Disarmament Committee to collect firearms from the civilians’ hands across Unity State and immediately destroy them. There is a need to disarm civilians who in one way or another acquired firearms to maintain security, law and order across Unity State. The access of arms by youths across Unity State has been growing at an alarming rate since the start of the conflict in the country. Yet since the parties to the conflict in South Sudan have now signed a peace agreement, it is now time to implement the peace deal and the dividends of such a peace should be enjoyed by the people in Leer and beyond. In sum, the disarmament of armed youths in Unity state is the only solution and highly needed to allow peace in Leer County;
6. Urge all humanitarian organisations in the country to speed up humanitarian aid for those affected by the Leer Massacre. Hundreds of thousands of the people from all villages of Leer County are currently displaced into swamps and islands without food, no access to medical care for the sick and wounded—and their properties, including mosquito nets and blankets—are either looted or deliberately destroyed by the armed youths from Koch and Mayendit Counties. Thus, there is currently an urgent need for a quick intervention in the dire humanitarian situation in Leer County;
7. Call on the government of South Sudan to quickly rehabilitate Adok Port as soon as possible by allocating a fund from the national revenue. Such a fund will quickly restore the port after it is completely destroyed by the armed youths. It goes without saying that Adok Port is an important economic hub which supplies the whole of Unity State with food, non-food items, medical supplies and transport of essential goods. Furthermore, we strongly call for the reparation and compensation of the Adok Port Business Community because they lost their businesses to the senseless violence by the armed youths from Koch and Mayendit Counties. Such a reparation will restore their business to normal. The timely rehabilitation and restoration would be indispensable for the lives of the civilian population in Leer County in particular and the people of Unity State in general;
8. Call on the government of South Sudan to establish a special tribunal to try those who are responsible for heinous acts i.e., human rights violations and abuses in the villages of Leer County. The violations and abuses of human rights without restraint must be not overlooked and that justice must be saved. It should be underscored that after the investigations of the Leer Massacre are made public independently, there should be a special tribunal to question and try those responsible for the killing of civilians, destruction and looting of civilians’ properties, shelters, livelihoods, and rapping of women and girls in the villages of Leer County;
9. Call upon the government of South Sudan and the authorities in Unity State to take all necessary steps to recover all the civilians’ properties, including cattle, goats and sheep which are looted by the armed youths and return them to their rightful owners across Leer County as soon as possible. The return of these properties can be imperatively initiated through traditional authorities (head chiefs) in both Koch and Mayendit who know and have an immediate knowledge of the armed youths under their jurisdiction. Furthermore, such a return of the civilians’ properties is equally necessary to restore the peace and social fabric of the communities in the southern area and prevent a future conflict among the communities in the area. The people of Leer County wish to live in peace and harmony with their neighbours now and forever;
 10. Stand in solidarity with the Dok Community and the victims of the Leer Massacre that such a massacre should not have happened and they do not deserve in any way. Our prayers are with the Dok Community in the swamps and islands of Leer County.
Prepared by
Dok Community in Europe
Cc:
H.E. Slava Kiir Mayardit, President of the Republic
H.E. Dr Riek Machar Teny-Dhuorgon, FVP
- E. Tut Gatluak Manniame, Presidential Security Advisor
Special Representative of the UNSG (UNMISS)
UN Commission of the Human RightsÂ
AU, UN, & EU
All NGOs
Media.
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“Dok Community in Europe condemns Leer Massacre”
Oh yeah?!! There is nothing called ‘Dok’ community in South Sudan, however there is Adok community in South Sudan.So long as there are devil worshipers, bloodsucking vampires, secret societies and cabals who have attached themselves to our country and over our people like leeches or ticks, and always used their Nuers ke nyantoc lawless cretures, as their usual proxies to play games with South Sudan and the South Sudanese, with an aim to crawl their evilselves into our country and over our people. So that we can live sides by sides with our cloned so-called arabs of North Sudan, Abeshas (so-called ethiopian) prostitutes, Bantuses, their gulf Arab states’ terror exporters and financiers, their evil juus (so-called israelis) attack dogs, Dutch (so-called Afrikaans), portauguese, Italians, Irish, Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Nepalese, Sri Lankans. Like the way Bantuses, live sides by sides, these creatures, in Southern Africa countries of South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Lesotho, Swaziland (eSwani), Botswana, Mozambique, Zambia, Malawi, Kenya and their Indians, to be brought back to Uganda——-yeah. Good luck trying is not a crime.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/apr/13/priti-patel-finalises-plan-to-send-asylum-seekers-to-rwanda
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/4/15/inhumane-uk-plan-to-send-refugees-to-rwanda-sparks-criticism
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/14/europe/uk-rwanda-migrant-deal-gbr-intl/index.html
Lowly informed South Sudanese, those are just proposal only by the devil worshipers, bloodsucking vampires, secret societies and cabals
We know them than they know us, and we hate to death. In 2012, after South Sudan’ s indepandendence, the evil juus (so-called israelis) attack dogs, rounded up South Sudanese, most of them were not South Sudanese who went evil juus (so-called israelis) attack dogs, I don’t know did South Sudanese pieces of the low lives went and do there, when going to WIPED OUT these devil worshipers, bloodsucking vampires, secret societies and cabals who have attached themselves to our country and over our people like leeches or ticks out of map*. They are not going reach Poland or New York. Second hollicaust is here. Pure HATRED and RACISM.
South Sudanese were $3000, and told by the evil juus (so-called israelis) attack dogs, “That South Sudanese people are the ones, who darkned (blackened) Jewish people”
Oh yeah?!!, and deported to and dumped in Juba in 2012.
All along the evil juus (so-called israelis) attack dogs, West African piece of shits, Darfuri, Bantuses, Eritreans, Abesha (so-called ethiopians), Somalians and other pieces trashes who went to that evil juus (so-called israelis) attack dogs, are given $3000 dollars and dumped in Rwanda and told to come to “South Sudan, their evil juus (so-called israelis) attack dogs, ‘terra nullius—-no man land’. I really don’t know. All the Rwandans mercenaries *United nations mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) here in Upper Nile wil be rounded up killed and throw them into Nile, with Indians, Pakistanis, Nepalese, Bangladeshis, Sri Lankans,gays, lesbians or anythimng that is connected to white Americans, English people, evil juus (so-called israelis) Roman Catholic (society of Jesuits), Anglicans, Presyterians, Voodoos, Shamans, Hindus, Muslims, Jews et al. Reasosn pure HATRED and RACISM.
Put pressure, put pressure, put presure, put pressure, put presure, pressure on South Sudan and South Sudanese people and bring damned so-called AAFRICA UNITY and REGIONAL INTEGARTION. My arse. That is not going to happen the ‘sun or even milion years’ Reasons, pure HATRED and RACISM.
We are 100%. We are not damn equals. South Sudan is part of the damned so-called ANGLO-AMERICA empire, never has and will never ever will under the sun or even millon years. South Sudanese people are the ANGLO-AMERICAN’ subjects or slaves’.
South Sudan is not part damned of so-called COMMMONWEALTH of NATIONS, never has and will never ever will under the Sun of even million years, South Sudanese people are not part of damned so-called COMMONWEALTH OF NATIONS of the devil infested island of England, never has and will never ever will under the sun or even million years, reasons, pure HATRED and RACISM.
Mr. Paul Kagame, a lowly educated of shit, even sold his country to his secret societies. In the US, the UK, Belgium, France, the UN, the NGOs, Indian Guptas (scammers, in Southern Africa. Rwanda is these days part iof the so-called COMMONWEALTH NATIONs country. So does Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Kenya and other other pieces of shits who breed like guruwe/pigs in Kenya, Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Malawi, Somalia, Uganda, Democratic republic of Congo (DRC), Central Africa république (CAR), Abesh (so-called ethiopia) prostitutes, while the piece shits don’t know where their next meal will come from. Even the low low lives in Kenya brag that Kenya is ‘a middle income country’, Oh really? We are going to find out’. Econmists ‘propped up by donations, humanitarian aids are not economies’ Mr. Paul Kagame, was behind the 1994 genocides, his country is a tiny piece of rubbish which was propped by donations and aids. In Kigali, it very clean. but go to rural areas, and find out the ugly parts Mr. Paul Kagame propagnda and his secret societies admirers.
Lowly informed piece of shits, ‘that Africa will be severily impacted by food shortages by war in Ukriane than other continents’
Why is that?
What is the war in Ukraine has anything to do with Africa or South Sudan to be precise? ‘Wheat’ grown in Russia is nothing to do with white people, not in the slightest. In South Africa, white farmers in South Africa, Zimbawe, Zambia, Kenya? Anyuol/abou/tomatoes/cabagges/Irish potatoes/carrots/Capsicum .
Lowly informed pieces of shits, Anyuol here in East bank of the Nile and Abou, in West Bank of the Nile, Potatoes (fish & chips/French fries) or Irish potatoes, Capsicums, tomatoes and others are not to our countr——-they are natives to ‘Americas’
The Conquisidores from ‘today Italy, Lampedusa, Sicily, Spain, Barcelona, Portugal’ went to Ameicas, with their haulage rickety boats. Today ubiquitos everywhere in ‘Latin America, Columbia, Cuba, Carribeans, Haiti, Domonican république, South Amercian countries Haiti, the US—–Washington D.C, Columbia, Ohia, Coloumbia Univerity New York and so on.
There is ‘a Colombo by the way, in Sri Lanka’
Portaguese took our people from Angola, Mozimbique. Port Jesus, Mombasa, Kenya. the Portaguese took some rest there, before they went to Sri Lanka in India, Macau in China, East Timor in Asia and Pacific and Brazil in Americas. In the South Southern part of the US, Louisiana. There is one of biggest jail, called ‘Angola penitentiary’.
https://unbelievable-facts.com/2018/04/angola-prison.html#:~:text=Image%20Credit%3A%20Wikipedia.%20The%20Angola%20Prison%2C%20officially%20known,the%201830s%2C%20a%20slave%20trader%20and%20a%20planter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_State_Penitentiary
The Dutch (so-called Afrikaans) followed the Portuguese, our Bantuese gave them our cattle in South Africa, so-called ‘Cape of Good Hope’. The Dutch (so-called Afrikaans just rolled over and there there are no weapons with these people, and that they are also Africans—–Afrikaans, The Dutch went and colonized Indonesia, West Papua in Asia and Pacific, Established their evil ‘Rand corporations’
The English people of devil infested island England, Cecil Rhode, followed Ductch (so-called Afrikaans), The devil worshipers, bloodscuking vampires, secret societies and Cabals piece of shits, went and colonized, presdent day Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Burma, Myanmar, Malaysia—-Singaphore, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand in Asia.
And that the most vurnerable most people of South Sudan. Are not going to survive, Fellows, let South Sudanese people die of ‘hunger, diseases, food shortages, malnutiritions, food aid, donations’
Take your rubbish away from South Africa, Kenya, to Western Australia. In piece, we are going to bomb you to kingdom come. There was one their sewer, Mr. Winston Churchil, a lowly eduacted drunk piece of shit, he was brought to Nile valleys and plains by his devil worshipers, bloodsucking vampires, secret societies and cabals in devil infested England. Mr. Winston Churchil, was a drunk piece of low life. He was a propagandist low piece shit
When his [Wintson Churchil} devil worshipers, bloodsucking vampires, secret societies and cabals
Put him in power, their devil infested island of England, staged their WWII—from their then ‘Versailles treaty in France’
The Germans, Were bullied the devils. Mr. Wintson Churchil and his bunch of devil worshipers, bloodsucking vampires, secret societies and cabals Proposed that their evil juus (so-called israelis) attack dogs, would be resettle Uganda, their so-called pearl of Africa and Madadacar. My. The evil would have long times. There is will be no RACE ON THIS PLANET EARTH
Suez Canal will be cloede by me. We got rid of Pharoah eon ago. We consider white race for convinience only.