For Immediate Release
Nuer community in Canada, Europe, USA, South Sudan, Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia and Uganda
January, 7, 2013, SSN;
One month after the assassination of South Sudan prominent writer Isaiah Abraham, the Nuer community in Canada, Europe, USA, South Sudan, Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia and Uganda is appealing to all South Sudanese communities in Western World and South Sudan to unite to bring change in the country. Maj. Diing Chan Awuol (as he is known locally) was assassinated on December, 5th, 2012 by gunmen believed to be part of South Sudan military intelligence (MI). He was assassinated because he was campaigning for freedom, justice, equality, democracy and an end to rampant corruption.
The leadership of Nuer community held an extraordinary meeting on January, 5, 2013 to devise plans to bring to justice the true killers of Maj. Isaiah Abraham who died for the values the people of South Sudan took up arms to fight for in 1983. The Nuer community discovered that the “suspects” the regime in Juba claimed to have detained are not the real killers of Isaiah Abraham. The real assassins of Maj. Diing Chan Awuol are members of MI (Military Intelligence) who were ordered from above to silence him.
The “suspects” the government claimed to have arrested few days ago are innocent young men who do not read the newspapers let alone the articles of Isaiah Abraham. The people who assassinated him are the ones who warned him face to face to stop criticizing President Salva Kiir Mayardit on December, 1st, 2012.
After achieving independence in July, 2011, the people of South Sudan had hoped that there would be an increase of freedom, justice and equality for all. Most South Sudanese believed that the benefits of liberation from the yoke of Khartoum’s oppression should be an increase of freedom and justice for the individuals and the recognition of human dignity for all tribes and peoples of South Sudan.
However, what we are experiencing under the leadership of Lt. Gen. Salva Kiir Mayardit is exactly the same treatment that led the people of South Sudan to fight against successive Khartoum regimes. Kiir’s regime has redefined the meaning of liberation and distorted the principles in which the people of South Sudan took up arms to die for.
The people of South Sudan who lost 2.5 million people in the course of the liberation struggle believe that real liberation, that is, the application of the principles of freedom, requires that people like Isaiah Abraham should exercise free speech and expression without fear of assassinations. The democracy that the people of South Sudan fought for is a liberation from despotism and totalitarianism because it has its own discipline that guards personal liberty and freedom of expression as much from mob rule as from police oppression.
The assassination of Maj. Diing Chan Awuol because he was exercising a right that was constitutionally guaranteed should be a wake-up call for South Sudan Youth to unite to bring change in the country. Of all the human values, freedom must be considered as the first because it bears the closest relation to the autonomy of the person. Without freedom, the other human values cannot be said to exist.
Maj. Diing Chan Awuol didn’t commit any crime to deserve being lynched by the Military Intelligence (MI). Even somebody who commits a crime cannot be assassinated without due legal process.
Lt. Gen. Kiir’s regime perverted the meaning of freedom in order to impose totalitarianism and ignorance in the country. Kiir and his henchmen say that “freedom consists not in doing what one wants to do, but in doing what is right.”
Four days before his assassination, members of President Kiir’s security guards warned Maj. Diing Chan Awuol to stop writing and any criticism against the regime. They explained that freedom of thought was only possible unless approved by President Salva Kiir and security organs.
The people of South Sudan must unite and liberate their country from assassins who perverted the meaning of freedom and the rule of law. The assassination of Maj. Diing Chan Awuol is an indication of the new totalitarian order that Lt. Gen. Kiir Mayardit wants to impose. However, the people of South Sudan must resist oppression by reminding themselves that without rule of law there is no guarantee of freedom, of justice, of dignity for the individual.
Maj. Diing Chan Awuol was a Nuer, a Dinka, a Bari, a Shilluk and etc… because the values he was promoting were the values each South Sudanese took up arms to fight for. The values of freedom and justice, dignity and equality are the principles of civilized people because they are the rules devised by men to preserve each other’s worth and to respect each other’s persons in their relations with one another. They are the absolute foundation of morality. They are the foundation of human rights, and of the duties which are their counterpart.
The people of South Sudan can be confident of the future only if they affirm, with clear-sighted awareness and unswerving determination, their human values and their social ends.
The South Sudan Youth, civil society organizations, religious leaders and community organizations in Western World need to unite to bring change in South Sudan. If youth in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen could liberate their countries from brutal despots, there is no question that the people of South Sudan who struggled against oppression for fifty years would end the totalitarian rule of Lt.
Gen. Salva Kiir Mayardit. South Sudan has no future if people like Maj. Diing Chan Awuol are being assassinated for speaking their minds.
The basic premise of society is the worth of a human being as an individual distinct from, and autonomous of, other human beings, as well as social groups and institutions. The purpose of social order is the good of the individual, by development of his physical, his rational and his emotive capacities, by the exercise of his creativity, his desire for quality and his quest for perfection. These fundamental values shall never be denied or ignored for the interests of Salva Kiir and his henchmen or for the desires of the SPLM party to create a totalitarian state in South Sudan.
Therefore, the Nuer community in Canada, Europe, USA, South Sudan, Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia and Uganda calls upon Greater Bor Community, Greater Aweil Community, Greater Equatoria Community and Greater Luo Community to join hands together with Nuer to bring change in our country. The assassination of our brother Maj. Diing Chan Awuol must be the rallying point to launch a popular democratic uprising to rescue our country from dictators and assassins who hijacked the liberation struggle of our people.
Signed by,
1. Mr. Peter Chuol Tut
Spokesman of Nuer community in Europe
2. Mr. Gordon Buay
Spokesman of Nuer community in Canada, USA, South Sudan, Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia and Uganda
Contact addresses:
Tel. (613)710-0777
Email: Nuercommunityworldwide@hotmail.com
I’m ready for change, are you? If you’re, then be hopeful! On that note, it has to be peaceful!
Thanks for your message, I totally agree with, let’s unite for our beloved nation.
We shall see how are you going do it without our participation. Change can’t be made alone by one tribe or region. It will never succeed.
I believe Nuer need organization first in order to call for change. Nuer and Dinka had long time power dispute and it wont be easy as we think if one tribe occupies the government. The change will not happen on the table, calling or begging, and not waiting too. Long as Nuer tribes forgot about their code of conduct. However, things will get even tougher than they think. Now one tribe who occupy the government under estimate all other tribes and think the boat of the government belongs to them. They don’t see the danger is looming around the corner and the answer will be more deadly. My opinion is better for Dinka to save their legacy.
We will join you once the time comes!
The change is good but I am worried about change in that we always take change to harm ourselves and appease our gods.
Change will not come without the defenders of south Sudan (Dinka)
Change will never succeed without almighty Dinka of Bhar el Ghazal. Although the whole South Sudan tribes agree and exclude the greater Barh el Ghazal, they will never see the change by God, whether politically or militarily people are ready. Nothing happened when Barh el Ghazal remain alone in fighting Arabs and others went to Kenya all east Africa countries and others rebelled to Khartoum. So please make sure change this government with a sense of including the people of Barh el Ghazal but you alone will never get the seat.
Dinkaland,
remember kokora? Change will happen whether you like it or not. Nuers, Equatorians are with you!!!!
To Manut, Dinka land; change is gonna come, whether you like it or not. People are fed up all over South Sudan! And they’re gonna do it. Tell your naive clan’s man, aka Kiir, that change is inevitable! His failures are too much to bear!!
Mr. Dinka Land,
Greater Bar el Ghazal is not bigger than the whole south Sudan, therefore Change is coming coz the Greater Bar el ghazal are fighting for food therefore no unity among themselves. You have lost the the powerful Dinka Bor Community, therefore u have remained food-minded community. Change is coming whether you like it or not coz clever people of Bor are now running away from your government.
Hahahaha, coward community. Without greater Barh el Ghazl the movement would have not succeeded by God. When the whole Nuer went to Khartoum in 1991 who remained in the movement? Bor leadership is over and will never come again. Bor are troublemakers and they don’t know how to fight.
Yes I know where the problem started from, south Sudan is not for any regions but greater Bahr el ghazal. It’s ok change is coming and u will succeed how without barh el ghazal? The more we were strong that time is still now. Don’t tell us Dinka Bor. We are the ones to start everything and then Dinka Bor follow us. U talk about change and make sure we will still be ruling you. Even the way you talk your nonsense everyday we don’t fear it. Because when are rearing cattle or any type of cattle you don’t get fed up meaning dog can bark and camel may go. Change without Dinka will not work and succeed.
Yeah, Manut, you got it. Bhar el Ghazal oyee! Why not Bhar el Ghazal must rule for more than twenty years?
Dinkaland, Manut Lual,
It’s now clear that you’re nothing, but tribal barons! You lack ground to argues on. All you’re doing here is to flawlessly and shamelessly defend your region and tribe man as if he’s a leader of your tribe or region, and not Country. Get it clearly that change is gonna happen. Because, people are ready and very much eager to make it happen. South Sudan is for all. Therefore, we’ll we do what we can to make it livable for all!
I am very sure that the change people are talking right here is a continuation of Nasir faction! If not, then why not talk of the whole system to be changed including Mr. Riak, Luke Jok, Mai.. mention them and pick only Kiir Mayardit as if his name is the government? This community should have talked of system change other than president change because all I know is that the government of South Sudan or SPLM has lost its path and that if people are willing to show it a way forward or change it, then it should be done by opposition parties not communities or else if you think you are fed up with it, then you should go to the opposite side and advocate as a party.
Watch out guys, you may create another Bor of 1991! SSIM ain’t dead so be wise when changing your country.
Anyangaliec, if u know south Sudan is for all why are you complaining everyday with ur nonsense? Is Kiir not a national of south Sudan? We Barh el ghazal, we are also ready to see how will you succeed. As I know, God has a plan for Barh el ghazal, it will rule for 50 years after that Dinka Bor will come. Barh el ghazal oyeeeeeeeeee.
The fact is that this regime must definitely resign with all its tribes both politicians and technocrats. Else how can we trust the same regime with another term in office in 2015 when “they” have failed collectively to deliver simple issues such as clean drinking water in Juba leave alone other towns such as Wa, Malakal etc.
This regime is going, mark my words, sooner or later just like any other world regimes – I also advice them to see examples from Hossni Mubarak, Gadafi etc. There is time for everything if man does not bring it God will!!!
@Anyang, Bor community are the ones confusing this nation. Why changing kiir while he is a national and freedom fighter.
Manut, I thought this article was written by some self-appointed representatives of the Nuer tribes. How then did it become Bor versus Bar elghal? Do a research and see if Bor is the equivalant of Bar elghazel if at all there is a need for regionalism. If you are able to access president Kiir, then ask him if he is governing this nation in the name of Bar elghazel. If you are wise you should not be making enemies where there is none.
The fact is that All the three regions need change! whether by ballot or bullet.
You Nuer have chosen the wrong tribes to ally with. Bors are refugee-oriented and traditional food worshipers who’ve miserably failed to fight murle who abduct thier children day and night.
Equatorians are national cowards who exchange their mothers ,sisters, wives for sex to arabs. Now Nuer with their small brains, what can they do to original Dinkas of Bahr el ghazal. Better try your luck in voting but not in fighting, fools
You mean bloody change or…..
Dinka Land,
We Bor people need nothing from your government whether leadership or oil money. Let me assure you one thing, mr. begger-man, that we have given you leadership to spoil the name of South Sudan and embarrass us internationally. See how you’re managing junub, here are your weaknesses.
how come you appointed uneducated people to attend international conferences? Appointing useless people from cattle camps to the post of undersecretary if you are not misruling the country? Greediness, selfishness and shamelessness.