Sunday 22 December 2013

Re: [wanabidii] Massacre of Nuer Civilians at the Hands of President Kiir’s Militia

Familia zao wife zitafutwe kokote zilipo na ziwe deported inside SS.

Dau dogo huambaa mwambao, kubwa huenda kwenye kilindi.

On Dec 22, 2013 2:08 PM, <hosea.ndaki@gmail.com> wrote:
Salva ametumia muda mwingi wa maisha yake akipigana msituni wakati dr machar alikuwa nairobi akipiga siasa, maisha ya salva yalikuwa duni huku familia yake ikiishi kibera na wanae kusoma shule za kawaida, dr machar na garang familia zao ziliishi uzunguni na kusoma shule za gharama kubwa. Sasa wameshachukua nchi dr.machar anaanza kuleta kibesi.
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From: Tracy John <tracykwetu@gmail.com>
To: <wanabidii@googlegroups.com>
Date: Sunday, December 22, 2013 11:21:42 AM GMT+0300
Subject: [wanabidii] Massacre of Nuer Civilians at the Hands of President Kiir's Militia

Press Release for immediate publication

*Arizona, December 21, 2013 (SSNA) --* We the sons and daughters of the
Nuer community in Arizona, denounce in the strongest terms possible, the
recent ongoing massacre of the Nuer civilians in Juba, the capital city of
South Sudan, in the aftermath of the recent military clashes that have
ensued on the night of December 15, 2013. We believe that President Salva
Kiir's press announcement that the recent fighting among his Presidential
Guards was an attempted coup, and his blaming of it on soldiers loyal to
his former V.P., Dr. Riek Machar coupled with his utterances of a divisive
and inflammatory rhetoric as well as his immediate declaration of curfew in
the town and his unleashing of his tribal militia army to the streets,
wreaking havoc in the town; killing and looting neighborhoods, have set the
stage for a grisly massacre of helpless unarmed Nuer civilians in Juba.

According to reliable sources, a group of mainly Dinka soldiers from the
Presidential Guards who are dubbed 'the president's tribal militia,'[for
having been formed by the president himself exclusively from his Dinka
tribe; without the knowledge and approval of the top army echelons] took
advantage of the fighting in Juba, in what appeared to have been a
well-orchestrated plan to settle old political and ethnic scores in the
murky political environment in South Sudan, and began a door-to-door
mopping operations in which they have engaged on a clear targeted-killings
of Nuer residents of the town.

This militia army went on a witch hunt of unarmed Nuer civilians in their
homes and they have summarily executed many children and women as well as
men in cold blood simply because they happen to be from the Nuer tribe.
These troops' modus operandi was to enter a house and ask its occupants if
they are Nuer upon which they shoot them on the spot. As a result, many
Nuer families have lost their dear ones in this heinous killing. According
to some eye witnesses accounts, some Nuer men were ran over by tanks and
there were instances in which tanks were rolled on houses reducing them to
rubbles and killing innocent lives.

We believe that this systematic massacre of Nuer civilians in Juba were
being committed under orders and directions of the President himself since
his militia army operates under his direct command. These wanton killings
of unarmed Nuer civilians began on the 15th of December 2013 and are
continuing unabated until today. Contrary to Government figures, It's
believed that the death toll from this ethnic cleansing have reached
thousands of deaths. Those Nuer civilians who have escaped the wrath of
death by this marauding Dinka militia, fled to the U.N. compound in Juba
for safety; brazing harsh climatic conditions with hardly any provision of
basic services such as water and food. In this juncture, we call on the
UNMISS to ensure it implement its mandate to protect civilians in Juba and
other flashpoint areas in the country.

In the light of the above mentioned facts and atrocities committed against
innocent unarmed Nuers in Juba, we the concerned sons and daughters of the
Nuer community in Arizona, hold president Kiir responsible for the gruesome
acts of murder of our kith and kin in the aftermath of the fabricated coup
attempt; in the hands of his tribal militia army. We believe that the
president have clearly failed to show leadership by sanctioning and
condoning such criminal and barbaric acts towards the Nuer civilians.
Therefore, we request that the president be held responsible and to stand
trial for his crimes of inciting and perpetuating violence and for crimes
against humanity including sponsoring of ethnic cleansing through state
machinery against innocent unarmed Nuer civilians.

Due to the lack of competent and creditable court system in South Sudan, we
urge the United Nations Security Council, the EU, the AU, and the U.S.
Govt. and Britain, to exert efforts to bring President Salva Kiir to trial
in a neutral country preferably in the International Criminal Court [ICC]
based in Hague.

We appeal to all the people of good will and all the friendly nations of
the world as well as all the human rights organizations, to exert their
efforts to ensure that president Kiir is brought to justice and to answer
for his crimes.

President Kiir has failed to bring peace and democracy and good governance
to the country and above all he has failed to unite the country as
evidenced in his recent dictatorial tendencies. Therefore, we urge the
U.N., EU, AU, and the U.S. and Britain, to bring pressure to bear on
president kiir to resign from power in order to return the country back to
normalcy, and for South Sudan to establish rule of law and democracy
through transparent and fair elections.

*Signed by*: Nuer Community in Arizona

*Cc*:
The White House
UN General Secretary
US Senator John McCain
The European Union
The African Union
The International Criminal Court of Justice
Amnesty International
Human Rights Watch
International Crisis Group
World Media Houses

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