South Sudan: Why ’NO’ for peace and ’YES’ for war
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South Sudan: Why ’NO’ for peace and ’YES’ for war
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By Tor Madira Machier
The region and the International community has been on a campaign in a
bid to end the civil war in South Sudan right after its inception in
December 2013, yet the very region and the International community
fall short of strategy to compel the two warring sides life up to the
eventual August 2015 peace agreement which was signed after many
attempts since January 23 2014.
Peace efforts in the young African country has been the victim of
intransigence by either parties especially the government of General
Salva Kiir Mayardiit. The international community’s effort is being
undermined by vesting interests some countries of the very
international community, mediating between the two warring parties,
enjoys in South Sudan.
Since the signing of the Peace Agreement in August 2015, president
Salva Kiir and his government, influenced by the Jieng Council of
Elders (JCE), has shown no commitment to the Agreement that many, with
doubts, thought would eventually bring peace and stability to the
country.
There was no guarantee from the beginning that the peace agreement, a
road map first rejected by Kiir only to sign nine days later with
reservations, will hold water. Kiir himself, upon arrival from Juba,
said that he was under duress to sign the previous agreement, and that
he signed the Agreement signed by Machar on the 17 August on 26 August
2015 expressing reservations for it.
The peace talks which has been in force in Addis Ababa Ethiopia since
2nd of January 2014 has been nothing but a mechanism, for the
government, for buying time to prepare for a full-scale civil war in
the young nation. Since the January 23 agreement, the government of
South Sudan has been on offensives against the armed opposition
faction of the ruling party, the Sudan People’s Liberation
Movement/Army In Opposition in a bid to crush the rebellion using the
power of the gun, yet the international community employed a strategy
of bullying both sides to the conflict for violating the many
agreements signed one after another.
Again, to make every matter worse in regards to the peace efforts, the
international community forced Machar to return to Juba on the basis
of implementing a Peace Agreement the other partner to the agreement
questioned and referred to as "the White Man’s" peace.
After Machar made it to Juba, Kiir conspired to murder him so that he
and his government evade the question of accountability and the peace
implementation.
Now, Machar has survived, Kiir is not willing t resuscitated the
agreement nor he is willing to step up a new peace effort with his
counterparts in the SPLM-IO, Dr Machar, yet the international
community is watching and not willing to force Salva Kiir who violated
the agreement to lives up to a pledge he did one and half year ago.
The region and the International community, which seems to be
frustrated by mediating between a peace-loyal party, the SPLM/SPLA IO,
and a government whose perspective is war as the solution, Salva
Kiir’s government, already conspired against the SPLM-IO and that
their belief is that peace may be achieved through the government’s
bullets rather than through mediation they have been standing for
during the three years of the conflict.
Recent events by the region including denying Machar a safe passage to
his base in Pagak and also arrests against many SPLM-IO cadres
including the personal spokesman of Dr Machar signals how the world
and the International community’s effort for peace has failed. To this
fact, Kiir seems to be assuming victory because of the silence the
international community do. And that is one of the many reasons
President Salva Kiir do not want peace to come to the young nation.
What I have also understood from my own personal point of view is that
Salva Kiir is not for peace and will never be so. That is why I am so
skeptical about a peaceful solution to the conflict with Kiir as a
party. And so.....’NO’ for peace and YES for war.
Salva Kiir Mayardiit and his Jieng Council of Elders must go!
Tor Madira Machier is a South Sudanese columnist living in Egypt, he
can be reached via: tormad...@gmail.com or via his blog:
tormachier.blogspot.com
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separation
increase
decrease
separation
separation
By Tor Madira Machier
The region and the International community has been on a campaign in a
bid to end the civil war in South Sudan right after its inception in
December 2013, yet the very region and the International community
fall short of strategy to compel the two warring sides life up to the
eventual August 2015 peace agreement which was signed after many
attempts since January 23 2014.
Peace efforts in the young African country has been the victim of
intransigence by either parties especially the government of General
Salva Kiir Mayardiit. The international community’s effort is being
undermined by vesting interests some countries of the very
international community, mediating between the two warring parties,
enjoys in South Sudan.
Since the signing of the Peace Agreement in August 2015, president
Salva Kiir and his government, influenced by the Jieng Council of
Elders (JCE), has shown no commitment to the Agreement that many, with
doubts, thought would eventually bring peace and stability to the
country.
There was no guarantee from the beginning that the peace agreement, a
road map first rejected by Kiir only to sign nine days later with
reservations, will hold water. Kiir himself, upon arrival from Juba,
said that he was under duress to sign the previous agreement, and that
he signed the Agreement signed by Machar on the 17 August on 26 August
2015 expressing reservations for it.
The peace talks which has been in force in Addis Ababa Ethiopia since
2nd of January 2014 has been nothing but a mechanism, for the
government, for buying time to prepare for a full-scale civil war in
the young nation. Since the January 23 agreement, the government of
South Sudan has been on offensives against the armed opposition
faction of the ruling party, the Sudan People’s Liberation
Movement/Army In Opposition in a bid to crush the rebellion using the
power of the gun, yet the international community employed a strategy
of bullying both sides to the conflict for violating the many
agreements signed one after another.
Again, to make every matter worse in regards to the peace efforts, the
international community forced Machar to return to Juba on the basis
of implementing a Peace Agreement the other partner to the agreement
questioned and referred to as "the White Man’s" peace.
After Machar made it to Juba, Kiir conspired to murder him so that he
and his government evade the question of accountability and the peace
implementation.
Now, Machar has survived, Kiir is not willing t resuscitated the
agreement nor he is willing to step up a new peace effort with his
counterparts in the SPLM-IO, Dr Machar, yet the international
community is watching and not willing to force Salva Kiir who violated
the agreement to lives up to a pledge he did one and half year ago.
The region and the International community, which seems to be
frustrated by mediating between a peace-loyal party, the SPLM/SPLA IO,
and a government whose perspective is war as the solution, Salva
Kiir’s government, already conspired against the SPLM-IO and that
their belief is that peace may be achieved through the government’s
bullets rather than through mediation they have been standing for
during the three years of the conflict.
Recent events by the region including denying Machar a safe passage to
his base in Pagak and also arrests against many SPLM-IO cadres
including the personal spokesman of Dr Machar signals how the world
and the International community’s effort for peace has failed. To this
fact, Kiir seems to be assuming victory because of the silence the
international community do. And that is one of the many reasons
President Salva Kiir do not want peace to come to the young nation.
What I have also understood from my own personal point of view is that
Salva Kiir is not for peace and will never be so. That is why I am so
skeptical about a peaceful solution to the conflict with Kiir as a
party. And so.....’NO’ for peace and YES for war.
Salva Kiir Mayardiit and his Jieng Council of Elders must go!
Tor Madira Machier is a South Sudanese columnist living in Egypt, he
can be reached via: tormad...@gmail.com or via his blog:
tormachier.blogspot.com
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