*The Omar al-Bashir regime’s history with assassination attempts on leaders - Part 5*
*What is the relationship and the historical link between Salva Kiir, Bona Malwal, Martin Elia Lomuro, and Omar al-Bashir?*
*What is the relationship and the historical link between Salva Kiir, Bona Malwal, Martin Elia Lomuro, and Omar al-Bashir?*
*Bona Malwal Madut Riing*
*Veteran Sudanese and South Sudanese Politician*
Just like Salva Kiir Mayardit, Bona Malwal Madut Riing is a member of the Dinka tribe from Twic of Gogrial; hailing from the region of Greater Bahr el Ghazal in the country of #SouthSudan.
Malwal has...
*Veteran Sudanese and South Sudanese Politician*
Just like Salva Kiir Mayardit, Bona Malwal Madut Riing is a member of the Dinka tribe from Twic of Gogrial; hailing from the region of Greater Bahr el Ghazal in the country of #SouthSudan.
Malwal has...
...been the sociopolitical power behind Salva Kiir, the President of South Sudan, up to today. Presently, he is officially the rapporteur of the South Sudan National Dialogue; an institution that President Kiir set up in 2017, in which it called upon some retired South...
...Sudanese politicians - such as Abel Alier and Angelo Beda - to try to find out [and to resolve] the issues that have made South Sudanese fight one another for over 6 years
When the first Military ruler of #Sudan after independence, General Ibrahim El Ferik Abboud, was...
When the first Military ruler of #Sudan after independence, General Ibrahim El Ferik Abboud, was...
...overthrown in 1964 by a popular civilian uprising; a group of South Sudanese intellectuals who were based in Khartoum at the time, organised themselves to become what was called the “Southern Front”. Bona Malwal and Abel Alier were the nucleus of this new political grouping.
*Bona Malwal’s Ministerial Position in Sudan - the Portfolio of Information.*
Bona Malwal was politically indoctrinated by Abel Alier Kwai Kut, the first South Sudanese individual who reached the most senior position in the government of Sudan - i.e. the position of Vice...
Bona Malwal was politically indoctrinated by Abel Alier Kwai Kut, the first South Sudanese individual who reached the most senior position in the government of Sudan - i.e. the position of Vice...
...President to the Military ruler of Sudan in the 1970s, Jaafar Muhammad an-Nimeiry.
It was at this time that Abel Alier managed to secure the confidence of President Nimeiry; and when Nimeiry asked him to find him a South Sudanese that he could make into a Minister, Abel...
It was at this time that Abel Alier managed to secure the confidence of President Nimeiry; and when Nimeiry asked him to find him a South Sudanese that he could make into a Minister, Abel...
...Alier gave him the name of Malwal. He was subsequently made the Sudanese Minister of Information; a position which he executed to the satisfaction of Nimeiry.
Malwal eventually moved to Oxford in the United Kingdom, when Nimeiry was removed from power in 1985 by a...
Malwal eventually moved to Oxford in the United Kingdom, when Nimeiry was removed from power in 1985 by a...
...military coup under Omar Hassan al-Bashir and the National Islamic Front of Hassan al-Turabi.
Whilst in the UK, Malwal became a vocal opposition to the Sudan People’s Liberation Army and Movement (SPLA/M), led by the late Dr. John Garang De Mabior. Malwal disagreed with...
Whilst in the UK, Malwal became a vocal opposition to the Sudan People’s Liberation Army and Movement (SPLA/M), led by the late Dr. John Garang De Mabior. Malwal disagreed with...
...Garang on a number of fundamental sociopolitical principles; the most notable of which was that he believed that organising the people of South Sudan on a tribal basis, was the best way to defeat the Islamists and the Bashir regime.
*Bona Malwal is arguably “The Godfather" of the Jieng Council of Elders.*
In the 1990s whilst in the United Kingdom, and after the failed coup attempt by Dr. Riek Machar Teny, Malwal began to practically conceptualise his idea of organising the people of Southern Sudan on a...
In the 1990s whilst in the United Kingdom, and after the failed coup attempt by Dr. Riek Machar Teny, Malwal began to practically conceptualise his idea of organising the people of Southern Sudan on a...
...tribal basis; and he wanted to establish a Jieng Council of Elders (JCE), an ethnically-homogeneous lobby group, to oversee and protect “the interests of the Dinka people”. This was to counter the all-inclusive and ethnically-heterogeneous vision of the Sudan People’s...
...Liberation Movement and Army (SPLM/A) under John Garang De Mabior - a Garang philosophy that had already proved to be effective, and had been accepted by the majority of the members of the SPLM/A. Nevertheless, Malwal still opposed it; and he never gave up on this...
...“ethnocentric vision” for the people of Southern Sudan.
When Malwal was prohibited by the SPLA from continuing to operationalise what he used to call, “the redemption of Southern Sudanese slaves” project within the Sudan, his animus with Garang’s leadership reached its...
When Malwal was prohibited by the SPLA from continuing to operationalise what he used to call, “the redemption of Southern Sudanese slaves” project within the Sudan, his animus with Garang’s leadership reached its...
...peak. The slaves’ redemption project was widely known by many within the liberation movement, to be a personal economic enterprise for those who partook in it. It was being funded by the Swiss-based human rights’ non-governmental organisation, Christian Solidarity...
...International; an organisation for which Malwal was its organiser and facilitator in Sudan.
The opposition of the Garang-led SPLM/A to this project in the late 1990s till the turn of the century, exacerbated the already strained relationship between Malwal and Garang.
The opposition of the Garang-led SPLM/A to this project in the late 1990s till the turn of the century, exacerbated the already strained relationship between Malwal and Garang.
When efforts were made in 2001 and 2002 to bring Malwal to recognise Garang as the rightful leader of “The Movement” at the time, and that he should be supportive of him, Malwal rejected it. Instead, he began to work openly for John Garang’s removal from the leadership of the...
...SPLM/A. It is from here that the relationship between President Omar al-Bashir and Bona Malwal began to grow and flourish; and it proceeded beyond the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) of January 2005, following John Garang’s death.
*Dr. John Garang was killed in a helicopter crash on July 30th 2005; just twenty-one days after he had been sworn-in in Khartoum as the First Vice President of Sudan, and the President of Southern Sudan.*
In 1968, a charismatic and non-tribalist South Sudanese leader named...
In 1968, a charismatic and non-tribalist South Sudanese leader named...
...William Deng Nhial, was ambushed in the Rumbek area of Western Lakes State in Southern Sudan. William Deng was the leader of the main Southern Sudanese Political Party at the time; the Sudan African National Union (SANU). His ambush and killing (along with many other...
...Southern Sudanese Political leaders and Tribal Chiefs) was similarly another sudden death that was orchestrated by the then government in Khartoum; it occurring just days after William Deng had secured the popular support of the people of Southern Sudan within a landslide...
...General Election victory. At that time following the death of William Deng, Bona Malwal was the editor of the then only English language newspaper in Sudan; a newspaper called "The Vigilant". The way that Malwal put into print the news of the death of William Deng, was...
...alarming to many Southern Sudanese people. The paper did not express the same level of loss and remorse that many South Sudanese were feeling at the time. Many believe that this lack of supportive empathy and compassion was because Malwal was a member of the Southern Front;...
...the other political party of Southern Sudan that had been competing with SANU for the popular support of the people. The indifference that Bona Malwal exhibited after the death of William Deng Nhial, was the same indifference that he exhibited following the death of John...
... Garang; another charismatic and widely popular leader amongst not just the people of Southern Sudan, but also amongst the people of Northern Sudan too. An example of this popularity was the extraordinary reception that was given to Garang upon his return to Khartoum in...
...early July 2005, just before his inauguration. An estimated 4 million people Sudanese [both Southerners and Northerners] congregated in the capital, Khartoum, to welcome Garang back as a hero from the bush after 21 years.
*Bona Malwal was appointed as Omar al-Bashir’s Presidential Advisor after the death of John Garang De Mabior on the 30th July 2005.*
Before John Garang’s death, Bona Malwal tried to force Salva Kiir Mayardit to overthrow him militarily from his leadership of the SPLA/M.
Before John Garang’s death, Bona Malwal tried to force Salva Kiir Mayardit to overthrow him militarily from his leadership of the SPLA/M.
Omar al-Bashir, who wanted to exploit the dislike of Malwal for Garang to remove him from the leadership of the SPLM/A before the CPA was to be signed in January 2005, planned this as a last ditch effort to scupper the Sudan peace process. Bashir feared Dr. John Garang’s...
...leadership of the SPLA/M; and his very own rule of Sudan had reached a seminally difficult stage for him to be able to continue in power. This was to be compounded even further once Garang was to become his deputy as First Vice President of Sudan. Consequently, Bashir and...
...his National Congress Party (NCP) regime had no other options available to it. The international community and the regional African countries were on the side of the SPLM/A and the CPA; and the SPLA was territorially and militarily strong in the South. Bashir had no...
...further “intransigence-options” left open to him which he could exploit as a delay strategy. He had to accept the peace deal with the SPLM/A under Garang’s leadership.
However, Bashir and his NCP would not accept defeat; and they had already connived to use Kiir’s senior...
However, Bashir and his NCP would not accept defeat; and they had already connived to use Kiir’s senior...
...position within the SPLM/A’s hierarchy, to try to overthrow Garang before the CPA was to be ratified on the 9th January 2005 in Kenya.
Bashir and his NCP regime developed an idea which they thought would work, so as to deprive Garang of being the leader that would sign the...
Bashir and his NCP regime developed an idea which they thought would work, so as to deprive Garang of being the leader that would sign the...
...CPA on behalf of the SPLA/M. Bona Malwal was fully onboard with this coup d’état attempt. The three co-conspirators all came to an arrangement; and it was to be enacted just one month before the signing of the peace agreement. Salva Kiir was in the town of Yei in Southern...
...Sudan; and Bashir had money [almost 4 Million US Dollars in cash] delivered to him in early November 2004 by a middle-man who was a Southern Sudanese, for the purposes of “facilitation”. However, the plot had been discovered in October 2004; and it was being monitored by...
...Garang himself. Knowing what a “media coup” can do to “The Movement” after the same situation took place in August 1991 with Riek Machar; it could not be allowed to repeat itself again. So the coordination and the operationalisation of the second media coup attempt to...
...overthrow Garang from the leadership of the SPLA/M, was known and it was anticipated. Consequently, its recurrence was thwarted both within Southern Sudan and internationally; to the disappointment of Bashir and his co-conspirators.
*Salva Kiir has admitted in private to former SPLA/M colleagues, when questioned about why he wished to challenge Garang’s leadership just one month away from the signing of the 2005 CPA; and in response he said that “he was being pushed to do it by others”.*
*Why is Martin Elia Lomoru, seemingly indispensable to Salva Kiir Mayardit?*
Martin Elia Lomuro - a dual South Sudanese and British citizen that has just been recently sanctioned on the 16th December 2019 by the United States government “for perpetuating the conflict...
Martin Elia Lomuro - a dual South Sudanese and British citizen that has just been recently sanctioned on the 16th December 2019 by the United States government “for perpetuating the conflict...
...[in South Sudan] for their own personal enrichment, leading to much suffering for the South Sudanese people” - is from Lainya County of the former Central Equatoria State in South Sudan. Lainya is one of the counties of the newly created, Yei River State. Lomuro is a...
...Pojulu tribesman; this being a sub-tribe of the Karo people.
Lomuro studied Veterinary Science at the University of Khartoum in Sudan. He later acquired a United Nations (UN) scholarship for further studies at The University of Edinburgh; and he spent one year in Edinburgh...
Lomuro studied Veterinary Science at the University of Khartoum in Sudan. He later acquired a United Nations (UN) scholarship for further studies at The University of Edinburgh; and he spent one year in Edinburgh...
...were he was awarded a Diploma in Veterinary Science. However, this coincided with the start of the civil war in 1983. Consequently, Lomuro was granted political asylum in the United Kingdom together with his family; subsequently becoming a British citizen by naturalisation.
*Martin Elia lomuro did not agree with the majority view of the people of the Greater Equatoria region, with regards to supporting John Garang’s leadership of the SPLA/M.*
Lomoru became allied with Bona Malwal whilst he was in the UK; and a close political relationship...
Lomoru became allied with Bona Malwal whilst he was in the UK; and a close political relationship...
...between them began as a result of both of them being against the SPLM/A leadership of Garang. Consequently, they “forged” a working understanding between one another; and subsequently, they created their own political movement called the...
...South Sudan Democratic Front (SSDF) - later becoming a political party in Southern Sudan, were Lomuro was its Chairman. Since then, Lomoru has been Bona Malwal’s “man in the government of Southern Sudan”; and Lomoru and Malwal continue to work closely together to this day.
Malwal would have wanted to have led Southern Sudan immediately after John Garang’s death; and there is still no reason why that cannot still happen because of the current state of affairs of South Sudan’s governance under Salva Kiir. Malwal’s ambition to do so remains strong;...
...but it has been made more difficult following the ousting and the detention of his important friend and strategic ally in Khartoum, Omar Hassan al-Bashir. Nevertheless, since Salva Kiir has not yet been prepared to step aside for Malwal to take over, he continues to have...
...Lomoru [amongst other loyal proxies] integrally inserted and influential within - as an ever-present member of - Salva Kiir’s governments in South Sudan.
*Justice For All South Sudanese*
*“Form the Hybrid Court for South Sudan Now”*
23rd December 2019
*Justice For All South Sudanese*
*“Form the Hybrid Court for South Sudan Now”*
23rd December 2019
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