Hon. Angelo Beda,
Co-Chair of the #SouthSudan National Dialogue (SSND).
Excerpt from Speech given at the Opening Ceremony of the SSND National Conference,
Juba, South #Sudan.
3rd Nov 2020.
“The people at the grassroots blame the crisis in the country...
...on the failure of leadership. Particularly under the ruling party; the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement. When we reference SPLM, we are talking about the SPLM before it broke into numerous factions as we know today.....You cannot say you are IO, you are not part of it.
You cannot say you are FD, you are not part of it. You cannot you are SSOA, you are also part of it. Because the people who broke, were on the top. And they broke and quarrelled, and then engaged their tribes to fight; and things went wrong forever. So we blame the SPLM as such.
Not just the one whom we are with here; but those who also left outside. The SPLM took helm of power in South Sudan, following the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, CPA, in January 2005. The failure of the leadership, and of the SPLM, is manifest in a number of...
...ways. First, the SPLM and its leadership per previous provisions of the CPA, was charged to be the responsibility to build a new political system in South Sudan; that was to contrast the then existing system in the Sudan.....So, the CPA said that, we now have the South; and...
...it is given to SPLM to change your laws. So that it is different from the one of Northern Sudan; and then after that, we shall come to vote. So they wanted two systems, in one country. Two systems; Khartoum - North, Juba - South. With different system, but one country.
The SPLA demonstrated, the SPLA failed completely to build a new political system in South Sudan. So by the end of the six years’ interim period, the SPLA simply took the poorer version of the Sudanese state, and ran with it. Notably, the SPLM built an authoritarian system in...
...the country, which is becoming more and more tyrannical; although without the substance and authority of a functioning state.”
Statement of the Co-Chairman, Hon. Angelo Beda, On the Occasion of the Opening Ceremony of the National Dialogue Conference 3rd Nov. 2020, Juba, #SouthSudan
Statement on the 5th Year Anniversary of the Murder of Dr. Ding Col Dau Ding in South Sudan
*Update on the Murder of Dr. Ding Col Dau Ding*
Tuesday 27 October, 2020
(Washington DC; London)
After concluding our investigation into the egregious murder of the renowned and...
...trusted, British-born, healthcare professional and academic, Dr. Ding Col Dau Ding Aweer (1); we, Justice For All South Sudanese (@robertamsterdam@amsterdamllp), now formally disclose that the death of Dr. Ding (@dr_justice4) was a politically-motivated extrajudicial killing.
On behalf of the Family, the Friends and the Colleagues of Dr. Ding, we now demand full and immediate accountability from the new transitional government of #SouthSudan (@SouthSudanGov).
We additionally demand that the African Union’s (@AU_PSD) Hybrid Court for South Sudan...
The only leverage that the world still has over the remnants of the Bashir-NCP, Islamists', deep-state, are those same US sanctions that some people are still vociferously complaining about. They are what largely facilitated in the final toppling of Bashir.
@NesrineMalik@robertamsterdam@StateDept@SecPompeo The US' sanctions are the only leverage that the #Sudan-ese civilians still have over the military junta to force them to guarantee & enact genuine reforms. The military junta has not enacted any reforms at all since the #Sudan transitional government was formed.
@NesrineMalik@robertamsterdam@StateDept@SecPompeo The military junta's "guaranteed committment" to reforms does not need the US' sanctions to be lifted as a prerequisite. E.g., where is the justice for the protestors that were killed during the revolution? Why has that still not been made a "red-line demand" by the "civilians"?
@liberty_sudan@_hudsonc The whole of #Sudan (both the South & the North) lost “leadership”, “direction” & “vision” with the killing of Dr. John Garang De Mabior on the 30th July 2005.
John Garang was a unionist. He sought devolved self-governance away from the ruling-Arab elites in Khartoum for the...
@liberty_sudan@_hudsonc ...South & all of the other disenfranchised & socioeconomically oppressed regions of the #Sudan. He was not naive nor was he deluded enough to ever think that the current #SouthSudan independence was ever going to be pragmatically realistic in just 6 years of a CPA interim...
@liberty_sudan@_hudsonc ...period, without there first being “fundamental socioeconomic structures” in place to be able to run the South’s - or any of the other regions for that matter - own affairs. Just look at the state of #SouthSudan now for all of the evidence of that that you need; and now look...
It is understandable why Machar’s SPLM/A-IO will be uncomfortable with the unilateral creation of the Ruweng Administrative Area; if it remains in place.
The former Southern Liech State - which was one of the now defunct, 32 illegally created States by Kiir’s regime -...
...included the ancestral home of Riek Machar. The largely Nuer-populated former Southern Liech State, bordered the former largely Dinka-populated Ruweng State - now the Ruweng Administrative Area.
Now with the restoration of Unity State as one of the 10 states, minus Ruweng...
*The Omar al-Bashir regime’s history with assassination attempts on leaders - Part 8*
Who are the other key Bashir & NCP regime’s allies that still remain influential around Salva Kiir & within the government of South Sudan, following Omar Hassan al-Bashir’s removal from power?
*Dhieu Mathok Diing Wol*
Dhieu Mathok Diing Wol is a Dinka tribesman from Malual of Aweil, in the Greater Bahr-el-Ghazal region of #SouthSudan.
He comes from a prominent family among the Malual Dinka clan of Aweil.
During the civil war of #Sudan from 1983 to 2005, Mathok was in Sudan studying. He was a student activist of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement.
Because of his uncle, Mathok rose to a position of importance after the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement; and after the...
* تاريخ نظام عمر البشير بمحاولات اغتيال القادة - الجزء الثامن *
* من هم حلفاء نظام البشير وحزب المؤتمر الوطني الآخرون الذين ما زالوا مؤثرين حول سلفا كير وداخل حكومة جنوب السودان ، بعد إقالة عمر حسن البشير من السلطة؟ *
* ديو ماتوك ديينج وول *
ديو ماتوك ديينج وول هو من رجال قبيلة الدنكا من عشيرة الدينكا المالوية لعويل ، في منطقة بحر الغزال الكبرى في جنوب السودان.
إنه ينتمي إلى عائلة بارزة من عشيرة المالوال دينكا في أويل.
خلال الحرب الأهلية في السودان من 1983 إلى 2005 ، كان ديو ماتوك في السودان يدرس. كان ناشطا طلابا في الحركة الشعبية لتحرير السودان.
بسبب عمه ، ارتقى ديو ماتوك إلى موقع مهم بعد اتفاقية السلام الشامل لعام 2005 ؛