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“#SouthSudan Must Deliver Full Justice in the Murder of Dr. Ding Col Dau Ding”, says Justice For All South South Sudanese. #SSOT

12 November 2020

Today, the Brother of the late Dr. Ding Col Dau Ding released an open letter, which is published in full below:

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12 November 2020

Hon. Justice Madol Arol
Minister of Justice & Constitutional Affairs
Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs
Republic of South Sudan

Subject: Release of Key Witness in Criminal Proceedings No.4660/2015 - The Murder of Dr. Ding Col Dau Ding

Dear Honourable Justice,

In reference to my private letter dated 1st April 2020, with the Minister of Interior copied, I write to you again regarding the above matter.

I have today had confirmed from my representatives in South Sudan, that the key eye-witness in the murder of my younger brother on the night of the 27th October 2015 - Dr. Ding Col Dau Ding - has been released from police custody.

I am extremely disappointed by this; and as I wrote in my previous letter, any such move would have consequences.

After over five years; I now fully believe that the perversion of the course of justice since my brother’s brutal murder, has complicity from the government of South Sudan.

For the court of Judge Nikola Nyuon, guided by the Director of Prosecutions, Filberto Mayuot Mareng, to approve the release of a critically important and principal eye-witness - Matthew Aluong - without completion of the criminal investigation by the police,...

...has proven to be the last and final egregious act that I can tolerate from the South Sudanese criminal Justice system.

I now conclude that the obstruction of the criminal investigation into the murder of my younger brother, Ding; has involved individuals within the Judiciary, the Ministry of Interior and the civil service of the government of South Sudan.

As I previously stated in my private letter to you; my younger brother Ding was more of a British citizen than he was a South Sudanese. He was born in the United Kingdom; and spent all of his life there, until he briefly opted to go to South Sudan to save lives and see...

...where his ancestral roots lay. He was murdered for that.

I have kept quiet and waited for long to allow the South Sudanese criminal justice system to deliver full accountability to myself and my family for my beloved brother’s brutal murder. However, I have now lost...

...patience in that wait. I have lost patience as I now start to fully accept that my brother’s murder and the attempt to cover it up and obstruct justice, has indeed been politically-motivated since the moment I heard of his life being taken whilst I was here in the UK.

To wait over five years to get justice for the murder of Ding - whilst a murdered lecturer at the University of Juba gets justice for his family in less than one year; and the family of three murdered children get accountability in less than one month - has proven to be the...

...final show of ill-faith and disrespect for myself, my immediate family and my international friends. This I cannot allow to continue any longer. It must now come to an end.

Regards,

Dr. Dau Col Dau Ding MD
(Older Brother of the Late. Dr. Ding Col Dau Ding MD PhD)

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