{UAH} WHERE IS MUSEVENI IN THE SOUTH SUDAN CARNAGE!

WHERE IS MUSEVENI IN THE SOUTH SUDAN CARNAGE!

The UN has just released a damming report outlining the worst war crimes committed against civilians caught up in the most recent conflict in South Sudan.  The report implicates the government of South Sudan in what it describes as "scotched earth policy" against civilians.  It further alleges that the government of South Sudan allowed its soldierst and allied militias to rape women in lieu of wages, to torture and murder suspected opponents and deliberately displace as many people as possible.  Civilians suspected of supporting the opposition were suffocated in shipping containers, burnt alive, shot dead and hacked into pieces.   The report goes ahead to reveal that burning of food stores and seeds was intended for starvation.   While the report accuses both sides of committing serious violations and abuses, it unequivocally asserts that:  "the government appears to have been responsible for gross and systematic human rights violations."  

 The current conflict in South Sudan started in December 2013 and Museveni immediately sent in his troops to the aid of President Silver Kiir who was facing a rebellion from within his own SPLA.   Contrary to the constitutional requirement for parliamentary approval of troops deployment outside the country, it took Museveni one month before acknowledging that his forces were in South Sudan.  Even though, he claimed that they were there simply to evacuate Ugandans from the capital Juba.  Later on he claimed that they were also securing vital installations like the airport, State House, and other government installations.  It was only in mid January 2014 while at a conference in Angola that Museveni revealed how his troops were involved in combat operations in South Sudan.  He stated that with the help of his troops the government of South Sudan had "inflicted a big defeat on rebel groups outside of Juba".  He added that a large number of rebels had been killed in the incursions.  The Ministry of Defence Spokesperson, Col. Ankunda confirmed that the Uganda army was set to launch a combat offensive in rebel held areas more especially in the Jongley State capital, Bor.   Indeed both ground troops and aerial bombardment by his jet fighters did leave collateral damage at the battle.  

    Museveni's miliitary intervention did escalate the conflict to the level as contained in the UN report.  It undermined IGAD's efforts to mediate the conflict at an early stage thus minimizing the carnage that ensued later.  Being a member of the regional block (IGAD), Uganda had taken sides in the conflict.  If he had not intervened on the side of the government in South Sudan,  either the rebels would have easily overthrown President Silver Kiir or cone to an amicable settlement under the mediation of IGAD much earlier thus minimization the carnage that ensued as the conflict escalated.  Some of the methods of carrying out atrocities like burning of food stores, suffocating civilians in shipping containers, cutting Bodies of victims into pieces, and deliberate displacement of civilians are similar to the methods that Museveni's army used during the war in northern and eastern Uganda.   Museveni withdrew his army from South Sudan in October 2015 but the UN report has unfairly kept silent about its role in all the carnage that took place.  The situation was the same in the Congo where there is no way you would separate the different militias leaders from the eastern DRC who were indicted by the ICC for war crimes.

    INFORMATION IS POWER

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Viele GruBe

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