SOUTH SUDAN’S REGIME COMES UNDER INCREASING INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE OVER ALLEGED CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
(Posted 12th March 2016)
When a recent article here reflected the broad opposition to the admission of South Sudan to the East African Community, by businesses hurt through non payment of invoices, Ugandan and Kenyan traders upset over constant harassment and by more level headed technocrats pointing at South Sudan’s patent unpreparedness to join due to lack of any harmonization of policies, legislative and regulatory alignments besides lack of good governance and transparent accountability, were reactions swift and at times sharp.
Regime cronies accused this correspondent to being anti South Sudan if not outright anti Africa – to which the word AHEM comes to mind.
Regime critics also came up with complaints for allegedly glossing over the massive human right violations of the regime and not going deep enough in opposing the EAC membership seen by them as an award for impunity.
Well, one cannot do right by everyone and I do not intend do. Going on public record does open the door for critique and, frankly speaking, I have read worse before than those emotional and often incoherent outbursts.
That said, Al Jazeera’s James Bays just sent out his report on South Sudan from Geneva and his words could not be clearer. Read on to find out what is and has been going on in South Sudan and what those who admitted the country to the EAC did not tell their constituents:
Al Jazeera’s diplomatic editor James Bays, reporting from Geneva, said the UN human rights office has rarely released a report "as shocking and as damning" as the one published on Friday on South Sudan.
South Sudan: UN reports campaign of killing and rape
South Sudan’s President Kiir using Luri ‘farm’ as private military base | Radio Tamazuj
UN’s top human rights body says UN should not provide support to S Sudan govt | Radio Tamazuj
South Sudan journalist kidnapped and tortured
South Sudan lets fighters rape women in place of wages
People of Hai Stadium face ‘disgracing condition’ in Yambio: Mayor
The question now is how such revelations will impact on South Sudan’s ability to integrate into the EAC and become a partner with equal values as the rest of the community has them, where Burundi has already become an outcast as a result of the draconian crackdown on democracy by the regime in Bujumbura.
For now, no doubt in my mind, is the EAC only functioning in Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya and Tanzania while the other two nominal members are not fit to be part of the EAC until proven otherwise.
Quod erat demonstrandum!
One Response
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