
South Sudan: SPLM/A-IO Dr. Riek Machar letter to President Salva Kiir Mayardit – “Subject: 30th October 2018 Peace Celebration in Juba” (21.10.2018)



“No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity” – Seneca, Dialogues and Letters
I don’t believe that the National Dialogue, which is about to start in November 2018 and Roadmap made by the Inter-Religious Council of Uganda will amount to anything. It will be a lot about nothing. It will be like a Seinfeld episode, lots of simple fun and punchlines, but nothing substantial for the body or the spirit.
This is not something that will upheld or even be honored by the President. Because he has never honored a deal, where he has to loose something or even give way. The President are always finding his way to get the upper-hand and will do so again. To think otherwise is to think that the Old Man with the Hat has changed. Trust me, all the acts of late, shows that he is more ruthless and shows more force. Because he knows he isn’t loved or cared about in the general population. The empty pledges and promises of old is haunting him and the lack of progress on nearly every account is another reason for his total failure. That is because the President is busy micro-managing and not trusting in the appointed cronies even.
I know I should have had hope for such an arrangement, but the acts of the National Resistance Movement, the usage of the Security Organizations against the citizens, the representatives and the ones standing in their way of late. Shows the dire need of a change, but they do this to intimidate and control. That is why Bobi Wine isn’t even able to launch his album in the National Stadium. At the same period, as the ones standing in the way of the President are awaiting court cases and charged with treason. That is a reason why I don’t believe in it. Because, there are not acts by the NRM that are opening for opposition or even trying. They are even blocking the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) President Patrick Amuriat Oboi from operating and meeting internal-party forums. How can this government be real about having dialogue, when others cannot operate without meeting the police or other security outfits?
I wish I could be hopeful, as the dire need is there, but from the one who said he wanted to destroy the opposition and crash it after the last General Election of 2016. That President is most likely doing it to teach the opposition a lesson, not being there to give way or even give the public a hand. Because the old man want to control everything, every legislation and be the fountain of honor. At all costs and be celebrated, even when he is killing innocent people and making up stories, where the hoodlums are the problem.
That is the man that supposed to negotiate with, a war-lord with all power and his orders from above can be fatal to others. He has no trouble using Luweero methods, using bush-war tactics and to use the National Dialogue for that, would be stalling and securing who was the heads. What their needs are and find ways to consolidate them. In such a way, that they need him and not really talk. This is the man that haven’t the ability to find a successor for 32 years and always excused he has more things to finish before he leaves power. You can wonder is left to forget to do. What bridge isn’t fixed in Isingiro or what school is falling apart in Moroto.
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni will only be a post-boy with lectures, but at this point. He will only use this to make a positive vibe or address the opposition, as they are trouble. He has not long ago said where the opposition has MPs, he has striked that district out of the map and stopped developing it. When your discussing what that sort of man, you know it is only his vision and his stories that matter.
The President have to show another side of himself, but that will be lie. He will then lie, because we know what he does and what he has done. The misuse of power, the ruthless acts against people who are in his way. This is known and he cannot run away from it. It is known and public knows it too. His cronies cannot hide that fact. Even if they try.
At this point. National Dialogue is pointless, unless Museveni pulls a rabbit out of the hat and says, who he plans to succeed him and what the NRM dynasty wants to be the next Grand Pumba. Peace.


19th October 2018, Oslo
Dear Honorable, His Excellency President Paul Biya of Cameroon.
Well, lets us just be frank and scratch all the nobility and humility, because we both know what is up these days.
You held an election on the 7th October 2018, as the two weeks period the Election Commission (ELECAM) can announce the result within two week and that means on the 21st October 2018. Also, today’s verdict in the Constitutional Court has rejected all the appeals to reject the polls. Even when there are more than enough evidence of questionable activity. Not only the acts of fake observers, but the non-activity in the Anglophone region. As the state violence are continuing their and the persistence of electioneering in favor the President. Which wouldn’t be surprising for someone as corrupt as you, Mr. President and how you have conducted all government business by decree from afar.
I am not surprised that the Constitutional Court awarded in your favor. They are appointed by and working directly for you. Like most of the state does and that is why even the representatives and the Members of Parliament from the Anglophone Region are not going home to their constituencies, because they don’t want to risk their lives. Still, you and them are saying everything is so cool.
We both know this is all a charade to keep yourself in power, by every mean necessary. We have seen it before and you are repeating it. Just with even more added violence in the regions where people are rebelling against you and the Republic.
Paul Biya you can lie to yourself and lie to the world, but so many knows your game. Your cannot keep this lie up. You act as the sole proprietor and owner of the Republic. Like you fathered the land and are accustomed to run it. Therefore, no else should. You took it and no one else should take it from you. The wealth it has given you and the regime you have created around you. In nation filled with youths, the cabinet and ministers are double or triple their age. There is no institution where your rampant corruption haven’t touched or where your people aren’t tweaking the bits and pieces.
We all know this and you know it too. That why your not concerned with three years between Council of Ministers or anything else. You are not afraid of rebellion or even mutiny, even a coup d’etat. As your control is there. People dream of the coup d’etat because they want someone else to rule and with another way. They have seen what you do and what you do best is to linger in Swiss hotels.
You should enjoy retirement in Switzerland or behind bars for the ones dying on your watch, by the orders you have given to the army and pay the cost for the lives you have brutally taken, as people have lingered in jail, because they stood up to you.
You can forge an election, you can forge a regime and use all tricks to stay there. But you will not be statesman, you will not remembered in terms, which are any good. You will be remembered as the tyrant, that everyone wish where gone and took his Republic for granted.
The Republic deserves better than you. You know that and we all do.
Best Regards
The Writer of Minbane





Corroborated victim and witness accounts indicate that women and girls as young as 12, abducted by opposition forces, were paraded and lined up for commanders to choose as “wives”.
GENEVA, Switzerland, October 18, 2018 – A UN report has documented the immense suffering of civilians in the Western Equatoria region of South Sudan where 900 people were abducted and 24,000 forced to flee their homes during a surge in violence between April and August.
In April 2018, after several months of relative calm, the pro-Riek Machar Sudan People’s Liberation Army in-Opposition (SPLA-IO (RM)) intensified attacks against villages and targeted civilians in Gbudue and Tambura. The Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA)’s offensives to dislodge SPLA-IO (RM) forces also resulted in harm to civilians, as these operations failed to distinguish between civilians and combatants, the report by the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) and the UN Human Rights Office says.
Corroborated victim and witness accounts indicate that women and girls as young as 12, abducted by opposition forces, were paraded and lined up for commanders to choose as “wives”. Those who were not chosen were left for other fighters who subjected them to repeated rapes. Abducted young men and boys were forced to be fighters or used as porters.
“Most of the abducted civilians are, as far as we know, still being held captive. The SPLA-IO (RM) must immediately release them, first and foremost the children,” said UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet. “As part of the revitalised peace process, it is also essential that the Government of South Sudan acts to hold the perpetrators of the abuses and violations detailed in this report to account.”
he Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNMISS, David Shearer, said it was disappointing that the spike in violence took place while warring parties were negotiating a new peace agreement and despite positive reconciliation efforts in the affected community at the time.“A new peace agreement has been signed which puts the onus and responsibility on the warring parties to ensure that no atrocities are committed in future. UNMISS will be closely monitoring any potential violations and abuses,” said David Shearer.
The report documented SPLA-IO (RM) attacks on at least 28 villages, a settlement of internally displaced persons and a refugee camp, in Gbudue and Tambura. Serious abuses of international human rights and humanitarian law occurred during these attacks, including unlawful killings, abduction, rape, sexual slavery, forced recruitment, and destruction of property.
UNMISS Human Rights Division has identified three SPLA-IO (RM) commanders who allegedly had effective command and control of the forces committing these abuses, which may amount to war crimes.
SPLA forces also carried out military operations that were characterized by serious violations, including unlawful killings and destruction of civilian property, particularly around Nagero in May 2018.
Among its recommendations, the report calls for accountability and for the reinforcement of existing recovery and resilience programmes to re-establish access to basic services, particularly medical and psychosocial support for survivors of conflict-related sexual violence, and for the provision of economic alternatives for young fighters.


