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Press Statement - Arrest of party’s Chairman in Wau
(24/09/2009, SPLM-DC) On Tuesday, the 22nd instant, an SPLA force broke into the office of the SPLM-DC in Wau. It was acting under the orders of the Governor.
The force arrested the party’s Chairman in the State, Cde George Peter, and led him to Wau prison. The force, comprising 20 men, cordoned the office.
The next day, four other members were arrested at the Secretariat of the State Government where they had gone in order to meet the Governor to inform him about the arrest of their Chairman. They were:
1.Michael Goni;
2.John Tarcisio;
3.Zakaria Bernardo Omdurman; and
4.The driver.
At two o’clock this morning, all the comrades were transferred to Mapel, some 90 km from Wau, which is an SPLA garrison. They are being held there incommunicado and being tortured. We are very much worried about their fate.
Also, this afternoon, Cde Charles Okla was arrested in front of the party office for being a member of the SPLM-DC.
We condemn in the strongest terms possible this unlawful behaviour and the misuse of the SPLA to settle political scores and demand an immediate release of the detainees. We call upon the Sudanese masses to denounce this barbaric act and we also ask the human rights organizations to speak out to the world so that the perpetrators of violence are exposed for what they are. It is repugnant to use violence against innocent citizens whose only sin is exercising their constitutional right of the freedom of association.
The Information Department,
SPLM-DC.
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South Sudan soldiers might be suffering from PTSD
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Many lives lost at the hands of SPLA offices. Including one of our SPLM-DC personal assistant chairpersons of Western Bahr-el-Gazal, was murder by the SPLA offices. A police offices or military personal, job is to enforcement the law and crime prevention and authorized to maintain the peace, safety, and order of the community. Military function could be as a reserve army they are not part of the regular armed forces in an emergency they could called upon. Military are also, use in combat peacekeeping and wars. Not to murder citizens that should have their constitution right guaranteeing them the basic personal and political rights. Belonging to a different party is defiantly not an offense. This foolishness needs to stop; what if more then millions of people have the same believes? What SPLA will kill all those people too this is foolishness. This is 2009 we are not living in Stone Age’s people have discovered how to marked fire already come on people why are we acting so primitive? The Lack of constitution and democracy, which is the system of law and convention by which a state country govern it people is contributing to all this garbage.
Murder in South Sudan is getting ridiculous. Killing by Goss officer has become so common in South Sudan then previous times. Sudanese’s have implemented the Peace agreement few years now. Why are we killing ourselves?
The possibility of person’s death benign from natural cause in South Sudan is slim but the likelihood of death at the hands of officer, which is apparently upholding the law as well as serenity, is very high. Most likely, this kind of ridiculous crimes will not stop any time soon, if programs are not in place to address the needs of today’s military.
It would be reasonable to say that living or working in south Sudan is dangerous, now. A person has to be careful with some of the SLPM solider because they are like explosive if you step on one of them, they might explode as you might breathe your last breath. After all these years of war, it is time to face the problem; we need the election to take place in order for our people to get the help they deserve, it can not be normal for all this kind of murder to take place, ever the murderer is affect by his own crime. Some from of mantel illness, trauma, and anxiety has to justifiers these acted. We really need help to be able to determining the solution to this dilemma that we found ourselves in. we could not have forecast, that all this was going to happen, this message should allowed our people to examining their own life. Every individual is affected by this regime in one way or the other. We need to call upon change, the must be improvement made in south Sudan. If these problems are due to post-traumatic stress disorder, we really need to get help ASAP. This is just to give some understanding, to what the difficulty could be I am not putting anybody down, South Sudanese are very grateful for the many years of fighting for democracy .We need to get our fighters some help. we are all experiencing ,some from of stress but it is they way a person makes their decision to deal with the stress that matter, the decision a person take in a matter they are likely to live with for the rest of the life. Get help do not go out and killed or commuted more crime, it would just add more to what the existing problems might already be.
Thank you
SPLM-DC Party
Representative of Wisconsin
Martin Modal