Ethnic Cleansing In Collo Land.

What is going on in Fashoda county these days is amounting to ethnic cleansing by SPLA and Dinka Militia from Bilthiang.

What happened in LUL on Thursday 8/7/2010 was disheartening. 9 Collo youth were collected together and shot in front of people including the son of Nazer Chol. These youth were coming back to check their nets or indeed collect water, because the natives had been driven far from the river. This makes one recalls how people of Warajwok were mass murdered by Sudan army in 1965, or still when the chiefs were murdered in Bor or further still the mass murder of the southern officials in Wau. What is the difference between the liberators and the occupation army? The some persons from government of Upper Nile yesterday (12/7/2010) including the commissioner of the county, minister of Education, peace commissioner, advisor of the governor and others visited the war victims of Fashoda county. These officials unfortunately had no relief items of any kind(ranging from food to shelter the NGOs had been asked to leave the area).

These war victims were prevented from going to Malakal, there was heavy rains last night(12/7/2010) and the people are staying in the open, since the schools are occupied by the army. This war on the Collo people is not short from ethnic cleansing as it started as scourge earth war. Some of the murdered youth who were coming to check their nets are 1. Opal Othiek 2. Burac Olwal 3. Chol Awol Deng 4. Tipo Othow 5. Deng Awang 6. Oboki Chol 7. Obunan Odhok 8. Onak Thowkuc 9. Oyo Oto 10. (Name missed out) , there are other 12 people killed in Makal who were buried in Malakal town. When an attacks ensues, the militia from Bilthiang will loot the properties and carry them across the river. Dr. Charles Awad told the people that their sufferings will not stop until they surrender the arms or at least show the where about of the alleged SPLM-DC militia.

Every body seems not be worried because there are Shiluk officials who come to the scene and the preliminary impression would bee that since there are Collo officials the people will not suffer, is not selling proper as these leaders are not sympathetic with the common man, for the sake of their positions. The Collo people have not left any stone unturned. The representative of UN in Sudan who is an Eritrean by nationality poses more catholic than the bishop. His support for SPLM is absolute and never entertains any talk about SPLA brutality. The African people and the international community should have learn a lesson from the neglect of Ruanda ordeal till it culminated into the well known genocide.

The UN representative in Khartoum who had not visited Malakal since his appointment where there are a lot of problems, when told about the abuse of human rights, seems to have not raise a finger in response. Every time he referrers to SPLM information. UN should never take side, Mr. representative of UN in Sudan should investigate the atrocities committed by SPLA. Irrespective of where you come from your duty should be to contain any serious situation in the country. If there were any militia in the area they would defend the people who are facing demise in the form of scourge earth war which entails burning of houses, taking of their cattle, burning their sorghum, taking every possessions they have, water hand pumps destroyed thus they become vulnerable through hunger, bullets, insects, rains, beasrs etc. is this not ethnic cleansing if practiced on one tribe.

How can you be contemplating participation of people in the referendum when there is instability that shall hinder registrations or vomiting. The government of upper Nile state should be the leading in relieving its citizens before any organization especially when the NGOs that were working in the area were dismissed.