"Pact signed to end South Sudan war" by Benno Muchler | New York Times May 10, 2014
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — President Salva Kiir of South Sudan and the leader of the rebellion against his government, Riek Machar, signed an agreement Friday to resolve the war that has torn their young country apart.
The two sides had signed a cease-fire deal in January, under which they were to negotiate a permanent end to the conflict. But the agreement failed almost immediately. Since the war began almost five months ago, thousands of people have been killed, more than 1 million have been displaced, and international officials now warn that a famine may loom.
Same in Somalia.
The talks Friday, which took place in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, brought the two men, whose political rivalry set off the war, face to face for the first time since the conflict erupted. The negotiations came at a time of growing international pressure on both sides. This week, the United Nations issued a report that documented atrocities by both parties, and the Obama administration imposed sanctions on two individuals, one from each side.
Looks like I was wrong.
“By me signing today this agreement, I’m sending a signal that this war must be ended peacefully,” Machar said. “I hope the other side will also be serious.”
I have been signaling that for eight years here and it's still here. Hell, there are more of them.
In his remarks, Kiir said, “We’re not here to bear witness of what we have done in our country, whether you’re on the wrong side or you are on the right side.”
In the agreement signed Friday, both sides recognized that “there is no military solution to the crisis in South Sudan and that sustainable peace can be achieved only through inclusive political dialogue,” the negotiators announced.
That never stopped fighting before (think Syria).
The parties agreed “to immediately cease all hostile activities within 24 hours” of the signing of the agreement, and they committed themselves to refrain from any provocative action until the signing of a permanent cease-fire. The parties also agreed that a transitional government of national unity was the best way out of the crisis. However, the agreement made no comment about who would be part of it.
We shall see how long it holds.
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Related: Kerry Says Send Troops to Sudan
I did see this earlier:
"UN decries ethnically motivated attacks in S. Sudan" by Jason Straziuso | Associated Press May 09, 2014
NAIROBI, Kenya — Horrific, ethnically motivated attacks of physical and sexual violence launched in South Sudan by warring parties constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity, Amnesty International said Thursday, while a new UN report said more than 300 people from one ethnic group were slaughtered in one incident.
Not that I'm doubting it, but considering the hoax fraud of Nigeria (and others too numerable to be named)....
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said during a visit to South Sudan this week that the country has seen serious human rights violations. The UN report said that gross violations of human rights and international humanitarian law have been committed.
This comes out as the UN is working on a Security Council resolution to introduce UN troops?
(Blog editor frowns and drops chin to chest; about 10 years ago I still believed in the U.N.; didn't realize they were just a globalist/Zionist tool to impose the New World Order)
Much of the violence has been ethnic in nature and carried out by troops loyal to President Salva Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, and rebels loyal to former Vice President Riek Machar, an ethnic Nuer. The two men are scheduled to meet for face-to-face talks in Ethiopia on Friday. If the meeting happens, it would represent the biggest breakthrough since fighting broke out in December.
Related: The Next Rwanda
There are a lot of candidates in Africa!
Thousands of people have been killed and 1.3 million have fled their homes. Ban had been pressing for a monthlong cease-fire beginning Wednesday so that residents could return home and plant crops, but South Sudan’s military spokesman, Colonel Philip Aguer, said Thursday that he had no information on a cease-fire being ordered.
Aid groups fear that if residents don’t plant crops this month, the country could face mass hunger or famine.
Who knows if that is even true, or whether it is just another cover to eliminate "useless eaters" as someone famous once said.
The UN report documents the killings of ‘‘at least 300 Nuer men’’ in a neighborhood of the capital, Juba, the day after the violence broke out. The report said that bodies from many attacks were taken to unknown disposal sites.
Meaning we will soon start reading about mass graves so you, reading public wherever you are, will support the next phase of militarism, as incremental as it may be!
Nuers across Juba were targeted by armed attackers wearing military and police uniforms, the UN report said.
The UN representative in South Sudan, Hilde F. Johnson, said accountability for the crimes is critical to ending the legacy of impunity in South Sudan and preventing similar atrocities in the future.
The Amnesty report documents the rapes of children and the shooting deaths of the elderly while lying in hospital beds. In one horrific act of violence, the report documents the rape of a 10-year-old girl by 10 men.
If it really happened it is horrific. If it's more propaganda pre$$ fiction, well.... sigh.
‘‘Forces on both sides have shown total disregard for the most fundamental principles of international human rights and humanitarian law. Those up and down the chain of command on both sides of the conflict who are responsible for perpetrating, ordering, or acquiescing to such grave abuses, some which constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity, must be held accountable,’’ said Michelle Kagari, Amnesty’s deputy director for Africa.
Not to dismiss such things, but when I start seeing EUSrali war criminal thugs like Bush, Bliar, and the long coterie of Israeli war criminal cabinets before the bar I will then start paying attention.
Oh, they created those courts, I see. No wonder double-crossed African tinpot dictators and recalcitrant Serbs are subjected to their judgments. Okay.
Associated Press reporters saw the aftermath of South Sudan’s violence in the contested city of Malakal in December and February in which dozens of houses were burned to the ground, patients were shot while lying in hospital beds, and corpses littered the streets.
I'll need to confirm that from another source, sorry.
The Amnesty report documents how the bodies of 18 women were found outside St. Andrew’s Catholic Cathedral in the town of Bor in January. Six of the women were members of the clergy, the report said. All were ethnic Dinka.
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The other sad thing is I no longer trust human rights groups quoted by my war-promoting jew$media.
Sorry.
The other sad thing is I no longer trust human rights groups quoted by my war-promoting jew$media.
Sorry.
