We, the Panaruu Community in Diaspora are vehemently saddened and outraged by the sequential tragic incidences and unfolding affairs in the nascent state of South Sudan. As the indigenous natives and community of Panaruu Dinka in Diaspora, we categorically condemn the following sequences of tragic events in Ruweng/Panrieng County:
1. The provocative military-aggression and incursion on our ancestral land of Lake Jau.
2. The recent aerial bombardment of the Yida town in Ruweng/Panrieng County.
3. The defiant and malicious annexation and occupation of Heglig and Karasana by SAF.
4. The habitual deception on the comprehensive implementation of border demarcation.
5. The inactiveness and passiveness of the South Sudan administration to act swiftly and vigilantly in the defense of the South Sudan territorial integrity and sovereignty.
6. The monetary appeasement policy initiated and formulated by the SPLM as a financial compensation in exchange for Abyei plebiscite and oil fields. This feasible policy is flawed and fallible to political concession and defeat in negotiation and it strengthens, embolden, benefit, and bolster the enemy to justify its polity. It is an appalling fallacy.
The Aerial Bombardment of Yida and Invasion of Lake Jau.
As Panaruu/Ruweng Dinka worldwide, we are in mutual solidarity and cooperative spirit of loyalty and patriotism to have taken this momentary opportunity to bring it to the general attention of the South Sudanese public and the international community that we are unprecedentedly outraged, astounded/dismayed, and stunned by the recent aerial bombardment of the Yida and concurrent intrusion on Lake Jau area by the Sudan Armed Forces. We would like to make it clear to the general public that Yida is an administrative payam town to the clan of Diar in Ruweng/Panrieng County.
It is the current town that is hosting the influx of the 20,000 Nubian refugees. The heinous bombardment inflicted upon this native town of Yida by the SAF did not only maim and killed the Nubian refugees; it has also inflicted casualties on the indigenous civil population of Diar clan and inhabitants from the neighboring villages. We acknowledge that both natives of Diar clan and Nubian refugees have all suffered indiscriminately in the recent aerial bombardment by Sudan Armed Forces.
Secondly, Lake Jau is also an area to the North of the Yida town. It is also an indigenous area of the Dinka Panaruu/Ruweng people. Lake Jau is a swampy area and natural Lake well-known to all the inhabitants of the Panyang County in Ruweng, Unity State. It has no historical, cultural, and geographical connectivity to the North Sudan to be claimed. Ancestrally speaking, both Jau and Yida fall under the administrative category of the Panyang County. Lake Jau and Yida have never been parts of the North Sudan and they will never be ones in the near future under the watch of the Ruweng people and South Sudan government.
Therefore, we categorically dismiss the wishful claim and assertion by the NCP of fabricating and falsifying Lake Jau as part of the North Sudan. We believe this was the political falsification/fabrication meant to confuse and excuse their violent violation of the sovereignty of South Sudan by the NCP amid the intensive UN testimonial hearing and investigation in New York, US. Thus, we urge the South Sudanese public and the international community to regard and consider Lake Jau and Yida town as ancestral areas of Panaruu Dinka that fall within the 1956 border map of South Sudan.
Both Jau and Yida are Dinka lexicons. These areas are not disputed areas, they are God given land to Panaruu Dinka and they are far beyond the border line of the 1956. Alleging Jau, Yida, Heglig/Aliiny, Karasan/Roor de Lou/Kole-elek as “Disputed Areas” by the NCP is a blatant lie.
The illegal and illegitimate annexation/occupation of Heglig and Karasana.
Thirdly, the Panaruu Dinka in Diaspora would also like to bring it to the ubiquitous attention of the International community and South Sudanese at large that the continuous and defiant annexation and occupation of the Heglig and Karasana along the South-North border frontier are also potential dynamic-dilemma that is also likely to explode anytime. Both Heglig and Karasana are indigenous territories of Ruweng/Panaruu Dinka ever since time immemorial. Heglig and Karasan are locally known as Aliiny/Panthou and Roor e Lou/Kol-elek respectively by the indigenous inhabitants of Panaruu/Ruweng. Both Heglig and Karasana are foreign names.
The ancestral names of these towns were converted to Arabic names recently when oil fields were discovered there by Sudan government in 1990s. Heglig and Karasana locally known as Panthou/Aliiny and Kole-lek were respectively converted to Arabic names as a political ploy or secretive-coded conspiracy by the NCP to illegally annex them to North Sudan. As indigenous natives of Ruweng/Panaruu Dinka of Unity state, we reject this systematic robbery and territorial thefts of Ruweng Dinka lands of Heglig and Karasana. Heglig had been built by the NCP as oil industrial refinery and operational oil facilities by the oil operating companies, given its proximity to all oil fields in Unity State.
Heglig and Karasana are never parts of South Kordufan region as it seems to be constantly propagated by the mass media propaganda and the NCP pundits. We reject and dismiss any false claim by the NCP and third party who fabricates and falsifies the ownership of the Heglig and Karasana as parts of North Sudan. Both towns are also parts of the Kuok clan of Panaruu Dinka. Heglig and Karasana towns fall under the Bongki Payam of Kuok Clan with Panyang County as its historic and current administrative county. The Ruweng/Panaruu Dinka had been and will continue to petition and strongly urge the South Sudan government and international community to believe that Heglig and Karasana are never parts of North Sudan and they will never be parts of South Kordufan anytime unless otherwise under the negligence and abandonment by the South Sudan government.
The NCP is maliciously annexing and occupying Heglig and Karasana due to Khartoum national interests in oil fields and the fertility of these Ruweng ancestral swampy areas of Heglig and Karasana. It is due to the abundant oil reserves and deposits in Ruweng areas that are prompting Omer Al Beshir to continue to perpetuate the military incursion, annexation, and occupation of Ruweng Heglig and Karasana. We therefore urge all the fellow South Sudanese citizens, SPLM, and international communities to bear with the factual truths accorded and accounted for by the Ruweng/Panaruu Dinka of Unity State. This is undisputable fact embedded in ancestral and archaeological evidences and treasures of Panaruu historical and geographical heritage culturally.
The political motive behind the NCP in defiant sabotage and deception in the implementation of the South-North border demarcation is attributed to the illegal annexation and illegitimate occupation of the Heglig and Karasana because these towns fall within the boundary landmark-borderline of South Sudan in accordance to the 1956 colonial map. Therefore, we incessantly call upon South Sudanese and Juba administration to have concrete beliefs undoubtedly that Jau,Heglig, and Karasana are never parts of South Kordufan and must not be allowed to slip off the map of South Sudan under the current, illegal annexation and occupation of Sudan Armed Forces. Juba must acts now on these territorial conflicts by all means necessary to debunk the Khartoum regime’s political rhetoric over these areas.
The NCP and SPLM Negotiations over the suspicious Abyei concession, Transit fees, National debts and oil facilities.
In addition to all the aforementioned grievances, we would also like to collaboratively redress and condemn the monetary appeasement of NCP by the SPLM in the concurrent negotiations, brokers and mediates by the AU in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Such a feasibility in financial compensation in billion dollars guarantee by the SPLM to the NCP in exchange for the peaceful settlement of Abyei plebiscite, share in the national debt of Sudan , tantamount to the political defeat and concession of the SPLM to the NCP. These ambiguous negotiations are national concerns, thus, this affect the local indigenous natives of the oil producing areas in terms of forceful land grabbing and annexation by the SAF.
Therefore, the South Sudanese citizens and government of South Sudan should understand that we are the owners of Abyei and oil operating facilities, and hence, we do not need at all to appease the NCP in monetary exchange for what is ours territorially and ancestrally. This kind of political appeasement by the SPLM seem like a bribery form of purchasing Abyei and oil facilities from the North Sudan, when in fact we are the indigenous owners of Abyei and that oil facilities and pipelines in Heglig and elsewhere in Sudan were constructed and funded with the oil revenue from South Sudan oil fields. We are the owners of Abyei, oil facilities and pipelines which were constructed in the expenses of South Sudan oil revenues.
The Government of South Sudan must understand that Abyei plebiscite, oil facilities, and pipelines issues are not negotiable because these are our national assets funded through South Sudan oil wealth and North Sudan had not spent any of their national revenues on the oil facilities and pipelines but they built port Sudan and oil facilities using South Sudan resources and wealth. Therefore, the notion that South Sudan should exchange Abyei, oil facilities, and other business assets in billions of dollars transaction, amount to theft, robbery, and extravagant-economic exploitation of South Sudan. This negotiation should not had been initiated in the first place to entice Khartoum regime to free Abyei and our national oil facilities because it emboldens and bolsters NCP as if it is the legitimate owner of Abyei and oil facilities, which belong to South Sudan.
We also reject the demand of North Sudan government to ask South Sudan government to share in the repayment of the old Sudan debt. Categorically, South Sudan and other marginalized areas of North Sudan are not liable to any repayment of the old Sudan national debt because they had never been parts of the national agreement and the fiscal spending of the old Sudan government debts directly or indirectly in the past and present Sudan. Therefore, any demand of NCP in inciting the regional and international community to urge South Sudan to be the participant in the repayment of the Sudan national debt has nothing to do with South Sudan financially and economically. It is the Khartoum regime in North Sudan that must be solely held accountable to the financial liability of old Sudan national debt and be left alone to repay it to their prospective debtors.
Instead of helping repaying the North Sudan in debt repayment to its creditors, we, the South Sudanese people are indebted to be reimbursed financial reparation by the Khartoum regime because we the marginalized Sudanese including South Sudanese people had never been the beneficiaries/benefactors of the old Sudan national revenues and treasures since the colonial period of the British Condominium. The civil war destructions and million lives lost are also legal justifications for the RSS to reject any NCP demand in the repayment of the Sudan national debt. All in all, South Sudan deserves monetary reparation from the old Sudan regime let alone the sharing in the equitable repayment of old Sudan national debt. For instance, South Sudan had never been developed in terms of infrastructural facilities to owe Sudan anything financially in terms of national debts.
It is the Khartoum regime that is responsible for its own national debt, given the concentration of all the infrastructural developments in North Sudan in particular. Exclusively, any financial appeasement with North Sudan should be confined to the transit fees. It is legally imperative for South Sudan government to negotiate with NCP over transit fees with the exceptions of the national debt share and what appears suspiciously to be a monetary bribery to concede oil facilities and exchange Abyei plebiscite for billion dollars. This deal is illegal and non-negotiable in our views.
Recommended Resolutions of Panaruu Dinka Press Release Condemnation.
The following are the resolved recommendations that we would like to be rectified and enacted upon by the intended officials of RSS, Unity State, and UNMISS Observers.
1. We recommend the patriotic and nationalistic total liberation and defense of the Lake Jau and Yida town from the hostile aggression and invasion from the Sudan Armed Forces. We urge that the SPLA not be always in defense mode against SAF, but must be on an oppressive offense versus external aggressor.
2. It is universally the inherent right of any sovereign nation to defend its natural resources, economic interests, territorial integrity, political independence, and civil populations from any external aggression. Therefore, given the resourcefulness of the Heglig, Karasana, Lake Jau, and Yida as potential agricultural and oil fields, we urge the South Sudan government to liberate it absolutely from the bondage of the SAF military incursion.
3. We call upon International Community and the UNMISS to protect the civilians from the wanton killings, rape, maiming, aerial bombardment, horrific brutality, and provide the humanitarian assistances to indigenous natives and Nubian refugees currently displaced from the Lake Jau and Yida town respectively. We appeal the UN to mandate no-fly zone in surrounding areas of Yida and provide literal UNMISS security forces to the IDPs.
4. North Sudan does not deserve any compensation, equally Juba does not need to compensate the Khartoum regime for destroying and enslaving South Sudanese, but to the contrary, it is Sudan that should pays war reparations to the government and people of the Republic of South Sudan.
5. We utterly urge the National Legislative Assembly and the Presidency of the RSS to speed up the implementation of the border demarcation, total liberation of Heglig/Aliiny, Karasana, and Abyei from the SAF through necessary means possible. We do not believe in those redundant negotiation and diplomacy ongoing between the NCP and SPLM. These are hollow drama meant deceitfully to blackmail the Juba by the Khartoum. Exclusively, we recommend that the alleged billion dollars budget meant to appease bogus deal with NCP be converted to build infrastructural developments and other beneficial social amenities in South Sudan and affected oil producing areas.
We conclude that the South Sudan government should resolve the issue of border demarcation through unilateral self-defense war against the Khartoum’s military excruciating and progressive aggression on the sovereignty of South Sudan. The ongoing diplomacy and peaceful dialogues mediates by the African Union in Ethiopia is deadlocked and dysfunctional and does not guarantee the territorial integrity and sovereignty of South Sudan under the international laws. Therefore, it is in the best interest of South Sudanese citizens that the liberation and defense of our annexed lands and borders are incumbent upon the South Sudan government to fight unilaterally for its territorial integrity and sovereignty until we control all our borders and oil fields so that we will not be cowed by SAF and oil fields will no longer be in the control of the Khartoum regime and South Sudan shall not be held at economic hostage over our own national resources.
Whether South Sudan is not prepared militarily or not, it is advisable that we risk it for the sake of saving our lands and national resources from the aggressive robbery and theft, and to be free of economic hostage/embargo from Khartoum regime. We object to the continuous and deceptive negotiations of NCP over our annexed territories and oil fields. South Sudan government must believes that it is worthy sacrifices to liberate these precious and rich lands of Ruweng Dinka because it is the pivotal epicenter and breadwinner where the national oil revenue and wealth are treasured and extracted. South Sudan must cease relying on the foreign, international intervention, and regional mediation as this move portray South Sudan nascent state as an autonomous sovereignty that cannot stands firm and defends its own sovereign nation and ensure territorial integrity.
It is time now we shrug off any diplomacy and regional dialogues over border demarcation, Abyei, and Heglig. Enough is enough with all these repetitive diplomacy and African Union peaceful mediation and consultation and war is an answer to all these fruitless and dysfunctional dialogues to secure and ensure stability, peace, and protect the territorial integrity of South Sudan. War is not in the interest of South Sudanese but because it is being imposed on the RSS, it is justified by all means in defense of sovereignty.
Undersigned by:
The Panaruu Community Board Commission on political affairs in North America
1. David Piok Wuor————–Chairman of the Panaruu Community Board Panel.
2. Mayiik Deng Kiir————–Deputy Chairman of the PCPB
3. Sirik Lang Mijak———-Secretary General of the PCPB
4. Samuel Kiir Mialek —–The PCPB External Relations.
5. Palath Mayol——-The PCPB External and Internal Relation Research.
6. Simon Tor Deng——–The General Advisory Secretary of the PCPB Affairs.
7. Biem de ThonChar————The Information Secretary of the PCPB.
Reviewed/approved by the Panaruu Community Presidency in North America.
1. Santino Anuer Haar—–The PCA President in USA.
2. Charles Chol Tiop—-The PCA President in Canada.
3. James Arop Mijak——The PCA Secretary General in USA.
4. Simon Ngor Deng——The Deputy Secretary General in USA.
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