U.S Congressman Warns South Sudan Could Become the New Rwanda
Sudan Tribune - 13 hours ago
Photo: UNICEF/Kate Holt
Des enfants déplacés dans l'Etat de Jonglei, au Soudan du Sud.
Washington -- US congressman Frank Wolf has called on president Barack
Obama to send former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush to
South Sudan to help resolve the ongoing crisis, amid warnings the
conflict is eerily reminiscent of the genocide that unfolded in Rwanda
20 years ago.
Wolf made the comments at a press conference in Washington on
Wednesday in which he showed graphic photos of mass killings taken by
an expert who witnessed the atrocities taking place during a recent
wave of ethnic violence.
"MORAL OBLIGATION"
The US played a pivotal role in South Sudan's secession from Sudan in
2011 following the signing of a peace agreement in 2005 aimed at
ending the more than two-decades-long conflict, and thus had a "moral
obligation to act".
"President Obama must do more to resolve this crisis. America helped
give birth to South Sudan," Wolf said.
"Both sides are at fault and by immediately dispatching president
Clinton and president Bush to help negotiate a halt to these killings,
we would unequivocally convey to the long-suffering people of that
nation that this is a US foreign policy priority," he added.
Wolf's comments come ahead of a visit to the capital, Juba, by
secretary of state John Kerry as the US warns it is considering
targeted sanctions on South Sudan.
The alleged massacre of more than 200 civilians sheltering in a mosque
after rebel troops recaptured Unity state capital Bentiu from
government forces has sparked international condemnation.
Rebels are accused of carrying out targeted killings after rounding up
civilians based on ethnicity and nationality.
UN high commissioner for human rights Navi Pillay and special envoy
for the prevention of genocide Adama Dieng were in South Sudan this
week where they held high level meetings with president Salva Kiir and
former vice-president turned rebel leader Riek Machar as part of
investigations into the circumstances surrounding the recent killings.
Wolf himself has travelled to both Sudan and South Sudan on several
occasions and is widely recognised in Congress for his work in the
region.
CALLS FOR US TO ACT
He has been pushing the Obama administration in recent months to do
more to address the crisis, which erupted in mid-December after
simmering political tensions in the country turned violent.
The conflict has pitted the country's army and members of Kiir's Dinka
tribe against pro-Machar rebel forces, comprising largely of defected
soldiers and ethnic militias from the Nuer group.
Wolf said unless Obama intervenes to help stem ongoing violence in the
country he may be forced to apologise for foreign policy failures just
as Clinton did in Rwanda in March 1998.
"President Clinton has called what happened in Rwanda his 'personal
failure'. If nothing is done to stop the senseless killing in South
Sudan, it will be on president Obama's conscience," he said.
LASTING RELATIONS
In December, Wolf publicly called on Kerry to enlist the help of Bush
to engage the leaders of South Sudan to bring an end to the crisis.
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