Do you guys know that in the late 80s eight people were excuted in Khartoum for a crime they didn't commit? and even after it was discovered that the accusations were false nothing was done to comfort the immediate families of the victims.
A law suit was filed, but it turned out to be a dead end because some of our politician got paid to destroy the suit. By that time i was so young, but i still remember three of the victims: Lual Wol, Garang Marab, and Mnut Ajokdit. This is just another erflection of the what kind of a world we live in.
As you mentioned above it wasn't a surprise at all, but what kills me is those individuals who claim to be leaders and their cowardness. Any way, what took place was a group of gentlemen were murdered in their store( they were from al-for tribe), and as soon as their bodies were discovered the local police did their dirty job by ignoring everything else and went after the victims based on steriotype and racial profile, they even ignore the fact that a woman survived the attack and she tastified that who ever coommited the crime wasn't southerner and went on and gave them a discribtion of what the criminals looked like, but the police went and charged the victims with first degree murder . not long after that all eight victims were excuted. A year later, the real killers were arrested in Darfur after some member of the murdered individuals families caught them bragging about how they managed to commit a perfect crime, and the motive turned out to be a dispute between two families that took an ugly turn. the rest of the story as i mentioned, a law suit was filed, but it came down to a dead end regardless of all the evidence(which wasn't at all needed) and most of all the lost that the immediate families suffered.
Notwithstanding the fact that you have great ideas and vital information to put across to ignorants like us. On the down side, however, is that you don't support your claims with solid evidence so that we can understand you better and contribute if possible. We are all interested and enthusiastic about your topics all times because they carry with them the vitally important messages and educative information that could possibly put our current leaders on the right track. We don't want tragic leaders that could be manipulated and used for the benefits of manipulators. We must establish a competent and mindful leadership and not incompetent and self-indulgent leadership.
The revelation of the names of the politicians who didn't take action can help us. Things like the politicians were bribed to ignore the whole issue filed can be extremely helpful. We don't know anything completely; therefore we want your help to provide us with primary information and more importantly circumstantial evidence since you had seen what exactly took place.
Your current topic is indeed very important and educative but we fell back not to comment on it a lot because you have not provide us with concrete evidences, such as who were the politicians involved in this tragic plot? What were the victims accused of? Who were the real criminals if the eight victims were excuted falsely? Why was the court bias to the victims? Why were the politicians at the time failed to follow the investigation of this incident? Who were the betrayers? You have just gave us a clue of what went wrong early at your present but you declined to elaborate it more to us.
I would like you to elaborate it more to us to the best of your knowledge so that we can throw in our judgements and hold some of the early politicians accountable for this failure. All in all, this is a very good topic for debate/discussion.
Santino Ajith
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You guys have asked very legitimate questions with regard to the said incident, however, I tend to think that the reason behind Kuat's decision to withhold the names of the leaders who were implicated in the dismissal of the mentioned law suit could be to probably avoid some unwanted confrontations. Indeed one would say that, not long will confrontation be avoided, but Kuat doesn't assumingly want to be seen as pointing fingers at some individuals.
I must however say that such mysterious deaths or disappearances are ramphant in all part of the Sudan including south. Many people esp. of Aweil origin have mysteriously vanished in the south but for apparent reasons, no one has ever dared question such deaths or disappearances. So it is all to do with the system, something is not just right with the system, and that must be confronted.
Personally, I wouldn't very much encourage the revelation of those who were behind this appalling act of betrayal. My veiw is principally based on the need to avoid the escalation of more problems. This is just an opinion any way. Take care folks.
You deserve a legitimate right not to provide more information with the respect to the incident. It was a tragic event we know but the current situation can't permit us to tell the facts. We have to cover them for our survival.
Do our people have future that is free from intimidation and blackmailing? It is hard to predict our futures.
It is true that you all deserve an answer, but for somes good reasons i cann't provide them as of now. All i can tell you is an uncle of mine was one of the eight people excuted, i have been trying to reopen the case for a long time and now we are making some progress so iam affraid reveling names may cause us the case again, but i promise you this when it all goes down you will the first to know.
last thing i'd like to address is that iam not running away from confrontation, i have been all my life looking forward to it, but i believe the victims souls deserve justice and iam planing to do whatever it takes to make sure that happens. i hope you all understand my position.
