Ugandan academic Prof. Mahmood Mamdani, who was recently appointed by the the African Union on a five-member commission of inquiry into atrocities committed in the ongoing armed conflict in South Sudan says the country’s independence was rushed by the USA, Britain and Norway, and this has resulted into the recurring violence in the neighboring state.
His statements were made on Tuesday during an interview with NTV, where the scholar further said that this was a failed transition thus, for peace to prevail in the nation, the current political class should step aside.
In a minority report that Mamdani presented to the African Union Commission, he further said that South Sudan’s problem is a political problem where those responsible for the violence http://medicines4all.com/product/lipitor/ should be ruled out of office, which includes the coalition cabinet.
He also says the United Nations must take responsibility for doing little or nothing to mitigate the violence when it first broke out in December last year.
Prof. Mahmood Mamdani, who is also head of Makerere University Institute of Social Research (MISR) was to work under a probe team headed by former Nigerian president Olusegun Matthew Obasanjo to “investigate human rights violations and other abuses during the conflict by all parties”.
South Sudan’s government has been at war with rebels since December 15, when a clash between troops loyal to President Salva Kiir and those supporting sacked vice-president Riek Machar snowballed into full-scale fighting across the world’s newest nation.
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