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South Sudan's Conflict and Famine South Sudan’s Conflict and Famine Testimony before the Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health Policy United States Senate July 26, 2017 Joshua Meservey Senior Policy Analyst, Africa and the Middle East The Heritage Foundation Chairman Flake, Ranking Member Booker, personal grievances. Even in the midst of and members of the committee, thank you for fighting successive wars against a brutal inviting me to testify today on this pressing common enemy in the north, armed groups topic. Thank you as well for your strong in the south frequently turned their guns on advocacy for wise and committed U.S. action each other. on what is one of the worst conflicts in the world today. With your permission, I would The Comprehensive Peace Agreement like to submit my written testimony into the signed in 2005 by the Sudanese government record. and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) ended most of My name is Joshua Meservey. I am the Senior the north-south fighting, but did not resolve Policy Analyst for Africa and the Middle East the many fractures within South Sudanese at The Heritage Foundation. The views I society, including those within the SPLM/A. express in this testimony are my own and Obtaining government power only raised should not be construed as representing any the competitive stakes as governance official position of The Heritage Foundation. became a struggle among senior officials for power and the opportunity to distribute South Sudanese Independence and the looted state resources to their often tribal- Rapid March to Violence based patronage networks.1 Mr. Chairman, as you are aware, there is an unfortunate history of violence in South In April 2010, the South Sudanese elected Sudan driven by competition for resources Salva Kiir—a Dinka propelled to the head of and long-standing political, ethnic, and the SPLM/A after Garang died in a helicopter 1 Magali Mores, “Overview of Corruption and Anti- ptionqas/371_Overview_of_corruption_and_anti- Corruption in South Sudan,” Transparency corruption_in_South_Sudan.pdf (accessed March 3, International, March 4, 2013, 2017). https://www.transparency.org/files/content/corru crash in 2005—in a landslide as the first most needed transformational, principled president of what was then the semi- leadership to overcome the dysfunction at autonomous region of South Sudan. 2 In the heart of the country. Unfortunately, its January 2011, the south voted leadership proved to be a key part of the overwhelmingly to part from Sudan. problem. Upon independence, Salva Kiir and Vice In 2013, in response to increasing President Riek Machar, a Nuer, took control challenges from within the SPLM to his of a country in name only. Exacerbating the authority,6 Kiir fired Vice President Machar challenge of unresolved grievances was the and the entire cabinet.7 Not long after, on legacy of decades of war: more than 2.5 December 15, 2013, fighting within the million killed, and 4.5 million displaced. 3 Presidential Guard unit of the SPLA broke South Sudan had virtually no infrastructure, out in the capital, Juba. Kiir claims that and extreme rates of abject poverty, Machar attempted a coup, but subsequent illiteracy, and child malnutrition. 4 It had investigations by the African Union and the natural-resource wealth but only effectively U.S. found no evidence for Kiir’s exploited oil, on which it was heavily accusations. 8 Other reports say that Kiir- dependent for government revenues. 5 aligned Dinka elements of the Presidential Unpacified armed groups still roamed parts Guard tried to disarm the Machar-aligned of South Sudan, and tensions over contested Nuer elements.9 border regions with Sudan occasionally precipitated armed clashes. Machar escaped and formed the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army-In South Sudan did have broad international Opposition (SPLM/A-IO). The fighting support, and billions of dollars’ worth of aid rapidly spread throughout Juba—where poured into the country. Yet South Sudan Dinka fighters went door to door executing 2 Skye Wheeler, “South Sudan Swears in First 6 “Conflicts in South Sudan,” Enough Project, October Elected President,” Reuters, May 21, 2010, 1, 2014, http://www.reuters.com/article/us-sudan-south- http://www.enoughproject.org/conflicts/sudans/co president-idUSTRE64K43B20100521 (accessed nflicts-south-sudan (accessed March 3, 2017). March 3, 2017). 7 UNICEF, “South Sudan Sitrep,” No. 1 16-20, 3 Lauren Ploch Blanchard, “Conflict in South Sudan December 2013, and the Challenges Ahead,” Congressional Research https://www.unicef.org/appeals/files/UNICEF_Sout Service, September 22, 2017, h_Sudan_Sitrep1_20Dec2013.pdf (accessed March 3, https://fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R43344.pdf (accessed 2017). February 22, 2017). 8 John Tanza, “South Sudan Government Still Insists 4 Daniel Maxwell, Kirsten Gelsdorf, and Martina Coup Bid Started Conflict,” Voice of America, Santschi Livliehoods, “Basic Services and Social October 28, 2015, Protection in South Sudan,” Secure Livelihoods http://www.voanews.com/a/south-sudan-african- Research Consortium Working Paper No. 1, July union-inquiry-coup/3026843.html (accessed 2012, February 22, 2017), and Nicole Gaouette, “U.S.Asks https://www.odi.org/sites/odi.org.uk/files/odi- South Sudan to Free Prisoners, Sees No Coup Effort,” assets/publications-opinion-files/7716.pdf Bloomberg, January 9, 2014, (accessed March 3, 2017). https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014- 5 CIA World Factbook, “Africa: South Sudan,” January 01-09/u-s-asks-south-sudan-to-release-prisoners- 12, 2017, sees-no-coup-attempt (accessed March 3, 2017). https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the- 9 Amnesty International, “Nowhere Safe: Civilians world-factbook/geos/od.html (accessed March 3, Under Attack in South Sudan,” May 8, 2014, 2017). https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/AFR65/0 03/2014/en/ (accessed March 3, 2017). 2 Nuer civilians10—and eventually to seven of combatants. The U.N. increased UNMISS’s South Sudan’s ten states, 11 though the troop strength and refined its mandate in heaviest fighting was in the opposition- response to the escalating violence in the stronghold northern states of Jonglei, Unity, country, 15 yet it still had little deterrent and Upper Nile. 12 Neither side gained a effect and repeatedly failed in its decisive advantage, and both routinely responsibility to protect civilians. committed atrocities, including ethnic- based killings, mass rape, kidnappings, and In August 2015, again under intense forced cannibalization.13 As many as 20,000 international pressure, the two sides agreed Nuer may have been killed in the first three to form a transitional government 16 that days of violence alone.14 quickly fell apart. In July 2016, Machar’s and Kiir’s forces in Juba clashed. Kiir re-fired The fighting was largely uninterrupted by Machar, who is now in exile in South Africa. the various cease-fires that the international Kiir then stocked most of the government community pressured Kiir and Machar into positions reserved by the peace agreement signing. A regional body, the for the SPLM/A-IO with loyalists, effectively Intergovernmental Authority on cutting off any hope that non-Dinkas had of Development (IGAD), led the waves of political representation.17 negotiations that resulted in at least 11 agreements committing the parties to peace. During the July violence, the Presidential All were broken almost immediately. Guard that answers directly to Kiir 18 attacked Westerners and Americans The presence of the U.N. Mission in South specifically, including shooting at a convoy Sudan (UNMISS), a peacekeeping force carrying, among others, the U.S.’s second- established in 2011 on the occasion of South highest-ranking diplomat in South Sudan. Sudan’s independence, did little to deter the 10 Ibid. http://www.un.org/en/ga/search/view_doc.asp?sy 11 UNMISS, “United Nations Mission in South Sudan: mbol=S/RES/1996(2011) (accessed March 6, 2017), Background,” and UNMISS, “United Nations Mission in South http://unmiss.unmissions.org/background Sudan: Background.” (accessed February 22, 2017). 16 Marc Santora, “Salva Kiir, South Sudan’s President, 12 “Peace Elusive as South Sudan Marks Three Years Signs Peace Deal with Rebels,” The New York Times, of War,” Daily Mail, December 15, 2016, August 26, 2015, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article- http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/27/world/afric 4036080/Peace-elusive-South-Sudan-marks-three- a/south-sudan-peace-deal-rebels-president.html years-war.html (accessed March 6, 2017), and Casie (accessed March 6, 2017). Copeland, “De-escalating South Sudan’s New Flare 17 United Nations Security Council, “Interim Report Up,” International Crisis Group, July 12, 2016, of the Panel of Experts on South Sudan Established https://www.crisisgroup.org/africa/horn- Pursuant to Security Council Resolution 2206 africa/south-sudan/de-escalating-south-sudan-s- (2015),” November 15, 2016, new-flare (accessed March 6, 2017). http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbo 13 African Union, “Final Report of the African Union l=S/2016/963 (accessed March 6, 2017). Commission of Inquiry on South Sudan,” October 15, 18 International Crisis Group, “South Sudan: A Civil 2014, p. 112, War by Any Other Name,” Africa Report No.217, http://www.peaceau.org/uploads/auciss.final.repor April 10, 2014, t.pdf (accessed February 22, 2017). https://d2071andvip0wj.cloudfront.net/south- 14 Ibid, p. 114. sudan-a-civil-war-by-any-other-name.pdf (accessed 15 United Nations Security Council, “Resolution 1996 March 6, 2017). (2011),” July 8, 2011, 3 Fortunately, the Americans escaped or defected after the conflict began.22 Some unharmed.19 Nuer remain loyal to Kiir,23 but many high- ranking Nuer soldiers and officers joined Other Americans were not as fortunate four Machar. 24 Other opposition forces include days later when a group of South Sudanese militias loyal to different opposition leaders, soldiers, including from the Presidential tribal self-defense militias, and groups Guard, attacked the Terrain Hotel preoccupied with local issues that compound that housed international sometimes align with SPLM/A-IO goals.25 workers.
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