Last year, Governor Kuol asked Southern Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit to find the means to remove permanently all the remaining arms from civilian hands. Kiir responded on May 22, 2008, with Operational Order 1/2008, affecting all ten states of South Sudan. The Order stated that, if weapons could not be confiscated peacefully, officials could use “appropriate force.”Kopel. Gallant. Eisen. Read.
Kiir’s use of “appropriate force,” in a context wherein most of the civilians were armed and did not intend to surrender their weapons, was tantamount to a shoot-to-kill order. [More]
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
The Guns of Sudan
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Well, of course it's an order to shoot to kill. We have that coming soon here.
Coming soon to a neighborhood near you.
You don't believe your local COP would obey that order? Have you asked him directly? If you have, did you receive a direct and precise answer?
Do you read this blog often?
The G Word already applies in Sudan. Has for years. The big debate in the UN is NOT about whether to put a buffer between the Muslim invaders (armed and funded by THE GOVERNMENT)and the Christian and animist residents, but about whether "genocide" is too strong a word. That held up action to save lives in Rwanda, too, if you recall.
This just proves the Sudanese government's intent to eliminate dissent and diversity.
P!$$ be upon them.
Wouldn't shoot to kill work both ways?
Only if both sides have guns, Samenokami, as is true here (for now). I doubt civilians in Sudan have very many guns among them, so "shoot to kill" will pretty much be a one-way street in the Sudan.
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