Gatwech:
Your claim is based on wishful thinking. Militarily, Dr. John Garang was far more proficient in the execution of the Art of war. Dr. John Garang re-captured the vast majority of our territory, whilst Riek was ’pinned down’ by his reliance on the government for weapons, ammunition and supplies.
You claim that Dr. John Garang wanted to join the NIF- but with NO data, no evidence, nothing.
It’s about time YOU started putting out the burden of proof, but then again that would be expecting too much of you, wouldn’t it?
Since you obviously don’t understand burden of proof, allow me to explain.
If the model in question were to read as follows:
"Garang wanted to join the NIF".
Then you are obliged to explain it.
If you can’t explain it, then you have no basis for asserting it.
Those who do not assert it are under no obligation of proof or explanation whatsoever.
The burden is on you to provide evidence.
If you can’t meet this requirement, then all you’ve provided us with, is a view that you want to believe in, but do not actually understand and so cannot explain.
That’s a fair assessment, no?
Every sentence you write with no proof of claims, and spurious arguments equal burden of proof fallacy.
I repeat:
Riek Machar had very little to show for his collaboration with the enemy. In 1995, Dr. Riek Machar was the leader of a virtual movement, lacking any real substance or coherence.
The government to whom Riek and Paulino Matip served, fostered a devastating power play between the two men, resulting in the intensifying of insecurity in what was supposed to be a government-held area. This power play served the government’s purpose in neutralising the Southern guerrilla factions best positioned to interfere with the exploitation of the Bentiu oilfields.
Matip had maintained a somewhat autonomous military and economic base in his Bul Nuer territory near Bentiu. As a Major-General in the Sudanese army, he had direct access to military supplies. In reality, Riek had more need of Matip than Paulino of Riek, and Riek’s subsequent attempt to put his own man in the governorship of Western Upper Nile, resulted with Paulino’s troops taking and sacking Ler, Riek’s headquarters.
Riek’s protests at the government’s support for Paulino had no lasting effect. The intensification of oil exploitation in the Bentiu oilfields in 1998-9 brought with it, into the region, an increase of the SAF and other armed personnel, contributing directly to another outbreak of fighting between a profusion of Nuer factions beginning in April 1999.
Faced with the demonstration of his powerlessness, Riek complained that while the 1997 peace agreement placed the oilfields under his control, the government’s support of Matip undermined his position and the entire ’agreement’.
Privately he explained to his supporters both inside and outside the country, and to foreign observers, that he would stick to the latter of the agreement to show all concerned that when it collapsed, the fault was due to the government’s own bad faith.
By the year 2000, Riek NO longer had access to government ammunition and supplies.. he was now without a movement. He tried to regain the initiative by leaving Khartoum in December 1999 and resigning from the government two months later. But lacking any real support in his home area he moved to Nairobi, where he tried to maintain the appearance of a leader of a viable political movement.
The impact of the long-delayed reconciliation between Riek and Garang in January 2000 was muted by the fact, that Riek had very few troops to bring with him: he had alienated many of his former subordinates.
Gatwech, you should THANK Dr. John Garang for permitting Riek Machar’s return.
Where would Riek Machar be, had it not been for Dr. John Garang’s forgiveness and grace? Nowhere! And you all know it.
If you can’t address evidence – if you have no evidence of your own to relate, maybe you should just admit that you don’t know what you’re talking about, and be done with it.
That is the only point you communicate in this website.
When you give no answers - you never have answers - then you confirm your penchant for empty prattle, and nothing more.
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