{"id":2759,"date":"2025-03-04T18:14:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T18:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/?p=2759"},"modified":"2025-03-04T19:22:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T19:22:51","slug":"from-liberation-to-exile-south-sudans-betrayal-of-its-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directtopic.com\/jubaglobal.com\/from-liberation-to-exile-south-sudans-betrayal-of-its-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"From Liberation to Exile: South Sudan\u2019s Betrayal of Its Refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By: Prof. Jok Madut Jok<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1529\" height=\"1529\" src=\"https:\/\/directtopic.com\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1977\/2025\/03\/45068300_10161124905545296_7886692985008553984_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2760\" srcset=\"https:\/\/directtopic.com\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1977\/2025\/03\/45068300_10161124905545296_7886692985008553984_n.jpg 1529w, https:\/\/directtopic.com\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1977\/2025\/03\/45068300_10161124905545296_7886692985008553984_n-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/directtopic.com\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1977\/2025\/03\/45068300_10161124905545296_7886692985008553984_n-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1529px) 100vw, 1529px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Picture from the Facebook<\/em><br><br><br>Quote &#8221;When the SPLM was a liberation movement steering Southern Sudan, it earned our gratitude by aiding the exodus of our people into refugee camps across neighboring countries and beyond, fiercely denouncing Khartoum\u2019s neglect and targeting of civilians\u2014a narrative the world embraced, welcoming millions of our desperate kin, from wounded fighters to their families. Yet, independence exposed a bitter shift: our government failed to lure refugees home, offering little beyond a nation of &#8220;hungry liberators&#8221; who plundered resources rather than rebuilding for those who fueled the struggle; it turned inward, silencing dissent, jailing critics, and warring against communities, driving more into exile while deterring returnees. When our people face violence abroad\u2014like the recent horrors in Kakuma\u2014Juba deflects blame to host nations and the UNHCR, conveniently forgetting it has no sway over refugees it pushed out. Now, with UNHCR\u2019s U.S. funding slashed, millions in Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, DRC, CAR, and Egypt languish\u2014unfed, uneducated, untreated\u2014facing bullets when they protest, as host governments assert their sovereign right to order. Where do these refugees turn when Juba spurns them for fleeing? And this says nothing of the fresh waves of displacement brewing in Upper Nile, and perhaps soon in Western Equatoria and Western Bahr el Ghazal.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Professor Jok Madut Jok is a medical anthropologist and scholar who specializes in gender, health, and political violence. He is a professor at Syracuse University and the co-founder of the Sudd Institute in South Sudan, he was undersecretary in South Sudan&#8217;s Ministry of Culture and Heritage. Prof Jok studied in Egypt and the United States<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Prof. Jok Madut Jok Picture from the Facebook Quote &#8221;When the SPLM was a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,792],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-opinions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directtopic.com\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directtopic.com\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directtopic.com\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directtopic.com\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directtopic.com\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2759"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/directtopic.com\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2765,"href":"https:\/\/directtopic.com\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759\/revisions\/2765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directtopic.com\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directtopic.com\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directtopic.com\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}