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BREAKING NEWS: Australian State Media's Star Migration Panellist Outed As Daughter of Sudanese Warlord Allied to Joseph Kony and Pro-Bin Laden Forces I've finished a full essay write up of this amazing timeline. I feel incredibly blessed to have discovered this once in a lifetime story. Read now: ---------------------------------------------------------- Australia’s state broadcaster ABC News decided this week to boost the daughter of a brutal Sudanese warlord and child slaver allied with Joseph Kony and pro-Bin Laden forces. Selected to appear on a debate panel to argue in support of migration, South Sudanese-Australian lawyer Nyadol Nyuon argued that white Australians had no distinct culture of their own - before boasting that she had no intention of ever assimilating. ‘‘I’m not trying to accuse anyone here of necessarily being racist, I just think that if we start talking about terms like Anglo-Celtic and stuff, it creates this idea that there is some form of white culture that exists somewhere that can then be recreated here in Australia.’’ ‘‘But there is no white culture — there is Italian culture, there is French culture, there is Argentinian culture, but there is not this notion of sort of a white culture that is being threatened.’’ She then added helpfully: “I can say truthfully … I have no intention of assimilating.’’ With the progressive studio audience erupting in cheers, I thought I might research her story. So I decided to look Nyadol up on Instagram to find out more about her. There, on Instagram, I found an interesting photograph of a military commander holding an assault rifle. Nyadol had captioned it with a single word: ‘‘Baba.’’ Hmm, that’s interesting, I thought. Who exactly was this guy holding an assault rifle, and why was he flanked by armed soldiers? Just who was this ‘‘Baba’’ figure? A few minutes later, I had a name for Baba: Commander William Nyuon Bany. It turns out that Baba was a Sudanese warlord accused of horrific crimes against humanity. Perhaps the best way to imagine him is to recall the infamous Call of Duty villain Makarov. ‘‘He has no rules. No boundaries. He doesn't flinch at torture, human trafficking, or genocide. He's not loyal to a flag or country or any set of ideals. He trades blood for money.’’ Almost immediately I found a December 1992 exchange in the Australian Senate where Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans accused Nyadol Nyuon’s father William Nyuon of ordering the execution of UN aid workers. The account in Evans’s written answer, published in Senate Hansard on 2 December 1992, reads: “Nyuon ordered his bodyguards to shoot the two officials. The two witnesses to the shootings were kidnapped and later killed.” It is important to note here that these exact killings remain contested; guilt was never firmly established, with both sides of the civil war blaming each other for the killings. But multiple academic history books as well as reports by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch accuse William Nyuon Bany during this period of heinous war crimes, including attacks on refugee camps and the mass starvation of child soldiers. I was stunned, so I ended up spending at least fifteen hours reading various random reports, history books and documents from the time period. I used Claude Code to scrape the entire internet and translate documents on the war from Norwegian, Arabic, Japanese, Italian and French online historical archives. From what I learned, Nyadol’s father William Nyuon Bany started out as a Soviet-backed Marxist guerrilla leader. Nyuon helped found the SPLA guerrilla movement in the 1980s with backing from Mengistu’s Marxist Derg regime - a Soviet client state which slaughtered up to one million people in the ‘‘Ethiopian Red Terror’’ and another million people in the catastrophic Ethiopian famine. The SPLA trained on Soviet-bloc weapons and spouted Marxist rhetoric while abducting boys as young as eleven years old to become child soldiers. After some time enslaving young children to fight for his communist paramilitary movement, Nyuon decided to defect from the communists to the Islamist regime in Sudan. Nyuon took arms and money from Omar al-Bashir’s genocidal National Islamic Front regime - the very regime prosecuting a religious and racial war against his own people in South Sudan. Stunningly, it turns out that he fought as a proxy force for the Sudanese Islamist regime right through the very years they hosted Osama bin Laden as a guest on their territory. Sudanese regime support for Islamic terrorism was so intense during this time period that the United States formally listed it as a state sponsor for terrorism; Omar Al-Bashir was later indicted by the ICC for crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide in Darfur. While Nyuon likely never met Bin Laden, I believe it’s still relevant to point out the fact that he fought on behalf of an Islamist regime that harboured and protected Osama Bin Laden during the early years of Al-Qaeda. It was from this safe haven in Sudan that Bin Laden first began to plot mass attacks against America; the 9/11 Commission dates Al-Qaeda’s declaration of war against the United States to Osama Bin Laden’s years in Sudan. And somehow it gets worse. It was during this period of alliance with the Islamist regime in Sudan that Commander William Nyuon Bany entered into a de facto alliance with Joseph Kony’s psychotic Lord’s Resistance Army - smuggling arms for Kony and facilitating his cross-border child slaver raids on Uganda. Kony was of course the subject of the ultra-viral KONY 2012 social media campaign. Indicted by the ICC for war crimes and crimes against humanity, Kony is thought to have kidnapped and enslaved at least 60,000 African children as either child soldiers or sex slaves over the past three decades. The US, UK, EU and UN all consider his group to be a terrorist organisation. Nyadol Nyuon’s dad was de facto allied with Kony during some of the most intense periods of his atrocities. This period resembled something like the late Bronze Age Collapse in East Africa - the LRA essentially depopulated huge swathes of South Sudan’s Eastern Equatoria state with constant village raids revolving around the mass abduction and enslavement of thousands of children. Amnesty and Human Rights Watch reported that they routinely used mutilation as a terror tactic against civilians, cutting off ears, lips and noses. Throughout this period William Nyuon Bany supplied Kony with arms and logistics. This fact is attested to in Amnesty International reports as well as academic history books by East Africa specialist Douglas H. Johnson. Not content to simply support Kony’s child slaver raids, Nyuon appears to have tried to get in on the child soldier action himself. Human Rights Watch accused him of enslaving hundreds of child soldiers, luring boys as young as eight years old to his camps with promises of schooling. At least eighty per cent of these child soldiers were under the age of 15. When regime trucks failed to supply his camp, Nyuon’s own soldiers looted remaining stocks slated to feed the child soldiers. At least 47 children ultimately starved to death. Now obviously nobody chooses their own father. But Nyadol Nyuon has made a habit of celebrating him in public, which I believe makes her fair game for criticism. She’s been referring to him as a ‘‘freedom fighter’’ in various media interviews stretching back at least a decade, and successfully appears to have deceived a broad swathe of Australian institutions when it comes to her father’s legacy. It turns out that the ABC actually knew that Nyadol Nyuon’s father was a Sudanese warlord when they decided to put her on the panel this week to debate Australian migration, because I found an old ABC documentary about Nyadol from 2019 where they celebrated Nyadol’s father William Nyuon as a South Sudanese ‘‘freedom fighter.’’ This fawning coverage of her warlord father ultimately set the template for what was to come. Museums Victoria explicitly called him a ‘‘freedom fighter’’ when they decided to host a photo of Nyadol Nyuon’s Sudanese warlord father as part of one of their displays on multiculturalism. And Australian Labor government minister and Harvard PhD in Economics Andrew Leigh fell for the bait when he hosted Nyadol Nyuon for a podcast on ‘‘fighting racism’’ back in 2022. Introducing Nyadol to his listeners, he started the conversation with a softball question about her ‘‘very famous father.’’ I for one find it insane that an Australian government minister, an Australian public museum, and the Australian public broadcaster all colluded in whitewashing the atrocities of an insane, psychopathic warlord in the name of promoting multiculturalism. It’s particularly insane considering the fact that her father was literally named by the Australian Foreign Minister in 1992 for executing UN workers. Australian institutions had knowledge about his crimes, but the knowledge was eventually swept aside in the name of making Nyadol feel welcome as an adult migrant to Australia. Nyadol’s life is honestly incredible. In that same 2019 ABC documentary, she told the ABC that she had a privileged life back home because of her father’s status. Quote: ‘‘I actually, in some ways, I think I had a very privileged life because of my father’s status at the time. So an example is when the war broke up in Ethiopia in 1991. I was one of the few kids that had soldiers carrying them, because my father had a lot of soldiers in his command. A lot of other kids were walking on their feet for forty days.’’ So to me it is actually unclear how exactly she ended up in Australia as a refugee. Arriving in Australia at the age of 18, she received mind boggling levels of patronage from elite Australian institutions to the point that her original airplane ticket to Australia is now housed in a museum (the same one that boasts a photo of her father). She was given an Order of Australia medal in 2022 and was one of four Victorian state finalists to be nominated for Australian of the Year in the same year. She was ultimately placed in charge of an $800,000 tax payer funded DEI project which was supposed to hold four public forums dedicated to protecting diverse women in high-risk workplaces from gendered violence. Somehow she was not able to host four public events despite this large $800,000 grant. It is in fact unclear how many forums ever took place. Nyuon said systemic racism contributed to the collapse of the project. She denied all wrong doing and was hospitalised for collapsing during the latter stages of the project, with her mental health impacted significantly. Subsequently she announced that she was returning her Order of Australia Medal, ripping up her Australian citizenship, and returning to South Sudan. Nearly 6 months have passed since her announcement that she intends to rip up her Australian citizenship and return to South Sudan. No progress has apparently been made on this project, but she has said it will be a long ‘‘slow and certain process.’’ Nyadol has already responded to my criticism of her father. When I pointed out the fact that Human Rights Watch and the Australian Foreign Minister accused Nyadol’s father of heinous war crimes, she said that he was a freedom fighter who did nothing wrong, and that criticising him was racist. Nyuon wrote: “Someone has gone looking into my father and decided he was a warlord who committed human rights abuses. That is not true. And searching the internet is not research.” She said the accusation came from “the same people who support Donald Trump,’’ pointed to the US war with Iran, and wrote that “there is a type of thinking, especially among racists, that sees Black and brown people fighting for their freedom as ‘warlords’ while treating Western imperial violence as morally justified and necessary.’’ If only the 47 African children starved to death by her father could simply see that he was fighting on behalf of their freedom. Honestly, what a story. I wish Nyadol all the best in her future life back home in South Sudan, should she ever decide to actually finish her 50 stadium encore farewell tour here in Australia. I am sure she will be following through with her threat/promise to leave any day now.

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