As I wrote recently, Australia has been importing the dregs of Africa’s interminable bloodshed, then told not to notice their behaviour. One of the loudest deniers of uncontrolled African crime is lawyer Nyadol Nyuon. Nyuon touts herself as a ‘refugee’ from Sudan’s civil war, which, as it turns out, is true enough: in much the same way as Adolf Eichmann’s kids were WWII refugees in Argentina.
Because, thanks to diligent research by Drew Pavlou, we now know that Nyuon’s father was a Sudanese warlord who abducted and enslaved hundreds of child soldiers, starving dozens of them to death. William Nyuon Bany was one of the founders of the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army and was third in command before he splintered off to be part of the South Sudan International Agency (SSIA).
Human Rights Watch accused William Nyuon Bany of these horrific crimes against humanity in a September 1995 report titled “Children in Sudan: Slaves, Street Children and Child Soldiers.”
Now, you might reasonably ask, what does this have to do with Nyadol Nyuon?
Well, for starters, Nyuon only last week posted Instagram photos celebrating her father’s wartime activity. In 2019, she celebrated her father as a South Sudanese “freedom fighter” in a glowing ABC testimonial.
The ABC hagiography was part of a long pattern of the public broadcaster, and other public institutions, lauding Nyadol Nyuon as a refugee success story while doling out endless patronage, often taxpayer-funded – such as an $800,000 taxpayer-funded DEI project supposedly protecting ‘diverse’ women in ‘high-risk workplaces’ from gendered violence. For that lazy 800 grand, Nyuon was supposed to host four public forums. Instead, the project collapsed, with police getting involved. Nyuon blamed it on ‘systemic racism’. She was given an Order of Australia medal and was one of four Victorian state finalists to be nominated for Australian of the Year in 2022.
Nyuon has been such a poster-child for the Multicult that her original airline ticket to Australia holds pride of place in a museum exhibit.
Yet, as far back as 1992, the Australian government was well aware of her family background. That was when then-Foreign Minister Gareth Evans told the Australian Senate that William Nyoun had personally ordered the executions of UN aid workers.
William Nyuon, had formed a third splinter group … with the intention of mounting a coup d'état against Garang. When the coup failed, Nyuon and his followers went to a UN camp where they demanded food. The two UN officials on duty explained to the group that the food was available only for southern Sudanese civilians whose livelihoods had been destroyed during the war. Nyuon ordered his bodyguards to shoot the two officials. The two witnesses to the shootings were kidnapped and later killed.
You may remember the campaign in 2012 to bring Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony to justice. Kony, a designated terrorist wanted by the ICC, was notorious for forcibly enslaving tens of thousands of children as soldiers and sex slaves. Guess who was helping him?
In January 1993, according to an official report, “Nyuon... establish[ed] links with the Ugandan opposition Lord’s Resistance Army and facilitat[ed] its incursions into Uganda”.
Through all this, young Nyadol Nyuon was reaping the benefits of her father’s war crimes and terrorism. “I actually, in some ways, I think I had a very privileged life because of my father’s status,” she told the ABC in 2019. That “privileged life” enjoyed by the future human rights champion included being carried by her father’s soldiers while a “lot of other kids were walking on their feet for 40 days”.
A 1994 Human Rights Watch report also laid bare her father’s activities while running his splinter group, the SSIA.
They [SSIA] lured hundreds of boys from their homes in Upper Nile to go hundreds of kilometers south to Eastern Equatoria, on the pretext that they would get schooling there. Instead they received military training at the base of Cmdr William Nyuon, then a commander in the SSIA.
The boys received little food and no medical attention, however. As their condition worsened Cmdr Nyuon sent them to the nearest UN relief site, Lafon, for medical aid and food; 47 boys died from malnutrition and illness in Lafpm from July to December 1994. Among other things, SSIA soldiers stole their food rations.
(Emphasis added.)
Lest you think Nyuon handing over the children he’d starved was a sudden burst of altruism, the report notes bluntly:
Sick boys were of no use to any military commander.
With all this being a matter of public record, documented by some of the most well-known NGOs in the world, it’s beyond astonishing that the ABC and Museums Victoria still valourised “freedom fighter William Nyuon Bany”.
This item is part of a collection of objects, documents and images relating to the life of Nyadol Nyuon, born of Sudanese parents in an Ethiopian refugee camp,and migrated from Kenya to Melbourne in 2005... [including] a portrait of her father, freedom fighter William Nyuon Bany.
Then comes this – in context – clanger:
Nyadol’s story […] represents the trope of the ‘good migrant’ who arrives and achieves a successful career and contribution to Australian society.
Just like her brother:
Gach Nyuon, 29, is accused of intimidating and assaulting a McDonald’s worker in May last year, and stealing from Dandenong Liquorland while on bail for alleged thefts from a 7-Eleven in the same suburb, and a Kmart in Cranbourne Park [...]
In 2016 Nyuon was banned for two games for headbutting an opponent, and fined by his club after an incident involving an Uber driver.
Then in 2020 police released his mugshot after he failed to appear in court on unrelated charges.
Some mothers really do ’ave ’em.
A man who raped his cell-mate in the Mount Gambier Prison in 2016 was imprisoned for four years, eight months and 14 days in court this week.
Wichthiel William Nyuon, 34, appeared in the Adelaide District Court to be sentenced for one count of rape after earlier being found guilty at trial.
What’s the old saying about fruit and the tree it falls from?
Still, Nyadol Nyuon has plenty more siblings where her criminal brother came from. Some seven full siblings and a jaw-dropping 70 half-siblings. Hopefully all were from what were apparently his five wives, although the maths doesn’t look good. Excluding the eight children he fathered by Nyadol’s mother, that works out to an average of more than 17 children from each of the other four wives.
