12/12/2025
○-WHO ARE THE OWNERS OF PANTHOU/HEGLIG????
Panthou, despite its disputing status remains an indigenous land of the present day Ruweng Administrative Area at Aliiny County in the northern Ruweng (RAA).
Panthou means the fruit tree which is very common fruit extracts from the certain tree calls Tim-thuu in Ruweng Language. Therefore, Panthou is an indigenous area where most of these trees are naturally grown and harvesting of this special fruit (thau/thou) do take place annually.
Following the discovery of the oil in 1978 by the American Oil Company known as Chevron, Panthou was declared by the Sudan Government as the main oil hub and facility for drilling the crude oil. It is the discovery of the oil which led to the SAF military scorched-earth campaign in 1980s up to 2000s to systematically displace the indigenous natives of Panthou known as Awet. The two sections of Greater Awet Rial and Awet Bil were simultaneously evicted and their civil populations pushed out of the Panthou where they used to graze and water their livestock during the dry seasons long before the discovery of the oil by the exploring US Chevron Oil Inc in 1978.
○-FEW HIGHLIGHTS ON PANTHOU IN SUMMARIES:
1_Panthou is the Dinka name that is known as Heglig in Arabic as a designated name translated from Dinka to Arabic by the Sudanese Government.
2_It is described as indigenous land in Aliiny County of the Ruweng Administrative Area.
3_The land is characterized as a swamp or wetland used for grazing and watering livestock.
4_Following the secession of the South Sudan in July 2011, the Sudan Government decided to regard Panthou (Heglig) as a disputed area along the international border of South Sudan and Sudan, and war later erupted in 2012 between the Sudan Armed Forces and the South Sudan People Defence Forces, and the SAF was flashed out of Heglig briefly, and was later recaptured from the SSPDF after the SSPDF tactically withdrew from Panthou under the orders of President Kiir who submissively complied to the orders and declaration of the United Nation Security Council who declared to both South Sudan and Sudan to both withdraw their forces from Panthou (Heglig) to determine the legality of the dispute over it and other international borders. The Hague didn't passed a legal verdict whether they ruled the trial case in favor of South Sudan or Sudan.
5_Sudan Government under the former President, Omer Hassan Al Bashir defied the United Nation Security Council Order and declaration to leave the area, and he doubled down in its occupation while the Republic of South Sudan submissively succumbed to the UNSC Declaration with the maximum compliance up to date. This is how Panthou (Heglig) ended under the illegal occupation of the Sudan Regime.
5_Panthou is never ruled as the territory of the Sudan as it appears, rather it was forcefully invaded and occupied by the SAF while South Sudan withdrew from it as a matter of compliance to the UNSC Declaration to leave Panthou as a neutral ground with no forces from both sides. Unfortunately, Sudan defiantly defied the UNSC Declaration Order and remain in noncompliance in disregard to the UNSC Declaration during the war in 2012.
6_Today, South Sudan has the solemn rights and chance to reclaim and revoke the UNSC Declaration Order of which both South Sudan and Sudan were urged to refrain from the escalation of war over the Panthou, and leave the area to be placed under the occupation of the UNSC forces until the territorial dispute is finally resolved and awarded legally to one party after the ruling verdict is passed. However, Sudan remains defiant and ignorant to the UNSC Declaration Order and chose to belligerently occupied Panthou up to date.
7_South Sudan Government went into a deafening silence after it erupted into an internal strife and turmoil, and the issue of Panthou was forgotten and Sudan later backed up the rebels of South Sudan. The Government of South Sudan never want to raise and lodge a diplomatic tact and complaint against the UNSC to pressure the Sudan Government to strictly comply with the UNSC Order. South Sudan flopped and relapsed from the diplomatic engagement with the UNSC and the regions to pressure Sudan to withdraw from Panthou and leave the UNSC to temporarily create a buffer zone to establish a neutral border until the case is legally resolved before the Court in Hague as per the disputed territory.
8_Panthou is never Sudan territory, but it is purely an indigenous land of Ruweng, Sudan Sudan and even neighboring tribe of Southern Kordofan knows this historical fact that it is an indigenous land of the Ruweng people.
9_Now that Heglig (Panthou) is captured by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), it is time to hand it over to the indigenous owners ( Ruweng natives) so as to restore it as the territory under the sovereignty of South Sudan International Borders.
10_Sudan defiant cling to Panthou was economically driven by the strategic gist and int
