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The Red Card Movement(RCM) was established in 2019 as a Civil Right Movement with the aim of speaking, voicing and advocating on behalf of the people of South Sudan who they believe are being misled by the present government policies that focused greatly on tribalism and militarism. The founders of the movement believe that the present government and its respective cohorts have failed the nation and divided the people. RCM aims to cultivate the culture of democracy, peaceful and non-violence struggle to bring about change in the political order and put the interest of the people of South Sudan first. RCM is a grassroots Civil Right Movement mainly comprised of the youth, women and children who freely and willingly chose to support the suffering people of South Sudan. In accordance with the will of the suffering people of South Sudan, the RED CARD MOVEMENT (RCM) in its philosophy, demands a profound change in direction: a change that will give ordinary South Sudanese the democratic space to actively express their rights and participate in building South Sudan. South Sudan crisis began as an internal power struggle within the Ruling Party SPLM. The failure of the party to resolve its internal crisis led to the 15 December 2013 civil war. As such, civilians have been deliberately targeted, particularly, the massacre of innocent Nuer in Juba and many other citizens from other areas including Bor and Bentiu. Thus, the whole country has been held hostage ever since the outbreak of the war, as a result, the economy of the country is at the verge of collapse. At the peak of this conflict, there was prompt intervention by the Uganda People’s Defence Force (UPDF), at the invitation of the government of South Sudan. A political intervention was initiated by the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) to try to bring the warring parties to a negotiated settlement. This negotiation, with the help of other international partners, resulted in the Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan (ARCISS), which was signed in August 2015. However, the agreement was not inclusive of all South Sudanese stakeholders, and it did not address the root causes of the problems leave alone entrusting the same leaders who messed up everything to clean up their mess .This was included in the United States Department of states Country Reports on Human Rights 2019.