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Jonglei: Gadiang shooting leaves Eyat driver dead and one soldier injured
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By John Actually
March 29, 2011 (BOR) – A driver working for Eyat a road building
company was killed and a soldier seriously injured in an ambush in the
Gadiang area of Jonglei state in South Sudan on Friday March 25.
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Bol Lual showing is injuries at Bor civil hospital, March 29, 2011 (ST)
An Eyat engineer, Ibrahim Abdala, told Sudan Tribune that his team
that left Gadiang to a work on an area of the Yuai road when
encountered an armed group, he believed were loyal to rebel leader
David Yauyau, at 10am local time, around 50 km north of Gadiang, where
they shot his driver dead after warning them to stop the moving car.
He said that he was taken by the militia to meet a man who claimed to
be Yauyau. The man warned him and his company to stop working on the
road.
David Yau Yau is one of the three men who rebelled against the
governement of South Sudan after failng to win positions in last
year’s April elections. Yauyau failed to become a representative in
his home county of Pibor.
Unlike the other two rebel leaders, Yauyau is not a former member of
the South Sudan army (SPLA).
Since their rebellions began in May last year Yauyau and Gatluk Gai in
Unity state increasingly operated under the umbrella of former SPLA
general and South Sudan minister George Athor Deng, from his base in
Khorfulus in Jonglei state.
Abdala said they were forced to drive the car off road and hide it far
from the road where they were investigated by David Yauyau but he
declined to say what he was asked.
According to Abdala, a grader vehicle that was following them
approached the scene of incident 10 minutes later carrying an Eyat
driver and a SPLA soldier. He said the driver stopped as he was
ordered but the militia started shooting killing the driver.
Mr. Abdala said two of them were captured by militias and were
released by their leader, David Yauyau, who was with the armed men.
“They took us to their leader who declared himself as David Yau yau”, he said.
Abdala said Yauyau said told him that he has nothing to do with
Northern Sudanese living in the south and apologized for the death of
driver.
“He set us free and warn us not to work on that road anymore”, he said.
Abdala said their telephones were taken by the armed group and his
company has now left the area after Yauyau’s threats. He acknowledged
that although the militias were few in number, they were heavily
armed.
(ST)
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