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[image: JPEG - 18 kb]*US national security advisor Susan Rice (Photo: Craig Ruttle/AP)* US has been leading calls for sanctions to be imposed on the warring parties in the 19-month long civil war, labelling the war-ravaged nation as posing a security threat to the region. In a statement issued from Washington on Thursday on the independence day commemoration in South Sudan, which also coincided with president Kiir’s first day in office for an extended three years term of office by parliament, president Barack Obama’s national security advisor, Susan E Rice, said the extension was a wrong thing to do as the government “squandered its legitimacy.” “Over the past 19 months, the government has abdicated its responsibilities, failed to protect its citizens, and squandered its legitimacy. Instead of negotiating a resolution to the conflict, it has subverted democracy and unilaterally extended its mandate,” Rice charged in the statement issued on Thursday. “The South Sudanese parties must establish immediately a transitional government that can serve with legitimacy and represent the needs of the people of South Sudan,” she said. The US top security advisor said as the violence dragged on, the conflict not only scared the lives of innocent South Sudanese, “it threatens to destabilize the wider region.” South Sudan has been in turmoil since fighting broke out between forces loyal to Kiir and the armed opposition, despite the peace talks mediated by East African regional leaders. The conflict, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said, has displaced more than 1.5 million South Sudanese internally and forced over 700,000 into neighboring countries. *KIIR AND MACHAR BOTH ACCOUNTABLE* Rice accused both warring parties of continuing the war despite its efforts with regional partners to end the conflict through a negotiated political settlement. “Massive and widespread violence has returned. Human rights abuses are rampant. The Government and rebels are committing appalling crimes against innocent women, children, and the elderly,” she said. "President Kiir and Riek Machar and their cronies are personally responsible for this new war and self-inflicted disaster. And only leaders on both sides can end this violence," she stressed. Rice who was part of a small group of activists that lobbied the American administration to support the independence of the South Sudan vowed that the US will not abandon the people of South Sudan. "We will continue to stand with all those who dream of a better tomorrow. The United States will continue to work hard to help you to achieve lasting peace and justice." She pointed that the US administration will work with the international community, will punish those determined to drive South Sudan into ’the abyss’. Meanwhile, United Kingdom (UK) said it was unfortunate that South Sudan focused on extending leaders tenure in office while 2.2 million people were displaced by fighting and 4.6 million others were at risk of life-threatening hunger. Speaking on the 4th anniversary of South Sudan’s independence, UK’s minister for Africa, James Duddridge, who fell short of describing the extended government in Juba as illegitimate, however said the only purpose for the extended tenure of the government would be to sign peace immediately. He accused leaders of South Sudan of looting the wealth of the nation at the expense of the dying and suffering citizens in the country. “It is appalling that the country’s leaders have continually failed to meet the hopes and aspirations of their people while squandering the country’s oil wealth on a senseless war,” said the UK minister for Africa in a statement extended to *Sudan Tribune*. “The South Sudanese parliament’s decision to temporarily extend the government takes effect today. This must be used for one purpose: to secure a peace deal immediately and form a transitional government of national unity,” he said. He said with other Troika partners (the US and Norway) and European Union (EU) partners the UK stood steadfast in its support to the people of South Sudan for the long term and urged all sides to the conflict to finally put the people first and demonstrate the leadership necessary to forge a lasting peace. EU in a Thursday’s separate joint statement on South Sudan by the high representative/vice-president, Federica Mogherini, commissioner for international cooperation and development, Neven Mimica, and commissioner for humanitarian aid and crisis management, Christos Stylianides, said hopes had been shattered in the region after four years of independence. "Four years ago, leaders from around the world gathered in Juba to celebrate the birth of an independent South Sudan. The peoples’ hopes then were for a new, bright future. These hopes have been shattered; twenty months of bloody civil conflict since December 2013 has brought terrible suffering and an ever increasing level of brutality targeted at civilians and children,” the statement partly reads. It said the perpetrators of such human rights abuses must not be allowed to act with impunity and urged the African Union (AU) to publish the report on such atrocities. “It is essential they are held to account, and the African Union (AU) Commission of Inquiry report into the original causes of the current conflict should be published,” EU statement says. It called on the warring parties to engage in “genuine peace negotiations” as the only way forward, saying this needed to be revitalised “swiftly.” (ST) Comments on the Sudan Tribune website must abide by the following rules. 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If you want to express yourself in more detail than this allows, please e-mail your comment as an article to [email protected] Kind regards, The Sudan Tribune editorial team. <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article55647#forum> - 10 July 08:07, by Lorolokin If the extension was not done, who will be the one in charge of the nation as long as the war is still going on? we South Sudanese and the world at large would have rejected the extension if there was peace and stability but there is nothing. I think we should be realistic and clear to this regard. Kinkak repondre message <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=forum&id_article=55647&id_forum=336207> - 10 July 08:23, by Mi diit Lorokolin, Stop such senseless excuses. Two things should have happened before July 9: 1/ Either the government should have been serious on peace and sign it and form transitional government, or 2/ Kiir should have resigned and Wani Igga taken over temporarily. It is good US has started this journey of calling Kiir illegitimate president. Real action now in the making. repondre message <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=forum&id_article=55647&id_forum=336208> - 10 July 08:26, by Mi diit See what will happen if Kiir will not sign peace in the next 30 days and dissolve his government and reconstitute it by someone forming a government of national unity in accordance with a peace agreement. Terrible things will happen. repondre message <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=forum&id_article=55647&id_forum=336209> - 10 July 08:55, by Redeemer Midiit There is no amount of threat that will make away for your tribal interest. With no doubt Riek is a tribalist. read his profile don’t be misled just because of being your tribe mat. repondre message <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=forum&id_article=55647&id_forum=336215> - 10 July 09:22, by Redeemer Look at how the greedy interest of the west makes them innocence in the face of world. It is not and will never be the Americans who determine the extension of president’s term but the Parliament of that country repondre message <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=forum&id_article=55647&id_forum=336218> - 10 July 10:33, by jur_likang_a_ likan’g Mr Redeemer, A parliament of political appointees is pseudo representatives of the people. Do not misinform the world community that South Sudan is democratically led. Right now the rule of the gun is the leader and parliament is a show face of political deceit. A people constitutional conference is needed to ameliorate all this lunacy. Cows should never be allowed to rule our peaceful people. repondre message <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=forum&id_article=55647&id_forum=336224> - 10 July 11:14, by Zeki Mii dit US will be the one killing S.Sudanese should her/he interfering with S.Sudanese affairs. 1. There will be a serious resistant even if US remove kiir by force 2. Riek will never step his foot into S.Sudan soil if US interfere and keep on threatening S.Sudan government. 3. Peace will collapse in Adis and this is exactly what Riek wanted. for you pple to be sincere can you correct me? repondre message <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=forum&id_article=55647&id_forum=336229> - 10 July 08:58, by Lotodo Awino Odug America is trying to add fuel to the burning bush, I don’t think any of those hopeless lobbyists will ever rule this country without a blessing from the lion king. Dinka rebellion in the South will be a nightmare to the world and to those who believe America will bring them to power. repondre message <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=forum&id_article=55647&id_forum=336216> - 10 July 10:11, by Shadrack Chol Buoi President Kiir is the President for South Sudan. He isn’t U.S. ’s president. And by the way, who is US? American are trying to fuel the conflicts in South Sudan becoz this is an African crisis not American problem. Just deal with Russia, Iran and NK. repondre message <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=forum&id_article=55647&id_forum=336221> - 10 July 11:40, by Simon Puok Nyang Tutjiek Wonderful!!! We applauded the US, UK, EU and Norway for their bold decision to reject illegal extension of present Kiir’s term for another three years, so the Africa Union, IGAD, China, Russia and other countries should do the same if they meant peace to return to South Sudan. repondre message <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=forum&id_article=55647&id_forum=336236> - 10 July 11:15, by Clausewitz Sudani: http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article55637 repondre message <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=forum&id_article=55647&id_forum=336230> - 10 July 10:13, by Rami Tot suzan rice is a masterminded the killing of nuer innocents in juba in collaborating with M7 to help kiir killing nuer in juba. why didn,t she condemn the existence of uganda forces in the country as auxiliary kiir, she is trying to be fair with such comment we know you, you participated in killing of innocents, your heart is not clean only God knows your crimes repondre message <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=forum&id_article=55647&id_forum=336222> - 10 July 10:18, by Rami Tot Suzan Rice is the opposer to sanction to s Sudan arms embargo trying to covered up her small business in juba in expense of innocents bloods shame on her repondre message <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=forum&id_article=55647&id_forum=336223> - 10 July 11:16, by Akook Real shame on this lady indeed! She is personally responsible for protection of this brutal Kiir’s genocidal regime in Juba. She is the strong voice in Obama administration who had been supporting Juba regime in every way. protecting it from real sanctions and arms embargo even when Secretary Kerry and Amb. Samanha Power knew the facts and wanted to bring into senses the massacring regime. repondre message <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=forum&id_article=55647&id_forum=336231> - 10 July 11:21, by Akook Knowing really well that her time is up, and problem of South Sudan will handle amicably by the next American administration, then she deceitfully tried to shed crocodile tears by setting dubious records straight by releasing this statement. Too late Mrs Rice, who doesn’t know your utmost real support to this massacring Salva Kiir’s regime in South Sudan. repondre message <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=forum&id_article=55647&id_forum=336232> - 10 July 11:22, by Akook You are just personal friend of Salva Kiir, not South Sudanese this time around! repondre message <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=forum&id_article=55647&id_forum=336233> - 10 July 11:28, by Akook Salva Kiir regime is not liked by many Dinkas as few beneficiaries with Dinka tribe tried to sell it! Majority of Dinkas are suffering and wanted the regime go for the betterment of the country. But Kiir and his few supporters are always out to make appear as if Dinkas will rebel and fight for Salva Kiir when he is removed! 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