Breaking: Kiir orders unilateral ceasefire in Juba, orders protection of IO who surrender JUBA (11 Jul.)
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has signed a unilateral ceasefire after nearly five days of clashes between his forces and those of Riek Machar left hundreds dead and thousands displaced in the capital city Juba. The order was meant to takek effect at 6 P.M. However, heavy shooting was still heard in Gudele between 7:30 and just after 8 o'clock. Sporadic firing continued after that. In a statement on SSTV, Minister of Information Michael Makwei said that "all the commanders of these forces are hereby directed to cease any hostility and abide by this order, control their forces, and protect civilian population and their property". The order continued: "All the commanders of these forces are directed to control their forces and ensure protection of any ethnic group that may be targeted by some elements within their forces and any SPLA-IO who surrenders to the SPLA must be protected." "All the commanders deployed at checkpoints within Juba city, shall reduce and limit such checkpoints to only essential and important installations and institutions." Makuei added: "All the regular forces that were deployed because of whatever, they need to go back to their respective units, any soldier or any member of the regular forces that will be found loitering about with his rifle without reporting to his unit will be arrested and immediate action will be taken." "All the commanders of their units are directed to ensure that their forces are in their units. This is very important so that our people from here can go back to their houses." *More to come...* -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/southsudankob View this message at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/southsudankob/topic-id/message-id For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14oqD%2BVG6Crr-C-igiWy8FQ9f_FjM6znXtqaqtBRe6WuUog%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
