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*JUBA* – Tongyik, a member of Advance Team sent to Juba for Peace Implementation Process testified that “the parties to the peace negotiation have truly failed us. We sacrificed our lives in acceptance of peace with a trust that a protection will be in place. I was among the unarmed Advance Team brought to Juba from Pagak to show commitment to the Peace Agreement signed in August 2015. We came to Juba empty handed without military equipment together with our leader, Dr. Riek Machar for the sake of peace.” On August 18, 2015: the Representatives of the United States, the Kingdom of Norway, The United Kingdom, Italy (on behalf of the IGAD Partners Forum), the European Union, and the United Nations signed, as Witnesses to the AGREEMENT ON THE RESOLUTION OF THE CONFLICT IN THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH SUDAN. On July 8, 2016 – the government of Salva Kiir decided a total elimination of our lives in which many of our comrades lost their lives, “but thank God that I’m still alive. We were bombarded by the government military Helicopters and shelled with heavy artilleries for a total of four days in a very isolated land in Juba. We are situated in a small highland of Juba for a reason that none among us would escape the death. We felt that way!” Parties to South Sudan’s peace agreement which ended two years of violent conflict and the regional mediators have misled us. We had a false hope that the peace grantors would provide a protection and help with the implementation of the agreement, but nothing was done until July when the enemy decided to crash Dr. Machar and his force. “Our peace mission has died in tight holding hands of Salva Kiir” said Tongyik who continued to express his desperation by saying “we are placed under the same demonic hands of a desperate man, Salva Kiir; much thirsty of uncountable killing. The world has given us away to be killed just like that.” Does the world has hidden agenda or it was a real peace? Nobody knows! Salva Kiir has totally assassinated the peace agreement with heavy artilleries and military helicopters. We are back to square one with great deal of lives losses. During the peace negotiation process, Salva Kiir insisted that the SPLM-IO would come to Juba unarmed with a commitment to peace and agreed that Juba will be demilitarized. “However, most of us have come to Juba unarmed, but Juba was not demilitarized and peace grantors did not pressure Salva Kiir to implement the demilitarization as part of the agreement” he uttered. While the world is watching, we encountered the second round of genocide. Tongyik, a man that does not like to disclose much about himself, spoke confidently stressing “this fresh outbreak of war was well planned by Salva Kiir to exterminate us, but I strongly believe that God is with us since the aim of our coming to Juba was to show that we were willfully committed to peace resolution to the conflict. I am sure that we have not done anything wrong to the world and why the world would abandon the agents of peace. We were given to a primitive government without a real meaning of humanity and a significant knowledge of being humans.” It is a sure fact “that the International Community won’t do anything because we were sold to be slaughtered like lambs by Salva Kiir, but God is able to rescue us. Therefore, we agreed to remain where the world located us as a symbol of commitment to peace; we rather die defending ourselves than to escape death. The parties to South Sudan Peace Agreement are responsible for the renewed outbreak of war and the lives lost in Juba” he said. “Anyway, i am sending this message with a hope to survive in order to tell my story. With my faith in God, we will survive! Please, read my testimony and think of humanity and the suffering of human lives in Juba. May God blesses the people of South Sudan who are trapped in this horrible situation” he said. end!!!!!! THE UPPER NILE TIMES -- 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/CAJb14orr0KpUsU1gD3MXda_oYKhciKvGmrAtZOryJ6OcP8OD5g%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
