S. Sudan’s Kiir vows to expedite peace implementation
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July 28, 2016 (JUBA) – South Sudan’s President, Salva Kiir on Thursday
met his two deputies in the coalition government, during which he
expressed willingness to expedite implementation of the peace deal.
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President Salva Kiir meets SPLM-IO Chief Negotiator, Taban Deng Gai,
in Juba, December 22, 2015 (ST Photo)
The three leaders, a statement from the presidency noted, agreed to
undertake measures to "strengthen the protection of civilians”.
“The President of the Republic of South Sudan, H.E. Gen. Salva Kiir
Mayardit, today met with his two deputies, to discuss some of the
issues on peace implementation and some current developments in the
country. The three leaders have agreed to undertake measures to
expedite the implementation process of the peace agreement so that the
country can move forward with reconciliation, healing and
forgiveness”, partly reads the statement Sudan Tribune obtained.
“The president has made it clear that he will cooperate with the new
first vice president and the vice president to ensure that priority
would be given to resolving key problems that have caused strong
protests by the people. A new spirit is emerging from the presidency,
the spirit of cooperation, consensus and willingness to implement the
agreement so that the country can move forward,” it added.
President Kiir on Monday appointed the armed opposition’s former chief
mediator, Taban Deng Gai as the country’s First Vice-President
replacing Riek Machar, who left the capital following recent clashes.
More than 270 soldiers, officials said, died when forces loyal to Kiir
clashed with pro-Machar soldiers before a ceasefire was declared.
According to the statement from the presidency, a number of things
have been agreed to be resolved, including accepting that the deputy
speaker’s position be nominated by the armed opposition.
“These nominations will speed-up the establishment of a new parliament
incorporating members of the SPLM/A-IO, and enabling the parliament to
function as normal, enacting laws and aiding in the establishment of
institutions prescribed by the Compromise Peace Agreement 2015,
including approving the new Constitution of the Republic, leading to
the next census and elections”, it stressed.
Officials at the presidency told Sudan Tribune that many of the
details of the peace proposal were already known, including, among
others, commitment to observing a permanent ceasefire, implementing
the security arrangement by disbanding and integrating members of
armed opposition into different institutions of government under one
command and protecting the civilians.
Observers, however, say it is unclear how the leaders intend to
implement the deal and how members of armed opposition and the
international community would react, if the accord is compromised.
It is also unclear what exactly the leaders have agreed to do as the
first thing in the implementation of the peace agreement and how long
they have collectively intended to achieve their objectives.
(ST)
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29 July 01:29, by jur_likang_a_ likan’g
This should not be a surprise at all. Kiir has already killed the
path to democracy, all forms of freedom, and above all federalism. His
soldiers are maiming, raping, plundering citizens. Imposed 28 states,
mono tribal institutions. Peace agreement on his own terms for the
benefit of the Dinka people is not peace at all. Cosmetic solutions to
country’s problem is a recipe for disaster.
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29 July 01:39, by jur_likang_a_ likan’g
Kiir with Jieng Council of elders (JCE) planned to assassinate
Riek Machar with a hope to water down the peace agreement that sets a
benchmark for just peace and all forms of freedom in the country. They
failed in their plan. The fight at J1 and attack of Riek’s residence
clearly show what they were up to. Almighty God forbade that because
evil cannot conquer the power of God that is always good.
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29 July 02:51, by Khent
jur_likang_a_ likan’g
Yeah the man that had his forces burn children alive in
front of their parents and killed tens of thousands of civilians at
the heels of his defection to the enemy is a paragon of virtue and
celestial holiness. Riek will eventually be reaped if he continues to
insist on staying in the political environment.
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29 July 04:42, by Akook
Peace agreement and all reforms that were to be done
are absolutely dead. The world is silence esp the US who helped
succeeded from Sudan. Evil Susan Rice Obama’s security as friend of
Salva Kiir and his Juba tribal death squad had finally succeeded!
But the country towards a very dangerous round of serious war...
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29 July 05:33, by choldit
We shld be ashame to be led by pple who can put empty
statement one air like that. There shld be concerts msg of how they
will do it this time. Taban Deng Gai is there to join the show. How
could he get nueri out of POCs to be kill by Dinka tribalistic govt.
What is new this time that Dinka JCE told him that will make Dinka
soldiers not kill nueri. Taban Deng is a shame to nueri.
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29 July 06:01, by jur_likang_a_ likan’g
Mr Khent,
The duel between Dinka and Nuer is their petty issue.
The nuer paid back what the Dinka did. Remember Samuel Gai Tut died in
the hands of Dinka!! A nail on those who vied for independent South
Sudan was hammered by Dinka!! I know all what is happening is a
payback to Nuer because killed the people of Aweil, Gogrial and Rumbek
when they trekked to Bilfam Ethiopia, but why Balanda, Equats
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29 July 07:16, by Khent
jur_likang_a_ likan’g
The killing of Samuel Gai Tut was not tribally
motivated and I’ll provide evidence from impartial third party
sources. It was an unfortunate concomitant of a power struggle between
two different camps, with two different ideologies and varying
conceptualizations of the strategies required for the struggle.
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29 July 07:17, by Khent
Have you forgotten the fact that Garang also
targeted Akuot Atem De Mayen, a fellow son of Twic east, and wanted
him dead too!? Samuel Gai Tut was one of our sons [from Dinka Hol and
Twic east] whose family migrated to Nuer territory in recent memory
for reasons I cannot pinpoint. We still have some of their families
with us in Duk Padiet and Panyagor. It was not tribal.
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29 July 07:17, by Khent
The split in the leadership was thus based
on ideological and personal differences, not tribal, since both Akuot
Atem and Garang were Twic Dinka from Kongor district, and there were
Dinka and Nuer commanders ranged on both sides. (The Root Causes Of
Sudan’s Civil Wars: Peace Or Truce, Douglas H. Johnson)
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29 July 07:18, by Khent
Is the historian that I have just
cited above lying? The very same historian that was instrumental in
retrieving Ngundeng’s dang from the British and restoring it to its
rightful owners? You took something that wasn’t even remotely tribal,
and killed thousands of young, unarmed patriotic Dinka recruits in
cold blood. You started this senseless and vicious cycle of revenge.
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29 July 07:29, by Khent
Why do you people brutalize the
Anyuak and the Burun if your only enemy is the Dinka? You have stolen
a hundred times more land from these tribes than the Dinka have stolen
in Equatoria. Please explain yourself.
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29 July 08:04, by Khent
The Dinka were victims of
massacres before they responded in kind. The killing of hundreds
[possibly thousands] of Dinka civilians during Kokora happened before
the SPLA had even arrived in Equatoria. The Dinka lost 5, 000 unarmed
patriotic recruits [civilians at this point] to the Nuer. This
happened before the Gajaak massacre.
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29 July 08:05, by Khent
Heavily armed by the
Sudan, the Anyanya II attacked SPLA recruits on their way to the
training camps in Ethiopia. In May 1984, more than three thousand
recruits from northern Bahr el Ghazal were ambushed and massacred in
the area of Fanjak, and in 1986 over two thousand were massacred in
the Lou area. (Playing Different Games: The Paradox of Anywaa and Nuer
Identification)
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29 July 08:06, by Khent
Correction: 3, 000
Dinka civilians [recruits] died before the Gajaak massacre and another
two thousand died after it. We didn’t start this cycle of hatred and
we certainly haven’t uniquely benefited from this government. We lost
more people than all the tribes in Sudan combined; our lands provide
over 85% of the oil, but all the infrastructural development projects
are concentrated in Equatoria.
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29 July 12:11, by jubaone
Khent,
That´s why
Equatorians strongly advocated for Kokora so that all the oil wealth
should go to jienge heartlands for development. Sadly, no single
jienge wants to go back to their areas to develop them. Reasons are:
no skilled people, so many illiterates, disorder and anarchy,
unfrienldliness, blank rudeness and stupidity, hostile investment
environment and the list is long.....
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29 July 22:16, by Khent
Jubaone
I suspect that
I would be flattering you if I called you stupid because only an idiot
would want to replicate costly mistakes of the past. How did Kokora
work out the last time it was tried? Sure, hundreds [possibly
thousands] of Dinkas died, but it didn’t end well for Equatoria
either, did it? You lost more people in the aftermath.
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29 July
22:18, by Khent
South
Sudan doesn’t produce enough food on its own, even to feed Equatoria.
Virtually all of South Sudan’s food comes from Uganda, Kenya and other
East African countries... and because of Juba’s strategic position and
its access to East African markets, people are understandably lured to
it. Equatoria was also the place where international aid agencies set
up shop during the war...
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July 22:20, by Khent
.Upper
Nile and Bahr el Ghazal were utterly destroyed because that’s where
the movement derived its soldiers from. Large battles were fought in
Equatoria [mostly by non-Equatorians], but you people were never
Khartoum’s target and so your people and your region came out of the
war virtually unscathed, and now you wonder why people flock to
Equatoria?
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July 22:29, by Khent
Juba has been our capital for decades and was already comparatively
well established when the CPA was signed and was further developed by
international aid agencies and this pathetic excuse for a
"government". The fact that some Dinka live there has nothing to do
with some some innate yearning by these people to move away from home.
The opposite is true...
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29 July 22:33, by Khent
The "government" should resolve to develop each region equally
instead of concentrating on the capital, as so many third world
governments seem to be fond of doing. This isn’t unique of the Dinka
dominated "government". What Kiir’s "government" is doing is at odds
with what Garang proposed...
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29 July 23:11, by Khent
..Now, if the Dinka are a monolith [as you so desperately want to
believe] why is this criminal ’government’ not implementing any of the
plans that Dr. John Garang drew up? Garang wanted to take the cities
to the people and develop every area equally. He even rebuffed the
ridiculous false claims by the Dinka that Malakal belongs to them.
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29 July 23:16, by Khent
The vast majority of people in South Sudan in general are
illiterate and unskilled, so you’ll definitely have to come up with a
better attempt at denigrating others — preferably one that doesn’t
also apply to you. LOL!
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29 July 08:58, by jubaone
Khent,
Your good English language skills does not exonerate
you as a jienge from your collective loath and paranoia against Riak.
Kiir has just had "political masturbation". An easy way out to have
Taban Gai, who of course is less smarter than Riak. It’s inferiority
complex. Without Riak as signatory to this peace, nothing will happen.
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29 July 23:23, by Khent
jubaone
Allow me to return your back-handed ’compliment’
with a direct and unmistakable insult... you’re completely retarded
and really should seek psychiatric help. Do you even know what
paranoia is? Paranoia is the unwarranted belief that someone is out to
do you harm...
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29 July 23:26, by Khent
Now, I’m not sure if you’re suffering from
early onset dementia in addition to your many mental afflictions, but
Riek did murder tens of thousands of our civilians, allied himself
with the enemy in an alliance that claimed hundreds of thousands of
Dinka lives, so it’s not paranoia, is it?
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29 July 23:26, by Khent
This is what Riek said to a
journalist-historian in the wake of the 1991 split:
He discounted tribalism as “from a
different age”, though boasted that he has “not seen a Nuer who
doesn’t support me.” In the same breath, he added, “if there is a
tribal element, the Nuer would destroy all the Dinka.” (Me Against My
Brother: At War in Somalia, Sudan and Rwanda, Scott Peterson)
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29 July 23:27, by Khent
"The atrocities committed are things
[the Dinka] asked for”, he said. He claimed he had dictated what
happened: “Fighting at Bor did not get out of control. I was in total
control of how far the troops went. “(Me Against My Brother: At War in
Somalia, Sudan and Rwanda, Scott Peterson)
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29 July 23:27, by Khent
Is this the same man that claims
that he can unite the people of South Sudan!? How!? How will
reconciliation be possible under him when he is guilty of having
murdered -directly and indirectly- 30, 000 civilians!? He is a
deceptive, mass murdering chauvinist. He has no genuine regard for
democracy or equality. He has killed tens of thousands of civilians.
He is tainted. He has no credibility.
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29 July 23:28, by Khent
Riek is a liar, a fraud, a
traitor and a génocidaire. His well-documented record speaks for
itself. He has gone on record proclaiming [with unrestrained glee] the
supposed ability of his tribe to wipe out an entire tribe, following
his massacre of unarmed civilians, but he soon found out that he was
mistaken.
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29 July 23:28, by Khent
His political, economic
and military alliance contributed to the deaths of hundreds of
thousands of lives and the misery of millions more. Riek was
instrumental in Khartoum’s ability to not only take control of the
oilfields but to secure them as part of his military alliance with the
Ignaz Nazis...
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29 July 23:28, by Khent
..And in doing so he
enabled Khartoum to purchase billions of dollars in advanced and
devastating weaponry, which was then unleashed on those that did not
follow that death-deserving TRAITOR. As a direct consequence of Riek’s
actions, Khartoum became infinitely stronger and their war [their
Jihad on the South] intensified, resulting in the loss of hundreds of
thousands of lives!
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29 July 08:35, by Thokidine
Yes Peace will be implemented rapidly; in fact it has already
started with the "selection" not "electing" of speaker, a move Kiir &
his cohorts has been longing for and the FVP ’Machar" was critic about
as no article has stipulated that it should be appointed/selected but
only that it must be given to Equatorian.Kiir has the green-light from
the snatcher whose interest is to make himself rich and.
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29 July 07:01, by Eastern
South Sudan has become a global embarrassment indeed! Why at the
watch of the garuantors of the ARCISS must Kiir and cohorts be allowed
to single-handedly manipulate things now while festering future
problems which will drain resources from the developed world. Is this
scenario not lending credence to the claim that African problems are
opportunities to the global west?
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