Machar’s successor to lead South Sudan delegation to UN
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July 30, 2016 (JUBA) - The South Sudanese government has agreed to
dispatch a high level delegation, led by its first vice president,
Taban Deng Gai to the United Nations headquarters in New York as part
of efforts to rally global community support.
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Head of the rebel delegation, Taban Deng Gai, attends the opening
ceremony of South Sudan’s negotiation in Addis Ababa, January 4, 2014.
(Photo Reuters/Tiksa Negeri)
“The objective of this mission is to mobilize the international
support for implementation of the peace agreement and explain to the
leaders of Intergovernmental authorities on development (IGAD) member
countries why there were changes within the SPLM-IO leadership,” vice
president, James Wani Igga told reporters Friday.
“This is a very important mission,” added the vice president.
Gai, who succeeded the armed opposition (SPLM-IO) chairman Riek
Machar, was sworn-in early this week, a move the former rebel leader
described as being “illegal”.
"President Salva Kiir wants the country’s first vice-president to
explain to the world the recent political changes in nation," Igga
told reporters in the capital, Juba.
The South Sudanese leader, he said, told the armed opposition leaders
in the capital, Juba it was their role to make the region understand
why Machar was replaced.
“Taban and some members of the team which will select by the President
to go to the neighboring countries, including Khartoum as number one,
so that we put clearly to them the situation,” explained Igga.
The team will reportedly also tour neighboring countries to advocate
for regional support for the peace agreement.
Igga further said President Kiir agreed to accelerate discussions on
how to improve security in the country, revive the economy and
repatriate internally displaced persons.
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31 July 01:48, by Mr Point
"President Kiir agreed to accelerate discussions on how to improve
security in the country, revive the economy and repatriate internally
displaced persons."
All three are possible if Kiir follows the Peace Agreement.
But Kiir prefers civil war to peace
He try to kill the Vice President in December 2103, again in July 2016.
So Security economy and IDPs all lost.
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31 July 02:22, by Dinka-Defender-General
Mr. Point, you’re out of points. Government never tried to
kill Machar. He tried to overthrow the government. I was inside Juba
during both incidents. Therefore, no one planned to kill him. The
fighting was imitated by the soldiers in 2016. Please reexamine the
facts before you spread non facts.
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31 July 06:45, by choldit
Dinka whatever, can u rewind ur posts and see that u
inform the media that u were away when j1 incident happened but now u
are saying u were here when it happened. Yaani u want us to disregard
issue of truth when reading ur posts.
Yaaa Taban, is it what u went really to fight Nuer for
Dinka like that? Now they know no one in the world trusted them. So
they decided to use their boy. Ur chance is..
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31 July 03:01, by jur_likang_a_ likan’g
Where is the honesty of President KIIR in the peace agreement? He
signed the agreement with reservations as if the terms of the
agreement were not from the citizens. He then planned to kill it by
trying to assassinate the principal signatory of the peace agreement
by sending all the available to destroy, kill those in Riek’s home and
his soldiers. Then who can believe Kiir is for peace?
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31 July 03:06, by jur_likang_a_ likan’g
To Kiir the peace agreement should be a path to DEATH to
federalism, death to all forms of freedom namely press, speech and
association , death to democracy. Military deecres are the order of
the Day. South Sudan is not that simple for his actions. There will be
resistance for his evil doings.
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31 July 06:26, by Khent
jur_likang_a_ likan’g
You people act as if Riek has proven himself to be a
democrat that stands for all the freedoms that you’ve listed. History
says otherwise. The Nasir Declaration came into being for the stated
reason (s) that Dr. John Garang and the SPLM/A was operating in the
absence of democratic ideals and institutions...
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31 July 06:26, by Khent
Riek failed completely as a man that so strenuously
promulgated his *pretended* belief in democratic ideals and
institutional reforms for political gain. Riek did not introduce
greater transparency and accountability in his movement; he didn’t
create any democratic institutions; he had in fact committed egregious
human rights abuses on a wide scale...
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31 July 06:36, by Khent
Riek’s own colleagues in the Nasir faction
condemned him for concentrating power in his own hands —
authoritarianism. Among these detractors was Joseph Oduho, Lam Akol,
Arok Thon Arok, Nyuon Bany, Kerubino Kuanyin and many others. In fact,
prior to Joseph Oduho‘s death, the respected elder lambasted the Nasir
faction for lacking democratic institutions...
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31 July 06:36, by Khent
Before the Panyagore meeting, Joseph Oduho was
already embarrassing the SPLM-United members by his own objections to
their authoritarian behaviour. (The Root Causes of Sudan’s Civil Wars:
Peace Or Truce, Douglas Hamilton Johnson)
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31 July 06:37, by Khent
Riek didn’t even have any institutions in
his movement and was criticized for incompetence, mismanagement and
authoritarianism, and that that was only after a couple of years. His
movement collapsed in just a couple of years because he didn’t know
how to manage a movement; all the political big wigs left him in
disgust.
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31 July 06:38, by Khent
Whatever the cosmetic or purely
theoretical aspects of SPLM/A administration, it can be contrasted
with SPLA-United/SSIM, where there were no similar civil
administrative structures and where much of what was announced in the
form of internal organisation existed on paper only. (The Root Causes
of Sudan’s Civil Wars: Peace Or Truce, Douglas H. Johnson
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31 July 06:47, by Khent
Riek laughably dismissed Dr. Lam
Akol from their Khartoum supported ’movement’ for... collaborating
with the government. LOL! In reaction to this laughable dismissal, Dr.
Akol issued and circulated a document in which he demonstrated that he
was not the only one guilty of working with the enemy. In the
document, Dr. Akol used a clever euphemism to make his point:
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31 July 06:47, by Khent
"Who could be more royal in
the king’s court than the King himself!". A clear reference to the
fact that Riek, as the chairman of Nasir was fully aware of their
’movement’s collaboration with Khartoum and in fact directed these
operations. It’s clear that Riek is a liar; he thought he could accuse
Lam Akol of collaborating with Khartoum when he was the one that was
organizing it. LOL!
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31 July 06:58, by Khent
Riek is of the opinion
that the Nuer can demographically expand onto the lands of other
tribes and when they become the majority, they can then claim that
area as their own, as part of a befuddled and twisted understanding of
a ’human right’. That’s dangerous.
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31 July 06:59, by Khent
Contrary to what they
may want us to believe, Salva Kiir and Riek Machar are not
diametrically opposed; they are in fact two sides of the same coin
when it comes to furthering the interests of their respective tribes.
The essential difference is that Salva Kiir unreservedly demonstrates
that he is a tribal chauvinist but Riek tries to disguise his well
documented chauvinistic credentials...
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31 July 07:00, by Khent
Riek is of the
opinion that it’s perfectly suitable for the Nuer to expand
demographically onto the lands of other tribes and regards it as some
sort of ’right’. He claims that tribal demographic expansion onto the
lands of other tribes can be ’peaceful’ and that this is historically
how the Nuer have expanded their territories...
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31 July 07:01, by Khent
Some
quotations from Riek:
There is
something intriguing about the Nuer culture. Had it not been for the
British, the whole of Southern Sudan and beyond would have become
Nuer. Some cultures are strong, others are not. The Nuer are expanding
not by force, but through peaceful exchanges with their neighbours. It
is a human right for Nuer immigrants to ask for their political
recognition.
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31 July
07:02, by Khent
What is
wrong if they ask to administer their own affairs? Let others also
expand demographically and do like the Nuer. Why are the Anyuak not
many? A lot of Nuer die in all kinds of wars, but they are still many.
Whose problem is this Nuer expansion? Do the Nuer consider it as a
problem? Not really. I do not consider it so either! Anyway, even if I
want to stop them expanding, I cannot.
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31
July 07:02, by Khent
He
basically said that it was the right of the Nuer to encroach upon the
lands of the Anyuak and occupy those lands and that he himself could
not stop the Nuer from occupying Anyuak land even if he wanted to.
Riek [and other] condemn high ranking Dinka officials and Generals for
occupying plots of land in Equatoria while they steal entire counties
from the Anyuak and Burun...
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31
July 07:07, by Khent
Go
to the book section of Google and type in Playing Different Games. The
Paradox of Anywaa and Nuer Identification Strategies in the Gambella
Region, Ethiopia.
Please make full use of this book.
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31 July 07:08, by Khent
Read page 206 and 207 to read what Riek really thinks about his
tribe, other tribes and the way he believes they should interact with
each other. That is the real Riek. The Riek that pretends to be a
patriot and a democrat is a front; a hoax carefully crafted to serve
his political ends.
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31 July 06:49, by Eastern
...let’s wait and see who among the "very high" delegation will be
granted US entry visa. Tough luck!
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