SPLA hints declaring war on SPLA-IO forces
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Brigadier General Lul Ruai Koang, SPLA spokesperson, is seen at a
containment site outside Juba on April 14, 2016 (AFP Photo)
August 3, 2016 (JUBA) – South Sudanese national army, the Sudan
People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), loyal to President Salva Kiir has for
the first time in three weeks publicly admitted that it has “resolved
to crush SPLA-IO” forces loyal to former First Vice President, Riek
Machar, despite their earlier denials that there was no heavy fighting
going on around Juba.
“SPLA reiterates it’s resolve to crush SPLA IO warmongers under the
leadership of power hungry former FVP Riek Machar. Machar’s bandits
will have no where to hide,” declared Brigadier Lul Ruai Koang, the
official military spokesperson of the South Sudan’s national army.
The opposition group under Machar had been saying that tens of
thousands of troops loyal to President Kiir have been on offensive in
the bushes around the capital trying to hunt down Machar from his
places of “hiding.”
Although President Kiir’s officials have been downplaying the claims
by the opposition, the revelation from the military spokesperson that
Machar’s forces will be “crushed” and will have “nowhere to hide”
indicates that heavy fighting had been going on in the deep forests
around the capital.
The military official spokesperson in the statement he posted on his
Facebook page on Wednesday evening and widely circulated on social
media, also congratulated the newly appointed First Vice President,
Taban Deng Gai, on his commitment to peace.
“SPLA congratulates SPLA IO Peace Partners u[n]der the leadership of
First Vice Gen.Taban Deng Gai for new spirit they have shown and
commitment to full implementation of peace agreement,” Koang added.
However, opposition official loyal to Machar dismissed the threats to
crush their forces around Juba, saying instead they were ready to take
control of Juba, describing Koang’s claims as “wishful thinking” to
try to raise the moral of their defeated troops plus their police
forces.
They also described Gai’s relationship with President Kiir as not
about implementing the peace agreement, but “rather about mutually
violating and destroying it.”
Gai, Machar’s spokesperson said, upon swearing in as new “illegal”
first deputy started by scrapping the provision that recognizes
existence of two rival armies in the country during the transitional
period and also compromised that President Kiir’s faction takes the
speakership of the transitional parliament without “democratically”
contesting it between the parties.
He said the two men were only determined to return the country
pre-August 2015 peace agreement and avoid implementing the needed
reforms to change the nation.
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4 August 09:59, by Eastern
As usual, the impact of "declaring war to crush SPLA-IO
warmongers" will be borne by the neighbouring countries and ultimately
the global west by way of footing the bill of the humantarian
emergency that will be created as a result of mass displacements..,.
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4 August 15:20, by Mr Point
With 6 million South Sudanese facing food shortages it is
commendable that Kiir’s Transitional Government of National Unity is
so committed to providing peace and security that they are preparing
to re-start the civil war.
Until peace is finally won there will be transitional
situations of starvation, rape, murder and displacement.
A price worth paying?
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4 August 10:04, by jur_likang_a_ likan’g
This should not surprise people. It is crystal clear these blood
lickers are there for war. But war with whom imagine? It is a war
against unarmed citizens just because they are simply asking for the
right to free speech, press and association. The right to choose their
leaders without involvement of the gun as it should be one man one
vote and not one man one gun!!
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4 August 11:01, by Freedom Fighter
Wrong, you Jur.
They’re out there to take on Riek Machar’s White Army who
killed and raped worshipers in the churches and mosques.
You have to know that you and Riek are already fighting the lost war
Freedom Fighter
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4 August 11:53, by jubaone
Freedom Fighter,
For someone like nyagat Lul Ruai, he is just a toothless
poodle (Nuerweu) who has no esteem and dignity. His kin and kith are
daily being raped, starved and enslaved by jienges, but the jienge
house-slave just doesn’t care. How pathetic and disgusting that one
can bend so low. Lily Ruai must show his master Kiir that he is a
tough guy. That is Khartoum rhetoric.
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4 August 12:06, by Akook
Taban Deng Gai started by declaring Salva Kiir as his
C-in-C and army as only one army nullifying the very basic essence and
main provision of security sector reform in the country!
Salva Kiir now to sit back. ARCISS is dead as Mabior
Garang put it.
What peace agreement are you any longer saying you are
implementing???????
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4 August 15:28, by Whortti Bor Manza
Khent and Barbayo,
You would deny what the SPLA said. Security arrangements, NLA
reconstitution, 28 states, all dead. Kiir and Taban, the same side of
a coin. You cannot make peace with your self. Pure political
masturbate.
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