U.S “alarmed" by violence in S. Sudan’s Equatoria region ArticleComments (9)EmailPrintSave
December 5, 2016 (JUBA) – The United States has accused South Sudan government of deploying thousands of troops to Equatoria region, increasing prospects of violence escalation. SPLA soldiers drive past military tanks that were destroyed and abandoned in the recent fighting in the Jabel area of Juba, on July 16, 2016 (Reuters Photo) The State Department’s deputy spokesman, Mark Toner said Washington is alarmed by the situation.“The United States is alarmed by the violence in the Equatoria region of South Sudan and concerned it could quickly spiral out of control,” Toner said on Monday. Fighting between government forces and the armed opposition faction (SPLM-IO) escalated to Central Equatoria state when violence erupted in Juba last July.Hundreds of thousands of civilians have been displaced from their homes to neighboring countries after their villages were also destroyed during intense fighting between the rival forces in violation of an initially-agreed upon ceasefire. The United Nations has warned of possible genocide in the young nation, which the U.S said should be averted by holding leaders accountable and imposing an arms embargo. “The international community must also do its part. We can do so by imposing an arms embargo to end the parties’ ability to acquire and maintain weapons. We should also impose targeted sanctions on those who seek through incitement and violence to turn their country into a graveyard. Imposing these measures will help deter other South Sudanese leaders from engaging in the same activity,” partly reads the State Department’s release. Washington said amassing of troops by the government in Equatoria as trigger to “intolerable (situation that) will worsen the already dire humanitarian crisis.” “The government has mobilized at least 4,000 irregular ethnic militia and deployed them to Central Equatoria - a substantial increase in the overall number of government-affiliated soldiers in the region - increasing the likelihood of more clashes with armed opposition groups and attacks against innocent civilians,” it stressed. It further said “ethnically-motivated hate speech, the targeting of civilians, and sexual violence is becoming widespread.” At least 1900 homes have been destroyed in Central Equatoria since September, the statement noted.Juba is yet to respond to the latest accusation of deploying troops on Equatoria. Last week, the South Sudanese army spokesman, Lul Ruai Koang, said the deployment was part of "routine" movement of the army, dismissing allegations that government forces planned to attack rebel hideouts. (ST) Comments on the Sudan Tribune website must abide by the following rules. Contravention of these rules will lead to the user losing their Sudan Tribune account with immediate effect. - No inciting violence- No inappropriate or offensive language- No racism, tribalism or sectarianism- No inappropriate or derogatory remarks- No deviation from the topic of the article- No advertising, spamming or links - No incomprehensible commentsDue to the unprecedented amount of racist and offensive language on the site, Sudan Tribune tries to vet all comments on the site. There is now also a limit of 400 words per comment. If you want to express yourself in more detail than this allows, please e-mail your comment as an article to [email protected] Kind regards, The Sudan Tribune editorial team. 6 DECEMBER 08:34, BY Ater No war,the goverment is tracking down those criminals who attack passengers on public highways REPONDRE MESSAGE 6 DECEMBER 09:03, BY jur_likang_a_ likan’g Ater,Your mother’s passengers should be moving between, Bor and Yirol, Rumbek and Gogrial, Tonj and Thiet and not in the jungles of Equatoria. I assure you you will not succeed in your evil plans. Our rivers, mountains, Bees and animals dislike you on their lands. REPONDRE MESSAGE 6 DECEMBER 09:13, BY AterJur you are just but fool,what are still doing with the goverment.just join your rebels in the bush.dont talk while enjoining goverment allowances in juba. REPONDRE MESSAGE 6 DECEMBER 10:28, BY Akuma Jur,US is not World policemen, You better deal with your cases before they hook up their long nose into internal affairs.Why do US keep silent in Syria, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries. US is a disaster of the world under Obama admin REPONDRE MESSAGE 6 DECEMBER 09:06, BY Akook It is interesting how the US through her Security advisor keep supporting civilians murdering Juba government since Dec 2013 and at the same time pretends to champion human rights.Now US has been mobilising resistant and opposition within the region against innocent people who are putting up self defend against murderous dictatorial Salva Kiir regime REPONDRE MESSAGE 6 DECEMBER 09:05, BY Samsung7 All these are fabrications to spoil the image of the government. US is pushing for arm embargo that is why it came up with such rumors. Equatorians are killing Dinkas every day and no reaction from international community. If our land was created by God and not white, i hope God will protect it. REPONDRE MESSAGE 6 DECEMBER 09:06, BY Eastern Nonsense! The US is an accomplice in building the murderous tribal regime in South Sudan. It’s the US that manufactured this Incredible Haulk in the persons of Salva Kiir and Paul Malong. US all along ignored the subjugation of Equatorians in South Sudan. The US asked their lapdog Museveni to move into South Sudan to prop-Kiir’s regime even after the former killed nuers in Juba. The US is silent.. REPONDRE MESSAGE 6 DECEMBER 09:09, BY Eastern Cattle keepers herded into Juba, the Mathiang Anyor outfits raped American women. The half cast American president Obama remained silent and even promised to support the murderous SPLA through training. If America under this useless man Obama is not an accomplice to the heinous crimes in South Sudan, what’s he? REPONDRE MESSAGE 6 DECEMBER 09:22, BY TRUE WATCHDOG I agree with you Mr.Ater.US is just interfering with internal affairs of South Sudan when its not necessary for them to interfere.The move to quell lawlessness is bold and will keep the law in order.How can civilians be killed in public buses along the road by those criminals of Riek Machar and expect gov’t to keep quite? US should justify the reason to its unnecessary interference in our affairs. REPONDRE MESSAGE -- 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. 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