Pres. Kiir and Jieng Council plan to hunt and kill General Thomas
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Feb/14/2017, SSN;
In the latest hysterical reaction to the bold and spectacular
resignation of Lt.General Thomas Cirillo from the SPLA ‘tribal’ army,
President Salva Kiir, in a top secret meeting with some special
members of his ethnic Dinka so-called Jieng council of elders,
resolved on the following resolutions:
1- To dispatch secret Dinka security agents to the neighboring
countries with the special mission to locate and assassinate General
Thomas Cirillo;
2- President Kiir ashamedly has offered millions of dollars whoever
can bring to him the head of General Thomas Cirillo, and finally;
3- President Kiir and his nefarious tribal advisers, in desperation,
have conspired and decided on launching a nefarious and genocidal plan
of killing members of General Thomas Cirillo’s tribe, the Bari
community. Already, as widely reported by other media sources, Kiir’s
tribal SPLA soldiers have been widely dispatched to all the areas
around Juba up to the neighboring East African states, to hunt down
and kill General Thomas Cirillo.
As reported by several media sources, the SPLA government soldiers,
desperate on the wild hunt for General Thomas Cirillo, raided Kobi
village on the Juba-Nimule road where they reportedly committed
massive crimes of raping on the women and many of these victims were
brought to Juba for treatment.
Gen. Thomas Cirillo precisely accused Kiir and his cabal of Dinka
advisers of turning the country’s military into a Dinka “tribal” army
that has taken part “in systematic killings of people, rape of women
and the burning of villages in the name of pursuing rebels in peaceful
villages.”
Stand by for more developments…
Lt.General Thomas Cirillo’s Heroically resigns from Kiir’s “Tribal
government:” What’s next?
FEB. 11/2017, SSN;
The best and the most popular top SPLA general, war hero and freedom
fighter, General Thomas Cirillo Swaka has finally decided to quit
today the so-called tribal government of South Sudan led by Salva Kiir
Mayardit. Below is his resignation letter:
To: President Salva Kiir Mayardit,
President of the Republic of South Sudan,
Commander-in-Chief, Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Army,
Juba, South Sudan. Dated: 11/02/2017
I, Lt.Gen. Thomas Cirillo Swaka, the Deputy Chief of General Staff for
Logistics, SPLA, hereby tender my resignation as Deputy Chief of
General Staff for Logistics, and from the SPLA.
It has been my honor and privilege to have served the people of South
Sudan during the liberation struggle and during the implementation of
the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) which led to the conduct of
referendum on self-determination and attainment of independence of
South Sudan. I am proud to have been part of the Liberation struggle
and generally in having served the people of South Sudan in numerous
military and political assignments over the last three decades.
I am resigning from the position of Deputy Chief of Staff for
Logistics and from the SPLA because of the following reasons:
1. I am convinced the violence which erupted in Juba in December 2013
and swiftly spread to several parts of South Sudan, in due course
becoming a devastating war, was planned and orchestrated by design.
This TRIBALLY engineered war resulted in the deaths of thousands of
innocent lives and the displacement of at least two million
people….mainly innocent civilians, women and children currently living
in miserable conditions either as internally displaced (IDPs),
virtually prisoners in the UN camps or as refugees.
In August 2015, after almost 2 years of civil war and suffering of the
people, the warring parties signed a deal, the ARCSS, brokered by
IGAD. Unfortunately, the Government of South Sudan deliberately
orchestrated violations of the peace agreements which led to fighting
in Juba in July 2016, total collapse of the Agreement and resumption
of war in the country.
2. I am dissatisfied and have lost patience with the conduct of the
President and Commander-in-Chief (C-in-C), the Chief of General Staff
and other senior officers in the HQS of the SPLA as well as Unit
Commanders. The President and these SPLA officers have systematically
frustrated the implementations of the peace agreements and pursued the
agenda of the JIENG COUNCIL OF ELDERS of ethnic cleansing, forceful
displacement of people from their ancestral lands and ethnic
domination.
I can no longer continue to be part of the ongoing destruction of our
beloved country by the same army.
3. The SPLA is supposed to be transformed and professionalized into a
national, non-partisan army as stipulated, however, President Kiir and
his Dinka leadership clique have tactically and systematically
transformed the SPLA into a partisan and tribal army. It’s a militia
loyal only to its tribal leadership of Pres. Salva Kiir and Chief of
General Staff, Paul Malong Awan. The SPLA has lost respect of the
South Sudanese people and even the International community. Worst of
all, it has shattered the dreams, hopes and aspirations of the people,
and it has taken the lead or participated in the systemic killing of
the people, rape of women and burning of villages.
4. Pres. Kiir and Jieng Council of Elders (JCE), which is the real
Cabinet of the Government, failed to recognize the sacrifices and
struggle of other nationalities and they even go to the extent of
denying the contributions of other nationalities during the liberation
struggle. The President and his tribal JCE have concentrated on
entrenching Dinka ethnic domination, turning other organized forces
and the SPLA into brutal tribal forces, terrorizing and intimidating
their opponents.
5. To implement the above policies, the President and his clique
systematically recruited Dinka in all security sectors and units,
paying particular attention to promoting and appointing Dinkas from
sections hailing specifically from Bahr el Ghazel region, the home
area of the president and Army Chief of Staff, Gen. Paul Malong Awan.
Most of these recruits are promoted to officer ranks and made
commanders of most SPLA units. The same for the Police, Prisons, Fire
Brigade, Military and National Intelligence, CID and Customs, all
commanded by Dinkas. By design, other nationalist revolutionaries who
fought the liberation war have been humiliated, demoralized and
effectively demobilized from the service.
6. Mathiang Anyor and Dut ko-beng tribal militias who have taken over
the SPLA have become an occupation force in some parts of the country,
consciously in pursuit of a policy of ethnic targeting and a campaign
of systematic rape, killing, mistreating, humiliating and torturing
civilians. All these done in a culture of impunity. Mathiang Anyor
have deliberately applied a policy of scorched earth by burning whole
villages and grabbing land, especially in Equatoria, Chollo land in
Upper Nile and the Western Bahr el Ghazel. For instance, during
December 2013 and July 2016 violence, these tribal forces, including
President Kiir’s own Tiger Division, brazenly went on the rampage
killing, rape, torture and looting systematically in an unprecedented
manner.
7. The continuous insecurity happening right now across the country is
caused by the SPLA militia and other ethnically organized forces and
security organs. They are the ones killing people in the capital,
Juba, and other towns in the name of ‘Unknown Gunmen.’ In fact, these
are ‘known gunmen.’ This is why many South Sudanese are fleeing to
become internally displaced or refugees. The President and the Dinka
political leadership only came out and condemned these kinds of
atrocities when Juba-Yei road incident took place in October because
the victims were from the Dinka ethnic group.
8. The SPLA militias and other security organs are looting government
assets and hijacking government vehicles and taking those stolen
properties to their states to use or sell, there is no remedy for the
aggrieved.
9. Innocent civilians, especially Non-Dinkas, are being arbitrary
arrested, detained and killed by the security organs all over the
country. Those detained are subjected to torture and humiliation in
what is called ‘Safe Houses.” In Jebel Luri, where the President’s
special residence is built, and in Gorum military area controlled by
Tiger Division of Kiir and the Mathiang Anyor militia, many innocent
detainees are dying in these “prisons” falsely accused of either
expressing opposing views or supporting rebels.
10. Until this time that I am submitting my resignation, many years
have elapsed without holding official meeting of Command of the Army,
especially after General Paul Malong took over command of the SPLA.
There is total collapse of the chain of command; the Commander in
Chief (C-in-C) and the Chief of Staff mostly meet in their own
residencies with close and trusted officers who are their tribesmen
(tribal commanders).
These officers are labelled as “Loyal Officers.”
*** Strangely, included in these meetings are some members of the
Jieng Council of Elders, (perhaps as ‘non-uniformed officers’-
essentially tribesmen directing or advising the army).
*** All the powers in the army are confined to the Chief of General
Staff who uses them to build and consolidate the military strength of
“SPLA militia” for implementing the “Dinka Agenda” of subjugating,
humiliating or destroying any of the other tribes who dare to stand in
their way.
*** The small number of SPLA soldiers are deliberately neglected,
without deployment, unarmed, even during emergencies.
11. Since 2005, after CPA was signed, most SPLA from non-Dinka (mainly
from Equatoria Region) are deliberately deployed out of Equatoria to
Bahr el Ghazel and Upper Nile regions.
*** As a policy, they have been kept out of Equatoria since the
signing of the CPA in 2005, and even denied leave or permission to
visit their families.
*** Those who have been in the Eastern Sudan from during the
liberation war and were subsequently deployed to Upper Nile, Abyei and
Bahr el Ghazel areas after the war, are still in those places up to
this moment.
*** They have lost contact with their families, children and parents.
Many have lost their lives in those wars after the CPA, during the
wars with Sudan, Gen. George Athor’s rebellion, the Cobra wars of
David Yau yau and the 2013 by the split within SPLM and the fight over
power.
*** Upto this moment, these dear sons of our nation who offered their
lives for the liberation and freedom of our people are being treated
in an inhuman way just for the sake of massaging the egos of a small
clique of people pursuing a futile agenda of tribal hegemony.
*** On the other hand, SPLA soldiers from the Dinka ethnic group have
been strategically deployed and posted in non-Dinka areas to support
the policy of land occupation and enforcing the agenda of forceful
DINKANIZATION and domination of the country.
12. This discrimination and crimes against humanity are committed not
only on non-Dinkas alone but also visited on the Dinkas who are
opposed to the policy of discrimination on ethnic bases and
destruction of the country. Such Dinkas are regarded as enemies as
well.
*** The policy of ethnic domination and subjugation being pursued
openly by the President and his close associates has made Dinkas to be
painted with the same brush by the other communities/nationalities,
without making distinction between the good Dinkas and the bad ones.
*** As a result, the Dinka community has come to be hated by their own
brothers and sisters from other communities. Pursuit of this
wrong-headed policy has also destroyed the fabric of South Sudan
society.
13. All this time we have been talking to and persuading the C-in-C
and members of the Army Command hailing from the Dinka ethnic group,
especially those who are known to be members of Dinka ruling clique,
to refrain from this tribally oriented policy that cannot promote
nationalism and unity, and which can only destroy the country to no
avail.
*** All these efforts went in vain as they have fallen on deaf ears.
Therefore, it has become important at this crucial moment of our
history not to continue working under the leadership of President
Salva Kiir that is intentionally subjecting the people of South Sudan
to unprecedented and unacceptable cycles of violence and human
suffering.
*** This type of inhuman treatment and the human agony it entails has
never happened before, even during the time when Khartoum was ruling
South Sudan.
14. IN LIGHT OF THE ABOVE AND IN CONCLUSION, YOUR EXCELLENCY, I WOULD
LIKE TO TELL YOU FRANKLY AND IN HONESTY THAT IN MY VIEW,
*****YOU HAVE DISGRACED YOURSELF AND THE OFFICE OF PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC.
*****YOU HAVE DISGRACED THE DINKA PEOPLE AND MADE THEM TO BE HATED BY
THEIR BROTHERS AND SISTERS FROM OTHER NATIONALITIES,
*****AND ABOVE ALL, YOU HAVE BECOME A DISGRACE TO OUR COUNTRY BECAUSE
YOU HAVE CONSCIOUSLY, WILLFULLY, PERSISTENTLY, DEFYING ALL SENSIBLE
ADVICE, AND BY DESIGN, FAILED THE PEOPLE OF SOUTH SUDAN.
Given the above reasons that are by no means exhaustive, I hereby
resign from the position of Deputy Chief of General Staff for
Logistics, and from the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA).
Signed……………….
Lt. Gen. Thomas Cirillo Swaka,
Deputy Chief of General Staff for Logistics, SPLA.
cc: Minister of Defense
cc: Minister of National Security
cc: SPLA Chief of General Staff
cc: Deputies of Chief of General Staff
cc: SPLA Inspector General
cc: Director of National Security
cc: Directors in the G/HQS
cc: Sectors/Division Commanders
cc: Specialized Units Commanders
cc: Gallant Women and Men of the Historical SPLA
cc: The Public
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False Millionnaire
February 11, 2017 at 10:11 pm
Is the declaration à product of his own personal conviction or
mouthed out for him by a manipulateur?
What had blinded him ever since the day Garang died that it’s now
he has become aware of Kiir as a,”disgraced” failed leader?
But he is still welcome to join the ranks of
other,”disgraced”,failed leaders like Kiir in the opposition.
And what do they do?
Lavishing on MTN hunting to take speedy steps on the road to hell
in the false hope of suing for heaven.
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KK
February 13, 2017 at 9:17 am
False M,
I do not see the reason of condemning General lamenting about
Garang’s death Blah Blah.
If you encode the words well and I quote ….many years have
elapsed without holding official meeting of Command of the Army,
especially after General Paul Malong took over command of the SPLA.
There is total collapse of the chain of command” end of quote.
Its obvious that where there are not routinely structured
meetings, gossips, fear and suspicion takes command. How can one find
a platform to voice his grievance? let alone being labeled rebel if
one does so. I can bet, if Thomas resigned here in Juba, he would be
killed or detained at least.
Talking about Garang: As human, he did have his weakness some
of us know including favoritism as well. if Garang was alive, perhaps
the worst would have happened between Dinka Bor and Dinka Bahr El
Ghazal, besides mortals are not to live for ever
Though its too early to speculate on the motives of the Gen.
One can be sure that his defection adds credit to the opposition, the
world “may” see the SPLA in another angle or even get convinced that
the rebels have a point.
Kir needs to do his homework and speedy work out a formula for
real peace lest innocent women and children will continue to suffer
under his watch and that is the shame.
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Nikalongo
February 14, 2017 at 12:58 pm
Mr. False,
The declaration I suppose is from the mouth of the General
himself. As a crock hunter you surely must know taking time to make an
informed decision in matters related to hunting crocks, is important.
Harbour no fear and suspicion like the rest. The General is neither a
politician with many lies under his belt nor a blood thirsty MTN
hunter. MTNs roaming Equatoria are as much victims of Riek-Kiir’s
thuggery and hooliganism as the rest of us. That a veterant soldier
should come to that conclusion is an indication of how low the
president and the SPLA have degenerated.
What next soldier? This I should think is the beginning of the
end for the regime and her political and military base in South Sudan.
>From this moment on, it can only go one way, downhill. South Sudan as
we have known it to, will never be the same again. That Kiir and his
henchmen will be vanguished is certain. As to what will happen next,
is a subject of speculation. For one thing though is clear. Tribal
tension and animosity is going to increase. Areas of Equatoria and to
be precised Eastern (minus the Nimule-Juba highway), Western and
outlying districts in Central Equatoria that are only nominally under
the regime will be the first to go. After that, who
knows…………………………………..
Is the Dinka human and material resources inexhaustible? No.
Of late, as supply of adults dwindles, Jieng children barely in their
teens have started to appear on frontline duties in Yei, Kaya, Bazi
and Kajokeji. That they will (Mathinag Anyoor/Dut kubeny) be able to
fight rebellions stretching all the way from River Singata in Kapoeta
to Source Yubu on the border with Central Africa Republic is a tall
myth. The Warlords and warmongers in Dinka and Nuer heartlands who
wanted South Sudan destroyed have at last won. But weep not, time is
coming and actually coming faster. Savage Kiir and buddy Brute Riek
will be consigned to the dustbin of history.
Like other soldiers (JB, HM, LK,..etc) of justice and honesty
before him, TC will be home with an open home. No Equatorian must soil
his/her clean conscience with the barbarism of murderes and thieves.
Soon our people will rise up in unison to sing one great song, sung
once with joy on Mr. Jones’ Animal farm. Here is a small bit of the
famous song…………..
Rings shall vanish from noses,
And the harness from our back,
Bits and spur shall rust forever,
Cruel whips no more shall crack.
May God bless and protect our people in their hours of needs
as they struggle to rid themselves of despotic tyrants, thieves and
murderers in Juba and Pagak.
Nikalongo
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Lokosang
February 11, 2017 at 10:38 pm
That is commander Thomas Cirillo that I personally know. He is
truly a revolutionary and visionary warrior that South Sudan and Sudan
has ever known. There is limitation for every thing. I profoundly
believed that commander Thomas has reached a boiling point that he can
no longer tolerate as he mentioned above. It is the same reason that
some of us become critiques of SPLM/A because it has become a tribal
organization. I believe that the resignation will turn into a
nightmare to those of Salva Kiir.
Time has come for all of us to unite to dismantle that tribal
organisation in South Sudan.
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Hardball
February 12, 2017 at 2:01 am
As long as the killing of innocent Dinka travelers continues on
Juba_Nimule road and Yei_Juba roads; it will take more than just
Thomas Cirillo Swaka resignation!
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Defender
February 12, 2017 at 6:19 pm
Hardball,
It is this mentality that drives people with credible interest
to save South Sudan leave this rotting system. If you only think that
Dinka are the only tribe that is dying, which seems to be the only
thing majority of you know. What you do think about the other tribes
that are facing murder and cleansing daily? Some of you who are just
following the tribal regime in Juba must understand that what Gen
Cirillo done is something that must be applauded by all South
Sudanese, including Dinka or supporters of this tribal leader called
Kiir. He has not provided anything that, we, as the peoples of South
Sudan could be proud of.
Now we are seeing, after the fang of the cobra bit the behinds
of many in the upper echelon of power in Juba, people are coming out
with all sorts of nonsense to tarnish the image of Gen Thomas Cirillo.
This old trick will not work this time around. You are only happy with
those who sleep in bed with but are not happy when they come and
expose your weakness.
So, death that is inflicted on many other ethnicities in South
Sudan is far and beyond what the Dinka are experiencing in the Juba
Nimule Road. This is not to say that the dead of one is better then
that of another. We just have to be forthright that those who are
currently in power, dominated by Dinka is pushing the country into
disintegration, the consequence of which some of you who are currently
pushing the limits of reason do not understand. The fight in Equatoria
if not managed carefully, will surely lead the sons and daughters of
this region to seek a way out of the current political arrangement
that has failed since its inception in 2005, after the death of Dr.
Garang (RIP).
The seeds of separation are actually sown by those who want to
dominate others and not the other way around. If you are someone with
thinking mind, recent history of our struggle should be an alarm for
you. We fought the north to free ourselves not because we just wanted
to separate. They made support our rights to be equal citizens was
suppressed. This is the same tactics that the Dinka Dominated
government is doing. This time, the struggle will not take that long
for the rest of the country to seek a way out of this cycle of
stupidity that the Dinka elite inherited from the North. Because in
South Sudan, everyone one has the potential and the means to amass
power, not only the government. This is something that the government
of the Dinka, for the Dinka must acknowledge. Otherwise, when the shit
hits the fan, the whole place will stink, the smell of which those who
are currently living in their comfort might not like.
So, my advice, let us recognize that what is happening in our
country is failure of the highest order by the leadership of Kiir and
his Dinka elite. We just need to rebuke them work together as citizens
of one country and ask Kiir and his Dinka group to leave power. If
that is through wide protest, such as the one that changed the middle
east or through support from international community, let us work for
that. Because continuing to protect Kiir and Dinka elite at all cost,
what will happen when they are not there? do you want to also feel as
a second class citizen like others feel know that the Dinka domination
is taking it ugly shape in every corner of our country? These are
questions that you and the rest who seek a spec in others’ eyes but
refuse to remove the log in theirs.
Just saying, in case you are not hearing, seeing or believing.
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Hardball
February 14, 2017 at 4:25 pm
Defender;
Here is the simplest commonsense you don’t understand;
when your people go on the road and killed innocent unarmed men women
and children that has nothing to do with the government and their only
guilt is that they are Dinka!? That’s not the thinking of any people
with sound minds. Are you even aware that those innocent Dinka you
killed; majority of them are against the government? They are
completely helpless in the same way you are helpless against that same
government? Who is going to be on your side when everybody turns
against you base on your actions?
Do you really think that killing on the roads are going to
solve the problem of killing that you said is happening to your
people? Absolutely not! Why because the more you do that kind of
killing the more your people are going to killed by revenge and that
cycle will continue and who do you think is going to prevail? Probably
the one with power! And who do you think is going to lose? You
probably know the answer.
Government killing armed rebels is not the same as killing
innocent unarmed civilians but when civilians Dinka response to your
game you are playing; make no mistake about it; it’s going to be
nasty!
Just imagine 100 armed Dinka who had their families were
murdered on those roads turned up for ultimate retribution or
vengeance and they said we don’t have to find any equatorian who is
guilty because our families were murdered when they were innocent. We
just have to take down anyone here in town to avenge our loves;
whether in the camps where your people are hiding or in any major town
in South Sudan; have you ever thought of that?
If your people are completely unwise; then let that kind
of killing continues until it blows up horribly in your faces and good
luck!
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Defender
February 15, 2017 at 3:38 pm
Hardball,
Mathiang Anyoor is not a national army, it is a tribal
paramilitary that is associated and financed by Malong and Kiir to
support the Dinka Agenda of Domination. So, do not confused the two.
They get all the funding to implement the Dinka Agenda of depopulating
areas that they want to take over.
The Killings that you are talking about did not start
on the highways, it started in Juba when your tribal government
started killing innnocent Nuers and any other person who do not tow in
line with the barbarism that was imported to Equatoria and other
non-dinka areas. So, the killings that are taking place in South Sudan
is not good either way. You cannot just highlight Dinka being killed
but ignore the death of others.
It is convenient for you to kill others and label them
rebels just for the purpose of clinging to power. If you are arguing
that the Dinka that are being killled in the highways of South Sudan
are opposed to the government, why don’t you use the same argument
when the government militia are butchering other tribes and call them
all rebels? You see, when you make an argument, try to have a wider
analytical skills so that you do not show your behind in the process.
Let us agree that the government of Kiir and JCE has
failed South Sudan and we must get rid of them so that we have a
better country that does not discriminate against people because they
are Dinka or any other tribe. If you kill others, expect to receive
the same. This is just the mentality that is prevailing in South
Sudan, which is a hallmark of Dinka and their policy to trying to
dominate others. It won’t work whether now or in the future. People
will resist it like what you have seen happening all over the country.
It is just a matter of time that the whole house of cards built around
this false premise that Dinka is this and Dinka is that.
To prove your point wrong, look at the areas that you
are running from (AKA your villages), see how you kill yourselves?
These deaths has not been created or organized by others. It feels
like Piranha (the fish in the Amazon that eat their own) in these
communities. The Apuk and Agouk, the Agaar and Aliab, just to mention
few tribes who are decimating each other. Do you have had any chance
of taking to chastise you community on the barbarism that they inflict
on themselves? You are just good at seeking to destroy places of
others and yours. The self-destructiveness that has been exhibited by
the Dinka has no parallel anywhere in the world, with the exception of
ISIS.
Read news that has been coming out of South Sudan that
Mathiang Aynoor has been rapping women in the villages and destroying
their properties. What you think about that? Does a national army of
any nation, even the khartoum regime during the war did not go on
widespread rampage rapping women and children.
Just accept that the Dinka culture is a culture of
violence and barbarism that will require them a long time to
understand to live with themselves and others.
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Hardball
February 16, 2017 at 4:21 pm
Defender;
First of all it’s your own assumption that
governments just go out there and killed innocent civilians who had
nothing to do with over throwing the government is just the thing
you’re pulling out of your behind and not the argument anyone with
brain would believe to be true! Now the question is; is that your “so
called analytical skill” you’re talking about that I don’t have?
Get this in your head loud and clear; if you think
Dinka is going to blinks because you’ll wait on the highway and bushed
unarmed men women and children and killed them. Well soon we will see
who will come to Juba and begged for peace not to kill one and other
anymore and those people will never be Dinka. And let see who will win
in the “Wild Wild West killing” in South Sudan!
We already have army escort process now on the
highways of Juba-Yei Road and Juba-Nimule highway and those who make
mistake to get killed today are those carelessly drives on their own
and ends up getting ambushed and killed so they can’t blame anybody.
The war is now civilians vs civilians and good
luck winning it in the near future.
Mading
February 12, 2017 at 2:26 am
Within government, high rank and top officials are doing big
disorder by drive a nation in wrong direction, miss leading the public
and later blame government? Who is government? President?
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Abel Magok
February 12, 2017 at 6:24 pm
Gen. Thomas Cirillo Swaka, was perceived as patriot spent the best
part of his age in struggle until South Sudan achieved its
independence the people have been longing for in about 50 years
struggle. I have read twice his resignation letter before decided to
write this piece.
In principle, resignation is the best political protest a true
leader could resort to but Gen. Thomas Cirillo’s letter does not
really give me such an impression of a true leader or even score
political points he means to, rather he appeared deceptive Gen. we
still do not know the motives of his resignation until this time, what
he will do next or the things he was doing in his position as Deputy
Chief of general staff for Logistic SPLA.
Yes our country is going in wrong direction and really need
nationalist leader who do not embrace tribalism and Gen. Thomas
Cirillo resignation would have been perceive genuinely if he wasn’t
used such tribal rhetoric in his letter of resignation. The General
does not distinguish Dinka in government and other millions of Dinka
who do not know what is going on there in government he was serving
in. All are suffering in South Sudan, and we have been reading news on
the Internet people left their homes in Bahr El Ghazal region to
Darfur searching for food.
I think Southerners are still remembering very well an Equatoria
Military Governor Peter Cirillo, in early 1980s, during Kokoro time.
Governor Peter Cirillo, the elder brother of Thomas Cirillo. was
the one orchestrated Kokoro then and spearheaded it. He was indeed
courageous in admitted his mistakes publically in Khartoum, 1990s by
saying he regrets for the people died in Kokoro, and wish if he awake
them from death. In such words, Peter Cirillo washed away what he have
done in Kokoro, and the news of his younger brother Thomas Cirillo
then joined the SPLA added more and Peter Cirillo in Khartoum, that
time was seen South Sudan nationalist leader.
The resignation letter written by Gen. Thomas Cirillo, and cited
tribal rhetoric as reasons for his exit from government look very much
like his elder brother actions in 1980s. Is it a wrong connection and
we can consider Thomas Cirillo different from his elder brother
Governor Peter Cirillo? of course not, science considered some fatal
genetic diseases run in the family. I am eager to know the next step
from the General who is currently outside the country.
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info@southsudannation
February 13, 2017 at 2:52 pm
The Cirillo Family of Heroes
Reply to Abel Magok,
With due respect, since you are a close follower of this
website, I would like to correct you on some historical distortions,
concoctions and misinformation in your comment.
1- The champion of Kokora then was President James Tambura,
among many others, including politicians from the Shilluks, Nuers,
Bari, but not General Peter Cirilo.
2- General Peter Cirilo became the first governor of Equatoria
region after Arab Sudanese president Jaafar Niemery implemented the
Kokora (division) of South Sudan in 1983, on his own merits of
popularity and qualifications.
3- General Peter Cirillo DID NOT ORCHESTRATE THE KOKORA. The
champions of Kokora were those of late President James Tambura, late
Mr. Eliaba Surur, late Dr. Samson Kwaje and many others still alive
that I cannot mention their names for their own safety.
4- As someone closely connected with that movement and time, I
and many like me, have never heard of your alleged so-called
confession or regret that you allegedly attributed to General Peter
Cirillo that was made in Khartoum. This is a concoction generated for
some people’s satisfaction.
5. General Thomas Cirilo explicitly and candidly enumerated
(read his letter again) all the problems that are now afflicting the
political dynamics in the country under the regime of Kiir and the
jieng council of elders (whatever it means?) True elders always strive
hard to bring harmony in a family or clan so that peace and harmony
prevail among brothers and sisters in a family. That’s not what these
evil and satanic JCE are doing!
6. Finally, just for your personal satisfaction, those two
sons of Mr. Cirillo Swaka (a hard-working and prosperous Bari elder
who was able to educate his children by his own labor), are heroes on
their own merits. Elder Cirillo, their father, was a pioneer
businessman who had one of the biggest kraal (muraa) of cows just
across the Juba bridge supplying milk and meat to Juba Town in the
1950’s and 60’s. He also employed many destitute Dinka to take care of
his cows then. (There was a big flood in the 50’s that drove many
Dinka from Bor and Aliab to Juba as displaced refugees, they were
generously accommodated by Bari Chief Andrea and the likes of Mr.
Cirillo Swaka, the father of General Thomas).
Incidentally, the two, General Peter and General Thomas are
generations apart. The eldest General Peter Cirillo bravely and
heroically fought the Anya Nya war from the beginning as a truly
dedicated freedom fighter. He is a contemporary of those of
ex-presidents Abel Alier and General Joseph Lagu. General Thomas
Cirillo, however, is of a later and younger generation, was also
imbued with the same nationalistic spirit and hence followed his elder
brother, Peter, whereby he greatly and heroically contributed in the
new liberation war under Dr. John Garang’s SPLM/A. I wonder if you can
imagine a similar family in your own community. Fortunately, there is
nothing like your so-called “fatal genetic disease” running in that
highly respected Bari family. That’s an acclaimed family of heroes.
Please, let’s all work together to see that the current
developments are mitigated and resolved amicably as brothers and
sisters in this accursed and condemned nation call the South Sudan.
Reply
Abel Magok
February 14, 2017 at 2:10 am
Editor: There is no misinformation need correction from
you in my commentary.
There are two components to this word (Kokoro). You are
talking about division of South Sudan into three regions, that in part
was done by James Tambura with those you have mentioned and other
names I know but you do not mention them, even late Eliaba Surur and
Samson Kwaje, were little reserved not heavily into it but sympathise
with it.
The part of Kokoro I am talking and connected with
Military Governor then Gen. Peter Cirillo, was the action of killing
Dinka who were still living in Juba, after the division, an action
similar to what has been going on in Equatoria roads where innocent
civilians are kill targeted base on their ethnicity.
It is good you yourself mentioned that Gen. Peter Cirillo
was the first governor appointed by Sudanese president Jaafar Nemirey
implemented Kokoro in 1983.
In the implementation of Kokoro you have said, Gen. Peter
Cirillo as governor permitted killings of Dinka who where still living
in Juba, and there is no any other governor in Equatoria, his name
connected with the killings occurred in Juba that time except Gen.
Peter Cirillo, and you should feel ashamed in attempting to deny this
realities that have not been long enough to be forgotten as relatives
of the victims those who know the people died are still alive.
Former Governor Peter Cirillo was courageously admitted
what happened by saying he regrets for the people died in Kokoro, time
and wish if he could awake them from death. During the Democratic
government of El Mahdi from 1986-1989 many southerners from three
regions were in Khartoum, idles just spent their time in Coordination
offices that stay crowded with people from morning to evenings and
Gen. Peter Cirillo made his statement in front of Equarotia
Coordination office in Khartoum.
He was an out spoken politician then wanted unity of Southerners.
It was not a bad thing from him to admit mistake happened,
what seems to make it bad now is the current resignation of his
younger brother Thomas Cirillo, with such tribal tone letter. It looks
like history is repeating itself here, the actions of Gen. Peter
Cirillo in Kokoro, with the tribal rhetoric letter written by younger
brother Gen Thomas Cirillo.
We still don’t know the motives behind Gen. Thomas
resignation as unconfirmed information are now out there in social
media talking about his embezzlement of $9 millions.
The letter written by Gen. Thomas showed low quality of
leadership when attempted to address non-Dinka, in Equatoria, Upper
Nile and Bahr El Ghazal, trying to stir them up against Dinka, that is
not the type of leader South Sudan need now. Yes, I agree with such
spirit of working together as brothers to sort things out in that
Country named South Sudan.
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Eastern
February 13, 2017 at 7:52 pm
Abel Magok,
No single true Equatorian has ever regretted about Kokora
which you continue to refer to as Kokoro! Kokora was a good thing in
that it sent the lazy folks to work hard for themselves rather than
lording it over others without any justifiable reasons.
I was a child when Kokora was rolled out but I admire those
who came up with that idea. It was the right antidote to laziness and
subjugation.
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Hardball
February 14, 2017 at 5:37 pm
Eastern;
The so-called Kokora was invented because of Equatorians
mediocrity to compete against Dinka when Dinka had the dominant over
business sectors and all the civil sectors all over Juba and elsewhere
in Sudan in the early 1980s when Arabs were valuing Dinka more than
your people in all work places. When your people find themselves
outnumbered in their region; they called for separation and that’s
what you can do if you’re the little guy with low self-esteem!
Of course those who are proud of Kokora are still the
inferior ones to compete against Dinka and if you were as equal as
Dinka; you wouldn’t be afraid to compete with someone you think is
equal as you are!
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Eastern
February 15, 2017 at 5:27 am
Hardball,
It’s great that you have summarised your naivety with
one word: OUTNUMBERED. Prior to the redivision of southern Sudan,
dinkas almost abandoned their inhabitable villages for the towns:
Malakal, Wau and Juba. The attraction to Juba for the Dinka was so
strong that they could take up any type of job – many dinkas during
that time became the primary source fir very cheap labour. They were
employed in the police force, emptying of bucket latrines, charcoal
makers, water conveyors, guards (ghafir), prison wardens, herding
cattle for the few Eqautorians who wished to keep cattle, etc. These
were some of the benefits of the dinkas having OUTNUMBERD the
Equatorians allowing the mainstream members of the region to continue
with their other activities.
The problem with the dinkas having OUTNUMBERED the
Eqautorians started when the Dinka elites in Abel Alier’s regional
government began putting illiterate cattle keepers in various
government departments all over the entire three regions and
especially in all the ministries in Juba.
Hardball, the problem with you is your pride in the
population size of the Dinka tribe but not its quality. Your
politicians in Juba often boast of this at the national so as to draw
national resources through the parliamentary seats allocated to them.
However these resources don’t reach all these folks who have
OUTNUMBERED the Eqautorians. Kiir needs to be stopped in his wake that
splitting the country further to give the Dinka more seat at the
national level so as to accentuate the supremacy of Dinka population
in South Sudan is a futile yet costly venture.
It’s a known fact the Dinka population in South Sudan
is sizeable but not its quality. The population is vulnerable to
various shocks some of which are man made (the incessant inter clan
feuds, cattle raids, revenge killings, etc.). The Dinkaland is endowed
with water resources which remain untilised – too much water unleashes
floods during rainy season and absence of it leads to prolonged
drought leading to livestock decimation. Talk of a large number of a
primitive community.
There was nothing inferior in calling for Kokora. It
was a noble call for sanity to reign in the land: all the bubble
created by churning all your tribespeople all over South Sudan
regardless is what they are able to do is nothing to take pride in!
Try something else, not gloating on this abnoxious scheme of
population size.
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Hardball
February 15, 2017 at 3:52 pm
Eastern;
Your comment would only be believable to people
who were never born and grew up in Juba but someone who was born and
grew up in Juba would be laughing at you! Here is the question any
genius would know whether or not you’re untruthful.
If Dinka were the ones doing those nasty jobs like
emptying the latrines buckets; would you really be saying Dinka need
to leave to their towns and villages because they took your jobs in
Juba? If you were smart enough Mr. Eastern you would have known better
that; that statement would be embarrassing to you and your people but
since you aren’t that bright you just let it out!
You Equatoria pretend to call yourselves civilize
but you have no idea what civilization means! To say you don’t need
other ethnic groups in the nation’s capital city is not thinking of
people who have any shred of civilization.
You can never hear any comment like that in Kenya,
Uganda, Congo, England, USA, Canada or any other country in the world
that you should tell other ethnic groups to leave their nation’s
capitol city to their own villages because you’re inferior to that
ethnic group to compete against them!
When is the last time you hear the “Massaai tribe
of Kenya in Nairobi telling the Kikuyu or the Luo to go to their
respective villages Kenya because they happened to take all the
important jobs in Nairobi? It never happened because the Massaai tribe
never consider themselves inferior to those tribes but they consider
themselves as equal as those tribes.
Please just learn to equalize yourselves with
other tribes that you think are better than you’re or else you’re
going to have a very hard time living next to them!
Steve John
February 15, 2017 at 3:58 pm
Hardball,
Well, if Kokora (not the jaang Kokoro) were invented
by Equatorians, then that was and is still justifiable as a means
toward devolving power to the people. Kiir has not done anything
different from splitting the country into now 32 states either.
Hardball, if indeed as you alluded, the jaang
dominated the business (private?) sector, there are sadly no current
indicators whatsoever to suggest the business acumen and
entrepreneurial skills the jaang have and manifested in their home
areas/states. Rather, much of the start-up capital for their dubious
companies was literally stolen or siphoned off from the regional govt.
Nothing in this regard has changed as shown by the “Dura Saga” of
2008-10 where 95% of all companies that swindled close to $3.2b were
jaang-owned .
Sadly, you again by implications want to suggest that
the jaang outnumbering the Equatorians directly translates into their
being “valuable” with the tyranny of numbers or
democracy=meritocracy.No this is wrong arithmetic and does not hold
here. If that were case, we would be seeing all jaangland leading in
all education, economic and social indicators. What we see are
disturbing numbers/rates of illiteracy, poverty, starvation,
underdevelopment, non-infrastructure etc..These records can be
obtained from the South Sudan Bureau of Statistics.
Even the “super rich jaangs” all never toiled or
worked hard to get these riches, rather much was simply stashed into
their hands by “govt benydits or bandits” if you wish.
We hope one day, we shall be measured not by the marks
on our foreheads, but by the contents of our heads. I remain here.
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Eastern
February 16, 2017 at 5:26 pm
Hardball.
Continue with your futile arguement, the house
(South Sudan) is on fire……!!!
Deng Monymor
February 15, 2017 at 7:19 pm
Easter,
What success did your Kokora creators achieve which might
require your naive imitation? What I remembered from said Kokora as
Able Magok mentioned is a kind of “prodigal son”‘s regret of your
leaders later when their empty dream stared them right in their faces.
If you want to learn how to be proud of something, I don’t think the
same kind of Equatoria song with this hateful force as it was in 1980s
would make you proud again because it did not then.
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Steve John
February 16, 2017 at 6:07 am
Deng Monymor,
You are the very jaang that have praised Kiir for
establishing more 32 states with a screwed view of having more jaang
states and hence more political leverage in the parliament. Funny
though, it is the very jaang that are contradicting and refusing to
acknowledge the benefits of Kokora because it was Equatoria led. By
the way, KOKORA was and is the precursor to the current 32 states. The
current political situation can only suggest one thing namely; the
entrechnment and non-reversal of status quo. I must admit, I have
absolutely no interest to work or even live in any jaang state,
equally so, I see no need at all to have any jaang working in my
state. You just get back to your state; develop it as you wish and I
too, have the liberty as an Equatorian to freely live in my state and
to develop myself as I wish. That is not difficult to understand or?
Kiir has revived Kokora and that is good.
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Deng Monymor
February 16, 2017 at 8:12 pm
Steve John,
Your suggestion that “Kokora was and is precursor
to the current 32 state” shows your political retarded stance beyond
any correction. It should be clear to you that Kokora was not about
states for the state sake, but it was about segregation of ethnic
groups into their self-contained states. If it were about more states
as you suggested, why killing Jieng (Dinkas) who were living in Juba
at the time which Governor Peter Cirillo regretted afterward?
Logically, it doesn’t make sense to any thinking person except people
like you and Eastern.
Now, when you say “I must admit, I have absolutely
no interest to work or even live in any Jaang state, equally so, I see
no need at all to have any Jaang working in my state, ” are you not
contradicting yourself? You seem to refuse what you want! Pretty
strange, isn’t it not? What I was cautioning Kokora glorifiers about
was not to sing song that had failed them before because it will fail
again, big time. I personally believe South Sudan is a nation for all
who want to live and compete in whatever they do in any state they
choose; nobody should decide for any South Sudanese where they like to
live because of their ethnicity. If you want to contain yourself to
your Naath nation that would be your choice. For me I live wherever I
want. I feel comfortable living among Naath people, Equatorians as
well as any other South Sudanese communities; in fact, I speak a
commendable Thoknaath (Nuer language) as a result of this unlimited
South Sudaneseness. So corner yourself to your own state and your
brain will show your benefits as it does through your writings.
For your information, Equatoria is not a tribe; it
is a geographical area like other area within a nation.
Eastern
February 16, 2017 at 2:55 pm
Deng Monymor,
Read my comments and internalise it; I am not
appearing anybody but I am being brutally honest…..
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arabbmoi
February 12, 2017 at 6:52 pm
Please Isaac Mamur Mete be humble to follow our brother Lieutenant
general Swaka sooner than later. please find your own venue to do so.
I know your one of our hero. Jeing had put you in prison for no
apparent reason at all. We need you to keep yourself in good safe
place in prior of this revelation that Thomas stated above. You those
angry Jeing tribal gangs are always vengeful. They do not consider you
one of their own, you know more than we do. Thanks you Thomas.
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Peacemaker
February 13, 2017 at 8:23 am
Gen. Thomas did the right thing. His resignation letter tells us
more about the reasons why he quit and no one has the right to
question him. After all is there any army left to serve?
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Roberto Kosongo
February 13, 2017 at 8:28 am
Dear Thomas Cirillo,
You have made the right decision. Kiir and his Evil Jieng Council
of Elders are extremely tribal. They have low self-esteem. They never
accepted who they are. They think with power and dominance of others
they can become like other communities. They believe in power and they
will never relinquish it voluntarily. So this is not a political issue
any more. It is a matter of survival and we as Equatorian and other
communities in South Sudan must do whatever it takes to survive. No
one in this earth has the right to deny us life.
Roberto Ksosongo ( Bana Equatoria )
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Thon
February 13, 2017 at 11:52 am
Thomas Cirilo rebelled long time ago. The question is : who is
next among Bilpham generals? The fifth column dominated the army top
positions for long. Thomas is no different from Oyai, Hoth Mai, Mac
Paul, Peter Gadet, James Koang, and Johnson Oliny. I expect more of
the generals in Bilpham to join the rebels and then come back as
ministers.
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Steve John
February 15, 2017 at 4:00 pm
Thon,
Gen. Thomas Cirillo RESIGNED and not REBELLED. There is a
fundamental difference here.
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Thon
February 13, 2017 at 11:55 am
I mean Thomas is no different from the rest of generals who
rebelled and killed the army soldiers they once led. What a shame????
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Eastern
February 13, 2017 at 7:45 pm
Thon,
Thomas Cirilo is a genuine three star general. He’s left Kiir
to join his contemporaries outside Bilpham. Kiir can make do with the
remaining militia generals to continue waging his futile war of
attrition.
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Chief Abiko!
February 13, 2017 at 7:00 pm
Dear:All of Us The Fellow Members(SSN)
General Thomas Cirilo,acting wrongly!His resignation,does not make
any good sense totally! He is being brainwashed by wrong South
Sudanese politicians! Him,by himself,he knows that there are Dinka in
President Salva Kirr tribe,in the South Sudan,they do not like his
administration at all!
Anyway,it is own decision he came up with! South Sudan
government,will never and ever enjoy PEACE! POLITICS WILL DESTROY THE
COUNTRY TOTALLY!!!!
SINCERE HEALING KILLING!
Abiko!
Missouri,USA
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mading
February 13, 2017 at 9:02 pm
Arabbmoi. People like you have nothing to offer to South Sudanese,
why don’t you just short up for a while ?
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LOJORE
February 13, 2017 at 11:53 pm
Waaaa Interesting
For sure Thomas was a patriotic and a Hero who had broken the back
of Jalaba in Juba in 1991 but even though you are a hero conditions in
south Sudan can break your back
Being deputy Chief of staffs for training and Logistics he was in
a place where great amount of temptation can choke you according to
news from jubaThomas was already out of the country for almost three
months ,many people were sent to let him come and report to work he
said he is still sick but according to news from bilpam there was a
great amount of corruptions in his office going on as a result an
investigation had been going on and nearly 51 officers were arrested
but Thomas left the country while investigation being conducted,
logistic from food supply to military equipments were diverted to
personal use.
So if he defects and joins SPLA IO it would had been defferent but
it look like these allegations might be correct that’s why he just
left the army and but is like suicide because he doesn’t have any
future in south sudan.
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David Lokosang
February 14, 2017 at 1:48 am
Mr Mading, I thing you might not have read the entire resignation
of general Cirillo or you have language problem to understand the
content of the general’s letter. Either of the way, let me quote to
you point number12 of general Thomas letter and read it carefully may
be you can come to your sense which has blind folded by tribal
direction. It reads ” This discrimination and crimes against humanity
are committed not only on non-Dinkas alone but also visited on the
Dinkas who are opposed to the policy of discrimination on ethnic bases
and destruction of the country. Such Dinkas are regarded as enemies as
well”
*** The policy of ethnic domination and subjugation being pursued
openly by the President and his close associates has made Dinkas to be
painted with the same brush by the other communities/nationalities,
without making distinction between the good Dinkas and the bad ones.
*** As a result, the Dinka community has come to be hated by their
own brothers and sisters from other communities. Pursuit of this
wrong-headed policy has also destroyed the fabric of South Sudan
society
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arabbmoi
February 14, 2017 at 3:45 am
I do not have to short up ( shut up) brother Mading. Kiir is
messing up our country by promoting his DEinka Mathiang Anyor militia
in our land Equatoria to kill our people in cold blood. General had
made a good move. We just have a meeting today here in Kapeota to
determine to ask governor Lobong why there are many Dinka polices
Controling Nadapal border as if there are no other tribes to do the
job. No Topasa police is either. Topasa are complaining Dinka are
occupying their grazing places like Narus Natinga and Himan. Lobong
was told not to trust his in laws otherwise he will just be fired like
rest of governors that had Kiir fired citing the case of recent
Imotong governor. Topasa Adviced Governor to be careful as things are
unfolding in Juba not be a tribal gangs victim. WANI SHOULD HAVE TO BE
MAN ENOUGH NOW. NO MORE BABA JAA BABA JAA ALL THE TIME. MAMUR MAKE
YOUR MOVE NOW,
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Hoiloom
February 14, 2017 at 2:12 pm
Nikalongo,
Leave Nuer alone, please. We did not ask Thomas to resign from his
position as a deputy chief of staff@Bilpam. The war that started by
targeting Nuer civilians in Juba while some of our patriots stood by
and cheered on, not knowing that their turn would one day come is now
reaching every community in RSS. Some of my Jaang cousins who think
that Bhar el Gazal is a safe haven would soon be in shocking mood.
Hoiloom
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mading
February 14, 2017 at 7:06 pm
Lokosang. I read the whole thing for your information, the Dinkas
General are talking about are the like of Mabior Garang and his mama
Nyandeng who are jealous by the change of the leadership, that is all.
The others are ones who have been fired who want to get back to the
government by all means. Lokosang your hatred of Dinkas have blind you
so that you see Dinkas are majority in the county, that is why they
are more in the government. I just want to let you know even if you
become president today, you have to deal with more Dinkas in your
government or you will face discrimination problem in your leadership.
To Arabbmoi, you remembered when Equatorians who were working in
Dinkas land were chased a way by angry Dinkas youths in their home
towns after 2016 Dinkas massacred by your people between Yei-Juba road
? That is what is going on in your state now, you may not know that
there are more Topasa employees in Dinkas land, and that is what is
going on with out your knowledge.
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Chief Abiko
February 14, 2017 at 9:17 pm
Dear: All Of Us
You can see now.The government,has defend itself! It has
said,General Thomas Cirilo, case was on scandal issue! He absconding
justice to face! The reasons that he had outlined in his resignation
letter,some are true to the best of my understanding.And some are not
true to the best of my understanding.For example,he said,President
Salva Kirr is enlisting his fellow Dinka alone in Army SPLA without
inclusion of other people from another tribes in the South Sudan.
Again,he said,him,President Salva Kirr,sending his fellow soldiers in
non Dinka areas. But,during in the Sudan government in central in
north in Khartoum,army soldiers,can be posted in part of the Sudan
territory in the homeland!
Except policemen men and women.They wer remain in their home towns
in the country inside the Sudan. I do not know,if the South Sudan have
a POLITICAL CONSTITUTION that can allow army SPLA in different places
in the South Sudan
SINCERE HEALING ANGER!
Abiko!
Missouri,USA
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The Republic
February 15, 2017 at 3:29 am
Mading,
I understand selective hear is a problem that many of us counter.
As evidence and consequence you forget to understand the overall
message that General. Thomas Cirila and many in this forum try to
convey. Instead you pay more attention to the name and not the detail
of the conversations. Allow me to lay this clearly to you, Dinka
cannot rule south Sudan and be in peace, Nuer will not rule south
sudan and leave, and finally Equatoria will not rule south sudan be in
peace. This Republic will survive only if we stop feeding our egos and
put the interest and well being of the Republic before individual
group. The Republic and the rule of law must be above our individual
interest for the republic to flourish…
I am the Republic,
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Kwacha
February 15, 2017 at 9:19 am
Bravo General. I don’t think there is a country like South Sudan
in this modern world with Daily systematic looting of government
money, Daily robberies by the army, Daily raping of women by the SPLA,
Daily killings by unknown gun men, Theft of millions of money in
government institutions including the office of the President,
Parliament etc. .. while the President keeps quiet
With all the wrong advisors of JCE, the economy is collapsing and
services are diminishing.
Shame!
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Chol Deng
February 15, 2017 at 2:20 pm
Lul has turned himself to a Primary school boy who speaks without
analyzing what he says, and he is being fooled to fool majority fools
that Thomas is corrupt so his resignation is not valid. Reading
between lines you realize that actually the level of the alleged food
stolen or not reaching stores and fuel / lubricants stolen from stores
is actual not a responsibility of such a distinguished Gen. who heads
a whole directorate of Logistics if Lul has a point then we will be
compelled to think that our taxes and oil money is wasted by those we
entrusted to protect us. Anyway the Gen. has left instead; let’s think
on how to correct what the Gen. has said regardless of who we are
because at the end of the day we need to rout out corruption in South
Sudan. I am sure if the story of Lul is any thing to go by then, its
should mean many things;
• That the SPLA does not have a very basic record keeping such as
receiving and storing of items
• There is no accountability of junior staff to senior staff
before reaching to deputy chief of staff
• The story is a white lie to count accusation and hence what the
Resigned Gen said is true
• The command chain of SPLA in directorate of Logistic are
illiterates officers
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Chief Abiko Akuranyang Tangwo!
February 15, 2017 at 4:18 pm
Dear:Mading
I have seen before the First Lady Rebecca Nyading De Mabior.She
was a HUMBLE PERSON with a good heart given to hear by God! Who gave
the power of his Late husband leadership Dr.John Garang De Mabior to
incumbent president Salva Kirr?!!! because it was her! How can she be
jealous for you at this point???!!
Remember that Dr.John Garang De Mabior,removed Salva Kirr from
SPLM/SPLA in the movement.Him,Salva Kirr,was left a civilian! She was
the very person,who worked to unite the movement in struggle after the
debacle of 1991.Again, she safed million lives of South Sudanese in
north during tragic accident of her husband in helicopter plane crash
of Ugandan presidential plane. She calmed the nation from being
running into bloodshed! Otherwise,Southerners in north,would have paid
a terrible price!
Now,you said,she is a jealous person and with her son Mabior
Garang! All in this crisis in the country,if she be allowed to
contribute,she will make a peace possible in the country in the South
Sudanese.Trust Me! But,President Salva Kirr, is marooning (isolating)
her in the government affairs in the country! I am endorsing her if
she going to run one time in office of presidency! Thank you! No
grudge and no hard feeling attached! Freedom is freeddom of
expression!
SINCERE HEALING LYING!
Abiko!
Missouri,USA
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mading
February 15, 2017 at 6:29 pm
Republic. I agree with you brother or sister, but others don’t
understand that what you said is the only way out of our mess!
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Eastern
February 16, 2017 at 3:02 pm
What the so-called Republic stated is easily understood but
it’s utopian inthe South Sudanese context. When the Dinka (a single
tribe) us in power, they want to Lord it over the rest because they
“liberated” the country. They have to take the lion share of
everything and anything in the country because Dinka participated the
most in the liberation struggle, blah, blah….
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Bala
February 15, 2017 at 7:21 pm
In traditional hunting games, hunters think about animals they
want to hunt down. They think of the habitats where such species are
most tikely to be found. In the primitive age where the best choice of
weapons could be spears and hunting dogs in some cultures, the hunters
grab those spears, call their dogs along and set out for the wild. The
hunting humans follow trails which the animals left on the tracks
while their dogs do sniffing,tracing and searching. Where the grass or
bush is thick in the middle of barrens and people are not sure if the
animals are hiding in it, the humans and their dogs can approach such
a place in stealth to avoid animals hearing them and runaway out of
range. Once they have got there, the humans will either choice to
disturb the grass with noises or set it ablaze and wait ready to take
actions against some games that may start running off from it. Well,
this analogy fits this article saying the government has sent out its
military on a manhunt to catch or kill Gen. Thomas Cirillo Swaka and
that a bounty price is placed on his head. General Swaka has been out
of the Country since December last year. The government is aware that
he was under investigation for alleged corruption with 51 other junior
officers who work in the same logistical department with him. General
Swaka is not the only senior official who has ever resigned or
implicated in the corruption allegations but many others did but none
was ever killed. It shows that the government has never ever have
plans to liquidate those who choose to resign or accused of
corruption. The government is rather happy for the accused to clear
their names in the court and be admired for his or her innocence. The
article is simply an agitprop to designed to disturb the bush to see
the reaction of the government while at the same time meant to create
a conflict where it doesn’t exist between the government against
General Swaka and his Bari people. In other words, the writer of this
article is a rebel’s propagandist who is so desperate to see Gen.Swaka
become an ethnic rebel with his people so there is endless bloodshed
in Juba where security has improved. There are many Bari people in the
government who are as important as Gen. Swaka and remember he has
resigned voluntarily and the choice he made is no reason for violence.
Besides, there is nothing as the Jieng government and Jieng army. The
government of national unity is what is running the country and it
multiethnical.
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Holotype Kor
February 15, 2017 at 11:56 pm
Hi Mr Bala,
Please, help me! I just laugh so hard reading all over the place pastage.
Really, what are you writing? I failed to get your message, laterly, I am so
confused by you! Or, it’s obvious, it is the South Sudan things
and the thinking
And that is what it is (and it’s particularly a “J” or a “D” thing.
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mading
February 16, 2017 at 6:59 pm
Chief Abiko. I know what I am talking about, may be you should
take some classes regarding SPLM-SPLA history. Salva Kiir was no 2 in
the movement after many changes in the SPLM that you may not know, so
when Garang died, he Kiir automatically became SPLM chairman. So
Nyandeng never gave him anything for your information, also if you
want to give credit of deed, give it to Kiir, who stood with Garang
when people like Riek Machar wanted to remove him from power in the
bush before, now Kiir became a red devil of Garang Mabior,s family
now, and if it not been for him, the legacy that Garang is enjoying
now even if he no longer with us today would have been destroy by
power hungry spoilers like Riek, Adwok, and Lam Akol.
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