South Sudan President sacks army chief of general staff
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May 9, 2017 (JUBA) - South Sudan President Salva Kiir has relieved the
army chief of general staff, General Paul Malong Awan from his
position.
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President Salva Kiir, (L), accompanied by army chief of staff Paul
Malong Awan, (R), waves during an independence day ceremony in the
capital Juba, on July 9, 2015 (Photo AP)
Tuesday’s decree announcing the immediate removal of Malong did not
cite any reasons.
Awan has been replaced by the deputy chief of general staff for
administration and finance, Lieutenant General James Ajongo Mawut.
The relieve comes as the army have repeatedly been accused of gross
human rights violations, rape, atrocities and war crimes on civilians
in conflict-affected areas.
Awan who also recruited a notorious militia from his home region has
failed to crack down on abuses by the SPLA soldiers.
In February, during a visit to Yei River state, President Kiir
criticised soldiers accused of raping women and girls, stressing that
this is not the policy of the government.
"I want the general chief of staff General Paul Malong and the defence
minister to report to me from now on if anything like this (rape)
happens. In such a case, we will shoot the person who did it,"
stressed the South Sudanese leader.
On 3 May, SPLA troops were accused of attacking a UNMISS base in Leer
town in the former Unity State. The Security Council condemned the
attack and recalled that the responsible for such aggression "may be
designated for targeted sanctions".
The three-year conflict in South Sudan had driven more than one
million children out of the country, the United Nations announced
Monday, warning that the future of a generation is ‘on the brink.’
Also, President Kiir on 27 April cancelled a meeting at the army
general while he was en-route to the SPLA headquarters and returned to
the presidency after he was advised by the security not to attend,
multiple sources told Sudan Tribune that day.
It was not clear why the president changed his mind mid-way to the
military headquarters, sparking debates among government and
opposition supporters.
“We were on our way to Bilpam but returned mid-way because the
president was advised by the security to not go to the SPLA general
headquarters. I don’t know the reason and I have asked nobody. The
president was talking on the telephone and the driver turned the
vehicle when he finished talking,” confessed a presidential aide who
asked not to be named on that day.
Kiir’s decision was linked to the tension between the chief of General
staff, Paul Malong Awan and the director general of the internal
bureau of the security service, Akol Koor Kuc, both of whom have
presidential ambitions.
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9 May 23:46, by lino
Careful Mr. President, the real coup by Gen. Paul is coming up!!! Take care.
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10 May 00:18, by Eyez
The Bor Dinka’s JCE has finally managed to get rid of Malong,
anyway, it’s good riddance. But this will still not solve the problems
that the government has got itself into, as matter of fact, Malong and
the Mathiang Anyoors will go out in silence, which in itself is a
dangerous move.
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10 May 00:47, by anyanya1
Brother Eyes;
This people can’t see beyond their feet, it is a group of
mad people that can set their own house on 🔥 fire any time they want,
yes bro this time they will do it alone and let the rest see and
watch.
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10 May 02:39, by Kuch
Eyez, Stop your tribalist crap. Paul Malongdit has done
his job as expected of him. Your aimless armed rebellion is now in
tatters. Malongdit would just take another post else knowing that your
rebellion has been squashed. Ambushing innocent road users is not a
serious rebellion but banditry. Job well done Malongdit.
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10 May 02:52, by Kuch
General Ajongo, is a carrier army man and he is just
as tough as nail like Paul Malongdit. Just watch out though bandits
who have been ambushing and run will be tracked down and shown their
right places, jail or dead. Risk Machar fools were asked at the on set
of their aimless rebellion to stop it but they refused and thought
that their Western sponsors were to force him into power
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10 May 03:00, by Kuch
in our country, little does the fool knew that it
was going be imposible. Even some of his Equatorian supporters were
warned before hand not to join Riek Machar aimless armed rebellion
because it would bring war into their villages. But they refused to
heed the warnings and joined the rebellion.
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10 May 01:23, by Naath
The Dinka tribal gangs leader Kiir thinks that he has made good
decision by dismissing his tribal chief of staff but this would not
reduce the problem of his tribal government. This is the begining of
the crumbling of Dinka government.
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10 May 01:44, by john akeen
President Salva Kiir job as the first president of the country is
to set up good government and the laws for the people, but when he is
trying his best to do so, General’s and Minister’s they don’t want
that to happen, when president Kiir fires them from their positions,
they go around and tell people that Salva Kiir is not good, Salva Kiir
doesn’t like other tribes, so let’s go to fight him
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10 May 02:51, by john akeen
just like what Pagan Amum and Riek Machar and Taban Deng Gai
and Alfred Ladu and many more Generals and Ministers who got fired
from their positions for not doing their job right for the people.
when president Kiir fired them, they went around and telling people
that Salva Kiir doesn’t know anything, when people asked them why
president Kiir doesn’t know anything? They couldn’t answer,,,,
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10 May 03:22, by john akeen
but the answer was inside them, because he fired us from
our positions and we are going to put him and the country on fire
because of the decision that he as made. Now Malong might do same
thing, but he might not do that because he is not like those people
who put our country on fire for Riek. J1 war it was Riek Machar plan,
he planned that war is because he want to go back to renegotiate
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10 May 03:48, by john akeen
the peace agreement because president Kiir created 28
states and he sees that all the states that he supposed to control, it
doesn’t have enough resources for him to pay for the weapons that he
had loaned from Djibouti and Sudan and other countries that loan from,
he didn’t even care 2,500 of his army gonna die in that plan, he knows
very well that gov will not kill him bcuse of the UN and IGAD
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10 May 01:53, by junubi
that s worse decision ever
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10 May 02:52, by Don-Don Malith Rual
Relieving General Chief of staff,any body who is lay-off from
his position will still served the nation in other fields of his
profession.We should praises him the job well done during his
services,we should learn how appreciated each n thanks one another’s
while we ’re still a live.Gen.Malong have the heart for nation n will
be patience to wait for other post to served this nation with,each one
o
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10 May 03:03, by Don-Don Malith Rual
Each one of us got legacy when it comes to the nation
building and general Malong Awan is one of them,who can voluntarily
offered himself to served in that dangerous post n he did when
He served as the Gen. Chief of Staff.Count your
achievements if you have a heart for this nation,I wish u all the best
for your up-comimg new positiin,n hope u will do it with all yiur
heart likewise.All the best
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10 May 03:29, by Dinka-Defender-General
President Kiir, remember you are holding or sitting on your seat
before of General Awan. You have tendencies of firing the right people
and hire people you can manipulate or brainwash them to agree with you
on everything. You are going down very soon. You are the one who mess
up the country not Awan and you will see. You must go and the country
will be better.
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10 May 03:35, by Dinka-Defender-General
Continue...what have you done since you took the office?
Nothing. But Awah had tried to implement the top security, but you had
refused to cooperate. What are your plans for the country? Zero.
Therefore, you had failed us on everything including security, unity
among tribes, and many, many more. You need to leave the office
immediately and let other person takeover the leadership.
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10 May 04:23, by john akeen
You people need to comment logically. So what if General Paul
Malong Awan has been removed from his position, he doesn’t own any
position or office in the Government or in the public’s office, so
please stop acting like General Malong is the only strong man in the
country of South Sudan ok, there is a lot of strong people in South
Sudan too
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10 May 05:05, by Kuch
People are just fretting about nothing. Paul Malongdit has
successfully done his job as expected of him. The Riek Machar aimless
rebellion has squashed. The ragtags that often hit and run are not
anybody worry we will continue to hunt down the idiots wherever they
are. Some evils from the US are now urging Thomas Cirrilo to borrow
weapons from and come back fight the gov’t
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10 May 05:17, by Kuch
But that will be the end of the fool. This Thomas cirrilo
knows how the SPLA games with the criminals. I always say that the US,
the UK, the UN and the NGOs are our real enemies. They are salivating
for resources, but the evils will never get anything in our country
with these dirty intrigues of theirs. The hatred they evils have
wedged into our people through their regime change business have tri
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10 May 05:24, by Kuch
Triggered an absolute animosity towards the evil white
Americans, English people, their evil jews and some of criminals in
between. We just need to get rid of damn UNIMISS and everything that
is connected the corporate America, the UK and some of evils in
between. They are the evils behind this war in our country. I can’t
stand these evils>>>
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10 May 05:39, by Kuch
They have taken our country and our people
hostage. They are using the fool’s like their Riek Machar, Pagan
Amuom, Lam Akol or Thomas Cirillo as their bargaining chips and
blackmails to be welcomed into our country to come and loot it like
they are now doing in CAR, Libya or Iraq. Good luck to the evils.
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10 May 04:58, by Kush Natives
Rebels turned out in big numbers in the media dancing and smoking
weeds overwhelmingly happy like they’re the ones decree him out. Wait
a minutes,You will never see any division within the government,rather
than continuation of flashing you out thugs. Pack your back packs and
start hiding behind the trees! Malong will lead Mathiang Anyoor
alongside the army.
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10 May 05:57, by Sunday Junup
Malong awan a man of many wife is out of power now. Let wait if
Mathiang Anyoor will fight back but what I know so far I that, Dinka
love food and could not afford rebellion unless through Coup from Nuer
like what was done by Garang Maboir who made coup against Samuel Gai
Tut in Itang with help of Ethiopian government
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10 May 06:26, by Garang Akeen Tong
Our President Salva Kiir, you set fire on your own house, what a
shame? This is not a time, look now how rebel are celebrating in
social media, we are almost to free south sudan from rebel.
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10 May 06:48, by Uncle J
Now you see how our South Sudan people are so confusing, that time
when Paul Malong was empowered by President Kiir in a presidential
decree a lot of us were saying president Kiir has done good thing but
now it is the same president making changes. Why Paul Malong didn’t
make a coup when he was not assigned as chief of general staff? Let
him go ahead make the coup our president is waiting
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10 May 06:52, by Garang Akeen Tong
Am thankful to you Gen. Paul for your great achievement since you
took up that position.
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