Former SPLA chief of staff says he would not respond to provocations
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Paul Malong arrives at Juba Airport 13 May 2017 (ST Photo)
June 20, 2017 (JUBA) – The former South Sudanese army chief of general
staff, General Paul Malong Awan said on Tuesday that he was aware all
the ill-treatments being given to those loyal to him were a ploy to
provoke reactions.
“I know the intentions. They are looking for reactions but let’s not
do it in their way. If we do so, we will have helped them achieve
their objectives,” said Awan.
He did not cite the names of his supporters who were being mistreated
and who was mistreating them.
Last May, South Sudan President Salva Kiir relieved, Awan from his
position, among unconfirmed reports that the security service suspects
him and his close aides of preparing a coup against Kiir.
Observers in Juba say Malong comments hint to the denied request to
return to his area of origin in the Bahr el-Ghazal province and the
replacement of all the officers who left with him after his sack.
Mor’e recently, the security service arrested a presidential guard
officer who is seen as one of his supporters.
Last week, first Lt Lual Akeen Akken Akec was arrested by national
security services. The cause of his arrest remains speculative. His
whereabouts remains unknown to his relatives since his detention.
Relatives and security sources have been providing conflicting
information. Relatives have attributed the cause of his arrest to “a
well-designed plan aimed at removing him from the presidency and other
key strategic and influential positions in the military office, along
with those who have a close connection with Gen Awan.”
Brig Gen Jel Mangok Jel and Yel Deng Nguel, two of the officers who
left Juba in May with Gen Awan before to be forced to return to Juba,
have reportedly been unable to get permissions to travel home to Aweil
or travel abroad to visit their children at school in Uganda, despite
having made numerous requests.
Major Gen Akec Adim, who was the overall head of the military police,
has been sacked from his position during recent command changes made
by the new SPLA chief of general staff, Gen. James Ajonga.
Local politicians previously seen loyal to Gen Awan in the states of
what was the former Northern Bahr el Ghazal State - before splitting
into two separate administrative units through a 2015 presidential
establishment order - have also been removed from their positions.
Aweil State Governor, Ranald Ruay Deng, the Speaker of Aweil East,
Akoon Diing Angok, Security Advisor, Bona Makuac Mawien and Political
Advisor James Jok Lual, all were in the government of Aweil East State
have also been removed from their positions.
Other low-level military officers and officials loyal to Awan also
appear affected by the changes.
(ST)
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21 June 04:30, by Eyez
Hahahaha, now Malong Awan is feeling the pressure of the dictator,
the King of Doom is now a lame duck. You used to kill at will and
you’ve destroyed the livelihoods of so many innocent citizens through
your infamous Mathiang Anyoors, but soon you people will start eating
yourselves like fish in the sea.
Shit has turned back to you like a boomerang, and it’s called
KARMA....period.
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21 June 05:43, by Kush Natives
Eye1,
This is the hill thinking comment and desperately hope we are
talking about. King Paul Malong is really patriot, You can see by the
way discovering things that are made up by the enemies of peace. You
the rebels are unable to topple the government through your damn and
sick brains, so now you’re running like dogs with drainage bone. Why
mobilizing king Paul Malong? Do you think King Paul is
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21 June 05:44, by Kush Natives
>con_stupid animal like the rest of you?
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21 June 05:51, by Kuch
Eyez, this are usual SUDAN TRIBUNE lies chap. Do you fellows
think, Paul Malongdit is an idiot to utter those nonsense to the
lowlifes of SUDAN TRIBUNE creeps? South Sudanese with brains respect
Paul Malongdit. He is a true South Sudan’s patriot who know what he is
doing. And not like some of you internet warriors & lazies who have
never ever smell the stench of gun powder>>>
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21 June 06:42, by Eyez
Kus Native
I have said it again and again and again that, I don’t
have time for your useless ranting, it’s utter nonsense which I don’t
have time to entertain. So go grab a knife and kill yourself, because,
until you learn how to write properly and comment maturely, to me you
are just like an angry illiterate kid who is crying out for attention,
full stop.
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21 June 06:54, by Kuch
all their lives, but all they do is to call the veterans
like Paul Malongdit, Salva Kiir, Michael MaKuei, Jieng council of
elders (JCE), Manthiang Anyoors, Dinkas/Jenges this & Dinkas/Jenges
that. Fools, we are going to bomb your sponsors out of our country by
force & we will not want any rubbish to come to South Sudan back again
& claimed to be a South Sudanese>>>
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21 June 06:59, by Kuch
Read these links
fools:https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwix0u-lk87UAhXCJ5QKHctWDcsQFgg9MAM&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pbs.org%2Fwgbh%2Famericanexperience%2Ffeatures%2Freagan-iran%2F&usg=AFQjCNFvKqg0X18j6PjjBUEsIz1ogzUijA
https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=17&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjevO3Jk87UAhUMm5QKHerMC_sQFgiCAT
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21 June 06:41, by Eastern
Eyez,
Excellent comment; let him lick his wounds...You have made my day.
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21 June 06:31, by Tilo
When you had the power you act like King and what ever u want,
while forgetting that your turn is at the verge. A dictator will
always be a dictator. Once your loyalty ends he has nothing todo with
you.
Now p’ple should learn from malong’s Incident, those who are in
the office today there time will end also and they will be treated the
same like malong including "KUR" [presidential Adviser].
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