SPLA forces gain control of South Sudan’s Kaya town
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Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) soldiers walk along a road in
Mathiang near Bor, on January 31, 2014 (AFP Photo)
June 23, 2017 (JUBA)- South Sudanese army (SPLA) Friday has gained
control of Kaya town in Yei River state on the border with Uganda,
confirming previous reports of clashes in the area between the
government forces and the fighters of Sudan People’s Liberation
Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO)
A high-ranking military officer who declined to be identified because
he is not authorised to speak with the media told Sudan Tribune on
Friday that their troops have finally entered Kaya after several
months of on and off fighting with armed opposition forces.
“We have just entered Kaya this afternoon. There was no fighting. We
arrived peacefully from Yei town. The situation appears to be
normalising and this is why we came to open the road," said the army
general.
"We will be coordinating our operation with colleagues from Uganda
defence forces who will be stationed on the side of the border. Our
security strategy and plans of action will be coordinated," he further
said.
A legislator representing an area covering Kaya at the National
Legislative Assembly in Juba said he received reports from local
people that a heavily armed convoy of more than 10 vehicles had
entered Kaya on Friday afternoon after a platoon of soldiers first
entered on Thursday through the Yei-Kaya road.
It is the first attempt of the government forces to use this road
after months of clashes and attacks.
Also, it is not clear why the movement of the government forces did
not encounter resistance.
Several observers attribute the development to the split of the
opposition group in the area, as some former rebels defected to the
government side and others decided to hold out and keep their troops
in defensive positions at South Sudan- Democratic Republic of Congo
border.
The Yei River state information minister and the SPLA official
spokesperson did not make any official statements about the
development in the newly created Yei River state.
The South Sudanese President Salva Kiir declared a unilateral
cessation of hostilities but his army on the ground continues to wage
war on the armed opposition in a bid to consolidate the government
position when the IGAD mediators call for a forum to revitalise the
implementation of the peace agreement.
The UN peacekeeping chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix told the UN Security
Council this week that despite the presidential ceasefire the SPLA
continues to carry out attacks in various parts of the country.
"In the north, the SPLA has dislodged Opposition forces from their
strongholds on the west bank of the Nile River. In the East, it has
taken towns in northern Greater Jonglei," he said
Lacroix added that in the west, clashes between Government and
Opposition forces around Wau forced some 22,000 people to take refuge
with the UN mission. While the fighting in the southern part of the
country has left towns in the Equatoria with as little as 10% of their
previous populations.
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24 June 03:11, by Kush Natives
Bravo SPLA for entering Kaya town peaceful! This is a part of
national dialogue. Let’s keep the same spirit of the peaceful solution
to our problem.
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24 June 07:05, by Eastern
SPLA-IO had not captured Kaya but BESEIGED it for months now.
Don’t get exited when you realise later that the entry of the Mathiang
Anyors into Kaya was not a triumph you can jubilate about....
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24 June 19:31, by jubaone
Eastern,
Fact us The SPLAnyors used the Moyo-Bamurye route with
facilitation of UPDF and not the Yei to Kaya route. These nyors would
have met with resistance at Gulumbi-Morobo b4 entering Kaya. Those who
know thus route can testify. Anyway, if these bastards are in Kaya,
it’s just time to starve them out after all our our civilians are out.
Struggle will continue I’m very optimistic. No peace!
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24 June 20:04, by South South
Jubone,
I am laughing at you loser, just Shut up and raise
your hands. We matched to Kaya in the middle of the day, period. We do
not want to hear those nonsense and excuses in Internet. What do you
mean by "fact us", is this new English praise from well educated
Equatorial old man?
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24 June 20:35, by jubaone
South South,
That us the most humiliating thing to surrender to
a savage jienge. That is like a monkey turning up to speaking human
language. These bastards are an occupation savage army that is
desecrating our holy Equatoria lands and it’s our moral duty to fight
them. These rapists are simply their to spread their HIV that’s why
we’ve to take our women out so we fight mab2man.
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24 June 20:43, by jubaone
South South,
After working on you for the last few weeks, I see
that you have become more observant, critical and careful in writing
your articles. Great. If we didn’t work on you, you’d still remain the
jienge savage and unreachable numb skull. You just walked into Kaya,
so what? If you fought and drove the IO, then you would brag.
But...satisfies the jienge ego who desperately need success story
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24 June 19:40, by jubaone
Eastern,
I thought we had tamed South South the savage till this
piece of news that he then resurfaced. We worked well on him. But yet
another jienge Lenin Bull (could be he’s obsessed with cows and just
thinks like one). Well,IO drove these bastards out of it, but didn’t
occupy it. That wasn’t the strategy in the first place, so the
bastards have returned and again IO will send them off. So the
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24 June 09:14, by Newsudan
Kush
Rebels thought that SPLA is of 1980s,when they were fighting
alongside SAF of 100000 troops accompanied by 90000 militias supported
by helicopters, gunships, antinovs,bombers but SPLA was able to fight
back,now what make them underestimate the SPLA, closer to conventional
army.
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24 June 03:17, by South South
Eastern,
Please do not correct my English here. I know you are very advance
English learner. Past tense of word "to learn" is "learnt or learned".
You do not know that "to learn" has regular and irregular past. Hum!!!
Very smart Equtoria well educated. KAYA is ours, what say you baby?
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24 June 03:28, by South South
I want peace for all 64 tribes of South Sudan. Our country
needs peace. Opening KAYA road will help communities in Yei River
State to develop. I want Yei town to be one of the best towns in South
Sudan. Let’’s put aside those smart of English learner from
Equatorial, They will follow us soon. Why do they make mistakes in
English and they have complete learning of English? Hum!!!!!
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24 June 06:59, by Eastern
South South,
This report is VERY MISLEADING. Kaya has never been taken by
SPLA-IO, what happened was this town was CUT OFF from the rest of
South Sudan including the nearest town to it, Yei. Kaya was supplied
via Uganda for a long time. It’s premature for you to celeberate the
ENTRY of the Mathiang Anyors since you don’t know what will befall
them on EXIT. Fingers crossed!!
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24 June 07:36, by Kush Natives
Eastern,
Be the man of your words! Did you just said, Kaya town was
"CUT OFF" from the rest of the town in the country or did I read it
incorrectly? If Yes, then what was the cause of that? Was a flood that
cut off Kaya? Pathetic! I learning more about you now_______dude.
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24 June 13:18, by Mopedi
Ya Kush Native
There is nothing sensible to be celebrated here,
whether Kaya is cut off or reopen still make no sense conflict is
going ahead as long as Kiir is the president, IOs is not after
blocking roads but regime change.
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24 June 07:44, by South South
Eastern,
I have to celebrate big, not just KAYA is captured, but
people of Yei, people of Equatorial and people of SS need KAYA to
realise peace and development. You can try to minimise our victory as
you want. You can try to make up many stories, but you and juba one
are big losers. When an old man like you tell people things which are
not true like when you say you live in Juba, which is a li
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24 June 13:55, by Mopedi
South Sudan.
Where is the future of this country? how are we going
to get the right people to take this country a step forward, the Dinka
and Nuers has built generation on the foundation of conflict instead
on peace, you speak nonsense every time, none of you can fix back the
torn-apart country.
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24 June 14:06, by Mopedi
South Sudan, Kush Natives,john akeen.
Peace is paramount but none of you(Dinka and
Nuers) can unite this country at the moment, whatever effort each
group make will not bring peace, unless somebody from minority tribe
come up we will not witness peace in SS, besides, you speaks nonsense
to people here every time
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24 June 07:45, by South South
Eastern,
I have to celebrate big, not just KAYA is captured, but
people of Yei, people of Equatorial and people of SS need KAYA to
realise peace and development. You can try to minimise our victory as
you want. You can try to make up many stories, but you and juba one
are big losers. When an old man like you tell people things which are
not true like when you say you live in Juba, which is a li
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24 June 08:14, by Eastern
Kush Natives and South South,
I love your low level of reasoning. Kaya was beseiged
with the Mathiang Anyors trapped there starving. The recent convoy of
Mathiang Anyors was allowed to join their collegues already trapped
there so that SPLA-IO feasts on them. Just keep your ears on the
ground...
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24 June 12:01, by South South
Eastern,
I thought you start teaching me English today. The
low person is you who try to teach people English while he struggle
with simple words in English, then try to lie.weak IO will lose
everything this year.
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24 June 12:41, by Eastern
South South,
Stop being trivial. I will teach you the
English language when you have shown cause that you have become A GOOD
BOY! By the way, SPLA-IO in Equatoria is now beyond Taban and Machar.
Dr. Machar wanted the South Sudan all South Sudanese will be happy
about but the cattle camp champions from dinak hinterlands said
otherwise...
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24 June 04:19, by john akeen
CONGREGATIONS TO YOU SPLA YOU’RE A TRULY OUR LAND DEFENDER AND OUR
CONSTITUTION DEFENDER KEEP IT UP AND CONTINUE ON COPTERING EVERY
CORNER FROM THOSE REBELS OR THOSE TERRORIST, THIS REBELS THEY DON’T
LIKE YOU AND THEY DON’T LIKE THE PEOPLES OF SS, THE ONLY LIKE PEOPLE
THAT WHO IS ON THEIR SIDE. JUST LISTEN TO THEIR RESPONSE LATER ON,
THEY GONNA BE LIKE SPLA IG KILLED A LOT OF CIVILIANS>>
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24 June 04:39, by john akeen
IN KAYA TOWN SO THEY CAN COVER UP THE WAY SPLA HAD DEFEATED
THEM AND PLUS TO LIE TO THEIR SUPPORTERS THAT THEY DIDN’T GET DEFEATED
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24 June 13:32, by Mopedi
john akeen
I did not see you physically, but the way you do writes
and post your opinions or ideas imply how ugly your face is, and
mentally challenged.
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24 June 20:07, by Dauarok
SPLA forces was there before
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24 June 06:29, by Lenin Bull
What have the people of Yei River State gained after allowing
themselves to be lured into meaningless rebellion by Riek’s satanic
movement? The beautiful towns and villages of this beautiful rich
state were set ablaze and destroyed. Who gained out of this madness in
Yei? NOBODY. Yei was the true melting pot of our young nation
incorporating all South Sudanese tribes.
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24 June 06:37, by Lenin Bull
Rich SPLM cadres and SPLA generals and middle rank officers took
their loved ones to Yei for the good schools, good hospitals, and nice
houses to rent there in Yei. Who was gaining out of these lucrative
business activities? Of course, Yei native citizens. Is Yei now the
same old Yei in terms of the above mentioned spheres? NO.People have
fled leaving Yei desolate and a ghost town.
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24 June 06:45, by Lenin Bull
Riek and his dumb damned folks are mad, primitive and barbaric(
read books on barbarism). They set the Greater Upper Nile region on
fire and destroyed it completely. They are also busy sweet talking
some gullible people from Greater Equatoria and Greater Bahr El Ghazal
into doing the same.Look at Yei, Mundri, Magwi, and Kajokeji towns and
their inhabitants what have they gained out this madness ?
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24 June 06:52, by Lenin Bull
Look at Western Bahr El Ghazal towns of Raja, parts of Wau County,
and Balandaland, what have they gained after being possessed with
Nuer’s evil spirit of Ngundengism? Only destruction, killing, and
satanic hatred against your innocent fellow citizens and scaring
business people and potential investors, hence retarding nascent
development in their own areas.
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24 June 09:33, by jur_likang_a_ likan’g
Lenin Bull,
Rejoice with inhumane treatment imposed on South Sudanese
people!! You do evil things to people and resistance to your evil acts
is termed Ngundengism!! What an idiot are you? How can you be a happy
man when a south Sudanese kill a South Sudanese and you call yourself
a citizen of the country? Note the who are dying are valuable assets
of the country, human resources of the country!!
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24 June 07:01, by Lenin Bull
Now Ngundeng’s evil spirit is fading away in South Sudan and the
former possessed folks are beginning to come to their true senses
again. But unfortunately the innocent citizens killed cannot be
resurrected, wounds inflicted cannot be miraculously wiped away,
infrastructural damages cannot be unfolded back, children that missed
3 and half years of education cannot be rescued,they have become adult
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24 June 07:11, by Lenin Bull
Even some christian Bishops whose faith is very little if not
simulative became Ngundengism converts at its height of
euphoria.Damned it. Now they have become ashamed like Judas Scariot.
Patriotic South Sudanese know them and have forgiven them.They are not
in Bishoprics because of the true faith of our Jesus Christ. They are
only wolves in Shepherds’ skins.
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24 June 07:58, by Sunday Junup
Matiang Anyor,
Please don’t cry later on when we lunch our operation in Kaya.
Because when ever you started attack you enjoy but after we retaaliate
you always cry about unilateral ceasefire . I know this is a trap for
those in Kaya to have weapons. they lack some amnitions that is why
they wanted their supplyer Mathiang Anyor to bring them. Wait for some
days
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24 June 08:57, by Kush Natives
Sunday Junup,
Lunch or launch? Retaalite or Retaliate? Supplyer or supplier?
What English language are you using? Better to speak Nuer/Thok-
naath:-) why are you so desperate here? If these are the people who
are speaking on behalf of rebels/ IO, then Riek Machar is completely
buried alive.
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24 June 09:31, by Newsudan
Sunday Junup, midiit, Jubaone,Eastern and likes
Riek has been put under house arrest for 30 years for your
information. it is better for you if you installed Gatwech Dual (aka
Wen Adit)Gualdit as your new boss otherwise Gatmachar is gone case.
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24 June 10:13, by Eastern
Newsudan,
Folks you already frustrated. Kiir had to be forced to cede
the leadership of his fake national dialogue. The new leadership of
the national dialogue badly wants to meet Dr. Machar in his
confinement with the view of getting him to appoint representatives to
Kiir’s fake national dialogue. That cannot happen as Dr. Machar needs
to confer with his lieutenants who are not with him in S.A..
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24 June 14:16, by Dak tak
The unilateral ceasefire was another ploy, like national dialogue
meant to fool the world. The hypocrites thought and as usual confuse
takin the town with the final defeat. Nobody is joining your fake
dialogue and no one will accept your ceasefire.the real and
comprehensive peace will be realise when all factions are convinced
beyond reasonable doubt that war isn’t the solution.
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24 June 16:37, by Lenin Bull
Dear Jur_likang_a_likang,
I’m Lenin Bull. I’m not rejoicing at all my brother.But ask
yourself critically about the nasty results of the current rebellion
of Ngundengism( the gruesome killing of innocent women and children on
highways, and in their houses in towns captured by IO mad dogs of war.
Dinka hatred as an open political slogan of IO, and IO barbarism of
torching cities captured. Why ?
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24 June 16:45, by Lenin Bull
IO method of conducting the current mindless rebellion is
barbarism pure and simple. Let me offer free and brotherly advice to
innocent kiths and kins like Likang to leave it before wasting your
productive life span and youthfulness for other things like pursuing
education, and coming back to home to engage in development
enterprises. All South Sudanese will vote out the current failed
government.
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24 June 16:54, by Lenin Bull
There is no doubt that the current government in Juba is a
visionless, corrupt and failed one. But those failed government cadres
are all from different tribes. The Dinka people in their villages are
poor and disadvantaged like any other South Sudanese and any
meaningful rebellion should have not aggressed them but rather
incorporate them into IO’s protection. Where do you get your war
strategies?
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24 June 17:01, by Lenin Bull
Barbarism is meting out gruesome killings for the sake of
killing only and burning and looting properties for the sake of
burning and looting.Nothing else. This is the only strategy the IO is
very good in using. But my friends this is self-defeatism in guerilla
struggle.Read Mao Tse Tung if you have time but I doubt you will.
Nyagats don’t know conventional warfare and strategies.
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24 June 17:09, by Lenin Bull
A big THANK YOU to IO with their barbaric lack of conventional
guerilla warfare, meaningless generalized hatred against the Dinka
nation, mindless killings of innocent women and children, and scorched
earth policies,which has made the people to avoid joining them and
made international community to choose President Salva Kiir’s
government as the lesser evil in comparison to Riek’s primitive gangs.
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