S. Sudan admits launching offensives in rebel stronghold
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July 13, 2017 (JUBA)- South Sudan government admitted that its forces
launched offensives to take control of Pagak, a stronghold of rebels
loyal to former First Vice-President Riek Machar.
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SPLA soldiers sit at the back of a pick-up truck in Malakal, Upper
Nile state January 12, 2014. (Photo Reuters/Andreea Campeanu)
The presidential adviser on military affairs, Daniel Awet Akot said
Thursday that the move resulted from the rebels’ failure to observe
the declared ceasefire.
“What can one do when the other side does not reciprocate the good
gesture and the will to end the conflict? There are people who
continue to advocate war. They have refused dialogue and refused to
observe a ceasefire,” Akot told Sudan Tribune.
He added, “They [rebels] did not declare the ceasefire, instead what
they are doing is attacking civilians and holding them hostage and
using them as their bargaining card”.
Meanwhile, the information Michael Makuei Lueth said the unilateral
ceasefire declared by President Kiir does not include Pagak area, a
war-time opposition headquarters when the civil war began in 2013.
The minister equally justified the military offensives taken against
the armed opposition fighters, saying rebels loyal to the exiled
former First Vice-President had rejected the government’s offer of a
ceasefire.
“The SPLA-IO [Sudan People’s Liberation Army-In-Opposition] movement
led by Riek Machar does not recognise the peace agreement. It is
saying the signed peace agreement is over, so they are not part of the
peace agreement. The area of Paged has nothing to do with the
ceasefire deal,” Lueth said on Thursday.
He, however, said the coalition government only recognises the armed
opposition faction loyal to Machar’s successor, Taban Deng Gai, saying
the latter recognises the existence of the August 2015 peace
agreement.
“We don’t have any problem with the peace wing led by Taban Deng. The
president had declared a unilateral ceasefire, but the rebels of Riek
Machar failed to reciprocate the unilateral ceasefire and started
attacking our positions, then we have the right to defend ourselves”,
stressed the South Sudanese information minister.
About 5,000 civilians, the United Nations said, have been forced out
of their homes in Pagak.
The head of the U.N mission in South Sudan said thousands of South
Sudanese civilians are fleeing to neighbouring Ethiopia as government
troops advance towards Pagak, expressing grave concern about the
growing refugee crisis.
“At least 25 aid workers have been forced to relocate from Pagak and
surrounding areas due to increased insecurity,” said Shearer.
Stressing there was no military solution to the South Sudan conflict,
the senior U.N official called upon all the warring both factions to
stop the fighting.
“It’s unacceptable that 250 innocent children, and the people who care
for them, find themselves in no man’s land between the warring
parties,” stressed Shearer.
The South Sudanese conflict started in mid-December 2013 when
President Kiir accused Machar of a coup attempt. Since then, tens of
thousands of people have died and over 2 million displaced.
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14 July 00:25, by junubi
good move and very good news
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14 July 03:57, by Freedom Fighter
Denying hate group bases for organizing and launching attacks
on civilians is crucial for any meaningful peace settlement in the
country. Congratulations, SPLA
Freedom Fighter
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14 July 07:33, by Joyuma John
who is controlling pagak now?
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14 July 07:40, by Ayuiu Makuac Lam
Celebration.
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14 July 09:56, by Bunsen Burner
Hahahaha, I wonder what guys are celebrating; your cattle
looter - the Mathiang Anyor have been beaten badly, have abandoned
their equipments deeply sunk in the muds and are already in disarray -
for those that managed to survive. Pictures withheld!
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14 July 09:56, by Midit Mitot
Bullshit! government of confusion, you are always fooling the
whole world with lie unilateral ceasefire, sorry, ceasefire without
Pagak. Your fake deal is already known by the whole world.
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14 July 00:44, by john locke
They can try and come to gajaak land.. lets see how that ends..
non of their forces will comeback alive.. kior is sending them on a
death mission.. The IO will finish them before they reach pagak.
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14 July 01:31, by john akeen
Salva Kiir, Taban Deng Gai and Dr. Wany Iga you must take care
of those Ebolas because it is your job to do so, we don’t want week
government that can be defeated by easily or by anyone
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14 July 01:57, by lino
I think the third phase of South Sudan Civil War has just started!!!
We will see if the government will hold on all over the country.
They can run Juba for centuries but not the whole country!!!
It is overall civil war citizens. Buckle up.
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14 July 05:55, by South South
Lino,
We want peace. Let Riek’s group declare ceasefire and accept
Kiir’s call for National Dialogue to end this war. I am preaching for
peace and the only way right now to have peace in SS is to join ND.
Eastern, stop internet war. Let’s join hands and speak one voice to
bring peace to our country. Pagak alone will not stop war
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14 July 06:35, by Eastern
South South,
Focusing of Pagak is myopic. For SPLA-IO under Dr. Machar
to fight Kiir he doesn’t need a specific village to be his outpost.
SPLA-IO doesn’t have a munition and weapons factory in Pagak or indeed
in any village. Soon kiir will have to reckon with a fast acting
mobile forces. SPLA under Dr. Garang was routed out of his various HQs
but that didn’t the war he was waging....
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14 July 06:37, by Eastern
I can see my indifference towards your tribal dialogue is
alarming you. As an aggrieved South Sudanese, I have made known what
my intention is: KIIR MUST GO!!
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14 July 08:07, by South South
Eastern,
Stop talking about Pagak and stop comparing SPLA in
1990s with Riek’s OI. No single comparison between them. KIIR MUST
GO!!! is a big joke. Only people who sit under computer 24/7 week can
read that, but majority of South Sudanese will not waste their time
for this irresponsible and useless call from loser like you.Don’t cry
about Pagak, but cowards of Reik’s IO are taught dear lessons.
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14 July 02:16, by Atemjak
They are already in Pagak
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14 July 02:38, by john locke
I assure you that they are not in pagak.. 72 government soldiers
where killed, the rest ran away.. kiirs forces cannot defeat the IO..
weve been fighting the government for 3-4 years. They still have yet
to defeat us. Let them come if they want. It will be a river of blood
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14 July 02:44, by Kush Natives
Mr. Lueth,
I strongly disagreed with that a little part of YOUR statement
that Pagak isn’t part of the cease-fire that declared by the president
last month. Is Pagak not a part of South Sudan?
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14 July 03:24, by lino
It is government confusion ya Kush!!! Did we understand now
how Juba works?!!!
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14 July 06:18, by jur_likang_a_ likan’g
It should not be a surprise that Juba does not care for the
lives of South Sudanese. Its strategy is peace on their terms. That is
the opponent must surrender the way Taban has done to his fellow Nuers
after thousands of them were butchered in Juba and indeeed the whole
country. Taban has faled the Nuer people and entire south sudanese
freedom seekers.
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14 July 07:18, by Sunday Junup
Kush Native,
For the first time your comment make sense. It will not take
long for Makuey to come out again to condemn SPLA-IO. SPLAnyor are now
on their run. Capturing Pagak can not make any change on rebellion
since there is no weapons or ambitions even Dr.Riak office is not
there. It was chosen for consultation purpose because it is at border
to Ethiopia where peace talk were taking place.
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14 July 08:29, by Kush Natives
Sunday Junup,
We MUST all be transparent at this conflict, whether
you’re a rebel groups vs government supporters. I just didn’t adhere
with Makuei’s statement, simply because of territorial integrity. If
the government excluded Pagak from cease-fire or cessation of
hostilities, then the national dialogue process is meaningless. I just
don’t want to give rebels elements a chance to create an->>
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14 July 08:38, by Kush Natives
>>> atmosphere of creating something out of something.
Coming to my point, Pagak is included in cease-fire and cessation of
hostilities period. But, if the rebels elements based in Pagak doesn’t
abide by the president last month cease-fire, then there shouldn’t be
anything to do with Pagak as a South Sudan territory. I am done here!
I am going back to my normal comment as usual.
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14 July 11:05, by Midit Mitot
Mr Kuch Native,
Makuei Lueth is always contradicting himself, the guy has
severe trauma for sure, Pagak is a part of South Sudan that should not
be excluded in so call ceasefire.
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14 July 05:46, by Newsudan
SPLA is becoming more stronger nowadays. Riek io are panicking
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14 July 06:08, by john locke
The spla is weak.. how can the countries main army not defeat a
rebel group ill-equipped. The government soldiers will never reach
pagak.. we nuer will not let them make it. The ones who tried were
killed before they reached pagak. The rest ran away
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14 July 06:31, by Sunday Junup
I thought you would ask IGAD and USA to released Dr.Riak if you
are now ready for offensive. You have been telling lie to the rest of
the whole world that you are persuaded peace instead of War but now is
clear the choice is now on international community to releases Dr.Riak
to defeate you or you continue your offensive on civilian
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14 July 06:38, by Sunday Junup
Dinka are very coward actually, how come you call for ceasefire
and launch war at the same time? What I know is that you will call
international community to condemn SPLA-IO soon after you realizes
total defeats.
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14 July 06:47, by Nairobimitot
Folks, The SPLA is 15 miles from Pagak. They are just giving
time to the civilian to leave the town so that they are not caught in
the fighting. It will only take 6 hours of fighting, and the SPLA will
manage to capture their motherland Pagak the Land which raised them
and showed them how beautiful it is to have a country.
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14 July 07:16, by Malakal county Simon
Some one need to tells this laughing stock government,
that’s there is no military solution to this senseless-war caused by
illegitimate president Kiir to hang to power by force!!!! We in the
SPLM_IO under Dr Machar, we made very cleared that the 2015 accord, is
dead and need to be revive and not to be replace by bogus dialogue
with no clear agendas unless we if we are not serious about peace....
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14 July 08:45, by Kush Natives
Sunday Junup,
I warned you big boy! Drop this crazy intention towards Dinka
people, this war has nothing to Dinka vs Nuer as a tribes, rather Riek
Machar vs Salva Kiir. I urge you to digest your tribal intention
please.
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14 July 07:23, by jur_likang_a_ likan’g
Who does not know the government in Juba wants peace in their
terms so that they rule the country for life? The benefits they get by
using the Gun to rule the country is so huge that they will use lies,
misinformation to garner moral and material support to prosecute their
war of supremacy in the country but people must be strong to thwart
their onslaught against justice.
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14 July 07:33, by john locke
I can assure you that kiirs military is not 15 miles away from
pagak.. they were chased away when they came into gajaak land. The men
kiir hired to go to pagak are money lovers who later were killed by
the io.. kiirs military led my gony bilieu was defeated and ran back
to there trenches. We captured their weapons.
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14 July 07:35, by john locke
We the IO, we are fighting three different groups. Spla-ig,
spla-taban amd the sudanese rebels hired by kiir and taban. Still we
,anage to defeat all 3. None of them will reach pagak. They can try,
but they will not reach it.
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14 July 07:42, by Lenin Bull
Some NGUNDENG fanatics think that without Riek Machar, life is
meaningless. They cannot eat food because Riek’s absence makes it
tasteless, they cannot drink and enjoy bear, they cannot dance and
enjoy any musics, they cannot above all play sex with their loved ones
and be able enjoy it and reach orgasm. Be sensible guys and avoid
being numbskull.
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14 July 07:46, by john locke
Lenin, this has nothing to do with riek, but everything to do with
the fact that your leader kiir declared war on all nuer in 2013. He
continues to kill us over fear that riek will take his power. With or
without riek we will capture kiir and continue to fight this
government. You are lucky that it is not gadet yaka leading the io.
The dinka would be killed. From bhar ghazel to jonglei
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14 July 08:42, by Mike Charlie MC
Calm down! the gallant SPLA-IO forces of Division five (5)under
Lionheart Cdr. Major general Khor Chuol Giet and GHQs battalions
commands by the other Lionheart Cdr. Brigadier Daniel Gatbel Kuach.The
two commanders are doing a good job to protect the helpless population
against the barbaric killing championed by Juba.
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14 July 08:55, by Lenin Bull
IO guys in this forum, I doubt whether you really love the Nuer
nation like I do and I’m sure 100% you are not soldiers and have never
been IO soldier or former freedom fighters during the last 21 year war
of liberation. Do you think that the only means for Nuer nation to get
what it wants in life be it position of a national leader, economic
development, military ranks, trade, etc
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14 July 09:01, by Lenin Bull
is only throw war and fighting ? Read or listen to this wise
saying by Abraham Lincoln: " There are two types of men who desire
war: those men who haven’t the slightest intention of fighting it
themselves, and those men who haven’t the slightest idea what war is.
Any man who has been to war and has seen the face of death knows
better than to seek it out the second time."
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14 July 09:06, by Lenin Bull
Prior to 2013 and throughout the interim period President Salva
Kiir always sang his song of not wanting and not willing to return his
beloved people and country to war because it is nasty, bad, and
destructive and those Riek followers like you IO fanatics took it for
Jang cowardice. Where is the much talked about and often repeated Nuer
bravery now? Only series of disasters have been foolishly
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14 July 09:11, by Lenin Bull
brought on innocent Nuer civilians. Many innocent and virgin young
Nuer men have been driven into burning furnace for no good cause at
all to go and die. This mad man called David de Chan and all of you IO
idiots should stop misleading the Nuer nation. No tribal animosities
in South Sudan but only political intrigues which you morons don’t
understand.
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14 July 09:17, by Lenin Bull
If the Nuer nation was the most and only brave fighting nation in
South Sudan, the war should have ended in December 2013. They should
have fought and captured President Kiir in December 2013 and closed
the chapter of Dinka power. You guys in IO are only pretending
fighters in the internet and I don’t respect you.
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14 July 09:18, by john locke
So you are blaming us nuer for a war started by youre paranoid
leader kiir? Who started this war in 2013 lenin, who? It was not the
nuer. There was no coup. Kiir wanted to try and kill all nuer. Now we
have the upper hand. Kiir is sendimg his own people to war who are
dying, who are nt paid. The country is broke because of kiir. I wosh
gadet yaka would take lead just to kill all of you jiangs
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14 July 09:20, by john locke
And about nuer bravery.. look at how we as a rebel group with no
money are yet still fighting and defeating you. Yet you have all the
money, all the military power. How are you still not able to defeat
us. Because we are nuer fighters, we aren’t jiangs or equatorians
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14 July 09:21, by Lenin Bull
Let this satanic war designed by the top political elite( Riek,
Kirr. Pagan, Nyandeng, Da, Agoot, etc included) stop so that all our
people elect their leaders through ballot box not bullets. This is
good for all tribes in South Sudan to elect leaders not fight to
capture power by forces which invokes resistance, bitternes,
destruction, and deaths.
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14 July 09:23, by Lenin Bull
Gieer Chuang once remarked that " war is not a party dance where
all go and dance and come back home alive. Some people dont come back
alive."
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14 July 09:29, by john locke
Go tell youre fellow joang leader kiir to step down. No election
would ever be free and fair under him. Look at how he declared a cease
fire, yet hes still trying to attack pagak. The same men he sent to
attack pagak defected to the IO. Along with a police general and 103
people. 72 people were killed. This country will not be stable untill
jiang are killed the same way they killed us
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