S. Sudan war denying opportunity to elect leaders: official
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July 14, 2017 (JUBA) - A member of the Jieng (Dinka) Council of Elders
(JCE) said war has imposed on people a situation in which citizens
cannot choose leaders of their choices.
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President Salva Kiir attends a session during the 25th Extraordinary
Summit of the (IGAD) on South Sudan in Addis Ababa March 13, 2014
(Reuters Photo)
The JCE co-chair, Joshua Dau Diu said politicians have sandwiched
political discourses into long and historical communal differences to
an extent that mere complaints connected to land and cattle theft have
foreign elements, institutions and bodies that do not know our
background and the methods use in solving internal conflicts within
traditional and cultural context
“If politicians did not politicize and ethicized local issues to
appeal local supports, the current situation would have been contained
and resolved long time ago. It would have taken this long and the
longevity of this current has now denied the citizens their right to
choose leaders of their choice”, Dau told Sudan Tribune Friday.
“Nobody likes the situation to continue but the current war itself was
imposing the current situation, which he said he was ripping the
country apart," he added.
He echoed appeal of president Kiir at an occasion marking the 6th
anniversary of the independence of South Sudan from neigbouring after
conduct referendum on self-determination on July 9, 2011.“Our country
is politically divided and we must find ways and means to unite and
build one nation. The implementation of the peace deal and the
national dialogue are the only way forward,” said Kiir.
“I want to appeal to all our international partners, the IGAD
countries, East African Community, the African Union, the UN Security
Council and the UN General Assembly, to support the National Dialogue
process in South Sudan,” he added
The president appealed to all opposition groups to support the
dialogue, saying the initiative was the only viable formula for
resolving layers of conflicts in the country.
“It is therefore incumbent upon all of us; both government and
opposition, to let the national dialogue succeed,” stressed Kiir.
An outspoken religious cleric, however, castigated Kiir for failing to
find a solution for the three year civil war, and resorting to a
“waste of time” national dialogue.
“Instead of solving the political problem of this country, national
dialogue is thrown to us…the problem is political and it has to be
solved by the political leaders,” said Bishop Santo Laku Pio, the
Auxiliary Bishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Juba
The young nation slid into a civil war two years after secession
following the collapse of a coalition of ethnic and political elites
pitting President Kiir and his followers against his deputy Riek
Machar.
Regional grouping, Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)
attempted to piece the unity coalition back twenty months later,
culminating in the August 2015 Agreement on the Resolution of the
Conflict in South Sudan (ARCSS). Under the terms of this agreement,
Machar flew to Juba in April 2016 with a sizable protection force to
ensure he remained the legitimately-appointed First Vice-President.
The coalition government did not work as rival forces clashed in Juba
three months later and Machar was controversially replaced after
President Kiir gave an ultimatum.
In May, members of the national dialogue steering committee took oath
and began the process earmarked to unite nationals along peace and
heal ethnic divisions.
He said he would not allow Machar, currently in South Africa, to take
part in the dialogue.
(ST)
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16 July 11:50, by Mopedi
It is true but you are behind the cause, you thought it was simply
a good game to play, you started with Nuers and Equatoria for Kiir to
clink on power, he too will not spare Dinka, now all are desperate
refugee why can we change from this idiot game, today SS has provided
over 19,000 jobs for international community what a shame is this
while their own suffers in names of senseless war.
repondre message
16 July 17:23, by quiz
Yaa, Useless JCE elder, you cannot regret today while you are
among group(JCE) who drive Kirr to start this ethnic war. You thought
would be easy to marginalize south Sudanese in 1 year? Now is beyond
your planing. you already boiled the war in our nation and its still
very far to get the solution under JCE influence to gov,t and hopeless
Juba regime
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