Slain American journalist was “illegally” in S. Sudan: army
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August 30, 2017 (JUBA) - The American freelance journalist shot dead
in war-torn South Sudan over the weekend “illegally” entered the
country, army officials said Tuesday.
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Christopher Allen (The War Zone Freelance Project)
South Sudan army spokesperson, Lul Ruai Koang said Christopher Allen,
26 allegedly entered into the country with rebels forces and warned
journalists against associating with armed elements.
“Anybody who comes attacking us with hostile forces will meet his
fate,” Koang told Reuters.
Allen, a freelance scribe, was killed Saturday when South Sudan army
clashed with rebels at Kaya, a town bordering Uganda.
South Sudan government officials said Tuesday that the American scribe
killed during military clashes was a “white rebel”.
They denied that the victim of the war was a freelance journalist
killed in fighting.
Riak Gok Majok, a member of the national dialogue denied reports that
the deceased was embedded in the units of the rebel forces.
“We were happy that with political change in the USA [United States of
America], we thought a neutral approach in resolving South Sudan
conflict would be initiated. I will never believe even at a gun point
that Mr. Christopher and his colleagues are mere journalists, no, they
are not. It is high time we sit around the table to genuinely seek a
practical solution to our problems,” Majok told Sudan Tribune.
He added, “The like of Christopher will continue to fuel this
senseless war to make a better living. The USA is still the genuine
friend of our country”.
Meanwhile, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said it was
deeply troubled by reports that South Sudanese authorities denied that
the U.S. freelance journalist who was killed covering conflict in the
war-torn nation on 26 August, was deserving of civilian status.
CPJ, in a statement extended to Sudan Tribune, called for an
independent investigation into the circumstances surrounding Allen’s
death urging authorities to respect all journalists’ status as
civilians.
South Sudan is one of the harshest places in the world for
journalists, according to press freedom groups.Allen is the 10th
journalist and the first international journalist to be killed in
South Sudan since 2012, according to the United Nations.
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30 August 09:35, by Kuch
For many South Sudanese people who have been following foreign
news & their reporting on the conflict in our country, they would
realize that their reporting had always been hostile to the government
but sympathetic to rebels. This is simply because their *regime change
project* failed to achieve their desired result. And any South
Sudanese who is a foreign news junkie would not be surprised>>>
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30 August 09:42, by Kuch
by this, in the West (the US & Northern Europe) though, most
of their *corporate media houses* are the instigators of wars in other
countries that their corporate America & Europe want to regime change
the governments that don’t bow down & worship the US, the UK, France &
let their countries being remotely micro-managed in Washington, UN
building in New York, London, Paris or Brussels>>>
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30 August 09:51, by Kuch
The most glaring examples of these leaders & their
countries are: Libya, Syria, Iraq & Ukraine. I can remember the highly
acclaimed New York Times, Wall Street Journal & other European
corporate newspapers hyping up the invasion of Iraq in 2003 & invasion
that later on turned out to be an invasion on a false pretext. But all
the same, the end game was to take over the Iraqi oil fields>>>
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30 August 09:59, by Kuch
In 2011, the same corporate America & European media
houses did the same thing in Libya & Ukraine. The whole game was to
regime change the government of Libya & take over the Libyans oil
fields. Now that they had destroyed Libya & Libya is now ungovernable.
The corporate America & Europe criminals who were swooning with their
then so-called *free Libya army* criminals have disappeared>>>
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30 August 10:05, by Kuch
into thin air, they have moved on to Syria with
their yet another so-called "free Syrian army" who are known Al qada,
Al Nusra, ISIS/L & other terrorists. And these so-called free Syria
army terrorists are being ’armed & trained’ by the CIA, MI6 & other
European secrete agents>>>
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30 August 10:15, by Kuch
The conflict in Yemen is not being hyped up or
propagated by the corporate America or some European media propaganda
machines because the US, the UK & the ones that backing Saudi Arabia,
gulf Arab states including our cloned arab North Sudan & they are the
ones *bombing & starving* the innocent Yemen civilians. The so-called
UNSC has not *even uttered a single word* on as to why an alliance>>>
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30 August 10:21, by Kuch
of gulf Arab states including our cloned
arab North Sudan was allowed to invade a sovereign country without an
approval from the UNSC? The answer is simple----the so-called UNSC is
in the pocket of the US, the UK or France and they are the same evils
who are suppling Saudi Arabia & the gulf Arabs with weapons to bomb
Yemen>>>
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30 August 10:31, by Kuch
The Yemen Houthis are *Shiites* that
have their sympathizers in Iran & are considered by the *Sunnis* as
their existential enemies. But the Sunnis of Saudi Arabia, gulf Arabs
including our own cloned arab North Sudan, ISIS/L, Al Qada, Al Nustra,
Boko Haram, the US & the UK are allies>>>
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30 August 10:39, by Kuch
Here in our country though, the
US, the UK & some of their creepy allies in between are using the same
tactics they have used in Central Africa republic (CAR), Libya, Syria,
Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan, Eastern Congo & Ukraine----as their
Geopolitical chess game. Because the evils (the corporate America, the
UK, their UN, NGOs & some of their allies in between)>>>
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30 August 10:46, by Kuch
are desperately after our oil
fields & to get rid of the Chinese companies out of our country just
like they have done in CAR, Libya, Iraq & other countries. But their
Riek Machar puppet/stooge & his so-called SPLA-IO that they wanted to
regime change the government of South Sudan has been frustrated. But
their plan B is to use their UN---UNIMISS peacekeepers, humanitarians
aid, donations>>>
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30 August 11:10, by Kuch
and human rights business
intrigues as their surreptitious means to achieve their regime change
project results in our country. But the evils are playing games. There
are no real armed rebels of our so-called SPLA-IO in our country some
of these days. But the UN, its sleazy NGOs, the corporate America,
some European media propagandists like this Christopher Allen who
unfortunately died covering>>
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30 August 11:17, by Kuch
a war many South
Sudanese people blamed on *foreign interest in our country & against
our people* But some of our Riek Machar supporters have been told time
& time again to open their damn eyes & understand that their damned
US, the UK, their UN, their NGOs & some of their evil allies in
between are not really our true uncles as they often projected
themselves to us & our country>>>
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30 August 11:23, by Kuch
but our enemies
who have taken our country & our people hostage & they are using you
[Riek Machar fools] as their *bargaining cards/chips* to crawl their
evil selves into our country to come, occupy our country & colonize
our country on ’pretext & disguise’ of their damned so-called UN,
humanitarian aid, donations, peacekeeping & human rights business
dirty intrigues>>>
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30 August 11:30, by Kuch
but we are
aren’t going to let these evil dirty intrigues into our country
whatsoever, never ever on our our watch. This is what the evils are
after doing to our country & against our
people:https://www.amazon.com/Great-Game-Struggle-Central-Kodansha/dp/1568360223
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Game
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/south-asia/1980-03-01/great-game-asia
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30 August
11:41, by Kuch
Our Riek
Machar supporters, get this straight idiots; whenever the evil
corporate America, the UK & some of their creeps in Europe banking
cartels are about to go bust; then they *create a boogie man* as an
imaginary *enemy to fight to sell their damned weapon around the
world* And Russia, China, their so-called terrorists (Al qada & now
ISIS/L) & some third world countries with resources>>>
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