South Sudan rebel leader rejects presidential amnesty
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September 8, 2017 (JUBA) - A South Sudanese rebel has rejected a
presidential offer of amnesty, questioning the credibility of the
order and describing it a strategy to delay suffering of the people.
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Lt. Gen. Thomas Cirino Swaka, the ex-SPLA deputy chief of general
staff for training (youtube photo)
Thomas Cirilo, who switched side early this year and formed a separate
rebel group operating on a parallel side to the main armed opposition
faction of the SPLM-IO under the leadership of the former Frist Vice
President Riek Machar told Sudan Tribune on Friday he learnt from the
media the amnesty extended to him by the president.
“I did not have any discussion with anybody from the government
before. I learned that they decided to extend me amnesty in the media.
I don’t know in which context," Cirilo said.
"Instead of me extending my amnesty, Salva Kiir should be the one to
seek amnesty from the suffering people of South Sudan for all crimes
he and his associates have committed before and the after the break
out the war,” he added.
Cirilo said the unbearable human suffering in the country was a
creation of Salva Kiir and his government. This situation, he adds,
can never be settled just by granting amnesty to individuals.
Swaka, who now heads the National Salvation Front (NAS), quit the
military, accusing its leadership of running the army on ethnic lines.
Last August, South Sudan released at least 30 political prisoners
following an amnesty President Kiir had declared in May to facilitate
the national dialogue initiative created to reconcile warring parties.
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8 September 23:31, by South South
Thief, how about the money you stole from SPLA? Stay in your hotel
in Ethiopia.
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9 September 01:24, by Malakal county Simon
Unwanted president Kiir himself need amnesty from people’s of
South Sudan for causing untold suffering, senseless war due to to fear
of losing power...... Shame-on him as an accidental president!!!!
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9 September 05:10, by Newsudan
oh! South Sudanese are being held hostage by hyenas
residing in hotels of cities, Addis,DC,Khartoum, Nairobi, Kampala
etc,while masses languished in idps camps,refugees camps, where on
earth do leaders hijacked their very owned people they should cared
for, unnecessary demands, the likes of Riek, G10,Cirillo, Bakasoro,Lam
to mention a few of these hyenas taking us hostage for ransom from
Regime o
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9 September 09:45, by jubaone
Newsudan,
If I were Gen Cirillo, I would urge all Equatorians to
establish their own state. It has become very clear, nothing can work
out with jienges, they must be left alone and none should even waste
time living with them. They are a chaotic, unruly, lawless and
savages. See their states! They have no war, yet they flee and wait
for help cos they are just lazy. Equatoria Now!
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9 September 10:50, by Newsudan
Jubaone
Gen.Cirillo has sense of leadership but is doing
it in wrong way,he should not copy hotels habit of Riek or Lam.
2018 general election is near for all who wanted
leadership not violence based on tribe,there is no country without
Baria,Nuer,Zande,Shilluk,Dinka,Murle,Balanda or Toposa.otherwise this
tribal rhetoric will take us no where,but sometimes I admit Kiir has
no strategies to united
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9 September 09:16, by jubaone
South South,
Your reaction is whore-like, absurd and stupid. You didn’t
point fingers to your jienge criminals and thugs (Malong, Makuei,
Malek) for enriching themselves at expense of the country. Stealing is
a jienge habit and don’t think noble Bari people would get that low to
behave like immoral luakjienges who steal, rape, kill. Shut up devil’s
kid.
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9 September 10:11, by South South
jubaone,
You are very stupid. Other day you said Dinkas are very
quick learners and they can learn how to shoot guns in 5 minutes,
those are your own words other day, but today you are saying Dinkas
don’t know to shoot guns, stupid and wicked old man. Cirillo is a big
thief, nothing you can do to clear his name. We will bring him one day
to the court of law.
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9 September 11:35, by jubaone
South South,
Either you’re damn nut or notorious fool. Read my
article once more and quote to reinforce your assertion. Yes, it takes
just 5 mins to teach a luakjienge to shoot a gun and another 50 yrs to
read and write. You are a testimony to this. What has this statement
to do with the topic on Gen Cirillo?
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9 September 12:04, by South South
juabone,
Damn lair!!!! When someone can master a gun in
minutes, that person is a very smart person, unless your just stupid
and you do not know what you are putting out to the public. When a
person testify that a person is very quick to master something in 5
minutes especially learning guns in 5 minutes. This shows that you are
very afraid of Dinka, I know now why ran away from South Sudan
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9 September 12:22, by jubaone
South South,
That is what fools can best do, learn to shoot
in 5 mins. Dismember that gun and tell the luakjienge to put it
together again, and you realize, he is the natural-born fool or should
we say "born-to-be-a fool". You havent transformed jiengeland into a
paradise but hell on earth and so you run like scared rats to
Equatoria. Hopeless!
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9 September 12:27, by jubaone
South South,
First no jienge CAN EVER sentence a noble Bari like
Gen Cirillo to court, how? Illiterate savages who dont understand law
to do that? First sentence your jienge criminals and thugs who have
emptied state coffers and living good in Kenya, Uganda and Australia
with looted monies. Even you now survive on such looted monies and
unable to work for yourself, you loser!
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9 September 13:17, by Mr. Right
jubaone,
You must be the most idiotic, lunatic, psychotic,
and quintessential son of a whore. This is perhaps, why, your
statements are often lacking substance but rather full of tripe and
drivel.
Last time, I requested you to seek mental
resuscitation/psychoanalysis to stand a chance of living a second
life. You shrugged off that piece of advice to live a worthy life and
prefer lunacy.
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9 September 13:17, by Mr. Right
Look now, you are just romping mad.
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9 September 15:32, by jubaone
Mr. Right,
Oh well, the jienges savage has gone mad and
hurling words aimlessly like what jienges do best: disorderly,
illmannered and mouthy like market harlot. Grrh! Son of jellaba and
bastard.
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9 September 15:48, by Mr. Right
jubaone,
What is so painful to you about my piece
of advice when I’m helping you? It was directed at you, an individual.
Suddenly, and you proving that always, and I must say again, you are
suffering from psychosis.
I know it’s a devastating mental-depletion
kind of disorder, but you need help. Seek help, buddy!!
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9 September 20:43, by jubaone
Mr. Right,
It’s absurd and silly that some irrate
and half idiot jienge like you would give me an advice. It’s me to
give you advice cos you are congenitally abnormal. Even learning new
English words won’t make you an intellectual. You are a foolish jienge
trying to be smart. No way 😝
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9 September 20:52, by Mr. Right
jubaone,
The state of your mental condition
got nothing to do with me or my background. It’s just that you are
mentally-retarded and deserve medical attention. Is that hard for you
to grasp, psychopath?
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9 September 21:09, by Mr. Right
I am not going to dissipate my
invaluable time responding to a psychotic. It’s not worthy stooping to
your level. You either heel to my advice or live like a street dog.
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9 September 13:52, by South South
jubaone,
People who know how to master guns are the one
ruling the world, USA is a very good example. Americans are very good
with guns. The all world respect them. Your thief Cirillo was lifted
by John Garang through Affirmative Action. He is a thief now and we
want him to answer our questions for money he stole from SPLA, we will
get him. We don’t care whether he hide in a hotel in Ethiopia.
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9 September 15:28, by jubaone
South South,
Don’t compare your jienge scoundrels with USA.
Who cares, now the opposition has acquired guns and so lets fight it
out. To hell with your jienge amnesty or national dialogue. No peace
and no reconciliation till jienges quit Equatoria. Take it or leave
it. 👊
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8 September 23:55, by Theone
Good luck general,soon you will get a high rank for your tribal war.
Tribalism war pay off in South Sudan.
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9 September 02:10, by john akeen
President Kiir you need to stop paying attention to those people
who doesn’t want to work with you, because no matter what you do Mr.
president, they won’t listen to you because they don’t want you or
want what you’re talking about, all they want is your office, but
believe me my president, all you need to do is to issue an order and
let who want to work with to follow the order in a right way...
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9 September 02:35, by john akeen
Mr. president you agreed to take the responsibility by seating
in the public’s office, we all know that you’re responsible for
everything that is going on and on in the country and we all know that
you do want to fix it by any means, if you read in the bible jesus
say, I am your King and your leader whether you like it or not, but if
you don’t really want to follow me, that will be up to you>
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9 September 03:03, by john akeen
some people GOD created them to be a people leader
automatically and some people GOD created them to be a people leader
by doing a good things first to the people than people will choose
he/she to become their leader, no one should force himself or herself
to become a people leader by force, because if you do so a lot of
people will die because of your choice; You want to be a leader by
force
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9 September 03:32, by john akeen
in any leadership in this world, a leader men or women
shouldn’t expect that in his leadership or her leadership that there
would be no crisis, you should know 100% that, there will be crisis
and you should be very careful that there will be some people that
might try to take power from you by force, as a leader you should have
inspectors
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9 September 04:13, by john akeen
Mr. president you should remain come and you
should take any blame because it is part of your job, don’t expect any
political party must like you, they all hat you and they all wants to
poke you and you must take it, but all I want to tell you if you don’t
mind is that stay strong, because GOD doesn’t like ugly and GOD
doesn’t like quitters, stay strong until the end
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9 September 02:47, by jur_likang_a_ likan’g
What is the amnesty for? Implement the peace agreement as signed.
Cirrilo can not come and be part of the shit that killed, raped
citizens and thereafter take their properties. He cannot come to join
thieves in J1 while our people are in the trenches resisting
barbarism.
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9 September 05:31, by Naath
The Dinka tribal chief Salva Kiir should be the one seeking
amnesty from South Sudanese for imposing unwanted war on them. Salva
Kiir is power greedy, money launderer, and a war criminal. He should
be arrested and send to ICC and spend the rest of his life in prison.
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9 September 06:38, by Lenin Bull
So in this case who is for war and death and who is for peace and
dialogue to resolve issues in South Sudan? The president has two
options before him either he defeats the rebels militarily if they
don’t want peace or resign if that is difficult for him to achieve. No
government in the world begs rebels and other core criminals that
should be charged with high treason and national betrayal.
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9 September 06:44, by Lenin Bull
Continue....
President Salva Kiir’s soft indecisive leadership style will
destroy South Sudan in the long run. Ask yourselves why there is no
rampant rebellion like in our case in other neighboring countries and
further afield in the world? It is because there are heavy penalties
for rebelling against one’s own country and no reward for rebelling
rather it is death that awaits them.
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9 September 06:49, by Lenin Bull
This lack of decisive will in stamping out rebellion once and for
all in South Sudan shows that President Salva Kiir doesn’t care about
the safety, security and economic well being of South Sudanese
citizens. He rather wants rebellion to mushroom in the country as a
strategy to prolong his stay in power/J1 with a clique of his
supporters looting the country dry. No elections because of
insecurity!
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9 September 06:58, by Mike Mike
The huge amount of money u stolen from the army when u were chief
of log/ procurement can’t qualified u even to be granted with amnesty.
Just u eat them in those foreign hotels and SS gov’t will reclaims
this money when u come back.what can qualified a thief to take up arms
against the gov’t which he has looted it’s money in day light?.This is
a tit for tat game that is going on among SS leaders.
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9 September 09:26, by jubaone
Mike Mike,
The KCB denied having any illegal accounts belonging to Gen
Cirillo and there are no evidence against him till now except
worthless and stupid jienge mudslinging. Gen Cirillo is has an
impeccable military record not hoodlums and luak savages who call
themselves an army cos they can shoot a gun. Ask your jienge
criminals, where is the $3.2b from Dura Saga? You are one of these
beneficiar
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9 September 10:04, by Kat Cok
President Salva Kiir does not know the meaning of amnesty, because
it is not correct to offer amnesty to criminals like Thomas Cirilo and
other rebels who are committing crimes against humanity is South
Sudan.
Those criminals must be accounted for their crimes they committed.
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9 September 10:13, by conservative
I bet you all south Sudanese politician are cowered and will never
gonna ask Bashir for the 2 millions of life we lost before during the
civil war and this is not okay with me the only person who won us the
independence of south sudan is Dr John follow by salava kirirr with
loyalty
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9 September 10:34, by conservative
Mr.President stop being too nice to those rebels against our
government offer them an amnesty they will not appreciate it they
still wants your office that’s what their attention is the rebels they
don’t care even about themselves I don’t need to be liberated from
dinka
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