But I thought splitting up is the new African antidote? Why do we have trouble
now when we have already splitted up South Sudan from Sudan? That is how silly
everyone looked at the celebrations of a new state, and when we opposed it we
were defined as uneducated.
Reading crapie books my back side !!!!!!! Geez.
EM
On the 49th
Thé Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni and Dr. Kiiza Besigye Uganda is in anarchy"
Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni na Dk. Kiiza Besigye Uganda ni katika machafuko"
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Trouble indeed!!
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Subject: {UAH} 3 UN peacekeepers dead in South Sudan as ethnic violence
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3 UN peacekeepers dead in South Sudan as ethnic violence spreads, evacuations
begin
Choul Laam, thechief of staff for the secretary general for the ruling
Sudanese Peoples Liberation Movement speaks during a press conference in
Nairobi, Kenya, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2013. Laam said on Thursday that an attempt
in the presidential guard by the majority Dinka tribe members of President
Salva Kiir to disarm the minority members of the Nuer community of former vice
president Riek Machar sparked off the fighting Sunday. Laam says the fighting
then spilled outside the barracks. Tensions
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Choul Laam, the chief of staff for the secretary general for the ruling
Sudanese Peoples Liberation Movement speaks during a press conference in
Nairobi, Kenya, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2013. Laam said on Thursday that an attempt
in the presidential guard by the majority Dinka tribe members of President
Salva Kiir to disarm the minority members of the Nuer community of former vice
president Riek Machar sparked off the fighting Sunday. Laam says the fighting
then spilled outside the barracks. Tensions had been mounting since Kiir fired
Machar as his deputy in July. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)
Choul Laam, thechief of staff for the secretary general for the ruling
Sudanese Peoples Liberation Movement speaks during a press conference in
Nairobi, Kenya, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2013. Laam said on Thursday that an attempt
in the presidential guard by the majority Dinka tribe members of President
Salva Kiir to disarm the minority members of the Nuer community of former vice
president Riek Machar sparked off the fighting Sunday. Laam says the fighting
then spilled outside the barracks. Tensions
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Choul Laam, the chief of staff for the secretary general for the ruling
Sudanese Peoples Liberation Movement speaks during a press conference in
Nairobi, Kenya, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2013. Laam said on Thursday that an attempt
in the presidential guard by the majority Dinka tribe members of President
Salva Kiir to disarm the minority members of the Nuer community of former vice
president Riek Machar sparked off the fighting Sunday. Laam says the fighting
then spilled outside the barracks. Tensions had been mounting since Kiir fired
Machar as his deputy in July. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)
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Charlton Doki And Jason Straziuso, The Associated Press| Dec 19, 2013 | Last
Updated: Dec 20, 2013 - 4:40 UTC
Less than three years after its creation, the world's newest country is
beginning to fracture along ethnic lines in violence that has killed hundreds
of people, including three U.N. peacekeepers. What could come next, some warn,
is ethnic cleansing.
South Sudan's numerous ethnic groups have battled each other for decades, but
for years their animosity was united in hatred of the government in Khartoum,
Sudan, the country's former capital. When the south gained independence in
2011, the groups' common enemy receded, exposing the fault lines — this week,
even among the presidential guard.
On Thursday, armed youths breached a U.N. compound in Jonglei state, causing an
unknown number of casualties.
"Unfortunately, just this very morning such militia groups have targeted and
killed three soldiers from India in South Sudan," India's U.N. Ambassador Asoke
Mukerji told a U.N. meeting on peacekeeping Thursday evening.
It was the first announcement of U.N. personnel killed in this week's upsurge
of violence. Pakistan's U.N. Ambassador Masood Khan asked for a minute of
silence, and diplomats rose to pay tribute to the fallen soldiers.
The Security Council scheduled an emergency meeting for 10 a.m. Friday.
In the capital, Juba, emergency evacuation flights took away American and
British citizens, aid workers and United Nations personnel to escape the
violence.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon again urged political dialogue.
"The future of this young nation requires its current leadership to do
everything possible to prevent South Sudan descending into the chaos that would
be such a betrayal of the ideals behind its long struggle for independence," a
statement from his office said late Thursday.
South Sudan's government declared that its security forces "are in absolute
control of the situation," but admitted later Thursday that the central
government had lost control of Bor, the capital of the country's largest and
most populous state, where barrages of gunfire were reported.
"The situation in South Sudan can be best described as tense and fragile. If it
is not contained, it could lead to ethnic cleansing," said Choul Laam, a top
official with the ruling Sudan People's Liberation Movement, who spoke in
Nairobi, Kenya.
Violence broke out late Sunday when the presidential guard splintered along
ethnic lines. Guards from the president's majority Dinka tribe tried to disarm
guards from the Nuer ethnic group, said Laam. Violence in Juba spiraled from
there, and then extended out into the country.
"The awful accounts of killings in Juba may only be the tip of the iceberg,"
said Daniel Bekele of Human Rights Watch. "Government officials — whatever
their politics — need to take urgent steps to prevent further abuses against
civilians and quickly deescalate rising ethnic tensions."
President Salva Kiir earlier said an attempted coup had triggered the violence,
and the blame was placed on ousted Vice-President Riek Machar, an ethnic Nuer.
Machar disputed Kiir's allegations that he had attempted a coup, but said he
wants Kiir out of power.
"We want him to leave. We want him to leave. That's it," Machar told Radio
France Internationale. "He can't unite the people and he kills them like flies."
Machar, an influential politician who is a hero of the brutal war of
independence against Sudan, is Kiir's rival for top leadership of the Sudan
People's Liberation Movement party. Tensions had been mounting since Kiir fired
Machar as his deputy in July. Machar later said he would contest the presidency
in 2015.
Regardless of the cause, the South Sudan government said the violence has
already killed up to 500 people.
Armed ethnic Nuer youths breached a U.N. compound in the tiny Jonglei village
of Akobo, near the Ethiopian border, to reach civilians believed to be Dinkas
seeking shelter there, said U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq in New York. "We fear
there may have been some fatalities but can't confirm who and how many at this
stage," Haq said.
At the time, 43 Indian peacekeepers, six U.N. police advisers and two U.N.
civilian employees were present at the base, as were about 30 South Sudanese
who had sought shelter, according to the U.N. mission in South Sudan. The
mission said it would dispatch aircraft early Friday to evacuate U.N. personnel
who remain at the base.
South Sudan's capital was mostly peaceful Thursday, and the government tried to
assure the U.N. and foreign embassies "that civil tranquility has been fully
restored."
U.S. President Barack Obama said in a letter to Congress that 45 military
personnel were dispatched to South Sudan on Wednesday to protect U.S. citizens
and property.
Countries such as the U.S., Britain, Italy and Germany continued to evacuate
residents. A plane with a mechanical malfunction blocked the runway during the
day, jamming up inbound and outbound flights.
The U.S. evacuation plane — the fourth group of Americans flown out in two days
— was eventually able to take off heading for Kenya. "Runway clear. Wheels up,"
the embassy said on Twitter. Two military flights and a charter took off on
Wednesday. Britain's evacuation plane landed in Uganda late Thursday.
The government said it lost control of Bor, the capital of Jonglei state, to
forces loyal to Machar. Gunfire was reported early and late in the day, and the
U.N. used four helicopters to transport 75 people — a mix of aid workers and
U.N. staff — to Juba, said Challiss McDonough, a spokeswoman for the U.N.'s
World Food Program.
"We lost control of Bor to the rebellion," said Philip Aguer, the South
Sudanese military spokesman.
Aguer said renegade officers wrested control of the town from loyalist forces.
At least 19 civilians had been killed in Bor, said Martin Nesirky, a spokesman
for the U.N. secretary-general's office, citing figures from the South Sudan
Red Cross.
In oil-rich Unity state, fighting broke out in oil fields on Wednesday and
Thursday, said Mabek Lang De Mading, the state's deputy governor. He said five
people died Wednesday and 11 on Thursday.
Foreign ministers from neighbouring countries Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda and
Djibouti travelled to South Sudan to try and diffuse the crisis.
Human Rights Watch said Thursday that South Sudanese soldiers fired
indiscriminately in highly populated areas of Juba earlier in the week and
targeted people for their ethnicity.
Citing witnesses and victims, the group reported that "soldiers specifically
targeted people from the Nuer ethnic group." In some cases, the group added,
the Dinka may have been targeted by Nuer soldiers.
An estimated 20,000 people have sought refuge at two U.N. compounds in Juba and
another 14,000 in Bor. U.N. officials warned of a humanitarian crisis.
Deputy secretary-general Jan Eliasson said in New York on Thursday that the
U.N. will do its best to protect those who have sought refuge. "Clearly,
civilians are in danger," said Eliasson.
___
Associated Press reporters Tom Odula in Nairobi, Kenya; Rodney Muhumuza in
Kampala, Uganda; Cassandra Vinograd in London; Cara Anna and Edith M. Lederer
in New York and Elaine Ganley in Paris contributed to this report. Straziuso
reported from Nairobi
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