South Sudan army retake Fangak from Athor forces -SPLA
By Ngor Arol Garang
February 10, 2011 (KHARTOUM)-The top military command of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army on Thursday said repelled forces loyal to General George Athor from Fangak County, Jonglei State, following a clash between the two armed forces on Wednesday and Thursday in the area.
Dok James Puok, spokesman of the rebel group in an interview with Sudan Tribune from Juba claimed Wednesday that their forces captured Fangak County from SPLA forces after launching an attack on their operational outposts in three different locations.
General Bol Koang, a SPLA division commander in the area on Thursday said South Sudan army have expulsed forces loyal to General Athor and took control of many areas Athor claimed to have captured on Wednesday.
“Our forces expulsed Athor’s immediately after entering the area yesterday. They never slept in Fangak. They entered without exchanging fire with any armed group because there were no forces in the area”.
“There were only three policemen in the town”, said General Koang through a language assistant during a telephone interview with Sudan Tribune from Jonglei.
James Maluit Ruei, commissioner of Fangak County also in a separate interview with Sudan Tribune confirmed expulsion of forces loyal to General Athor from the town on Wednesday.
“Forces loyal to General George Athor entered Fangak at around 2:00 PM and were expulsed by the SPLA forces the same day at around 5:00 PM. They did not spend the night in the town”, said commissioner Ruei.
Ruei said the SPLA troops on Thursday defeated the insurgents and took the control of the all areas and. But he was unable to provide figures of the casualties at the time of the interview.
“I cannot give you a correct figure now because the fighting is still continuing. I have just talked to General Koang and he told me that his forces are still pursuing forces loyal to General Athor. He did not give me figures of the casualties”, he said.
The resumption of hostilities days after the announcement of the referendum results raises concerns and fears for stability in the South Sudan after the independence next July.
Experts underline the crucial need for infrastructure in the underdeveloped and divided region to impose the authority of the new state. The lack of roads prevents the quick deployment of the army and police throughout the South Sudan.
ATHOR DENIES TO BE DEFEATED
Speaking to Sudan Tribune from his base, Athor denied expulsion of his forces but said instructed them to withdraw from the area Wednesday.
“I asked zonal commanders yesterday after I received reports that they entered Fangak to withdraw because we did not have intention to capture it”. They were only acting in self defence because it was the SPLA forces which launched an attack on our positions”, said Athor confirming that only 4 of his men were killed in today’s attack.
“The SPLA say they have killed 12. This is just a media propaganda. It is not true. We do not have 12 people killed. I have a report indicating that only 3 of our soldiers were lost during the second attack this morning”, said General Athor.
BUT SPLA SAYS 12 REBELS KILLED
Colonel Aguer Panyang, SPLA spokesperson in a separate interview reiterated that George Athor’s forces attacked military posts belonging to the Sudan People’s Liberation Army in Fangak County, Jongeli State yesterday on Wednesday and again today on Thursday, but were expulsed.
He said only four SPLA soldiers were reported killed in the attacked and several others on the side of General Athor.
“At the moment we have reports that 12 men loyal to General Athor were found dead during military surveillance and sentinel search”, said SPLA spokesman Philip Aguer.
“This is a clear violation of the ceasefire agreement. Not only did he attack our forces but laid landmines. This is dangerous to the lives of the local population”, he stressed.
The military officer said Athor launched another attack in areas around Fangak County in an attempt to retake the town again this morning but ended up being defeated by SPLA forces.
He said SPLA forces stumbled on a landmine laid by Athor’s, resulting into injuries but declined giving details.
ATHOR WANTS PEACE DESPITE ATTACKS
Dok James Puok, spokesperson of General Athor in Juba described Thursday’s clash as one of the “heaviest” clashes but also declined giving any detail of the clash saying he still did not receive full report from the field.
Dok reiterated commitment to pursuing peaceful settlement. “We are committed to settlement this dispute through dialogue not guns. This is why we are here with the authorities. We are seeking peaceful settlement of this conflict”.
“The president is also committed to peaceful settlement but there are people whose acts go contrary to directives of the president but we still believe there will be peace”, he said.
While the two sides said still collecting figures of the casualties, police authorities in the area said death toll from yesterday and today’s clashes have risen to 65 on both sides.
“A lot of people have been lost. We found a lot of people dead yesterday and again today. “As of now, there are 65 people identified dead from both sides”, said policeman who did not want to be named having not been allowed by the policy to speak to the media.
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Quol Quot
South Sudan army retake Fangak from Athor forces -SPLA
TIME TO BEGIN LIBERATION OF BOR AND LOU NUER IN JONGLEI
We have just finished the S. Sudan lberation. Our next liberation will be on Murle. This liberation has to happen, otherwise, our fight against the Arab will be meaningless because a total freedom has not been achieved in Jonglei state and especially in our home counties. All we need is to gather our youth, where ever they maybe and then lead our next struggle against the murle for the next five years. They are our next oppressors and we have to achieve your our freedom at all cost. They are doing what Arab was not even doing to us: Arab was concerned mainly with oil. Murle is killing our mothers and fathers and abducting and selling our children. They are taking away our wealth in forms of cattle. Is this the community we have to work for?
We need all our youth from Bor and Lou Nuer including those that are driving tanks in Abyei right now, whose their children and parents are being slaughter in cold blood. This youth is from Bor first before they are from S. Sudan. They have to rescue their parents before they do any good to the public. This has to happen, otherwise life for our community will be meaningless on earth. This is serious, it will definitely lead to anarchy. Towns cannot accommodate all villagers. The murle needs to be defeated and faced seriously with destruction in order to stop this barabaric act that is not found anywhere in the world except in Jonglei.
folks, don’t wait for this Salva’s gov’t to release you from JIU and your other units to give you a green light. We just have to mobilize ourselves and do what Lou Nuer did in 2008 to Murle for five years. Murle will stop only when their lost is greater than their gain. This is the only medicine they need. All else will fail. Peace talks and police deployment will not work.
To those who worry about the ICC. Does the ICC endorse killing and selling of other human beings? And in their countries, what do they do to people who kill other people?
War between us and the Murle must begin as soon as the Arabs are out of the south.
This is the only thing that will stop them from raiding our elderly and children when our youth is busy in the army building South Sudan.
Quol Quot
Anyang
South Sudan army retake Fangak from Athor forces -SPLA
Good on you Bol Kong and your forces. I think, this greedy Athor Deng must be dealt with militarily, since this seem to be the last option left for the GOSS,or else, he will cause much destruction to resident nearby as well as unnecessary lost of innocent lives if not quells soon.Otherwise, shame on you, Mr clone of Nuers.
landlord
South Sudan army retake Fangak from Athor forces -SPLA
Athor’s nuer militia death is very close.
All Athor fighter are from nuer shame on nuer
Why would you just follow somebody with no vision.
Nuer are just food lover with no identity
they can even follow dogs it it got some food.
shame on food lover
HONEY
South Sudan army retake Fangak from Athor forces -SPLA
QUOL QUOT,
I absolutely agree with you brother. how long is Bor going to play the victim, how long are they going to wait for the government to help them and how long are they going to allow murle to kill them, kidnap their kids and steal their livestock?
Bor has been the victim of Nuer and Murle for a long time and they do not want to lift a finger to defend themselves because they consider themselves honourable and intellegent. If the bullying does not stop i recommend Bor to join into the jonglei madnes and start killing and stealing kids from their neighbours. Otherwise, the SPLM does not give a shit about Bor.
unityfirst1
South Sudan army retake Fangak from Athor forces -SPLA
Bringing our people back together in a good senses,and let us forget all the past-timer(tribal)issue,then we all should live peacefully and successfully without differentiation within the South,unity is simple and uncoditional and that should put the hatred away if we let it go,so please stop the war within ourselves,and let enjoy Southern Sudan riches. our resources are uncountable and they will satify all our need if we live peacefully.now for those who are thirsty for the leadership,they should first manipulated the people in a cheerful way and not spliting them in two groups.
Jeti Leek
South Sudan army retake Fangak from Athor forces -SPLA
I don’t think tit for tat attack will be the best option of ending insurgence instead it’s developing it. Gen. Athor, you remain hero of war which resulted into secession of South Sudan. Please stop humiliating South Sudanese by taking us to war again. President Kiir is a peaceful guy who is interested in dialogue. Surrender yourself and come back to Juba.
Agutthon
South Sudan army retake Fangak from Athor forces -SPLA
GEORGE ATHOR IS A GENUINE THREAT TO SOUTH STABILITY. THE AMNESTY GIVEN SHOULD HAVE BEEN LIMITED TO ONLY THREE MONTHS MAXIMUM AFTER WHICH AN OFFENSIVE SHOULD HAVE BEEN LAUNCH AGAINST HIS LIMITED FORCES.
ON THE OTHER HAND I DOUBT THE ALERT OF SECURITY FORCES THAT ALLOW HIS SPOKEMAN AND OTHER REPS. TO STAY IN JUBA WITHOUT ARREST. THIS IS AN ENEMY WITHIN.
ayor
South Sudan army retake Fangak from Athor forces -SPLA
This is really pathetic, people like “George Athor” acted childishly and irresponsibly as if he doesn’t know the reason why he was fighting for “twentyone good years” in the bush.
What i personally know so far, southerners shall be in gloomy and doomy destiny unless something miracle happen to pave the way in the right direction from these kind of folks like (george), and many more whose their aims is to risk other innocent people lives for their own power-greed.
With this sort of ambition, i came to the fact that we are an imprecation of our own selves, something has to be done to quell this….. it’s totally peace disturbance in the region, and it’s something the (Goss) must deal with accordingly if they want peace to prevail in the region and southern sudan at large.
Athor is an agent employed by southerners’s enemies to hinder and disturb the progress of the emerging new nation from attaining its climax, and by doing so…….is apparently going to proof it to the whole world that we aren’t capable in governing our own selves.
This is what our enemies striving for, they are looking for weak-hearted like”George” and so many more other traitors in order to accomplish their evil-intentions/wishes.
You present traitors better learn from past traitors and if not then bear that in your minds that you ‘re olny gettin’ used by your masters against your own people and later on be turned down just like the rest of them traitors, take a dull risk and you will be paid in your own dime otherwise do something reasonable.
By Ayor Sodit.
Liberator
South Sudan army retake Fangak from Athor forces -SPLA
Gatwech
You’re absolutely 100% right on brother! It’s what I pointed out on yesterday’s posts.
Kuol Manyan, Gier Chuang & Majok Agot including George Athor are the Students of John Garang play book, and that’s “keep your enemy in chaotic situation so that they would not turn their attention on you’’.
That’s what he(Dr. Garang)has been doing until is fateful death in 2005, pitting foolish commanders against each other for 20 plus year civil war was a norm & pride for him.
Taking the war to Ayod ,Pangak, Akobo, or other Nuer areas wouldn’t only be tolerated but there will be a price to pay.
Warning: I called on the Chief-of-General staff (who’s in name only)Gen Hoth Mai Nguth, To step down immediately in the light of the agreement he supported to allowed Lt. Gen. Athor forces in pangak as their stationary area. It’s inexcusable act of cowardice for a Gen. who got his promotion based on the recommendation of the Deputy Commander-in-Chief Gen. Matip Nhial who initially thought of the former of having competency to root out the endemic corruption that have engulfed the SPLA and was on a brink of risking rebellions by Junior officers from the rank of colonels on down, which have seen their salaries not being paid on time for half a year or so under the former chief of General staff Oyai Deng Ajak aided by his deputies such Salva Mathok Salva Kiir’s in law. Therefore, to be fair with current Chief of General staff, He(Hoth Mai) was not brought in to that position as independent thinker, a strategies, visionary or disciplinarian, he was brought in to fixes the corruption within the army.
Although I’m from Upper Nile state, I’m sorry to say he isn’t type of person to manage this type of a situation.
Those who know him very well, would testify to the fact that he is never even raised his finger against Kuol Manyang or to Garang, when Nuer officers were being Lynched by or on the order of those two gentlements from Bor in around Juba or Equatoria region in the early ’90s.
The vice-president too should be blamed since he was the presiding officer during the signing of the ceasefire, he shouldn’t have allowed the station area to be other than Mr. Athor’s home area in Khorfulus.!!
So, I’m demanding resignation of Gen Hoth effective immediately !!!!!!!
Step down Now !!!!!!!!!
Mapuor
South Sudan army retake Fangak from Athor forces -SPLA
Kiir should just get rid of Gier Chuang who never faught a single battle during the long war & replace him with another Padang,more over, Pangak & Pigi should be annexed to Upper Nile State to which they geographically & ethnically belong.Jonglei is ungovernable together with Unity.All South Sudan traitors come from Jongklei:Akuot Atem,Gai Tut,Abdalla Chuol,Ismail Kony,Deng Kelei,Gordon Kong,Paul Ganor,Gatwic Dual,Arok Thon,James Kok who murdered 1stlt Awuol in cold blood in 1991 in Nasir.Yet Jonglei people are the ones enjoying the GoSS.99.5 resources of the South go to Jonglei,SPLA is theirs,90% of senior SPLA officers are from Jonglei most of whom are either illiterate or semi literate.Shame on you people of Jonglei be you Nuers,Murlei,Bors or Anyuaks.The South is watching on you.Stop being greedy & join people of other States in developing the South.
Liberator
South Sudan army retake Fangak from Athor forces -SPLA
Mapuor
I’m in complete agreement with you on two points:
#1. That Kiir should fire Gier Chuang and replace him with any competence person from any tribe who posseses security credential
#2. That those two areas of Jonglei you have mentioned should have been annexed back to their rightful state, the Upper Nile.
It was Dr. Garang who annexed those two areas in order expand the territory of Jonglei. But I believed the Land commission and the residents of those two areas of will remedied the gross violation done to territorial integrity of Upper Nile state.
Peter Elia Kuzee
South Sudan army retake Fangak from Athor forces -SPLA
SPLA OYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.
VERY GOOD OPERATION, THIS ATHER SHOULD BE CAPTURE OR KILL.
WHY AND WHAT IS HE FIGHTING FOR?
WE SOUTH SUDANES DONT WANT FIGHTING,BUT IT IS GOOD THAT THEY ARE FIGHTING IN THEIR PLACE.
NO CEASEFIRE.GO AHEAD WITH FIGHTING MR ATHOR.DEATH TO YOU, LET OTHER TRIBE COME TO FIGHT YOUR FORCES,NOT DINKAS,YOU WILL SEE IF YOU WILL NOT BE CAPTURE.
TO MURLES,LET US NOT FIGHT IT IS STILL MORNING,WAIT FOR THEM TO COME ALONE THAT WILL BE TIME TO DEAL WITH THEM ONE BY ONE.
Liberator
South Sudan army retake Fangak from Athor forces -SPLA
BREAKING NEWS!
DEARS READERS: VERY SAD NEWS;
My heart goes out to the 39 civilians victims
Rebel clashes in south Sudan kill 105
AFP
Rebel clashes in south Sudan kill 105 AFP/File – A member of Sudan People’s Liberation Movement’s (SPLM) and the shadow of another is seen in …
by Peter Martell Peter Martell – 30 mins ago
JUBA, Sudan (AFP) – Clashes between rebels and south Sudanese troops in troubled Jonglei state have killed 105 people, a southern army spokesman said on Friday, a dramatic jump from an earlier death toll of 16.
“On the side of the military that includes the SPLA, the police and the prison services, 20 were killed in Fangak town, while 30 of Athor’s men were killed,” Philip Aguer told AFP.
He was referring to renegade southern general George Athor whose supporters launched a spate of attacks on troops of the south’s Sudan People’s Liberation Army on Wednesday, shattering a “permanent ceasefire” they signed just last month.
“Sadly, there were 39 civilians killed, including women and children, and 65 others wounded,” as well as 30 wounded SPLA troops, Aguer added.
The death toll from the fighting in Fangak town on Wednesday evening and Thursday morning, adds to an earlier toll of at least 16 dead from clashes between southern troops and the rebels in the Door area of Fangak county.
“The number of casualties is high because the attacks were a surprise. This is something we were not expecting because we trusted the ceasefire that was signed,” Aguer said.
There was no immediate response from Athor, when AFP tried to contact him by telephone, but speaking to the independent Sudan Radio Service on Thursday he accused the southern army of starting the attacks.
The renegade general launched his rebellion last year after claiming he was cheated in an election for the governorship of Jonglei state, the south’s most populous.
Athor’s men signed the January ceasefire with the southern army just days before a landmark referendum on independence for the south but he himself stayed away from the signing cermony in the regional capital Juba.
Southern officials have charged he used the ceasefire period to recruit more fighters.
The attacks come just days after the formal confirmation of the results of the January 9-15 referendum, which showed almost 99 percent of southerners voted to secede and split Africa’s largest country in two.
Previously the southern army had accused Athor and his men of acting on behalf of Khartoum in a bid to destabilise the south, a charge northern officials have denied.
Analysts have said that maintaining security in the fledgling southern nation will be a major challenge.
Clashes in oil-producing Upper Nile state earlier this month killed 54 people and wounded 85, according to United Nations estimates, when southern former militiamen inside the northern army rebelled against orders to surrender their heavy weapons.
On Wednesday, a gunman shot dead southern minister Jimmy Lemi Milla in his office, an attack reported to be motivated by a personal dispute.
Gen. Hoth Mai stepped down Now !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
unity state boy
South Sudan army retake Fangak from Athor forces -SPLA
Stupid two Dinka they are make the genicide in Fangak NUER ,you George why don,t you go to your husband KUOL Manyang? you killed the civilians in the area who is not SPLA army,but we know that, you planed it to killed the civilnian of Nuer ,I can talk to you Nuer who are follow George Athor why you follow somebody who killed your community and you know Athor is killed many Nuer in 1992 and your now folow him ,what is problem with you?
By Gatnyuong Theng Dol
iHatejalaba
South Sudan army retake Fangak from Athor forces -SPLA
Unwanted animalist behaviors in Southern Sudan
There was once a saying that any “Any Dinka you see on a suit still carries a tail on his ass” If you didn’t understand let me elucidate for you. It means that they are animals predominantly “cows” born next to a cow and will die because of a cow.
General George Athor is a real pig with two tails ugly son of a bitch
John mamer
South Sudan army retake Fangak from Athor forces -SPLA
I wander if what you people are trying to promote here in this website is best you can do to built the new state of Southern Sudan, of cause with this tribal kind of spirit and mind set you all will end up not enjoying the fruit of what your grandfathers,father and you people had been fighting for, it does not matter wether you are Nuer or Dinka or Zande this nation need all tribe for her to develop.
Nguetbuny de Luelpiny
South Sudan army retake Fangak from Athor forces -SPLA
As NgunDeng predicted
“mi wa jie cuong, caa kueer nag ee Gier”.
mean leadership has been taken by Gier and Marol aci kat ee!. Gueth mia ke Lueec! Ngok wia Lueec kie Ngundeng.
Gat kiir tie ca gaak Luak. Kiee aa Gier kon cub,Ngok bia wee Luak Deng. mean they will go to parliamnet leadership.
so there are some issues here;that are not clear from Ngundeng about Athor,Gier and Kuol.
need more analysis.
Let face it this time, there will be no room for Athor if Kuol and Gier in power. so everything will not be right. Those two have over power Kiir in political awen wen and they are moving Movement by their own will.
they think they are the backbone of SPLA/M while others are not.
tone of liberator
Nguetbuny