Close to 100 killed in Sudan army takeover of Abyei says region’s ex-adminstrator
June 2,2011 (JUBA) – The ousted head of the Abyei administration Deng Arop Kuol, said on Thursday he believes that close to 100 people have been killed in the fighting that saw the northern military take control of the disputed border region.
In Juba on Thursday youth groups from the contested border region called for foreign military intervention to end the occupation of the area by Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) commanded by Khartoum.
The SAF’s seizure of Abyei, sparked international condemnation and raised fears the military action would provoke return to war between north and South Sudan. According to the UN tens of thousands have fled south to escape the fighting.
In an interview with Sudan Tribune on Thursday from an area around Agok, south of Abyei town, Kuol said that he believed nearly 100 people had died in the violence.
“A lot of people have been killed. We are waiting for final information with names from individual family members and clans, but death toll is currently close to 100,” said Kuol in an interview with Sudan Tribune on Thursday from an area around Agok.
Majiith Yak, a former minister of local government in the Abyei administration associated to Sudan’s ruling National Congress Party (NCP), told Sudan Tribune last week in Khartoum that 68 dead bodies were found following a quick search conducted by the SAF two days after taking over the town.
Large numbers of women, children and the elderly have gone missing while escaping the violence, according to eyewitnesses and South Sudan’s governing Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLA).
The United Nations says it has no details about the number of casualties incurred since the fighting began on 19 May, but said it observed the presence of no local residents of Abyei. The only visible presence on the ground is the SAF elements the armed groups from the Misseriya tribe.
“No presence of local Abyei residents has been observed and the only visible presence on the ground is SAF and Misseriya militias and tribesmen. We have no details about the number of casualties incurred since fighting started on 19th May. There has been extensive looting and burning of shops, tukuls and properties by Misseriya militias. The overall security situation in the area of Abyei is still volatile and tense,” reads part of the statement by the United Nations extended to Sudan Tribune on Thursday.
The release further stated that UNMIS has continued its land and air patrolling since Thursday (26/05) and intends to upgrade it in Abyei town and its surroundings, and that it has reinforced its presence in Abyei with 150 Force Reserve Battalion troops from Kadugli, bringing the total number of companies in the town to six. An additional infantry company has also been deployed from Wau to Agok, where many civilians have fled to.
The United Nations says that it is deeply concerned about the plight of the tens of thousands of civilians who have fled Abyei the release says:
“The first phase of the humanitarian operation in the south is underway, focused on identifying the location of the displaced and responding to their emergency needs. Confirming the number of the displaced civilians remains a challenge, as people are still on the move or in the bush.
It is estimated that at least 60,000 IDPs from Abyei Area have reached Southern Sudan, of which 22,000 have been registered by IOM in Twic County in Warrap State with smaller numbers in Northern Bahr el Ghazal and Unity states.”
The military takeover has drawn international attention with the US and the Security Council of the United Nations calling for the immediate withdrawal of the Sudan Armed Forces. However, the Khartoum-based NCP government swiftly appointed a commanding officer of the SAF, as head of the interim administration after Kuol’s Abyei administration was disolved.
On Tuesday Khartoum proposed a compromise, allowing for a rotating administration and allowing the southern army (SPLA) to move as far north as the Bahr al-Arab River, while the SAF would remain north of the river – known as the River Kiir by southern Sudanese.
South Sudan’s ruling SPLM on Thursday rejected the proposal which stated that the South could occupy areas south of the Kiir river on the condition that they did not particpate in any “administrative tasks until a final solution is reached through a referendum”.
Under the north’s proposals, Abyei’s administration would be transferred to a joint north-south committee on July 8, the day before the south is scheduled to secede.
South Sudan voted to secede from the north in a referendum earlier this year, which was a key plank of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement between the SPLM and the NCP in Khartoum.
Abyei was accorded a separate referendum on whether the region would remain in north Sudan or join the South. However, a dispute over whether the Arab nomadic Misseriya tribe – who enter Abyei to graze their cattle for a few months of the year – should be allowed to vote has meant the plebsicte has been all but shelved.
Juac Agok, a senior SPLM official on Thursday, described Khartoum’s proposal, of a rotating administation until a referendum could be held, as “rubbish” and demanded the immediate withdrawal of the Sudan Armed Forces from the area.
“With whom is the Khartoum government proposing shared administration,” asked Agok, stressing that people of Abyei will not accept anything short implementation of the Abyei protocol of the CPA.
The South says that the Dinka Ngok tribe are the residents of the Abyei and that only they and other permanent residents should be allowed to take part in any referendum on Abyei’s future.
Agok also called for Khartoum to accept the 2008 ruling of the Permanent Court Arbitration in Hague. Both sides initially agreed to accept the ruling but it has not been implemented.
“What the government in Khartoum has done is a clear violation of terms of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in the face of the international community. They have killed a lot of people and displaced once again several others. Majority of our people are now in living open areas under trees. Majority are in Twic County, Warrap State and some have gone to Unity and Northern Bahr el Ghazal States,” explained Agok.
Gabriel Riing, a former Abyei Youth Association chairperson told Sudan Tribune in Juba that he rejected Khartoum’s proposal to share Abyei’s administration. He said that the international community must provide swift military intervention to expel what he described as invading forces from the area.
“All these proposals are nonsense. The international community should not waste time and resources to discuss this proposal,” he said.
Kiir Majak, a member of the executive committee of the Abyei Association, also called on the international community to consider military intervention to remove the Sudan Armed Forces out of Abyei as the occupation of Abyei by the northern army is a violation of the CPA.
“The government in Khartoum will never accept its forces to withdraw from the area. This was the plan of the National Congress Party to invade the area. So, I believe they will not accept Sudan Armed Forces withdraw, instead they will continue to deploy more in order to settle Misseriya in the area. The only best option is international military intervention to remove them. They needs to be expulsed,” Majak said.
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OMONI_JR
Close to 100 killed in Sudan army takeover of Abyei says region’s ex-adminstrator
when i do see children suffering like on above article, and make me feel crying and think about how to killed Arabs a cross the world.
Arabs kids in North sudan have never suffer like our kids in south sudan.
Brothers, let us unite and face the common enemy of God.
dengtaath
Close to 100 killed in Sudan army takeover of Abyei says region’s ex-adminstrator
Yes is Bizar, seeing our children still sufering in such a scale, is a heart breaking no doubt. But the reality is, South Sudan must refrain from giving bith of rebels simply because of poor leadership,tribal mentality, and greed of money, is a time to unite and face the very enemy, is a time to think critically about our people across the region, bad leadership will weaken the nation and the enemy will take it as advantage upon us.
Supporter of Naath Cause
Close to 100 killed in Sudan army takeover of Abyei says region’s ex-adminstrator
All the children and adults alike in Southern Sudan are suffering from malnutrition because their wealths are being looted by the SPLM syndicate in Juba. So, Abyei situation is just like the rest of southern Sudan where our people are still being fed by the world food program and the international non governmental organizations or INGOs while the cliques in the SPLM syndicate are liviing a luxurious live by looting of public fund showing no mercy whatsoever to our starving populations.
God will eliminate their big stomachs one by one and sterilizes our southern Sudan from their contamination.
It was the SPLA that played with fire that burned Abyei and the militia has to put it off itself.
Wise Fox
Close to 100 killed in Sudan army takeover of Abyei says region’s ex-adminstrator
Dear Commentators,
I don’t understand, why Dinkas always cry, about lives lost in Abyei? and they didn’t cry for the huge number of lives lost in great upper Nile, from particular Nuer, Murrle and Shilluk, Is it because, the killers were from Dinkas or because, those who were killed were non Dinkas?
Have a look or read this reports from UN and Human right watch ageny, about the genoide or war crimes against humanity that had been committed by the Dinkas (Spla/GoSS)
Civilians killed in South Sudan battle
Confidential UN report documents attack on men, women and children
Msnbc.com
By JASON STRAZIUSO, MAGGIE FICK
JUBA, Sudan— Southern Sudan soldiers attacking a rival ethnic group fired indiscriminately on unarmed men, women and children at a remote Nile River village, killing or wounding hundreds of civilians, according to witness accounts in a confidential U.N. report.
A U.N. team that traveled to the village 11 days after the April 23 killings saw more than two
dozen corpses and said grass-roofed mud huts clearly contained many more bodies, but the toll of 254 dead civilians from a local official has not been independently verified.
The three U.N. reports obtained by The Associated Press are the first accounts of
mass civilian casualties in the southern village of Kaldak caused by soldiers from Southern
Sudan. One report was labeled “Confidential & Sensitive Information,” another was “UN RESTRICTED,” and the third had no apparent classification.
The Texas-sized south voted in January to secede from Sudan and becomes independent
in July. It has been strongly supported by the U.S. and other Western nations.
While the Khartoum-based Sudanese government has been vilified for carrying out
genocide in Darfur and for invading Abyei — a central region contested by the north and
south — last month, the reports obtained by AP raise serious questions about human rights
abuses carried out by southern forces, known as the Sudan People’s Liberation Army, and
about how much control their leaders have over them.
One survivor said the southern soldiers “shot at anything that was moving or standing” amid
the riverside scrub brush.
The U.S. has provided between $150 million and $300 million worth of “transformation
initiatives” to the southern military, the Switzerland-based Small Arms Survey
reported last year, including a training regime focused on advising southern forces in
operations, intelligence and communications.
Slate: So much for peaceful division of Sudan
It was not immediately clear if any of the southern soldiers involved in the April 23
killings in Jonglei state had been trained or equipped by the U.S. The unit is commanded
by Lt. Col. John Mama Korog, one of the U.N. field reports said. The No. 2 commander was
identified as Maj. John Goang Galluak.
The southern military’s spokesman, Col. Philip Aguer, told AP on Thursday that 165 people
died in the battle, including 30 civilians. Mixed among fighters the SPLA battled were women
and children, some of them armed, Aguer said. If civilians were killed, it was in the crossfire,
he said.
The U.N. team came by boat May 4 to Kaldak, which is accessible only by river, to look for
unexploded ordnance and learn about the clash between the SPLA and a former rebel
group that had been supported by the north and was commanded by Maj. Gen. Gabriel
Tanginye. The fighting had erupted over old ethnic and political rivalries.
Korog at first was “very defensive and refused to answer any questions,” the U.N. patrol
report noted, until the team explained it was supporting the SPLA and removing unexploded
munitions.
From a distance, the U.N. team saw that the battlefield was marked by numerous bodies.
Birds of prey circled overhead. The U.N. team reported it was prevented from reaching the
site by Korog, who said it “would not be safe.”
The team then walked into the civilian village, whose inhabitants were mostly members of
the same ethnic Nuer group that most of Tanginye’s fighters belonged to.
“As we entered the village it was obvious that most huts contained dead bodies. The swarm
of flies and the stench provided clues to locate bodies,” the unidentified author of the U.N.
patrol report wrote. There, the U.N. members encountered Moses Geyjang, a civilian
administrator of the municipality who wanted to speak without the SPLA overhearing.
Geyjang said that once the battle outside the village ended, the southern troops came to
Kaldak and targeted civilians, who ran toward the Nile where many were shot, the U.N. report
said. Geyjang said 254 residents had been killed. That number has not been verified by U.
N. or U.S. officials who did after-battle assessments.
When the U.N. official asked Geyjang where the rest of the bodies were buried, Geyjang
said the military had dumped them into the river. Korog had previously told the U.N. team
that it would see bodies washing up on shore, but Korog said these people had drowned
while trying to flee across the river.
Geyjang told the U.N. team that southern military forces had looted the village, taking
most of the residents’ clothing. Even when the U.N. visited 11 days after the killings, the civilians appeared to be in dire straits.
The report’s author said he saw “civilians eating grass and leaves from trees.”
“Unburied corpses, burnt houses, scattered food supplies were seen all over in the area of the visit,” another U.N. report stated.
At a hospital in nearby Malakal, a 40-year-old woman told a U.N. human rights team that a southern soldier shot her 2-year-old in the head, killing the child instantly, as she ran with the toddler to the river. The woman was wounded in the back and leg.
A 38-year-old woman told U.N. investigators that she was shot at point-blank range by a
soldier in the market. When asked why she thinks she was shot, she said that the
southern forces didn’t differentiate between men and women.
“The SPLA just shot at anything that was moving or standing,” the woman said.
A male victim told the human rights team that southern commanders ordered their forces not to shoot civilians but many did so anyway.
“I saw many more dead bodies lying on the ground, many of them men and women who
numbered more than 120 to 200 dead bodies on the banks of the White River Nile,” said the
35-year-old man, who was shot in the left leg and back.
One photo taken in the weeks after the fighting showed a rotting corpse, with bones
protruding, in a field next to a metal can marked “USA” in blue letters. That can is the
type given out by the U.S. Agency for International Development and often contains
vegetable oil.
The southern military had wanted the surrender of Tanginye, a warlord sponsored
by the north during the north-south civil war that ended with a peace agreement in 2005
that called for the south’s independence referendum. It wanted his men to integrate
into the SPLA, but something went wrong with the integration attempt and it ended in gunfire.
A U.N. security assessment said the motives of the clash were tribal and political. Tanginye’s
force is predominantly from the Nuer community, while the majority of southerners
are Dinka. The Nuer are an armed cattle-herding tribe that have had a long-running
feud with the Dinka, and most southerners oppose the integration of rebel groups, many
of which are Nuer, into the military.
That long-running feud could explain why troops were reported to have disregarded
orders from field commanders and targeted civilians, including women and children.
Gen. Jasbir Lidder, the second-highest official for the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Sudan,
said in an interview that there were “heavy casualties” on both sides “and quite a few civilian casualties” in Kaldak.
An unclassified cable sent to Washington after a team from the U.S. Consulate visited Kaldak
said the evidence did not demonstrate a mass killing of noncombatants. Sixteen bodies were seen by the U.S. team, including two women. The U.S. officials visited 15 days after the
battle. Because of security and time restrictions, the U.S. officials did not see the entire battle site.
Antje Ruckstuhl, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Southern
Sudan, said the ICRC and the Sudanese Red Crescent Society were asked by government authorities to bury 18 rotting corpses on May 11 and 12. “A few women and a few minors” —
potentially including an infant — were among them, she said.
Land mines delayed the ICRC from accessing the area to bury the remains, she said.
Aguer, the southern military’s spokesman, noted his army had battled the north as a guerrilla force for decades and hasn’t yet achieved 100 percent discipline.
“We are transforming the SPLA from a guerrilla to a conventional army and at the same time
we are reorganizing in which we are accommodating people who have very little
training, in discipline and in the army, so there is no doubt in between you can get incidents of indiscipline,” he said. “It will take us some time.”
A Western diplomat in Juba said top leaders order the troops to behave according to
military law, but that a guerrilla mentality might still exist on the ground. The official spoke on
condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the topic.
In a second recent incident involving the SPLA and a sub-clan of the Nuer, local officials
accused the military of looting and burning Nuer huts, and a group of elders in Unity State wrote to world leaders that crimes against humanity were committed, including the burning of homes and killing of civilians. No independent groups have confirmed the allegations, though Medicins Sans Frontiers
treated gunshot victims afterward. Many SPLA members in Unity are also Nuer.
That fighting erupted May 20 in the western part of oil-rich Unity state when forces led by
Peter Gadet attacked the SPLA-controlled village of Mankien. Mayom County
Commissioner Charles Machieng Kuol said by phone Thursday that 7,800 women and
children were displaced and that civilian killings and displacement by the military is
sometimes intentional.
Lidder, the U.N. official, confirmed a “heavy displacement of civilians and there are also killings, that’s a fact.” Aguer said the Unity State allegations must be investigated.
Analysts say Southern Sudan must address its tribal tensions or risk further conflict. The International Crisis Group said in a recent report that tribal violence threatens civilians and further polarization of ethnic groups.
“In recent months soldiers have committed serious abuses against civilians in the context
of military operations against the rebels,” said Jehanne Henry, Sudan researcher for Human
Rights Watch. “The SPLA needs to take steps to ensure soldiers do not commit such abuses.
They need to improve command and control over soldiers and … hold soldiers accountable for crimes committed against civilians.”
Chuangah
Close to 100 killed in Sudan army takeover of Abyei says region’s ex-adminstrator
If Arab think that Abyei is their land and the people of Abyei are their people why don’t they bring food and non-food items to feed the hungry who are internally displace in Abyei?
what the Arab done is against the law, here in Sudan black African suffered a lot in the hands of the Muslims dominated Sudan where there is no human right, people are being killed like animals.
We are proud to have our own army the Sudan people Liberation Army,who always response aggressively when they Arab intend to enforce this Islamic traits here in South Sudan. we are urging all our gallant forces to remain united despite allegations roaming here in Juba. SPLA must take full control of the entire territory of South Sudan come july 9th and anyone against the law of the new republic
of South Sudan, and anyone who is against the raising of our new flag will be brought to justice after our full independent.
Abyei Soil
Close to 100 killed in Sudan army takeover of Abyei says region’s ex-adminstrator
Wise fox,
supporter of naath cause
I know you’re rejoicing and praising arabs your masters for atrocities caused to Abyei residents but I am sure that money or treason fees you’re receiving will finish b4 you fulfilled your job gangs. You are following Gen. Peter Gadet hoping he will fill your stomaches with rubbish (residue) Khartoum but Im telling you he is a dead man with many curses on him, one is the blood of Com. Karbino Kuanyin Bol, another one is killing his own people hoping he get support from but nothing. You don’t know what will annoyed others who do you think will your routes.
Thank for participation but looser.
Billiu Puoch
Close to 100 killed in Sudan army takeover of Abyei says region’s ex-adminstrator
Dear Southerners
No blaming about the killing of Abyei people because Dinka Ngok doesn’t know what is really taking place.Let the Arabs kills them and if the rest of Dinka fell like to joint them let them go and fight with Arabs because the wars has been declared by Bashir direct to Cowboy Mayar Dit and I wonder If Dinka will tolerate that.
Dinka you were been complaining since that,you were the freedom fighters now that is the war,why there is no evident that you are the Heroes? Equatorians are better than you in term of getting into war,Murle are better than you and also Darfurians are better than you,then what is your role?
Back to Nuer Statistics,Naath ( The real people) are more than what you were been expected,without Nuer,does the government can do something to you Dinka? Definitely,let the Arabs kills you to know about the consequences of war when you don’t know how to protect yourselves again your enemy.
The real Nuer will be waiting for declaration to get our seats and overlooking what can affects the Southerners as the Nation.
Jaang Dinka there will be no helping by these days because you know only how to consume the cold food and you don;t even know where it come from.
Bashir will deals away with you till you regret the welcoming of traders to occupy your areas.
Bashir can not attempt to fight with us along side of Unity State because he known who are we.
Just go and fight don’t make more complains about Abyei,Dinka what are you talking about,we have oil in Unity State plus the rest of Nuer areas and we are not lacking any resources,what of you,do you have?
The national language will be change soon according to Nuer History otherwise suicide will occurs apart from what is taking place in Abyei.
I condemn the comment of Dinka Dominated SPLM on this Forum.
Dinka take care and be well equip about your future life.
Kaur Midiit Dr.Riek Machar Teny
AdierCien
Close to 100 killed in Sudan army takeover of Abyei says region’s ex-adminstrator
Billiu Puoch
Wrong person in right people, wraping up yourself in mask pretending other people doesn’t help. Let me tell you people are the same no matter the tribe you’re! Nuer are good communities but one rotten onion spoil the whole full suck of onion you understand brother. Don’t just hide in other people’s image Equatoria knows who you’re and Dinka as well. Be proud of way you are even if you are poor, rude, illiterate, rich, black, white, thin, huge, boy, Nuer, Zande, girl, man, woman, Murle, leader, supporter, citizen, none citizen, fool, brave, coward, Dinka, wise etc. Please Puoch move away from Equatoria side.
Chuangah
Close to 100 killed in Sudan army takeover of Abyei says region’s ex-adminstrator
Billiu Puoch, you are the kind of people who cause havoc and choas here in South Sudan, if Arab tooks all the Dinkaland for instant,; where will you go?, they will still come to you and drive you out of your land then ultimately you will be in no where here in South Sudan.
Just say anything that will be beneficiall to south sudanese bro, do’nt concentrates on illogical things which doesn’t benefits South Sudan,
Supporter of Naath Cause
Close to 100 killed in Sudan army takeover of Abyei says region’s ex-adminstrator
Abyei Soil
I am Bioscientist by profession ,So, I do respect lives except only those of SPLA criminals. It is thus ridiculous to rejoice the death of people of Abyei.
Also for your information, I don’t hate innocent Dinka civilians apart from the greedy few in the SPLA syndicate, who are looting southern Sudan right now as I am writing this commen thus subjecting our people to unnecessary hardship.
If you are talkiing about the dealth of SPLA Dinka syndicates and the cliques in the SPLM, the answer is yes I will rejoice, even if something terminates all of them at once I Wouldn’t mind at all because southern Sudan wiil be better off without SPLM syndicate.
About who slave, I hope you know that you abyei people are northern Sudanese and thus slaves of Northerners full stop.
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WendeMajok
Close to 100 killed in Sudan army takeover of Abyei says region’s ex-adminstrator
Hey Biliu Puoch,
I didn’t know that someone like you could shamelessly pop in and post erotic comment without analysing the impacts, I fall into laughter after seeing your meaningless comment that would potray a bad image on your tribe as a whole……are you out of your mind?
I think you are not far from being a second Gadet or Athor who is fighting his own people without any genuine reason and failing to realise the consequences…..myopic, you guys think of today only but won’t predict what tomorrow brings.
I guess, your dummy mind tells you that this comment site can only be accessed by Southern Sudanese.
Be smart and realistic in posting comments of those kinds coz this site is accessible to whoever Love Sudan, there is nothing like “Dinka war” mind you, SPLA was formed by BIG-5 i.e. John Garang de Mabior, Kerubino Kuanyin Bol, Nyuon Baany, Salva Kiir Mayardit and Arok Thon Arok….corrections here if I am wrong.
Its time to change, I know rigid guys like you will take long to get things right.
Billiu Puoch
Close to 100 killed in Sudan army takeover of Abyei says region’s ex-adminstrator
Thanks once again and I really give thankfully to those who put their blaming on me,remember I never comment negatively on this Forum but the man nick name himself as Dinka Dominated SPLM is always parallel to people.This man will invite reaction one day one time.
South Sudanese are my blood people of which I can’t wish them to die.My apology goes to all of you and accept it.
For your information about the man who give support to Equatorians people,you are very wrong indeed because Equatorians are the South citizens and we have to appreciate them when it come to reality.Anyway sorry but don’t try to be panic when people are on wring directions.
Long live Nuer,long live Dinka and whoever concern
Be bless and thanks
dakin
Close to 100 killed in Sudan army takeover of Abyei says region’s ex-adminstrator
Billiu,
You did not say anything out of the ordinary for Mr. Dinka Dominated Spla is not an imposter! He is a dinka inviting the NUER!
Dinka soldiers against nuer civilians in Kaldak and Mayom. You must logically be concerned about this than abyei which is being taken care of by the UN.
They dinka can also take it militarily anytime appropriate to them.
Abyei Soil
Close to 100 killed in Sudan army takeover of Abyei says region’s ex-adminstrator
Billiu Puoch
Life spent while making mistakes is life spent contributing to your community therefore, I personally shouldn’t blame you for that and on behalf of myself I forgive you.
Indeed one thing you should remember is that no need for you to use other people’s reputation as your shield to abuse or make defamation against others that shouldn’t work brother.
My words are ever remains as it is and it was. I am not single Equatoria out to be special people no, not at all. I am not urging you to be unfriend with them.
Thank you very much for this feedback.
Abyei Soil
Close to 100 killed in Sudan army takeover of Abyei says region’s ex-adminstrator
Billiu Puoch
Life spent while making mistakes is life spent contributing to your community therefore, I personally shouldn’t blame you for that and on behalf of myself I forgive you.
Indeed one thing you should remember is that no need for you to use other people’s reputation as your shield to abuse or make defamation against others that shouldn’t work brother.
My words are ever remains as it is and it was. I am not single Equatoria out to be special people no, not at all. I am not urging you to be unfriend with them.
Thank you very much for this feedback.
dakin
Close to 100 killed in Sudan army takeover of Abyei says region’s ex-adminstrator
Billiu,
People were fighting for Southern Sudan or Sudan not for Splm or Kiir something that will take a shock for some bizaar heads to understand. You are 100 percent correct but those good for nothing gluttons call for unity during the war.
Indeed they are busy stealing but they don’t know where these money come from. They deliberately target innocent civilians at Kaldak, Mayom to their pleasure,these are very provocative but when we strike back they will have to cry in our names again..let them shed their own tears over abyei.Didn’t you mention Murle. You are not telling the equatorians to hate dinka as they took it here. Infact, they knew one another much better.
These people do not appreciate at all.
In Kakuma 2003, they fought with the locals(Turkana) and they took refuge in our Nuer community.
Reasons: Throwing away their food leftovers instead of giving it to the starving locals was a factor in many.
If you belief that there is an impending war with the north than we should focus on our greater upper nile frontiers and leave the so called dinka liberators to proof themselves in their Abyei.
You nothing to apologise unless you are a coward or a traitor
DO NOT ASSUME TO BE A GOOD PERSON BY SUPPORTING THE KILLING OF YOUR PEOPLE! NO
Billiu Puoch
Close to 100 killed in Sudan army takeover of Abyei says region’s ex-adminstrator
Lots of thanks to you guys for your contributions on this Forum,sincerely we know our historical background as Southerners.
Thanks bro for telling the truth during crises which accursed in Northern Kenya Kakuma and that is the record we never and ever forget,in our lifetime.
Nuer are good twice double they are good likewise to the rest but— SPLM is the root to peace again our enemies from external attack.
I appreciated your views.