Top South Sudan general resigns to protest tribal agenda
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February 13, 2017 (JUBA) - A deputy chief of South Sudan army, General
Thomas Cirilo, resigned from the army and accused President Salva Kiir
and military leadership of spearheading a tribal agenda.
JPEG - 47 kb
Lt. Gen. Thomas Cirillo (R) with commander of presidential guards Maj.
Gen. Marial Chanuong at Juba airport on November 5, 2014 (ST).
Gen. Cirillo, who hails from Equatoria region, was the deputy chief of
SPLA for logistics.
Gen. Cirillo, who is a Bari like vice president James Wani Igga, is
the highest military officer from Equatoria. His resignation is
significant as could cause tribal in-balance in the military. He did
not indicate if he will join any armed group or remain in the capital
Juba.
In a six-page letter of resignation seen by Sudan Tribune, Gen.
Cirillo claimed that the country is been dominated by Dinka tribe of
President Kiir and the army has been turned to tribal militia that
targets non-Dinka ethnicities.
He accused the South Sudanese President Salva Kiir, the Chief of Staff
General Paul Malong of "deliberately orchestrated planned violations"
of the August 2015 peace agreement" which led to fighting in Juba in
July last year.
"The President and these SPLA officers have systematically frustrated
the implementations of the peace agreement and pursued the agenda of
Jieng Council of Elders (JCE) of ethnic cleansing, forceful
displacement of people from the their ancestral lands and ethnic
domination," he said.
"At this juncture, I can no longer continue to be part of the ongoing
destruction of our beloved country by the same army," he stressed.
Cirillo, also accused the President Kiir and Jieng Council of
Eiders,"the real cabinet of the Government" as he said, of " pursuing
a strategy of turning the SPLA and other organized forces into brutal
tribal forces".
He claims that Dinkas hailing from Bahr el Ghazal region, the home
area of the President and the Army Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen Paul Malong
Awan, are now systematically recruited and "promoted to officer ranks
have been assigned as commanders of most SPLA units".
The Equatorian general pointed to the Mathiang Anyor tribal militias
saying they "deliberately applied policy of scorch earth by burning
whole villages, grabbing land, especially in Equatoria, Chollo land
and Western Bahr el Ghazal".
he said he had tried to convince the president and "members of Dinka
ruling clique" to promote nationalism stop tribal policies but his
efforts went in vain and fallen on deaf ears.
"This type of inhuman treatment and the human agony it entails has
never happened before, even during the time when Khartoum was ruling
South Sudan," he said.
In his long letter, the general spoke about the poor treatment of
Equatorian military elements in the army saying they have been kept
out of Equatoria since the signing of the CPA in 2005.
However he admitted that this "discrimination and crimes against
humanity" are committed on the Dinkas "who are opposed to the policy
of discrimination on ethnic bases and destruction of the country".
(ST)
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11 February 08:11, by J P Puok
Ok the forty days of thieves are over. Dinkas hidden agenda
revealed and kingdom is rumbling . general after general resigning
from the SPLA and it seems as if nothing is wrong. Let JCE cliques be
exposed to their bones. they pooled down the country to the earth and
they are busy milking its dead skeleton shame on Dinka! yesterday was
gen Bapiny, today gen cirlo next God knows !!
repondre message
11 February 08:46, by koang mi kei
wow wow when thieves steal some things togather and they fail
to share the things equally they may dishoned the agreement and
spellout what they hinded for others now it is time if south sudan
shoose peace will come and if it war soon without joke tribele
gevornment will go unity will the lighting torch in our heart cirilo
has right to tell south sudan truths
repondre message
11 February 08:20, by Tilo
Jieng Council of Elders need to withdraw from the country affairs
to give room for peace and practice Nationalism. Otherwise this
government is now left to only ethnic Dinka.
The Dinka community should not allow some few element to ruin
their dignity. To all Dinka safe your dignity otherwise, you will
never be valued in the country in the nearest future. Your next
generation will face it
repondre message
11 February 08:38, by jubaone
Congartulations Lt.Gen.
Thank you. These jienge scoundrels have chosen the path of war
and we shall go for it. For 21 yrs you held our dignity and pride as
Equatorians high, we recall how you beat the jellaba in Juba, Morobo,
Yei etc. till Juba. Now these jienges bastards want to behave and
dominate the South like their jellaba slave masters. We MUST get rid
of them, Oh great Equatorians.
repondre message
11 February 09:21, by Dalta Cirea
Thank you Brave General for the bold decision to resign from the
tribal army and government. my advise to you is as senior army officer
work hard to get rid of tribal policy in South Sudan and put the
nationalism a head. Thank you.
repondre message
11 February 09:55, by Kush Natives
Bye Mr. General Thomas Cirilo! Go and form the SPLA/B period. But,
I am still not quite sure, unless you denounce this reports.
Otherwise, people are putting you in bracket.
repondre message
11 February 11:52, by jubaone
Kush Natives,
As a jienge, you should now be terribly terrified and by the
way, this is just the beginning of the end of jienge presence in
Equatoria. Once we flush you out, we will make sure you NEVER again
set foot in Equatoria. We have tolerated your jienge nonsense for too
Long. Pls. begin to pack your dirty baggages for Ramciel, bye bye
repondre message
11 February 10:16, by Naath
Dinka tribal gangs leader Kiir is messing up with South Sudanese
of all walks. The Dinka tribal leader power greediness is destroying
South Sudan. Kiir is the most foolish tribal leader on the planet that
the world ever had.
repondre message
11 February 11:42, by Deng Nelson
Well I know is this handwriting is not for senior army official
like Thomas. If SPLA were tribal army then Dinkas as lagest tribe in
South Sudan could have not been targeted and killed to the extend that
they cut off private parts and no action taken. May thunder strike the
one who crookedly published this article because it’s not making sense
at all.
repondre message
11 February 12:00, by Philosopherking
Deng, to believe you need a brain, and you don’t seem to have
any, so no surprises there. How do you expects to know what it means
to be marginalised if you and your people are the oppressors and
thieves? We have equatorians who have been in the SPLM for the last
three to four decade, they are never promoted, always in the front
line! What is this?
repondre message
11 February 12:03, by Philosopherking
All equatorians currently being treated as second class citizens,
whether they are in parliament or government need to leave this
tribal, incompetent, blood sucking, money stealing, land grabbing, war
mongering idiots alone. Let the true liberation begin! We need to send
this animals back to their bushes until they evolve, then they shall
be let into our civilised society!
repondre message
11 February 12:03, by Philosopherking
All equatorians currently being treated as second class citizens,
whether they are in parliament or government need to leave this
tribal, incompetent, blood sucking, money stealing, land grabbing, war
mongering idiots alone. Let the true liberation begin! We need to send
this animals back to their bushes until they evolve, then they shall
be let into our civilised society!
repondre message
11 February 12:09, by Gabriel KK
Well, it is up to the military to decide on his resignation.
Whatever he has said reflect his true character because all the rebels
in the Country are those who knifed the movement at the back during
struggle including him. Lets wait and see.
repondre message
11 February 12:27, by Philosopherking
This accusation is getting too old and boring. keep your lies.
There are men of conscience in South Sudan, and Cirillo is one of
them. Cirillo and his team captured many more territory in South Sudan
than any of your 1000 thieves during the liberation. And he, has
nothing to do with your inherently corrupt government!
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February 13, 2017 (JUBA) - A deputy chief of South Sudan army, General
Thomas Cirilo, resigned from the army and accused President Salva Kiir
and military leadership of spearheading a tribal agenda.
JPEG - 47 kb
Lt. Gen. Thomas Cirillo (R) with commander of presidential guards Maj.
Gen. Marial Chanuong at Juba airport on November 5, 2014 (ST).
Gen. Cirillo, who hails from Equatoria region, was the deputy chief of
SPLA for logistics.
Gen. Cirillo, who is a Bari like vice president James Wani Igga, is
the highest military officer from Equatoria. His resignation is
significant as could cause tribal in-balance in the military. He did
not indicate if he will join any armed group or remain in the capital
Juba.
In a six-page letter of resignation seen by Sudan Tribune, Gen.
Cirillo claimed that the country is been dominated by Dinka tribe of
President Kiir and the army has been turned to tribal militia that
targets non-Dinka ethnicities.
He accused the South Sudanese President Salva Kiir, the Chief of Staff
General Paul Malong of "deliberately orchestrated planned violations"
of the August 2015 peace agreement" which led to fighting in Juba in
July last year.
"The President and these SPLA officers have systematically frustrated
the implementations of the peace agreement and pursued the agenda of
Jieng Council of Elders (JCE) of ethnic cleansing, forceful
displacement of people from the their ancestral lands and ethnic
domination," he said.
"At this juncture, I can no longer continue to be part of the ongoing
destruction of our beloved country by the same army," he stressed.
Cirillo, also accused the President Kiir and Jieng Council of
Eiders,"the real cabinet of the Government" as he said, of " pursuing
a strategy of turning the SPLA and other organized forces into brutal
tribal forces".
He claims that Dinkas hailing from Bahr el Ghazal region, the home
area of the President and the Army Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen Paul Malong
Awan, are now systematically recruited and "promoted to officer ranks
have been assigned as commanders of most SPLA units".
The Equatorian general pointed to the Mathiang Anyor tribal militias
saying they "deliberately applied policy of scorch earth by burning
whole villages, grabbing land, especially in Equatoria, Chollo land
and Western Bahr el Ghazal".
he said he had tried to convince the president and "members of Dinka
ruling clique" to promote nationalism stop tribal policies but his
efforts went in vain and fallen on deaf ears.
"This type of inhuman treatment and the human agony it entails has
never happened before, even during the time when Khartoum was ruling
South Sudan," he said.
In his long letter, the general spoke about the poor treatment of
Equatorian military elements in the army saying they have been kept
out of Equatoria since the signing of the CPA in 2005.
However he admitted that this "discrimination and crimes against
humanity" are committed on the Dinkas "who are opposed to the policy
of discrimination on ethnic bases and destruction of the country".
(ST)
Comments on the Sudan Tribune website must abide by the following
rules. Contravention of these rules will lead to the user losing their
Sudan Tribune account with immediate effect.
- No inciting violence
- No inappropriate or offensive language
- No racism, tribalism or sectarianism
- No inappropriate or derogatory remarks
- No deviation from the topic of the article
- No advertising, spamming or links
- No incomprehensible comments
Due to the unprecedented amount of racist and offensive language on
the site, Sudan Tribune tries to vet all comments on the site.
There is now also a limit of 400 words per comment. If you want to
express yourself in more detail than this allows, please e-mail your
comment as an article to com...@sudantribune.com
Kind regards,
The Sudan Tribune editorial team.
11 February 08:11, by J P Puok
Ok the forty days of thieves are over. Dinkas hidden agenda
revealed and kingdom is rumbling . general after general resigning
from the SPLA and it seems as if nothing is wrong. Let JCE cliques be
exposed to their bones. they pooled down the country to the earth and
they are busy milking its dead skeleton shame on Dinka! yesterday was
gen Bapiny, today gen cirlo next God knows !!
repondre message
11 February 08:46, by koang mi kei
wow wow when thieves steal some things togather and they fail
to share the things equally they may dishoned the agreement and
spellout what they hinded for others now it is time if south sudan
shoose peace will come and if it war soon without joke tribele
gevornment will go unity will the lighting torch in our heart cirilo
has right to tell south sudan truths
repondre message
11 February 08:20, by Tilo
Jieng Council of Elders need to withdraw from the country affairs
to give room for peace and practice Nationalism. Otherwise this
government is now left to only ethnic Dinka.
The Dinka community should not allow some few element to ruin
their dignity. To all Dinka safe your dignity otherwise, you will
never be valued in the country in the nearest future. Your next
generation will face it
repondre message
11 February 08:38, by jubaone
Congartulations Lt.Gen.
Thank you. These jienge scoundrels have chosen the path of war
and we shall go for it. For 21 yrs you held our dignity and pride as
Equatorians high, we recall how you beat the jellaba in Juba, Morobo,
Yei etc. till Juba. Now these jienges bastards want to behave and
dominate the South like their jellaba slave masters. We MUST get rid
of them, Oh great Equatorians.
repondre message
11 February 09:21, by Dalta Cirea
Thank you Brave General for the bold decision to resign from the
tribal army and government. my advise to you is as senior army officer
work hard to get rid of tribal policy in South Sudan and put the
nationalism a head. Thank you.
repondre message
11 February 09:55, by Kush Natives
Bye Mr. General Thomas Cirilo! Go and form the SPLA/B period. But,
I am still not quite sure, unless you denounce this reports.
Otherwise, people are putting you in bracket.
repondre message
11 February 11:52, by jubaone
Kush Natives,
As a jienge, you should now be terribly terrified and by the
way, this is just the beginning of the end of jienge presence in
Equatoria. Once we flush you out, we will make sure you NEVER again
set foot in Equatoria. We have tolerated your jienge nonsense for too
Long. Pls. begin to pack your dirty baggages for Ramciel, bye bye
repondre message
11 February 10:16, by Naath
Dinka tribal gangs leader Kiir is messing up with South Sudanese
of all walks. The Dinka tribal leader power greediness is destroying
South Sudan. Kiir is the most foolish tribal leader on the planet that
the world ever had.
repondre message
11 February 11:42, by Deng Nelson
Well I know is this handwriting is not for senior army official
like Thomas. If SPLA were tribal army then Dinkas as lagest tribe in
South Sudan could have not been targeted and killed to the extend that
they cut off private parts and no action taken. May thunder strike the
one who crookedly published this article because it’s not making sense
at all.
repondre message
11 February 12:00, by Philosopherking
Deng, to believe you need a brain, and you don’t seem to have
any, so no surprises there. How do you expects to know what it means
to be marginalised if you and your people are the oppressors and
thieves? We have equatorians who have been in the SPLM for the last
three to four decade, they are never promoted, always in the front
line! What is this?
repondre message
11 February 12:03, by Philosopherking
All equatorians currently being treated as second class citizens,
whether they are in parliament or government need to leave this
tribal, incompetent, blood sucking, money stealing, land grabbing, war
mongering idiots alone. Let the true liberation begin! We need to send
this animals back to their bushes until they evolve, then they shall
be let into our civilised society!
repondre message
11 February 12:03, by Philosopherking
All equatorians currently being treated as second class citizens,
whether they are in parliament or government need to leave this
tribal, incompetent, blood sucking, money stealing, land grabbing, war
mongering idiots alone. Let the true liberation begin! We need to send
this animals back to their bushes until they evolve, then they shall
be let into our civilised society!
repondre message
11 February 12:09, by Gabriel KK
Well, it is up to the military to decide on his resignation.
Whatever he has said reflect his true character because all the rebels
in the Country are those who knifed the movement at the back during
struggle including him. Lets wait and see.
repondre message
11 February 12:27, by Philosopherking
This accusation is getting too old and boring. keep your lies.
There are men of conscience in South Sudan, and Cirillo is one of
them. Cirillo and his team captured many more territory in South Sudan
than any of your 1000 thieves during the liberation. And he, has
nothing to do with your inherently corrupt government!
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