South Sudan gives Jonglei rebel leader Yauyau ultimatum to surrender
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June 5, 2013 (JUBA) - South Sudan issued an ultimatum to the Jonglei
based militia leader, David Yauyau, on Wednesday asking him to choose
between laying down his weapons unconditionally and respond to the
presidential amnesty, or risk being pursued militarily.
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South Sudan’s defence minister John Kong Nyuon (Reuters)
Defence minister, John Kong Nyuon, said the government was committed
to providing adequate security to civilians and their properties not
only in Jonglei state but across the two-year-old country.
“We are a government with all capabilities to provide protection to
all our civil population and their properties not only in Jonglei
state but the entire country. It is therefore not a business of
individuals to claim the responsibility of protection of the members
of their ethnic group”, said Minister Nyuon in a clear reference to
Yauyau’s declaration that he was fighting to defend his Murle ethnic
group and establish a separate state for marginalised minorities.
He warned that the army would not tolerate individuals using the
“tribal card” to commit atrocities, saying it was a matter of time
before South Sudan’s army (SPLA) - itself a former rebel movement
turned national army - could bring the conflict in the region to an
end if Yauyau does not respond to the presidential amnesty issued in
April.
“Yauyau is taking advantage of the good intention of the president to
give peaceful dialogue the opportunity to resolve the conflict. It is
not that the SPLA is not capable to end these banditry activities. I
consider it banditry because he has no base. He is now on the run. The
SPLA forces are hunting for him. We decided to respect the decision of
the president but it seems he is not responding. So we are giving him
the opportunity to decide between responding to the amnesty or the
SPLA will be forced to hunt him. He has to make a choice’, Nyuon said
on Wednesday.
Minister Nyuon was speaking to the journalists responding questions
asking what his ministry intends to do to ensure the peace and
stability promised by president Salva Kiir, while addressing the fifth
International Conference on African Development in Japan.
President Kiir vowed his government’s commitment to guarantee internal
stability, especially along the border with Sudan, which has remained
tense and highly militarised since South Sudan’s independence in 2011.
In his speech Kiir also recognized the work of Japanese peacekeepers
in United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), lauding the
expansion of their operations in infrastructure development into new
areas in Eastern and Western Equatoria states.
He told the conference that his administration, with civil society
organisations, had initiated a process of national reconciliation as a
way of consolidating peace in the country.
SPLA CLOSING ON REBEL HIDEOUTS
Meanwhile military sources said government soldiers were heading on
Tuesday to suspected key areas in north eastern and south eastern
parts of Pibor county, located in south eastern part of Jonglei state,
allegedly occupied by rebels who oppose the presence of the country’s
military or government there.
"At the moment, our forces are on the move. It is just a matter before
you hear a new development. Our forces on the ground have clear orders
to pursue Yauyau and his forces and restore law and order in the area
so that the civilian can return to their areas and resume normal
life”, a senior military source told Sudan Tribune on Wednesday in
Juba.
The spokesperson for the SPLA colonel Phillip Aguer also told audience
during a question and answer session hosted by privately-owned the
Citizen Television that it was a matter of time because the army could
bring the rebellion in Jonglei state “to an end”.
The military officer however did not give details of the current
activities of the army in the area.
(ST)
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June 5, 2013 (JUBA) - South Sudan issued an ultimatum to the Jonglei
based militia leader, David Yauyau, on Wednesday asking him to choose
between laying down his weapons unconditionally and respond to the
presidential amnesty, or risk being pursued militarily.
JPEG - 11.4 kb
South Sudan’s defence minister John Kong Nyuon (Reuters)
Defence minister, John Kong Nyuon, said the government was committed
to providing adequate security to civilians and their properties not
only in Jonglei state but across the two-year-old country.
“We are a government with all capabilities to provide protection to
all our civil population and their properties not only in Jonglei
state but the entire country. It is therefore not a business of
individuals to claim the responsibility of protection of the members
of their ethnic group”, said Minister Nyuon in a clear reference to
Yauyau’s declaration that he was fighting to defend his Murle ethnic
group and establish a separate state for marginalised minorities.
He warned that the army would not tolerate individuals using the
“tribal card” to commit atrocities, saying it was a matter of time
before South Sudan’s army (SPLA) - itself a former rebel movement
turned national army - could bring the conflict in the region to an
end if Yauyau does not respond to the presidential amnesty issued in
April.
“Yauyau is taking advantage of the good intention of the president to
give peaceful dialogue the opportunity to resolve the conflict. It is
not that the SPLA is not capable to end these banditry activities. I
consider it banditry because he has no base. He is now on the run. The
SPLA forces are hunting for him. We decided to respect the decision of
the president but it seems he is not responding. So we are giving him
the opportunity to decide between responding to the amnesty or the
SPLA will be forced to hunt him. He has to make a choice’, Nyuon said
on Wednesday.
Minister Nyuon was speaking to the journalists responding questions
asking what his ministry intends to do to ensure the peace and
stability promised by president Salva Kiir, while addressing the fifth
International Conference on African Development in Japan.
President Kiir vowed his government’s commitment to guarantee internal
stability, especially along the border with Sudan, which has remained
tense and highly militarised since South Sudan’s independence in 2011.
In his speech Kiir also recognized the work of Japanese peacekeepers
in United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), lauding the
expansion of their operations in infrastructure development into new
areas in Eastern and Western Equatoria states.
He told the conference that his administration, with civil society
organisations, had initiated a process of national reconciliation as a
way of consolidating peace in the country.
SPLA CLOSING ON REBEL HIDEOUTS
Meanwhile military sources said government soldiers were heading on
Tuesday to suspected key areas in north eastern and south eastern
parts of Pibor county, located in south eastern part of Jonglei state,
allegedly occupied by rebels who oppose the presence of the country’s
military or government there.
"At the moment, our forces are on the move. It is just a matter before
you hear a new development. Our forces on the ground have clear orders
to pursue Yauyau and his forces and restore law and order in the area
so that the civilian can return to their areas and resume normal
life”, a senior military source told Sudan Tribune on Wednesday in
Juba.
The spokesperson for the SPLA colonel Phillip Aguer also told audience
during a question and answer session hosted by privately-owned the
Citizen Television that it was a matter of time because the army could
bring the rebellion in Jonglei state “to an end”.
The military officer however did not give details of the current
activities of the army in the area.
(ST)
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