The Martyrs’ Day: Letter to Glory in the name of Gen George Athor Deng

Posted: July 30, 2012 by PaanLuel Wël Media Ltd. in History, People

PaanLuel Wël Media Ltd - South Sudan

By Atok Dan Baguoot 

Dear Gen Athor Deng,

It was exactly on the 19th December at 10:a.m. local time in Juba that your news of being besieged at Morobo county in Central Equatoria state hit the market. Few minutes later, you were pronounced dead in a gun battle that involved SPLA soldiers. You had died as a villain according to your assassins but on the other hand you were a hero when one revisits stories of struggle.

Your death took Juba and the entire South Sudan a surprise because upright mental persons could not come to term with reality that you had come to graduate sections of your army in military training near at this end point. On that day when the Vice President, Dr. Riek Machar Teny, flanked by the SPLA Spokesperson, Philip Aguer Panyang went to media to declare the news, the next thing one asked was the…

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