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Boma Capture By Yau-Yau Rebel?

SSDA FORCES CAPTURED BOMA TOWN

Public Statement

SSDM/A Headquarters, Jebel Boma

May, 6, 2013

David Yau-Yau, the notorious Murle Rebel leader in Jonglei State, South Sudan, who has been fighting the government of South Sudan since 2010

The gallant forces of the SSDA yesterday stormed and captured the strategic town of Boma. SPLA forces ran away leaving behind more than 50 dead bodies. More than 250 soldiers of the Wildlife and the Police gave themselves up and are now safe in the hands of our heroic Cobra units. This is a practical reminder to those who did not take our warning of imminent attack on Pibor and Kapoeta seriously. We are determined to rid the eastern bank of Bahr el Jabal of the corrupt and rotten regime in Juba before the end of the year.

It is to be recalled that Boma was the first location to be captured by the SPLA in 1985 and after which the administrative unit on the level of the village is now called. Since Boma is now under our control, they have no moral authority to claim being the legitimate government of South Sudan.

In another development, we have confirmed information that the SPLA has killed in cold blood yesterday Brigadier General Kolor Peeno of the Wildlife forces for the only reason that he comes from the Murle tribe. It is clear that the regime in Juba is behaving in the same way the Arabs used to behave. Even those loyal to the system are killed because they belong to the wrong tribe!!

We call upon all the patriots of South Sudan to join hands in defeating this regime run by a mafia bent on enriching themselves and dividing our country.

Col. Peter Konyi Kubrin

Spokesman of SSDM/SSDA.

Jebel Boma, South Sudan

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SPLA denies Jonglei rebels’ claim on capture of Boma

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May 7, 2013 (BOR) – Rebels in South Sudan’s Jonglei state claimed on Monday that they had captured the strategic town of Boma in Pibor County from South Sudan’s military – the Sudan People Liberation Army (SPLA).

South Sudan rebel leader David Yau Yau (UN photo)

The South Sudan Democratic Army (SSDA) led by David Yauyau, issued a statement saying it easily overran Boma without meeting any armed resistance adding that wildlife conservation and tourist guard forces surrendered instantly.

“The gallant forces of the South Sudan Democratic Army (SSDA) yesterday stormed and captured the strategic town of Boma. SPLA forces ran away leaving behind more than 50 dead bodies” the press release said.

“More than 250 soldiers of the Wildlife and the Police gave themselves up and are now safe in the hands of our heroic Cobra units. Since Boma is now under our control, they have no moral authority to claim being the legitimate government of South Sudan” the statement, attributed to Colonel Peter Konyi Kubrin, said.

“This is a practical reminder to those who did not take our warning of imminent attack on Pibor and Kapoeta seriously. We are determined to rid the eastern bank of Bahr el Jebel of the corrupt and rotten regime in Juba before the end of the year”, the rebels said on Monday.

The spokesman of the SPLA, Philip Aguer, has denied that the rebels have captured any part of the town.

A series of interviews on Tuesday with people in Jonglei’s state capital Bor, who had established satellite phone contacts with their relatives in Boma, confirmed that Boma has fallen to SSDA.

Boma payam [district] is split between upper Boma (known as Boma Up) on the top of the area’s hills and lower Boma (known as Boma Down) at the foot of the hills. The two areas are within an hour walking distance from each other,

A local government officer in Bor, who comes from Boma, said that he had been in contact with people who had fled the area.

“The rebels are now in Boma Down, while the SPLA ran to Boma Up. They took the town on Sunday. They also tried to attack Boma Up this morning but failed”, one of the official’s relatives had told him.

Jonglei’s governor, Kuol Manyang Juuk, said that he has heard “rumors” from people in the area but “nothing official”.

Juuk said he has been trying to reach the commander of the SPLA’s “Eagle” division in the area, General Peter Gadet, but failed to get through to him.

“Even if the rumor was true,” he said, “there was no need to worry as the army would soon take the upper hand in retaking the Boma Down”, describing Yauyau’s rebels as “civilians” who “don’t have ammunition”.

Boma was one of the first areas that the SPLA captured from Khartoum’s Sudan Armed Forces in 1985, two years into the two-decade civil war that led to South Sudan’s independence in 2011. It is a key area due to its proximity to the Ethiopian and Kenyan borders.

The area is also known for Nyat National Park, which hosts a variety of wild animals including elephants. Sudan Tribune has not been able to independently verify the rebel’s claims due to Boma’s remoteness and the poor telephone network outside Bor town.

HUMANITARIAN CONCERN

Toby Lanzer, the United Nations humanitarian coordinator in South Sudan, on Monday decried the deteriorating security situation in the area, saying the conflict had affected the activities of the relief workers.

In a statement Lanzer said:

“I am deeply concerned about the humanitarian situation in Jonglei State, where thousands of civilians are in need of assistance and protection, and where humanitarian workers have treated more than 450 casualties, including children, since February. We have seen houses burned down and civilian properties destroyed. Facilities such as schools and health centres have been robbed, looted and occupied by armed actors. In the past week, hostilities in Maruwa hills, Pibor County, forced scores of civilians to flee their homes and aid agencies to relocate their staff.”

The top humanitarian official urged all the parties involved in the conflict to abide by their obligations under national and international law to ensure that civilians caught in the conflict should not be harmed and be accorded due respect and medical care.

The SSDA say they are neither in conflict with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) nor are they working in any way to hinder activities of the relief organizations in the area.

JONGLEI DISPLACEMENT

Despite South Sudan’s independence from Sudan in 2011 and a peace deal with Khartoum in 2005, Jonglei has been blighted by insecurity in recent years, not only from Yauyau’s rebellion, which he first launched in 2010, but also from cattle raiding related violence.

In early 2012, over 100,000 people were displaced by cattle raiding and revenge attacks. A state-wide disarmament campaign and peace process was launched by President Salva Kiir but brought only short term improvements.

“Humanitarian agencies have re-positioned aid across the state and are ready to help people affected by the hostilities, reaching more than 23,000 people in Akobo County,” Lanzer said.

“In Pibor and Pochalla counties, where needs are likely increase, constraints on the humanitarian response are growing. Our capacity to provide emergency surgery as well as regular medical care has diminished because of insecurity. Shots have been fired at convoys carrying life saving supplies, and I am deeply concerned about the safety and security of aid workers”, Lanzer said.

The top humanitarian worker said aid workers have a unique and protected role in assisting the most vulnerable, calling on all parties in Jonglei to ensure that agencies carry out their work unhindered and in safety.

(ST)

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SPLA soldiers desert positions in Pibor

May 5, 2013 (BOR) – South Sudan’s army has warned soldiers who deserted their posts in the Gumuruk area of Jonglei state’s Pibor county on Sunday that they will punished once they are caught.

Pibor county is the center of a rebellion against the South Sudanese government led by David Yauyau, who has so far not followed other rebel groups and accepted an offer of a presidential amnesty to end the conflict.

Yauyau’s forces responded the the re-issuance of the amnesty by advising civilians and NGOs to leave Pibor town, as well as Kapoeta in neighboring Easter Equatoria state, amid concerns for their safety.

The South Sudan Democratic Movement/Army (SSDM/A) rebels have reportedly claimed responsibility for an attack in Pibor which killed a South Sudanese soldier earlier this week.

The spokesman for South Sudan’s military, Philip Aguer told Sudan Tribune from Juba on Sunday that “some undisciplined soldiers [...] have been deserting” adding that anybody “found to have an agitated and deserted unlawfully will be brought to the book.”

He said “we have rules and regulations in the military, whoever joins the military knows that the main purpose and mandate is to protect the nation, is to protect the civilians and provide security and you cannot provide security without any risk”.

“Anybody that is avoiding his duties, should be prepared to get out of the military, ” said Aguer without indicating the numbers of soldiers believed to have deserted.

Last week hundreds of axillary police forces retreated to Bor, the state capital, from Gumuruk, where locals have complained of random shooting at night over the last four days.

Although the number is not yet established, Jonglei state governor Kuol Manyang Juuk, said Sunday that the soldiers came back to Bor to find food as supplies had not reached them on time due to heavy rains that started last week.

Infrastructure is notoriously bad in Jonglei, South Sudan’s largest state, with the governor regularly appealing for more funds for road construction in order to connect the state with itself and allow the armed services to respond faster to rebel attacks and cattle raids between ethnic groups.

During the rainy reason many areas of Pibor are only accessible by air.

Governor Manyang said that the soldiers who deserted Gumruk, entered the area of Anyidi and started shooting in the air randomly until they reached Bor town.

He described their actions as “indisciplined” as “a soldier should not waste his bullets for nothing; a bullet is given to the soldiers for protecting people and the nation.”

The Governor said he had not slept due to all the concerned phone calls he has received about the nighttime shooting, which he says could have been triggered by the soldiers drinking alcohol.

However, Governor Manyang said that he did not know whether the soldiers had deserted or were instructed to return to Bor but admitted that “they came in a very disorganised manner which is not good.”

Staying in the bush without food was difficult, he said, warning that if they were not given food they may go and loot from the local population.

South Sudan’s army – the SPLA – is still in the process of evolving from a rebel group that fought over two decades of civil war with various Khartoum governments. After the 2005 paved the way for South Sudan’s secession from Sudan in 2011, the United Nations and others of put considerable resources into helping train and professionalise the SPLA.

In April, a convoy of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan was ambushed in Gumruk killing five Indian soldiers and seven civilian UN members of staff.

(ST)

ST – NGOs, civilians told to leave Kapoeta and Pibor towns, amid safety fears

NGOs and Civilians Should Leave Kapoeta and Pibor Towns For Their Safety Public Statement South Sudan Democratic Movement/Army (SSDM/A) Jebel Boma, South Sudan May, 02, 2013 The gallant forces of South Sudan Democratic Army are seriously advising civilians and NGOs to leave Kapoeta and Pibor towns within a week. Our struggle against the regime in Juba is not over until all the conditions of the SSDA are met. The SSDM/A led by David Yau Yau is not part of the rebel force that gave itself up at Mayom in Unity State on April, 26. In order to bring to an end to the suffering of our people, arrest the collapse of our nascent nation, and to rid it of the dictatorship gripping it now, a popular revolution must take place so as to achieve the following: 1. The dissolution of the current Government of South Sudan to be replaced by Transitional Revolutionary Government. 2. The Transitional Revolutionary Government shall, within two years, hold general elections for the election of a constituent Assembly whose main function is to enact the permanent constitution of Republic of South Sudan. 3. The army of South Sudan shall be taken care of and transformation into a truly professional national army that includes within its ranks all qualified citizens regardless of tribe, region or religion. 4. Give special priority to the delivery of services to our people, including the provision of infrastructure. 5. Restructuring the civil service so that it is based only on qualification and experience. 6- Radical economic reform in policies and institutions  and paying special attention to agriculture in order to provide food security and to serve as the launching pad to industrialization. 7- Make rapid legal and security reform to ensure good governance in the country. 8- The new government shall take swift action to resolve the tribal disputes by peaceful means. 9- Take legal means to prosecute all those involved in corruption and request the repatriation of the money embezzled from the countries where the accounts are kept. 10- Establish good relations with all the countries neighboring South Sudan for the interest of our people. 11- Establish good relations with countries of the world for mutual benefit and to maintain global peace and security. 12. Negotiate in good faith with the Government of Sudan on the outstanding issues between the two countries in the context of the sovereignty over its territories. We rejected the “amnesty” of the dictator Gen. Salva Kiir mayardit for the following reasons: 1. We have genuine grievances that we presented to the Government of Southern Sudan by then. Lack of will from the government’s side to address these matters left us with no option but to take up arms , exactly for the same reason the SPLA did so when the successive governments in Khartoum turned a deaf ear to the just demands of the South Sudanese. These grievances are still outstanding. 2. We are not war mongers but are seeking a serious peaceful resolution to the armed conflict through dialogue and negotiations. 3. The “amnesty” declared by the President of the Republic on the 24th instant was made through mass media. There has been no communication with us before or after the public announcement on the government’s intention to pursue a peaceful resolution to the conflict. We are familiar with such amnesties made on the air waves. In 2011, Commander David Yau Yau responded to such an amnesty and ended up marooned in a Juba hotel. Generals Gabriel Tang Ginya and Thomas Mabor Dhol who believed in the “amnesty” are now languishing in SPLA detention cells. Hence, our experience informs us to take such “amnesty” with a grain of salt. Amnesty itself does not solve outstanding problems; it rather is an expression of good will to do so. 4.  If the Government of the Republic of South Sudan is serious about a negotiated peaceful settlement to the current conflict in the country, then as the government of the day, they should address us directly on the matter rather than resorting to mass media. They know how to get us. 5. We are serious about the attainment of peace in our country. However, history tells us that peace without justice, equality and dignity is bound to be short-lived. Col. Peter Konyi Kubrin Spokesman of SSDM/SSDA. Jebel Boma, South Sudan E-mail: rsouthsudan@yahoo.com Tel:  +8821621907335

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South Sudanese police detain newspaper editor without charge Reuters South Sudan’s ruling party is broadly made up of former guerrilla fighters from the 1983-2005 civil war, with little experience of civilian rule. The country has no state body mandated to regulate the media, and the parliament has yet to pass key media …

Tribal leader killed in Sudan’s flashpoint Abyei region Reuters AlertNet KHARTOUM, May 4 (Reuters) – A top tribal leader allied to South Sudan was killed in clashes involving a rival Sudanese tribe in the Abyei region disputed by the African neighbours on Saturday, both sides said, an incident that risks fuelling new …

Cabinet Approves $270000 For Prison Reforms In South Sudan Oye! Times It revealed that, a third of South Sudan’s prison population of approximately 6,000 has not been convicted of any offense or in some cases even charged with one, but are detained, often for long periods, waiting for police, prosecutors, and judges to …

We want peaceful party politics, Jikany-Nuer community tells South Sudan … Sudan Tribune May 4, 2013 (JUBA) – The Jikany-Nuer community of the oil-rich South Sudan’s Upper Nile state said their consistent message to president Salva Kiir and his deputy Riek Machar is to maintain peaceful internal party politics in the interest of the nation.

South Sudan: Stop Harassing, Detaining Journalists

South Sudan to Resume Oil Exports Wall Street Journal KAMPALA, Uganda—Sudan is scheduled to resume export shipments of crude from South Sudanwithin the next few days, a Sudanese government spokesman said Friday, ending a more than 15-month halt to oil production that has battered the two nations’ …

SSLA Rebels Say Their Presence in South Sudans Means Peace Not War AllAfrica.com By Bonifacio Taban Kuich, 2 May 2013. Bentiu — South Sudanese rebels who crossed back into the country’s Unity State from Sudan last week said they are committed to peace talks with the government in Juba without any preconditions or demands. Maj.

US Security Strategy in South Sudan - An anti-China Strategy? Sudan Tribune This articles argues that behind US-designed road map towards South Sudan independence begun in 2005, and behind US’ security strategy in the new country since 2011, there is the intention of a re-appropriation of local resources – coherently with the …

South Sudan: Stop Harassing, Detaining Journalists Human Rights Watch (Juba) – Security force harassment and unlawful detention of journalists is undermining freedom of expression in South Sudan, the Agency for Independent Media (AIM), Amnesty International, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), and Human Rights Watch …

Official: 11 Sudan traders killed in South Sudan Charlotte Observer JUBA, South Sudan At least 11 Sudanese traders were killed earlier this week by unknown gunmen as they crossed into South Sudanese territory, a military official said Friday, blaming the attack on militiamen who want to shatter the prevailing peace …

AP:12 Die In Gunfire Attack On Convoy In South Sudan - KOLO KOLO JUBA, South Sudan (AP) – JUBA, South Sudan (AP) - South Sudan’s military spokesman says that five United Nations peacekeepers were killed when suspected rebels ambushed a U.N. convoy in a remote, violent state. Col. Philip Aguer said five others were …

Official: 11 Sudan traders killed in South Sudan - Missoulian The Missoulian South Sudan military spokesman Col. Philip Aguer said Friday that “gangsters” ambushed three trucks at a trading center near the border town of Renk on Wednesday morning. He says the bodies were later discovered by another group of traveling traders.

US Media Advocates Warn Against Repression in South Sudan Voice of America A person reads The Juba Monitor on the day the paper ran the story about the U.N. Mission in South Sudan’s (UNMISS) Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists.South Sudan has agreed to test drive the plan, which calls for defamation to be decriminalized.

Eleven Sudanese traders shot dead by gunmen in South Sudan Business Standard South Sudan split from Sudan in 2011 following decades of civil war. After a tumultuous first 18 months of nationhood that almost brought it back to war with its northern neighbour and led to the closure of a largely undemarcated border, a recent …

South Sudan’s Kiir to visit Sudan for oil flow in May Globe and Mail JUBA (Reuters) - South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir will visit Sudan this month to witness with his counterpart Omar Hassan al-Bashir the first shipment of oil from the south after a 15-month shutdown, an official said on Friday. In March, the African …

Diehard South Sudan Rebels Warn of More Attacks – VOA Voice of America BOR, SOUTH SUDAN — Rebels led by David Yau Yau have claimed responsibility for an attack in Pibor earlier this week, in which a South Sudanese soldier was killed, and warned civilians and NGOs to leave the areas around Pibor and Kapoeta, …

South Sudan media decry declining press freedom Africa Review South Sudan journalists have marked the World Press Freedom Day by protesting against increasing intimidation and harassment within the last one year. Between 2012 and 2013, 12 cases of arrests of journalists have been recorded. In separate incidents …

South Sudan says death penalty remains until constitution amended Sudan Tribune “May” 3, 2013 (JUBA) - South Sudan will keep the capital punishment in place unless amendments are introduced in the country’s constitution, the chief justice said today. JPEG – 34.2 kb; South Sudan’s chief justice, Chan Reec Madut (AP). “The …

Sudanese Traders Killed in South Sudan Ambush – VOA Voice of America JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN — Eleven Sudanese traders were killed by unknown gunmen as they crossed into South Sudan, just weeks after the two countries agreed to open 10 crossing points along their 1,200-mile (2,000-kilometer) border to boost the …

Eleven Sudanese traders shot dead by gunmen in South Sudan

Eleven Sudanese traders shot dead by gunmen in South Sudan AFP JUBA — Eleven Sudanese traders were shot dead in an ambush by armed gangsters as they crossed into neighbouring South Sudan, a South Sudan military official said Thursday. “There were three lorries and they fell into an ambush. Two were driven to the …