Yambio killing death toll raised to 10

Western Equatoria Azande Community World-Wide Organisation

7th November 2007

Commander of Unruly notorious JIU forces in Yambio is under detention while his men are still at Large

The governor of Western Equatoria state Lt Gen Samuel Abujohn this afternoon addresses an angry crowd of people in Yambio today for the first time since the incident happened 4th November 2007. Besides the senior police officers who died 7 other police soldiers were also killed as they tried to protect their senior officers. The news of the other deaths was not leased until yesterday after the delegation from Juba left. This brings to 10 the number of people killed on Sudan 4th Nov 2007.

During his speech at Masia market the Governor urged the citizens to come back home and continue with their normal duties. People had been sleeping rough in the bushes and the marked had been shut for days.

The Governor also stated that the state government is doing all what it could to arrest the situation and bring the culprits to the book of justice. He said people should not think the government is not doing enough about the incident. Some people asked the governor whether JIU will be disarmed and taken away from Yambio or from the whole state, he said that, the state government is making sure there is peace for the people of the state.

Meanwhile the commissioner of Yambio county Isaac Jumna said that the commander of JIU has been detained and his body guards are disarmed more plans are on the way to identify the killers, who are still holing at their base.

Yesterday contingents of SPLA proper soldiers arrived Yambio from Maridi to contain the situation. It is the SPLA proper who lured the commandeer of the unruly JIUs to be arrested and his body guards disarmed which will open the way for them to have the JIUs soldiers to give up since their commander won’t be there to give them orders. The shooting was said to have been carried out by at least nine JIU’s all of them said from the Dinka tribe.

As of this afternoon the market in Yambio town starting to open and people began some free movements.

Charles B. Kisanga

Eng. Kisanga is former SPLM NLC member and chairman of Western Equatoria Azande Community World-Wide Organisation. He is currently living and working in exile in the UK and he can be reached on cbkisanga@yahoo.co.uk Tel: 44-770 8998373

3 Forum messages

Yambio killing death toll raised to 10 8 November 2007 11:50, by Mayen Mangok Mayen

I am so sorry for dear Brothers who were shot dead by JIUs, may thier souls rest in peace. Dear Southern Sudanese(equatorians) Remember JIUs is not for ’Dinka’ and even Dinka who is serving in the army is not doing Dinka work but the whole nation duties. please dear Equatorians for the sake of unity stop that Barbaric, outdated, childish thinking and let works for the betterment of Southern Sudam. Anyway I am Dinka and I don’t support the killing but I condemned the writing that insults Dinka as tribe because even now do you people know that we being killed day and night by you especially Dinka Bor suffered a number of children abduction, raiding and still we stay with Murles in Bor Town in peace.

Please Equatorians tell the facts and facts will set you free. since the beginning of Sudan Civil war do you people know how many Dinkas you have Killed and no one raise a complain because we know we are brothers but due to ’divided and rule policy applied by Arabs, we says, they don’t know what they are doing. there is no single area in Southern Sudan that had not killed Dinka and up to now you still wanted them to be killed, that is why when a small issues happen you people went to the extent of telling Dinka must go to keeps cattle, dear Doros remember without Dinka that you hatred the CPA you enjoying would have not been asuccess, yes we are cattle keeper and what is wrong with it when thinks rightly then ’poultry keeper’.

You still talk of Dinka backwordness but no way, they still leads you out of slavery you wanted because we are not please to see you being mistreated like case in Juba where our dear Southerners were badly mistreated by Arabs to the extent where your owned wife being sexually abused in present of her husband.

I was disappointed when one of you wrote comment that Dinkas wanted cleared everybody especially Nuer, Dear nothing like that, we are law abiding people who love staying with brothers. stop cicularing wrong information to other tribes of Southern Sudan that idealogy creating enemity will never yield a fruit plaesed.

Dinkas deserved credit not insults this time for they had freed everybody in the Sudan from Arabs’ slavery.

baar-thong@hotmail.com

Yambio killing death toll raised to 10 9 November 2007 07:20, by Oliha Charles Dickens

Dear Sir,

I read the comment written by Mayen Mangok Mayen on the death toll of all the prominent heroes. I do know that getting such a caliber will have to take some years. May there soul rest in peace. Besides, I know their presence in Heaven has improved it. Even the Angels are happy to have them in their company.

However, Mayen should have been apologetic instead of being too arrogant. Whom has the Dinka liberated apart from their being a curse in our beloved Country? Why should the Equatoria embarced radicalism and the systematic killing of our dear ones. This is the no the beginning of the Dinka killing of the Equatorains. Which facts should we embarked on? The Dinkas have their intentions to occupy and dominate the entire land of the equatorians. What shameless and backward citizens are we begging to live with? My ample to request to the Equatorian is: this is the time to reflect and come together as one peoepel however many triubes were come from. What type credit should the Dinkas deserved? Whom have they liberated and freed? Only Shameless and stupid people who should have gone back to the Arabs’ slavery. E-mail:charlskens@hotmail.com

Yambio killing death toll raised to 10 9 November 2007 17:22, by Paul Muortat

It is sad to see people mourning this way especially if the alleged killer is a relative, a brother, the next door neighbour. This killing is wrong and tragic, but is equally wrong and tragic to blame it on a brother or a comrade in arms. The struggle for freedom in Southern Sudan must not end with a fight among southern Sudanese? If that happened we will all be losers and the Arabs will regain control of our mother country and enslave us for ever. The government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) should, but must look into -what happened in Yambio- this killing and publish the circumstances that led to this incident. We must abstain from falling into this trap of self blame. South Sudan is not the country of the Dinka or the Zade or of the Equestrian, it of the land of our fallen heroes in Anyana 1 and the SPLA in which no tribe or ethnic group in the southern has escaped. Every village, family has lost someone in our great wars of liberation against the Arabs. We all paid for this land called Southern Sudan and we must not allow her to fall into a Rwanda

Paul Muortat Email address: pmuortat@yahoo.co.uk