President Kiir Speaks Out On Athor’s Death
5 min readMary Ajith
5 January 2012
Juba — Almost a month after George Athor Deng’s demise President Salva Kiir has spoken about the death which the rebel general met in Morobo County in Central Equatoria State in the hands of SPLA soldiers during a clash.
The President denied allegation that the late Athor was killed in the Ugandan capital Kampala but said Athor died in South Sudan. “He died in our country and the claims of Khartoum that Athor was killed in Kampala are not true. Let me tell you, all those who wanted to destabilize South Sudan would be brought back by God and die here in South Sudan not elsewhere,” Kiir said on Tuesday during the launching of new passports of the country in the Directorate of Immigration of the Ministry of Interior.
George Athor died on 19th of December last year and his body was buried at his home village Khorfulous on 23rd December in Jonglei State. He was killed in the absence of President Kiir who had left to attend investors’ conference in Washington-DC. Kiir said he met with Athor in the Kenyan Capital Nairobi on 19th of November, (exactly a month after that he was killed) and Athor agreed to come back as per the agreement signed between two of them adding that Athor’s signature has remained in the documents saying that he was coming.
Back to the struggle, the President said Athor was with him in the same command force and that he (Kiir) led and Athor was a junior officer in that force of the SPLA adding that he informed Athor to come back and if he won in the next election as President or a Governor no one would deny him his rights. “Athor was my junior in my commands throughout the struggle of the SPLA.
I went to Nairobi and met Athor on 19th November, 2011 and I told him to come back and if he wins election he would take that post and he agreed that he was coming, his signature is in our documents now agreeing that he was coming but later he went to Khartoum, Rwanda, Congo, Uganda and left there in the road a vehicle he used from Uganda through Kaya and finally killed in our country” Kiir narrated. He asked “what makes Athor to move all the way along to South Sudan? It is God, all those who are against South Sudan would die in South Sudan,” he concluded.
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