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Original Post Date: 2011-07-23 Time: 13:00:01 Posted By: News Poster
His killing comes as the newly independent country renewed its amnesty offer.
It was unclear how Gai was killed, with the SPLA, the army of the south, insisting he was gunned down by his own men after reneging on the agreement, and a rebel source saying he was “murdered” by the SPLA.
“He was not killed by the SPLA; he was killed by his own men” in Unity state, army spokesman Philip Aguer told AFP.
South Sudan, which declared independence from the north on July 9, faces a host of truly daunting challenges.
Among the greatest of these is the threat posed by at least seven militia groups within its borders, with more than 1,800 people killed in conflict so far this year, many between the army and the rebels in states across the country.
Aguer said Gai, a renegade militia commander who rejected an amnesty offer from the southern government last year, signed a ceasefire last week after months of negotiations with Unity state Governor Taban Deng Gai.
But the reconciliation had not been formalised and the rebel leader changed his mind three days ago, Aguer added, which led to a split within the militia.
“When he came back to the meeting with his men, some of them said they would not join him. Gatluak Gai and three others who fought with him were killed in the shooting that took place in the Bentiu area this morning.
“The 80 rebels that fought against them have agreed to join the SPLA,” the army spokesman said.
But the spokesman for another rebel group active in Unity state, which borders the north, contradicted Aguer’s account of what happened.
“Gatluak Gai was killed by the SPLA… He signed a peace agreement and was ambushed by the same forces he signed the agreement with. He was murdered,” Bol
Gatkouth told AFP by phone.
“It was a way of luring him in so that they could catch him,” said Gatkouth, speaking on behalf of the militia headed by rebel leader Peter Gadet.
In his inaugural speech as president of world’s the newest nation, on July 9, Salva Kiir renewed his offer of an amnesty for all the southern rebel groups that he first made at an all-party political conference in Juba last year.
Gatkouth said his group would not accept the amnesty because recent events,
including the detention of Gabriel Tang, another rebel leader who surrendered in April, demonstrated the government was not serious about peace.
“The army is violating the amnesty, so we do not accept it… If it was a real amnesty, Gabriel Tang would be out of prison and Gatluak Gai would not have been killed,” he said.
Peter Gadet, a former southern general turned militia commander, and George Athor, another renegade southern general whose forces are active in Jonglei state, are considered the two most powerful rebel leaders in South Sudan.
Juba has traditionally accused Khartoum supporting the different southern rebel groups in a bid to destabilise the country, as it did during the devastating 1983-2005 civil war, claims rejected by the north.
Aguer said both the main militia leaders were currently on the border with the north, which he suggested was responsible for persuading the rebels to abandon the reconciliation process.
“It seems some of the commanders in the north are trying to change their minds,” he said.
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Original date published: 23 July 2011
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