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Africa-Press – South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span>A prominent South Sudan government critic and activist has said President Salva Kiir Mayardit was responsible for the December 2013 killings in Juba in which members of a militia group believed to be under his direct command went door-to-door to murder civilians from the Nuer ethnic group.<\/p>\n

On December 15, fighting among the presidential guards broke out along ethnic lines. The following day, after the SPLA, then the national army, driven out elements of the presidential guards believed to be supporting Dr. Riek Machar Teny, thousands of Nuer civilians were killed in a door-to-door search by a militia group.<\/p>\n

In a report released in October 2015, the African Union Commission of Inquiry on South Sudan concluded that \u201cwidespread and systematic\u201d killings took place in Juba in December 2013, with violence later spreading elsewhere. The AU investigation found that the killings in Juba were carried out pursuant to a state policy and were coordinated and possibly also planned.<\/p>\n

The AU investigators found no evidence of a coup attempt as claimed by President Salva Kiir but instead concluded that a gunfight within the Presidential Guards was the immediate trigger for further violence in which \u201cDinka members of the Presidential guard and other security forces targeted Nuer soldiers and civilians\u2026 killing Nuer soldiers and civilians in and near their homes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Writing on his social media Facebook page marking eighth anniversary of the Juba Massacre, Activist Wani Michael, a staunch critic of President Salva Kiir and First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar, said President Kiir assembled ethnic militias to target Nuer civilians in Juba.<\/p>\n

The activists also blasted Machar for being silent on the December 2013 crimes after securing the First Vice President position which he said has made it difficult for him to speak out against human rights abuses, as opposed to the SPLM-IO policy.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday is a dark day in our history, it was a day when President Kiir assembled his tribal militias to target and killed hundreds of innocent Nuers in Juba because they thought all Nuers support Dr. Riek Machar. Since then, nobody is held accountable for all those crimes committed to innocent South Sudanese,\u201d Michael wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately, Dr. Riek Machar got his position back but kept silent on the accountability aspect of these crimes. The Hybrid Court for South Sudan is yet to be established and government is reluctant to implement Chapter five of the Peace Agreement,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The activist went on to question \u201cwhy President Kiir trained his own militias in 2012 and 2013 called \u201cDot Ke Beny\u201d and \u201cMathiang Anyoor\u201d. Can you explain to us why the former Chief of Staff Gen. James Hoth Mai refused to pass them? It was President Kiir who passed them outside the arrangements of the National Army.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHow can a Commander-in- Chief train his own militias outside the national army? What was the motive of doing that? Healing comes with truth telling, justice and reconciliation. Denying the obvious facts can\u2019t bring any healing,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n

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