South Sudan arises key allies Machara while the army surrounds his house | Military news

Oil Minister and Deputy Head of the Army arrested as soldiers surround the house of Vice President Riek Machara in the capital in the last threat of the 2018 Peace Agreement.

The forces of South Sudan arrested the Minister of Naphta and several senior military officials with the first Vice -President Riek Machar as the soldiers surrounded his home in the capital, Juba.

The deputy head of the army, General Gabriel Duop Lam, Loyalist Machara, was held on Tuesday, while the Puot Kang Chol oil minister was arrested on Wednesday with his bodyguards and family.

The arrests are not specified by the reason, which followed after the armed group of allies Machar overcame the army of the base in the north of the country Upper Nile state.

Machar, whose political rivalry with President Salva Kiir exploded in the Civil War in the past, said last month that the shooting of several of his allies from the Government’s posts threatened the Peace Agreement on him and Kiiru in 2018.

The deal ended a Five -year -old civil war in which more than 400,000 people were killed. The Minister of Pal Mai Deng, a spokesman for Machar’s SPLM-IO party, said Lam’s arrest “exhibited the entire peace agreement in danger.”

“This action violates the revitalized agreement on the resolution of conflict in southern Sudan, and is laid down by the joint defense committee, the vital institution of the agreement responsible for the command and control of all forces. This act brings the whole agreement to danger, “Deng statement said.

“We are also seriously concerned about the great schedule of SSPDF [South Sudan army troops] Around the residence … Machara, “he wrote.” These actions impair trust and trust among the parties. “

Another Machar’s spokesman, Pook, both Baluang, said that other senior military officials were put in home custody with Machara.

“From now on, we are not given the reason that has led to an arrest or detention [these] Officials, “Baluang told Reuters news agency.

Major General Lul Ruai Koang, a spokesman for the army of South Sudan, said in a statement late Tuesday that he would not comment on the arrest or troops around Machar’s residence.

The Civil War that broke out in December 2013. After Kiir released Machar, he also drove more than 2.5 million people from his homes and left almost half of the Nation of 11 million, struggling to find enough food.

The tensions appear to be caused by growing concern because of the restlessness in Gornji Nile.

SSPDF accused Lam and his troops of working with the so -called white army rebels in the region, mostly from the same ethnic community of Nuer.

Last month, the United Nations mission reported to increased fights between the army and the “armed youth” in the district of Nasir in Gornji Nile, which included “heavy weapons, which, as reported, resulted in the deaths and injuries of civilians, as well as armed staff.”

The civil war began only two years after South Sudan became independent of Sudan. The earth remains suffocated in poverty and violence.

The Ter Manyang Gatwich, the executive director of the Center for Peace and Advocacy, called for the current liberation of those arrested to prevent further escalation of violence and further bloodshed from degeneration into what he called “the war full of proportions.”