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Unity State Human rights activists and political activists are under worrying security threat in the past 10-30/03/2023. Government security agents call the youth activists on telephones and threaten to arrest and torture them if the state governor and his policies in the state.
Last year 2022, some youth in the state were arrested and tortured by security agents at the orders of the state governor, Hon. Dr. Joseph The purpose of Nguen Montyuil creating this hostile environment serves to silence the youth and undermine efforts to demand for basic services and respect for human rights. These latest threats have caused young and vocal activists in the Unity state to go in hiding while some fled the country, fearing for their lives.
I condemn these intimidations and threats of the state governor in the strongest terms possible and call on the governor and his security agents to respect the constitutional rights of the youth to freely express themselves on matters affecting them in the state.
I also call on President Salva Kiir Mayardit and the Council of States to hold Governor Montyuil to account for his persistent threats and harm to youth activists, the Leer Massacre of over 1000 people and the extrajudicial executions of arrested opposition soldiers by burning and firing squad.
All investigation reports on these crimes should be fully made public to facilitate accountability measures on the governor and Hon. Tut Gatluak Manime, the Presidential Advisor on Security Affairs. Because the actual routs cause, killing mayom county commissioner and cause of extrajudicial execution of 11 people was results of arms commanders who are guns dealer actors in special operation force seen May 2022. Unity State Youth will turn on the protest any time.