By William Madouk<\/p>\n
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Embassy of United States of America in South Sudan has once again called on the transitional government to conduct a credible investigation into the death of American-British journalist Christopher Allen, which occurred seven years ago.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Allen was shot and killed on August 26, 2017, during military clashes between then SPLA-IO forces and government troops in Kaya town, Central Equatoria State.<\/p>\n “On the seventh anniversary of the death of Christopher Allen on August 26, 2017, we renew our call on the transitional government to conduct a credible investigation into Mr. Allen’s death and to demonstrate the political will to take accountability seriously,” the embassy’s statement read.<\/p>\n The statement criticizes the investigation findings announced in March 2024, stating that the committee “did not address in a comprehensive manner all the factors that led to Mr. Allen’s death or the disrespectful treatment of his remains.”<\/p>\n In March, the government-appointed investigation committee concluded that Allen was “unintentionally killed as a result of crossfire during the attack on Kaya town.”<\/p>\n The committee said there was no evidence establishing the identity of the person or persons who fired the shots that caused Allen’s death.<\/p>\n The investigation also revealed that Allen had been embedded with SPLA-IO forces three weeks before the Kaya attack, and was wearing a red bandana used by the then-rebel forces, though he was not wearing any press identification.<\/p>\n The report stated that Allen had chosen to put his life at risk by walking on the frontlines with the forces, a “dangerous place where firearms and other weaponry are discharged.”<\/p>\n The two other foreign photojournalists accompanying Allen, Goran Tomasevic and Siefried Modola from Reuters, were also identified in the videos, according to the report.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By William Madouk Embassy of United States of America in South Sudan has once again called on the transitional government to conduct a credible investigation into the death of American-British journalist Christopher Allen, which occurred seven years ago. Allen was shot and killed on August 26, 2017, during military[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":28018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Christopher-Allen.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28019,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28017\/revisions\/28019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}