{"id":3621,"date":"2021-04-21T15:31:58","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T15:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onecitizendaily.com\/?p=3621"},"modified":"2021-04-21T15:33:12","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T15:33:12","slug":"red-army-calls-for-general-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/21\/red-army-calls-for-general-assembly\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Army calls for general assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Members of Red Army Foundation after the interview with No. 1 Citizen Daily newspaper on Tuesday 20th<\/sup> April 2021<\/em><\/strong> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By Opio Jackson <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Members of Red Army have called on the Chairman of Red Army\nFoundation (RAF) Deng Bol Aruai to organize General Assembly before his\nunofficial planned visit to Addis Ababa. Bol is expected to travel to Addis\nAbaba in the next three days, according to Santino Makol Thon the team leader\nof the organizing committee for General Assembly. Santino told No. 1 Citizen\nDaily Newspaper on Tuesday 20th<\/sup> April 2021 in an exclusive interview\nthat they have written several letters to their Chairman Bol asking him to\nconvene the general assembly but all in vain. \u201cThat is why we are now informing\nhim because he is about to travel to Addis Ababa and if he decides to go\nwithout conducting the general assembly then the Red Army will go ahead and\nhold its general assembly in his absence. Any decision that shall be taken will\nbe final,\u201d he said. He said they have not been able to conduct any\ndevelopmental activities since their chairman has been working in isolation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf we had been conducting our national developmental\nactivities we would have left this man to continue managing the Red Army but he\nis not doing anything concerning development since he was elected eight years\nago,\u201d he said. In the early 1983, the Sudan People\u2019s Liberation Army (SPLA)\nrecruited and began training boys as young as 12 to fight in its battle for\nindependence from Sudan. The child soldiers were called the Red Army. According\nto a 1994 Human Rights Watch report, some of the children fought alongside the\nthen Sudan People\u2019s Liberation Army (SPLA). However, two years after the\nindependence, the Red Army was resurrected as the Red Army Foundation (RAF), an\norganization dedicated to addressing social problems, especially among its own\nformer members and South Sudan\u2019s youth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ajak Kon Ajak Director for information of Red Army\nFoundation said they did not want the Red Army Foundation to be operated from\nthe Hotels as it is operated by their Chairman Deng Bol Aruai. He said they did\nnot know the people currently managing the Red Army Foundation and demanded the\norganization to be brought back to the light. \u201cRed army is the bone of the SPLM\nand it is only the red army that can point at the mistakes of the SPLM. So if\nthe red army are messing up and who will take over the leadership from the SPLM\nas the members are growing older,\u201d Ajak stressed. He said initially the Red\nArmy was formed to secure the then SPLM\/A to continue with its visions. When\nthey were originally recruited to fight, the Red Army soldiers were told they\nwould be the \u201cseeds of the nation.\u201d However, Ajak said that Deng Bol Aruai has\ncompletely abandoned the vision of the red army as the organization has not\nbeen doing any developmental activities since he was elected eight years ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jaafer Manoan Adam, from the former Red Army\u2019s Zalzal\n(meaning Earthquake) Battalion and secretary for information of the organizing\ncommittee for general assembly said they have participated a lot during the\nliberation. \u201cWe have fought a lot during the liberation but now we failed to\nlet the citizens know why we have liberated them from the hands of their\nenemies,\u201d Jaafar said. \u201cIt is our time to stand behind the SPLM which we were\nnursed from, we are SPLM positive but comrade Deng Bol Aruai with his fellow\ncolleagues have crowded the Red Army activities,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Opio Jackson Members of Red Army have called on the Chairman of Red Army Foundation (RAF) Deng Bol Aruai to organize General Assembly before his unofficial planned visit to Addis Ababa. Bol is expected to travel to Addis Ababa in the next three days, according to Santino Makol Thon[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3623,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621\/revisions\/3623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}