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I'd like to add my voice to the voices of the other South Sudanese population who expect our nation to put in democracy in pen and paper, and wish our young journalists a better life in the hands of the brutal security agent. The media is very important tool in any good nation that has pledged before the United Nations that they are going to implement the laws related to human rights. We should not continue to threaten our dear writers whom we may benefit from them at any time from now in the rebuilding of our young nation. I would like to pledge my solidarity with them in working so hard to change the image of our nation. Michael Mathiang, CAIRO, EGYPT Kiir’s justice favors only traitors: The Arrest of two innocent journalists is a testament to justice under Kiir which’s curve to dealing with vulnerable citizens horribly and favors those who keep on betraying this country. I can’t imagine for president to call for further investigation of two journalists as if writing against the marriage is an act which calls for national concern. President should have summoned them to court where their guilt gets investigated or issuing another decree since decrees are the effective laws of this country to relieve those two innocent journalists. Intelligence cell is not a conducive place to discipline civilians. People that should have been arrested in Security Cell are the current traitors you absorbed into the present government in the name of reconciliation. I wonder whether reconciliation is a presidential terminology mean to reconcile with his opponents in his frail while atrocities they have inflicted on the populace left unattended. Mr. President, we need those journalists released. They are not a problem to your regime. Enemies to your regime are the current ones you perceive friends. You seem competent in laws, then being a leader. Leave this to the judges you appointed to do your favor, they won't let you down but to convict them for crime against the State since anything against your daughter and her Ethiopian man is a national crime. Please Mr. President, release, release and release them for the sake of your legacy, they're young but innocent people who shouldn't be a victim to your leadership. I repeat, they are not problem to your regime. Release them please! Elected people need to be thick-skinned Having known Kiir's daughters for many years it would be wrong to support any claim by the family that the journalists have defamed the family, by being critical of the daughter's marriage to an Ethiopian and not to a man from South Sudan. In fact to Kiir's daughters South Sudan is not their home, instead Kenya is, and if they deny being South Sudanese; how would you expect them to have any relationships with people from there? What hurts a lot is the fact that they as a family are indulging themselves in everything we suffered for more than them, and when journalists report what is known even by his daughters themselves, he jumps in and arrests the journalists. We are in a democratic country and that means if you are in a public office as an elected member you and your family are liable to anything, and you just need to be thick-skinned. Biar, Australia Thanks for the courage Bro. Dengdit, a man always remains as a man, that is why you really put the most feared matter to public knowledge-- thank you indeed for being so courageous to place it the way everybody requires. I didn't fell any waves of worry when I heard your arrest by the so-called presidential guards because what you're doing was not for own interest but it was for the citizens. We are praying and God the Almighty Father will guide you till you are out of that cell.. Your friend, Luka Geng Geng, RSS Cheer up, Dr. Okuk "A sea full of cataracts and storms makes a sailor more expert and alert" Dr. Okuk, the tribulation that you underwent and yet to surmount will make you even more stronger than before to bring out those issues behind issues pertinent to the development of our Nation The South Sudan in all aspects ! Cheer up brother ! The likes of me are behind you and ready to peacefully raise placards bearing the words " we need Freedom" "we need justice." Jada Lotole, RSS President Kiir Portraying himself as an external coward and an internal fighter. Dear editor, allow me express my observation of our president, Kiir Mayardit, who of recent has developed a culture of pointing sternly to Southern Sudanese whenever he would like to send a strong message to the Citizens. This is contrary to the behavior he portrays when threatened by Pres. Beshir of Sudan with bombardments and all types of war. Instead, President Kiir behaves cold and promises many times not to return to war with the north even if he is provoked hundred times. Moreover, he even manages to afford to smile, something he rarely gets at home when dealing with his critics and opponents. The question is, why isn't the President showing the same patience to Southerners who wrong him just as he does to Beshir and Taha? With this, the President is portraying himself as an external coward and internal fighter. D. Deng, RSS Democracy must be implemented I thank God for Dr Okuk release may the lord save him free from the hand of the enemy and the so-called liberators and the struggle must continue; democracy is the south Sudan objectives and must be implemented. Emmanuel, RSS Release of Peter Ngor I do agree with Urbano Tipo, that the article written by the journalist is not correct and neither constructive. Pres Salva Kiir and his family cannot be humiliated like this, we need to have respect for our president and his family. Regarding the wedding of his daughter to an Ethiopian I see no problem, it's about love not this forced marriages where our sisters live unhappily and abandoned in homes as men enjoy in Kampala, Juba and Nairobi, lets remember that our brothers, sisters have married in Australia, U.S.A, Uganda, Kenya. Are we going to say why they married those women and men who may be non-south Sudanese? President Obama is a Kenyan but, he was elected U.S.A President, has he in anyway affected USA Security? The world has changed, we have been displaced by wars and become refugees in Africa and Europe, these are consequences of civil war and instability, so fellow brothers, let's give the First Family a break. Francis Kenyi, RSS -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. 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