WASHINGTON – US secretary of state John Kerry says the current conflict in South Sudan is in danger of undermining the sacrifices so many South Sudanese people made during the country’s long struggle to gain independence.
Kerry made the comments in a statement on Wednesday marking the third anniversary of South Sudan’s secession from the north, in which it engaged in a brutal civil war spanning more than two decades before a 2005 peace deal paved the way for a referendum on self-determination in January 2011, with the South declaring independence on 9 July 2011.
“Three years ago I witnessed the people of South Sudan vote to forge a new nation, founded on the promise of a more peaceful and prosperous future for all of South Sudan’s people. Now that promise for which the people of South Sudan suffered and sacrificed so much is being threatened by the current conflict,” he said.
“Too much blood has been spilled, and too many lives have been lost, to allow South Sudan’s moment of hope and opportunity to slip from its grasp,” he added…
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