{"id":3995,"date":"2014-07-12T14:39:20","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T07:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3995"},"modified":"2014-07-12T14:39:40","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T07:39:40","slug":"south-sudan-army-ordered-to-observe-strict-rules-of-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/south-sudan\/south-sudan-army-ordered-to-observe-strict-rules-of-engagement\/","title":{"rendered":"South Sudan army ordered to observe strict rules of engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Juba &#8211; The South Sudanese defence minister said on Saturday army (SPLA) been has given been strict instructions to observe the rules of engagement and respect the rights of all the citizens, regardless of their views or political affiliations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe duty of any army anywhere [in the] world over is to protect civilians and their properties in addition to defending a country against external harm,\u201d said Kuol Manyang Juuk told Sudan Tribune in an exclusive interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe SPLA has done very well in protecting civilians and their properties and would like to maintain this,\u201d he added&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"South Sudan News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sudantribune.com\/spip.php?article51653\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"South Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/south-sudan\/\">South Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juba &#8211; The South Sudanese defence minister said on Saturday army (SPLA) been has given been strict instructions to observe the rules of engagement and respect the rights of all the citizens, regardless of their views or political affiliations. \u201cThe duty of any army anywhere [in the] world over is to protect civilians and their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[550],"tags":[258,256,4695,257,2598,2597,254,4700,2601,733,2600,2599],"class_list":["post-3995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-east-africa","tag-news","tag-respect-the-rights-of-all-the-citizens","tag-rules-of-engagement","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-sudan","tag-south-sudan-army","tag-south-sudan-news","tag-south-sudanese-defence","tag-spla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}