Salva Kiir Mayardit Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==== Murder and torture of journalists ==== Moi Peter Julius, who was a political reporter for a South Sudanese newspaper ''The Corporate'', was found murdered late on the night of 19 August 2015 in a residential area of [[Juba]] after being shot twice from behind. His murder was committed three days after Kiir publicly and officially threatened journalists, stating that "freedom of the press does not mean that you work against your country. If anybody does not know that this country will kill people, we will demonstrate on them."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://globaljournalist.org/2015/08/south-sudan-reporter-killed-in-apparent-targeted-attack/|title=South Sudan reporter killed in apparent targeted attack - Global Journalist|last=Raskauskite|first=Zivile|date=26 August 2015|website=Global Journalist|language=en-US|access-date=23 July 2016}}</ref> Earlier in 2015, five journalists by the names of Musa Mohamed (the director of the state-run radio station Raja FM), Adam Juma (reporter and presenter for Raja FM), Dalia Marko and Randa George (reporters for Raja FM), and Boutros Martin (a cameraman for the Western Bahr el Ghazal of South Sudan Television) had been murdered while traveling as part of a convoy, along with six other people. Tom Rhodes of the [[Committee to Protect Journalists]] stated after the murders that "The murder of five journalists is a devastating attack on South Sudan's already beleaguered press corps," and that "We urge Western Bahr el Ghazal authorities to do their utmost to identify the perpetrators and bring them to justice, and to ensure journalists are allowed to carry out their duties safely."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cpj.org/2015/01/five-journalists-killed-when-gunmen-ambush-convoy-.php|title=Five journalists killed when gunmen ambush convoy in South Sudan - Committee to Protect Journalists|date=27 January 2015|website=cpj.org|publisher=Committee to Protect Journalists|access-date=23 July 2016}}</ref> At present, none of the parties responsible for ordering the murders or perpetrators of the crimes have been arrested, charged, or convicted.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page