SINISTER POLITICS: Former SA soldier Endley helps UN finger South Sudan government for alleged murder By Peter Fabricius Pfabric
Will Endley, the ex-South African soldier who narrowly escaped execution in South Sudan last year, was a key witness to a UN panel which this week accused President Salva Kiir’s government of abducting two dissidents from Kenya and murdering them in South Sudan in 2017.
He testified to the panel that he personally saw Aggrey Idri Ezbon being brought into the detention facility in Juba’s National Security Service headquarters – known as Blue House – on 27 January 2017 and being removed by hooded men the same evening. This was also part of the evidence which Endley said he got from sources in the national security service and passed on to the UN panel.
The Kiir government then arrested Endley, tried him on various charges including treason for having provided military services to Machar, and sentenced him to death. After over two years in prison, he was pardoned and then released along with other political prisoners as part of another regionally-negotiated “revitalised” peace deal in September 2018.
After being held briefly in the Blue House, they were moved to another National Security Service detention and training facility in Luri that is partThe Panel has received and reviewed a number of independent reports from
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