Kampala — Bor students in Kampala, Uganda have described the apology of South Sudan's Vice President, for the killings of civilians - which took place while he led a rival rebel movement during the civil war - as "beginning of a new era".
South Sudan Vice President Riek Machar Teny confirmed over the weekend that he apologised to Bor community for the 1992 'Bor Massacre' in Jonglei State. The attack on Bor villages, from Duk Padiet far in the north to Cuei-Keer in the south of greater Bor area, came after the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) split on exactly twenty years ago.
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