Just 16 months after breaking away from its old masters in Khartoum, South Sudan seems caught between principles and pragmatism. What happened over the following two days underscores the size of the challenge that faces not just Kiir and his anticorruption push, but South Sudan’s attempt to build itself from scratch. An unknown man offered him a lift and when Mawiir stepped into the vehicle, someone pulled a bag over his head and tied his hands together, Mawiir said. Mawiir, a human rights activist, marched on parliament with a few dozen fellow activists calling on the president to publish the names of those suspected of the theft.Ī few weeks later, on the evening of July 4, Mawiir was leaving a hotel in Juba, South Sudan’s small and sluggish capital, when a dark green SUV pulled up. In early June a letter by President Salva Kiir, asking some 75 ministers and officials to return $4 billion of stolen government money, leaked to the press. South Sudan's Deputy Defence Minister Majak D'Agoot poses for a photograph at his office in Juba, October 16, 2012.
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