Salva Kiir Mayardit

Salva Kiir 2009

Salva Kiir in military uniform in June 2009

Salva Kiir Mayardit (born September 13, 1951 in the Gharb Bahr al-Ghazal region , Anglo-Egyptian Sudan , today South Sudan ) is a South Sudanese rebel leader and politician. Since the death of John Garang, he has been the head of the former rebel movement, the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), and the first President of South Sudan since 2011.

Life

Like Garang, Salva Kiir belongs to the Dinka people , but Garang belongs to the Bor-Dinka ethnic group and Salva Kiir to the Mayardit-Dinka. The Christian first became known when he joined the South Sudanese rebels in the late 1960s . By the end of this first rebellion in 1972 he had worked his way up to an officer and then, like most other rebels, received a position in the Sudanese army . In 1983, Kiir and John Garang joined a mutiny in Bor and they founded the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement (SPLM). Salva Kiir became the head of the SPLA and Garang's deputy in the SPLM in the following years.

The “Commander”, as Salva Kiir is called by his people, has already had a reputation for advocating an understanding with the Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir . Among other things, he did this during the peace negotiations with the Sudanese government in Nairobi , where he was the head of the rebel delegation.

After the death of John Garang, Salva Kiir took over the leadership of the SPLM and became - as Garang had been since the peace agreement in 2005 - also President of the Autonomous Region of South Sudan and Sudanese Vice President.

A “trademark” of Salva Kiir is the black Stetson cowboy hat that he received from George W. Bush .

Politician

On August 11, 2005, Salva Kiir was sworn in as the new Vice President of Sudan . In the elections in Sudan from April 11 to 15, 2010, he was re-elected as President of South Sudan with 93 percent. Since the independence of South Sudan on July 9, 2011, he has been President of the State of South Sudan.

During his tenure, the civil war in South Sudan took place from 2013 to 2018 . Members of the Dinkas , to which Salva Kiir Mayardit also belongs, fight with the Nuer . The former deputy of Kiir, Riek Machar , failed in an attempted coup against him in December 2013.

The Sentry Project, funded by George Clooney and human rights activist John Prendergast, showed through anonymous sources in 2016 that Kiir and other dignitaries of the country enriched themselves with the natural resources while they were living in their homes, for example. B. had relocated to Nairobi so as not to be affected by the effects of the civil war. The Sentry also complains that the sanctions passed last year would not affect the country's elite. Salva Kiir, as well as other politicians in the country, are accused of corruption, abuse of power and nepotism. As a result, they are said to have contributed significantly to the ongoing conflicts in the country.

Web links

Commons : Salva Kiir Mayardit - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Thomas Scheen: The first President of South Sudan. In: FAZ.net . July 9, 2011, accessed December 12, 2014 .
↑ Thomas Scheen: Attempted coup in South Sudan. In: FAZ.net . December 16, 2013, accessed December 12, 2014 .
↑ The Sentry: War Crimes Shouldn't Pay. (PDF) Stopping the looting and destruction in South Sudan. In: The Sentry.org. September 15, 2016, accessed on September 16, 2016 .
↑ Christoph Titz: The villas of the warlords. In: Spiegel Online. September 15, 2016, accessed September 16, 2016 .
↑ Rick Gladstone: South Sudan Leaders Amass Great Wealth as Nation Suffers, Report Says. In: New York Times. September 16, 2016, accessed on September 16, 2016 .
↑ ^a ^b O.H.Rolandsen: was Another civil in South Sudan: the failure of Guerrilla Government? In: Journal of Eastern African Studies. October 14, 2014, accessed October 14, 2017 .
^ A. de Waal: When kleptocracy becomes insolvent: Brute causes of the civil war in South Sudan. In: African Affairs, Volume 113, Issue 452, 1 July 2014, Pages 347–36. July 1, 2014, accessed October 14, 2017 .

personal data
SURNAME	Kiir Mayardit, Salva
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	South Sudanese rebel leader and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	September 13, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH	Region Gharb Bahr el Ghazal , South Sudan

[faz-16846-1] Thomas Scheen: The first President of South Sudan. In: FAZ.net . July 9, 2011, accessed December 12, 2014 .

[faz-12713676-2] Thomas Scheen: Attempted coup in South Sudan. In: FAZ.net . December 16, 2013, accessed December 12, 2014 .

[The_Sentry.org201609162-3] The Sentry: War Crimes Shouldn't Pay. (PDF) Stopping the looting and destruction in South Sudan. In: The Sentry.org. September 15, 2016, accessed on September 16, 2016 .

[Spiegel_Online201609162-4] Christoph Titz: The villas of the warlords. In: Spiegel Online. September 15, 2016, accessed September 16, 2016 .

[New_York_Times20160916-5] Rick Gladstone: South Sudan Leaders Amass Great Wealth as Nation Suffers, Report Says. In: New York Times. September 16, 2016, accessed on September 16, 2016 .

[:0-6] O.H.Rolandsen: was Another civil in South Sudan: the failure of Guerrilla Government? In: Journal of Eastern African Studies. October 14, 2014, accessed October 14, 2017 .

[7] A. de Waal: When kleptocracy becomes insolvent: Brute causes of the civil war in South Sudan. In: African Affairs, Volume 113, Issue 452, 1 July 2014, Pages 347–36. July 1, 2014, accessed October 14, 2017 .