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'''Salva Kiir Mayardit''' (born 1951) is the first [[List of Presidents of South Sudan|President]] of the Republic of [[South Sudan]]. |
'''Salva Kiir Mayardit''' (born 1951)<ref group="lower-alpha">This is a [[Dinka people|Dinka]] name; according to Dinka custom, this person properly should be referred to by the name "Kiir", ''not'' "Mayardit".</ref> is the first [[List of Presidents of South Sudan|President]] of the Republic of [[South Sudan]]. |
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Kiir told Radio Netherlands Worldwide that homosexuality is not in the "character" of Southern Sudanese people. "It is not even something that anybody can talk about here in southern Sudan in particular. It is not there and if anybody wants to import or to export it to Sudan, it will not get the support and it will always be condemned by everybody," he said. He then went on the refer to homosexuality as a "mental disease" and a "bastion of Western immorality" <ref name=RNW>{{cite news|url=http://www.africanactivist.org/2010/08/south-sudan-president-condemns.html|title=South Sudan President Condemns Homosexuality|publisher=African Activist News}}</ref> |
Kiir told Radio Netherlands Worldwide that homosexuality is not in the "character" of Southern Sudanese people. "It is not even something that anybody can talk about here in southern Sudan in particular. It is not there and if anybody wants to import or to export it to Sudan, it will not get the support and it will always be condemned by everybody," he said. He then went on the refer to homosexuality as a "mental disease" and a "bastion of Western immorality" <ref name=RNW>{{cite news|url=http://www.africanactivist.org/2010/08/south-sudan-president-condemns.html|title=South Sudan President Condemns Homosexuality|publisher=African Activist News}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 04:28, 12 July 2011
Salva Kiir Mayardit | |
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| President of South Sudan | |
| Assumed office 9 July 2011 | |
| Vice President | Riek Machar |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| President of Southern Sudan | |
| In office 30 July 2005 – 9 July 2011 Acting until 11 August 2005 | |
| Vice President | Riek Machar |
| Preceded by | John Garang |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| First Vice President of Sudan | |
| In office 11 August 2005 – 9 July 2011 | |
| President | Omar al-Bashir |
| Preceded by | John Garang |
| Succeeded by | TBD |
| Vice President of Southern Sudan | |
| In office 9 January 2005 – 11 August 2005 | |
| President | John Garang |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Riek Machar |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1951 (age 72–73) Bahr el Ghazal, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (now South Sudan) |
| Political party | Sudan People's Liberation Movement |
Salva Kiir Mayardit (born 1951)[a] is the first President of the Republic of South Sudan.
Life and career
Kiir is a Dinka, though of a different clan than former Southern Sudan president John Garang. In the late 1960s, Kiir joined the Anyanya in the First Sudanese Civil War. By the time of the 1972 Addis Ababa Agreement, he was a low-ranking officer.[2] In 1983, when Garang joined an army mutiny he had been sent to put down, Kiir and other Southern leaders joined the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) in the second civil war. Garang had little military field experience and relied upon the more experienced Anyanya veterans, including Kiir, to actually carry out the ground war.[3] Kiir eventually rose to head the SPLA's military wing.[2]
An attempt to remove Kiir from his post as SPLA chief of staff in 2004 nearly caused the organization to split.[2] Following the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement formally ending the war in January 2005, which he had helped start, he was appointed Vice President of Southern Sudan. After the death of Garang in a helicopter crash of 30 July 2005, he was chosen to succeed to the post of First Vice President of Sudan and President of Southern Sudan. He is popular among the military wing of the SPLM for his battlefield victories and among the populace for his unambiguous pro-secession stance.[2]
Comments by Kiir in October 2009 that the forthcoming independence referendum was a choice between being "a second class in your own country" or "a free person in your independent state" were expected to further strain political tensions.[4] Reports in January 2010 that Kiir would not contest April elections for Sudanese president, but would focus on re-election as president of Southern Sudan were interpreted to mean that the SPLM priority is independence.[5]
Kiir was re-elected with 93% of the vote in the 2010 Sudanese election. Although the vote on both the national and sub-national level was criticized by democratic activists and international observers, the overwhelming margin of Kiir's re-election was noted by some media as being "Step One" in the process of secession.[6] Following his re-election, Omar al-Bashir reappointed Kiir as the First Vice President of Sudan in accordance with the interim constitution.[7]
Political views
Homosexuality
Kiir told Radio Netherlands Worldwide that homosexuality is not in the "character" of Southern Sudanese people. "It is not even something that anybody can talk about here in southern Sudan in particular. It is not there and if anybody wants to import or to export it to Sudan, it will not get the support and it will always be condemned by everybody," he said. He then went on the refer to homosexuality as a "mental disease" and a "bastion of Western immorality" [8]
Notes
References
- ^ Church and state, The Economist, dated Jan 20th 2011, 18:01
- ^ a b c d "Profile: Salva Kiir". BBC News. 2 August 2005. Retrieved 26 January 2010.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Johnson, Douglas H. (2003). The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars. Indiana University Press. p. 66. ISBN 0253215846.
- ^ "S. Sudan president makes first call for independence". Reuters. 31 October 2009. Retrieved 26 January 2010.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ "Sudan would accept separation, says President Bashir". BBC News. 19 January 2010. Retrieved 26 January 2010.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Gettleman, Jeffrey (April 26, 2010). "Bashir Wins Election as Sudan Edges Toward Split". The New York Times.
- ^ Salva Kiir and Ali Osman appointed deputies of Sudan’s President Sudan Tribune, 29 May 2010
- ^ "South Sudan President Condemns Homosexuality". African Activist News.
External links
- Salva Kiir Speaks at the International Peace Institute, 22 September 2010
- Kiir's Speech on First Visit to Washington, at Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 4 November 2005
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