JUBA, South Sudan - “I was terrified ... I knew that I was heading for a terrible situation.” For the first time, the spokesman for South Sudan’s armed opposition leader has spoken out about his alleged kidnapping in neighbouring Kenya, deportation to his home country and death sentence.
James Gatdet Dak, one of the highest-profile detainees during South Sudan’s five-year civil war, spoke to The Associated Press shortly after his pardon and release under a fragile peace deal signed in September. Now in neighbouring Sudan while seeking asylum in Sweden, he says he is ready to have his story told.
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