Majak D’Agoôt - Former Deputy Defence Minister, South Sudan
Should South Sudan have ever been an independent country? Shaun Ley asks the former Deputy Defence Minister Majak D’Agoôt
HARDtalk’s Shaun Ley speaks to Majak D’Agoôt, former deputy Defence Minister of South Sudan. It took half a century of civil war to give South Sudan its independence. Just five years later, leading figures from the independence struggle are calling for the UN to take charge. Majak D’Agoôt fought in the war of independence, became deputy minister of defence, but was sacked by the President and is now in exile. Have South Sudan's politicians failed their starving, displaced people or was the South never viable as a separate country in the first place?
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- Fri 26 Aug 201601:06GMTBBC World Service Americas and the Caribbean
- Fri 26 Aug 201602:06GMTBBC World Service Online & UK DAB/Freeview only
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