South Sudan general resigns, says leader 'disgraced' himself
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A South Sudanese general resigned Saturday while telling President Salva Kiir "you have disgraced yourself" by subjecting the conflict-torn country to ethnic bias and "unacceptable cycles of violence."
The resignation letter, seen by The Associated Press, came from Lt. Gen. Thomas Cirillo Swaka, the deputy chief of general staff for logistics. It is the second-highest military defection since fighting erupted again in July.
Warnings of genocide hang over South Sudan, where a 2015 peace deal has failed to stop the three-year civil war that has killed tens of thousands and forced 1.5 million to flee.
Swaka's letter accuses the president of a "policy of ethnic domination and subjugation" in which Kiir's ethnic Dinka group "has come to be hated by their own brothers and sisters from other communities."
