Canadian is among thousands who disappeared in South Sudan

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Richard Lokeya, a Canadian law student, is among thousands of missing victims of South Sudan’s war whose cases are unresolved

Trainees parade during the visit of the defense minister to a military training center in Owiny Ki-Bul, Eastern Equatoria, South Sudan on June 27, 2020.Richard Lokeya, a Canadian law student who had once been a child refugee, thought he had finally reached safety when he and two friends slipped across the border from South Sudan to Uganda on the night of Aug. 15, 2015.

“The government needs to acknowledge that people are still missing and take concrete steps to investigate and hold those responsible to account.” As a teen in the late 1990s, Richard Lokeya and his family were refugees, fleeing from the decades-long war in southern Sudan. He became a Canadian citizen, and in his early 30s, he was studying law in Ontario while occasionally visiting his parents in South Sudan, which gained independence in 2011.

On Aug. 22, according to a witness who spoke later to South Sudanese media, Mr. Lokeya and his friends were strangled and dumped into the Nile River. But South Sudan’s authorities never acknowledged their deaths.

 

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U should be more precise; Canadian passport holder is among.....

They don't 'Disappear' they Join ISIS etc.!

Kinda their fault for going there

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