Opinion | My Escape to America Shows the Price of Dissent in South Sudan

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Opinion | My Escape to America Shows the Price of Dissent in South Sudan
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From WSJopinion: I fled to the U.S. this week after South Sudan’s president ordered me abducted or killed. Here’s how the U.S. can hold them accountable, writes AjakPeter.

I arrived safely in Washington Thursday after a harrowing journey from Nairobi, Kenya. I was forced into hiding after receiving word several weeks ago from senior government officials in South Sudan that President Salva Kiir had ordered the National Security Service, led by Gen. Akol Koor Kuc, either to abduct me from Kenya or murder me.

I knew this was no idle threat. Previously, I had been a political prisoner in South Sudan, convicted in a show trial for “disturbing the peace” and sentenced to two years in prison. My real...

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