Renewed aerial attacks on New and Old Fangak

SSFDA | Immediate Statement on Renewed Bombings in Fangak – June 3, 2025

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“What kind of leader bombs his own citizens while blocking their food and medicine? What kind of president wages war on hospitals? Salva Kiir has crossed every line of sanity, legality, and humanity.”

To the people of South Sudan and the international community,

Today’s reports of renewed aerial attacks on New and Old Fangak, with support from Uganda’s military, mark yet another chapter in Salva Kiir’s insane war against his own people. These attacks—including helicopter gunships, possible chemical weapons, and targeted strikes on civilian areas and medical facilities—show a man not only detached from reality, but violently obsessed with exterminating opposition strongholds at any cost.

Is Kiir insane?

No. He is not mentally ill. He is calculating, vindictive, and desperate. These acts are not madness; they are the methodical tactics of a cornered dictator, using terror to cling to power.

The bombing of civilians, forcing families into swamps, psychological torture by military aircraft, and blockade of humanitarian aid are not military strategies—they are war crimes. They are the tactics of a man so fearful of the people's uprising that he burns their homes and bombs their hospitals.

Kiir declared Fangak “hostile” not because of any military provocation—but because the people there refuse to bow. He is punishing them for loyalty to truth, for refusing to kneel. But what he does not understand is this: every bomb he drops fertilizes resistance. Every gunship sent builds the resolve of the 64 nations.

We call on:

The United Nations and UNMISS to immediately investigate these bombings as violations of international humanitarian law.

Human rights observers, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, to verify reports of chemical weapon use and document the psychological trauma inflicted.

The African Union and IGAD to immediately suspend all cooperation with the Kiir regime and recognize that silence is complicity.

To the civilians of Fangak and all those under siege:

We see you. We grieve with you. And we will not stop until this nightmare ends.

Let it be known:

Kiir has declared war on the very idea of South Sudan. But SSFDA stands for a nation where helicopters bring doctors, not death. Where leaders serve, not slaughter. Where justice prevails, not terror.

And we will not rest until that vision becomes reality.

South Sudan Federal Democratic Alliance (SSFDA)

Spokesperson, Press Office