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Majak D鈥橝go么t - 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鈥橝go么t

HARDtalk鈥檚 Shaun Ley speaks to Majak D鈥橝go么t, 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鈥橝go么t 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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