Juba, June 6 — The former detained businessman Carpino Woll announced on Friday, June 5th the establishment of a new rebel movement in South Sudan named “7 October Movement.” He said his movement is determined to fight the regime who raped and killed her sons and daughters.
Woll explained in his manifesto that his movement was established within the South Sudan Security Service prison known as the “Blue House” during their protested inside the prison in October 2018 about the conditions of inmates who are being taken into prisons without any right or clear charges, revealing that all detainees there find no fair trial or justice.
In October 2018, Carpino Woll announced his occupation of detention after he took up arms from a warehouse inside the prison with others who were demanding justice. He criticized the security services’ policies towards the detainees inside the prison.
Meanwhile, Woll showed that, besides his belief in democracy, he takes from the armed struggle a means to force the ruler movement (SPLM) to change its policy in running the country, noting that the “7 October” movement calls for comprehensive change in South Sudan in which the citizen is respected and treated according to the rights and duties in the country; he described it as the new South Sudan.
Carpino Woll, the former detainee, called on all the people of South Sudan, especially the youth, to join his movement, referring to those who were arrested and those affected by the government of South Sudan policies.
Carpino Woll was arrested in April 2018 on charges of threatening state security and later on accused of carrying out sabotage operations inside the prison.
in June 2019 he was sentenced to ten years in prison; furthermore, the Security Service in October 2019 held all the property and companies that belong to businessman Carpino Woll after a week of prison events.
Woll was released, among thirty others, after the President of the Republic of South Sudan Salva Kiir Mayardit, in January 2020 issued a general amnesty in which the government released a number of political detainees.