The Vigilant was an English-language newspaper published from Khartoum, Sudan.
[5] Bona Malual Madut Ring (the general secretary of the Southern Front) was the editor of The Vigilant.
[2] The suspension was issued on July 15, 1965, following the publishing of articles about the recent massacres in Juba and Wau.
[3][8][9] The Vigilant had held the government responsible for what it called 'barbaric and brutal killing'.
Furthermore, the publication argued that the incidents was "not accident but part and parcel of a plan to depopulate the south".