The Death of the Pilot-Capt.Samuel Tap Yol
December 11, 2007
The Panyijiar Community members abroad and at home are deeply saddened by the death of former SPLM/A Pilot, Captain Samuel Tap Yol. Captain Samuel Tap Yol was born in Gakal Payam, Panyijiar County- Unity State Southern Sudan in 1928. He was Anya Anya I veteran and a war hero of the Second Civil War of Sudan which began in 1983 and ended with signing of the Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement simply known as the CPA on January 9, 2005. He flew SPLM/A helicopters back and forth between SPLM/A controlled territories in Sudan and main gathering headquarters in the neighboring countries. Captain Samuel Tap even flew the Late Dr. John Garang in many occasions.
Samuel Tap was relieved of his pilot duties in the late 1990s and settled with his family in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. In 1999, he had a chance to be resettled to the US, first to Dallas Texas and moved from there to Omaha Nebraska. He lived in Omaha until in November, 2007 when he felt ill and was taken to Huachuca Arizona for treatment by his daughter. On December 8, 2007 he was pronounced dead by the Huachuca Hospital authorities. Captain Samuel Tap Yol died at the age of 79. The cause of his death is still under investigation.
Bentiu Lich Community USA, Panyijiar Community and Southern Sudan Government are working together to arrange for his burial. With his family’s consent, Southern Sudan Government has offered to take his body for ceremonial and heroic burial in Juba Southern Sudan.
Captain Samuel Tap Yol has left behind three sons and three daughters all live in the US. The captain was an outgoing man and social person. The entire Southern Sudan and Panyijiar Community have lost a war hero and a father. We all pay our condolence to his family and friends a cross the globe. May the almighty GOD rest his soul in peace.
By Machien J. Luoi – Chairman of Panyijiar Community USA
Contact: mjluoi@yahoo.com or 701-541-6209
1 comments:
Hello, this is Nyatony Tap, youngest daughter of Samuel Tap. From what my family tells me, my father died of cancer and I believe it was in his stomach, also he had diabetes, and his liver failed. We all truly miss him. Even years later, there's not a day that I don't think of dad.
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