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By Hereward Holland JUBA (Reuters) - Three weeks after Christmas, a package wrapped in plastic appeared on John Penn de Ngong's bed. Unwrapping the parcel, the South Sudanese poet-***-activist found a jawbone, a bullet and a death threat signed by a group that called itself the Committee for the Operation to Restore Patriotism in South Sudan - CORPSS. The handwritten note warned him to stop writing or he would get the same "gift" as his friend Diing Chan Awuol, an outspoken columnist who was shot in the face and killed at his home in the capital Juba in early December. ...More...