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| Sudan Says It Disarmed 54 Fighters from South |
| 2014-01-12 |
| [An Nahar] Sudan said on Saturday it disarmed more than 50 fighters from the southern Nuer tribe who crossed the border, in the first such incident since fighting began between the South Sudan army and rebel troops. South Sudan rebel leader Riek Machar is from the Nuer tribe while President Salva Kiir belongs to the majority Dinka. "On January 9 roughly a battalion of Nuer crossed the border in the Heglig area," Sudan Armed Forces front man Sawarmi Khaled Saad said in a statement. "We disarmed 54 of them and treated them as refugees." The rest, who refused to turn over their weapons, were "expelled" and returned to South Sudan, he added. Heglig is in Sudan's South Kordofan state, adjacent to the South's oil-producing Unity state. The border between the two countries has not been demarcated. On Friday Machar's rebel forces lost control of Unity's capital Bentiu to government troops. Battles that began on December 15 with festivities inside army units sparked a sharp upsurge in ethnic violence between the Dinka and Nuer communities. Fighting has killed well over 1,000 people and forced about 43,000 to flee as refugees, mostly to Uganda, Æthiopia and Kenya, the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... said. Only 168 "brother Southern Sudanese citizens", mostly women and kiddies, have crossed into Sudan, the country's Humanitarian Aid Commissioner said on Friday, according to official media. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 The individual who has caused this uproar has been Riak Machar, the Nuer tribal who in his long unhappy history has been a former leader of the Sudan Peoples Liberation Army, a traitor who joined Bashir's Muslim military forces, and then jumped back when it appeared that the South would win its independence from Khartoum. For his many very evil works, he should be tried, just as Bashir should be tried, in the International Court of Justice (although there is fat chance of that). Barring that, he should be offed soon. Accountability is gone. Bashir thrives. I don't know this, but I imagine Machar has an understanding with Bashir that he gets to be pres. of SS if/when the north retakes the oil fields/control of the oil. I'll forward you the weekly report from Blue Force. While preaching what the COR wants to hear or have done overall for SS, you have to wonder about the real agenda for a contractor wanting to continue at full speed with its work in the conditions there. If the work there is so important, then the USG COR should be based there, not in New State with a bunch of old retirees or ne-er do wells on the ground in the danger zone, all the while looking for ways to look good and make more money for their companies.. More later. --- Then of course, there is the evolving, ongoing takeover of our nation: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/01/09/The-Islamization-of-America-in-2013 I am beginning to understand about the tree of liberty needing to be fertilized with the blood of patriots.... -- Dave On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 5:56 AM, jmb wrote: Dave: Shouldn't Riak Machar be considered an international criminal just as Bashir is? JMB ----- Original Message -----
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| Posted by: Jomomp Fillmore8551 2014-01-12 09:39 |