UN chief condemns attack on peacekeepers in Abyei
May 20, 2011 (NEW YROK) – UN chief Ban Ki-moon condemned on Friday the attack carried on UNMIS peacekeepers while they were escorting northern Sudanese troops in the flashpoint Abyei border area.
A convoy of UN peacekeepers on Thursday evening was escorting 200 troops of Joint Integrated Units of the Sudan Armed Forces, as part of the deployment plan agreed to by the parties.
Sudanese army criticized the silence of the UNMIS over the identity of the attackers and accused the northern Sudanese army of being responsible of this aggression over its troops.
UN “Secretary-General strongly condemns the attack against an UNMIS (United Nations Mission in Sudan) escort convoy on 19 May 2011 in Abyei” said a press statement released by his spokesperson.
Ban Ki-moon termed the attack as ” criminal act against the United Nations” but did not identify the assailants forces. He just said it was also a serious breach of agreements signed between the parties, in reference to the Kadugli and Abyei agreement signed in January and March between the SAF and the SPLA.
He further called on “the parties” to probe the ambush on the UN and Sudanese troops and bring responsible to justice and voiced concern over the troop movements into Abyei district.
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Sam.Eto
UN chief condemns attack on peacekeepers in Abyei
US urges south Sudan to ‘account’ for attack on north
WASHINGTON — The United States on Friday called on south Sudan to “account” for an assault on northern Sudanese troops as they were escorted by UN peacekeepers in the flashpoint Abyei border district.
“The United States deplores a reported attack yesterday of southern forces on a UN convoy that was transporting a company of Sudanese armed forces Joint Integrated Units in Abyei,” State Department spokesman Mark Toner said.
Toner told reporters the attack “is in direct violation” of the agreement signed by the North and South in January in the South Kordofan state capital of Kadugli in January to “remove all unauthorized forces” from Abyei.
“We urge the government of southern Sudan to account for this attack, take steps to demonstrate its commitment to implement the Kadugli agreement, and ensure that its forces demonstrate restraint,” Toner said.
The Kadugli deal called on all forces to withdraw from the bitterly disputed region except the special Joint Integrated Units (JIUs) of northern and southern personnel, both army and police, alongside UN peacekeepers.
Sam.Eto
UN chief condemns attack on peacekeepers in Abyei
P.s to Liberator my brother on your question on another article – here i quote – AMBASSADOR LYMAN: Paragraph 6 – http://www.state.gov/s/sudan/rem/2011/163782.htm
“Abyei is a region that is in dispute between the North and the South. “It’s now in the North” . Part of the CPA, there was to be a referendum or other way to resolve the issue of whether Abyei should be in the North or the South. That has not been resolved.”
I hope this answers your question on Abyie – If no agreement is reached or referendum done – ABYIE will continue to be part of the north and anything the South does will be in violation of international law as you can clearly see from the remarks today by the UN, US and AU.
If the SPLM want a war they wont have anyone backing them up. Plus the SAF will destroy your small army that is already preoccupied by rebellions – that will soon be hitting Juba. Advice to Pagan – run to Australia where your wife and fancy villa is before its too late and let the true genuine decent peoples of South Sudan live in peace within themselves and the North. Your war mongering to distract people from the looting and stealing your current GOSS is doing will not last forever.
Marco A. Wek
UN chief condemns attack on peacekeepers in Abyei
Sam Eto, stop repeating your nonsense over again and again. When did you have a brother called liberator when your mown brothers are terrorists or suicide bombers. If you are calling that confused liar- lubricator who calls himself liberator when in fact was a militia used by northern Sudan over the years.
Time will come when your northern army will fear south Sudan army just like they are fearing Egyptian and Israeli armies. It is a matter of time.
mohammed ali
UN chief condemns attack on peacekeepers in Abyei
Wek,
We donnot want neither the SPLA nor the SAF to fear each other. We want them to be a tool of peace, not of war.
It is you who is repeating cheap propoganda about terrorists and suicide bombers.This is not our concern! Our concern is that our people live in peace and prosperity in both the north and south.The people of Sudan , north or south deserve to live in peace. Let us try to help them that way and towards the right direction!
Stop your hate and war rehtoric and talk about pece.If you want to fight, throw away your Asylum visa and come and show us a good example of a real and courageous fighter instead of cowardly pusing people to kill each other!
War is a disgarce of humanity!
Adam
UN chief condemns attack on peacekeepers in Abyei
Mr. President, please make a clean-up soon. There are people in your cabinet and SPLM/A leadership who are irresponsible. They have to go before July 2011.
This kind of aggression is counterproductive and the perpetrators have to be brought to a day light justice.
CPA was signed to bring peace – not war and bloodshed. I hope it is not too late.
Both South and North are destined to live in peace or perish.
Adam Milawaki
Juba, South Sudan
Muor-cinkok Tungawan
UN chief condemns attack on peacekeepers in Abyei
Adam and Ban-kimoon, better investigated the incident and hold evidences before you draw conclusion again true fully world respected Gov!!!
Shame on you Adam, where do you come from blind with chili anus, shut up an Arab born with noisy and to control it. We did not sign CPA to let our people died for the sake of CPA meanwhile others dishonoring CPA. CPA wasn’t to bring Jesus from the death but was signed in respect by all parties to implement it in sense of human rights.
Mr. Adam, you are not ambassador to advocate peace in Sudan while others like Bashir are advocating war and denounced UHDR treaty to exist. How many times did you and Ban-kimoon together watch Abyei burning into hashes?
Why it is sound full to word aggression in wrong to GOSS and same time SAF are bombarding areas of Abyei with Anti-nove concurrently while unseen to comment?
I know Adam is not a familiar name in Southern Sudan histories of War in it origin. A person like you Adam doesn’t know the suffering of southern Sudan and their rights.
Belief or not ,it necessary for you to keep silent until independent of Southern Sudan early July 9th 2011 to be part of because two months is one day in the week for the liberators of the southern Sudan.
Adam, the way is open for you Ugandan who just pretend to be Southerners to go back to Uganda if you fear of lives in case your relatives Arab may attack our conventional capital city Juba.
Direct to Mr. Ban- kimoon if he can read on this website to see comments made by Southerners in response to situation of Abyei. Kimoon, stop threatening unknowingly, Arab are responsible for this attack because they are expertise’s in creating and telling liars to the world.
Government of Sudan especially SAF is one who carry out this attacked on troop in pretext of implicated Abyei and South Sudan administration. They do this because they have already breach Kudgali agreement by crossing border to centre of Abyei knowingly SPLM/SPLA and Abyei around world are those unable to maintained peace among themselves with their neighbors globally.
They claim being intelligent and denominate people in the world. They extend these narrow minded to America claiming land they had destroyed with deadly slogan terrorizing of people. Arab are lands grasp who can fight for any land like now they are fighting for ground zero political and economically to own.
Mr. Kimoon, if you want peace in between south and north Sudan, please deploy full army between them with fence immediately to keep each one way from seeing another otherwise these incidents will not stop ever in Abyei.
Muor_cinkok
Thondet Manyang
UN chief condemns attack on peacekeepers in Abyei
I hate this UNMIS who reports only what is happening in South Sudan where by Ban ki Moon misunderstood the wrong report presented by Arabs who occupied the high posts in UNMIS that are manipulating the correct thing that Arab are trying to envade south since it is their source of income.
To hell Ban!! you didn’t invastigate what happened in Malakal, Abyei in 2008 and Kiir Adem during referendum this year and finlly the captured of Abyei by SAF day 21/May/2011 backed by your Arabs(UNMISS) South is not interested in selling people’ s lives to die always waiting for fucken UNMIS filled with Arabs to find it out. Arabs are still commiting more crimes in our soil in your present. If you are not ready to keep the peace, pack your thing and go and God will save us from Arabs ‘ hands,
Paul Ongee
UN chief condemns attack on peacekeepers in Abyei
Ya Truthteller, Sam.Eto. Mohamed Ali and the likes,
Remember that Khartoum has a track record of military aggression since May 2008. Khartoum still believes that Abyei will be part of the North with or without holding Abyei Referendum that Omer Al-Bashir insists on including voting rights of the so-called neglected nomadic Messeriya of Southern Kordofan since 1905.
The only message that Khartoum needs to remember every time when it plans to provoke SPLA militarily is that SPLA is ready to defend its territory including Abyei at any cost and Abyei will never be Sudan’s Kashmir or part of North Sudan. Believe me or not. I would like to remind you Truthteller, Sam.Eto, Mohamed Ali and the likes not to be surprised when Abyei becomes part of South Sudan. Can you imagine that Khartoum is playing with fire?
When a full scale war starts, it will fortunately end up in Khartoum’s door step to confirm whether the ICC-indicted war criminals are still there, hiding in the well-known bunkers located in both Khartoum and Khartoum North or not. He will not make it to that in Shendi. The first three indicted war criminals would attempt to run but never hide.
If NCP wants peace, it should start valuing future relationship between North and South Sudan and individual economic outlook. Waging war will only force them to flee the country unexpectedly and will never come back except to face court charges of mismanaging the country and its valuable resources.
The leadership of NCP should remember what has happened in Tunisia and Egypt and particularly what is currently happening in Libya. It should not just watch it on TV but admit that it’s already heading to Khartoum before freedom, not competitive interpretation of Quran to govern Sudan, knocks on every door of Northern residents.
Paul Ongee
Khartoum Watch
Paul Ongee
UN chief condemns attack on peacekeepers in Abyei
Ya Truthteller, Sam.Eto. Mohamed Ali and the likes,
Remember that Khartoum has a track record of military aggression since May 2008. Khartoum still believes that Abyei will be part of the North with or without holding Abyei Referendum that Omer Al-Bashir insists on including voting rights of the so-called neglected nomadic Messeriya of Southern Kordofan since 1905.
The only message that Khartoum needs to remember every time when it plans to provoke SPLA militarily is that SPLA is ready to defend its territory including Abyei at any cost and Abyei will never be Sudan’s Kashmir or part of North Sudan. Believe me or not. I would like to remind you Truthteller, Sam.Eto, Mohamed Ali and the likes not to be surprised when Abyei becomes part of South Sudan. Can you imagine that Khartoum is playing with fire?
When a full scale war starts, it will fortunately end up in Khartoum’s door step to confirm whether the ICC-indicted war criminals are still there, hiding in the well-known bunkers located in both Khartoum and Khartoum North or not. He will not make it to that in Shendi. The first three indicted war criminals would attempt to run but never hide.
If NCP wants peace, it should start valuing future relationship between North and South Sudan and individual economic outlook. Waging war will only force them to flee the country unexpectedly and will never come back except to face court charges of mismanaging the country and its valuable resources.
The leadership of NCP should remember what has happened in Tunisia and Egypt and particularly what is currently happening in Libya. It should not just watch it on TV but admit that it’s already heading to Khartoum before freedom, not competitive interpretation of Quran to govern Sudan, knocks on every door of Northern residents.
Paul Ongee
Khartoum Watch
Sam.Eto
UN chief condemns attack on peacekeepers in Abyei
HA HA HA HA HA – fear the South Army – WHAT army ??? Rebels bearing wearing clothes and no shoes. Half of it has defected and the other half are not even paid. Look how your Govrn cried when the North retaliated by booming (wiping off the map) 3 of you villages. Let see what your ” Army” is going to do now. Complain, complain to the americans like cowards !
Sam.Eto
UN chief condemns attack on peacekeepers in Abyei
Go on lets see !!! Read the News !!
North Sudan takes control of key town in Abyei
KHARTOUM, May 21 (Reuters) – North Sudanese army forces took control of the main town in the disputed Abyei region on Saturday after fighting with southern forces, both sides said, in further violence ahead of southern secession.
Southerners voted in January to become independent on July 9 in a referendum agreed under a 2005 peace deal. But violence has escalated in recent days in Abyei, the main outstanding dispute between the two sides in the run-up to secession.
“Enemy forces” had been expelled to the south, Khartoum-based Sudanese state television said in a news bulletin after fighting was reported throughout the day in Abyei, which has oil and fertile grazing land.
The United Nations said the northern army deployed 15 tanks alone in one area in Abyei town. Gunshots could be heard until fighting appeared to subside for the night, spokeswoman Hua Jiang said.
Another U.N. official said the end of fighting before midnight indicated the north appeared to be in control of Abyei town, although the official confirmation would have to wait until patrols could take a look.
In another telling sign, Sudan’s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir removed the two heads of the Abyei administration and dissolved the region’s administrative council, state news agency SUNA said. It gave no explanation.
The southern army acknowledged northern forces controlled the main town. “Abyei town is now under control of the SAF (Sudanese Armed Forces). They came with tanks,” said SPLA spokesman Philip Aguer.
He said northern aircraft had also bombed from the air and shelled at least four villages, among them Todach and Tagalei, which he said had been already hit on Friday.