Sudan says SRF top military commander ‘is alive’

May 11, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) announced today that the General Chief of Staff of the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF) Abdel-Aziz al-Hilu is alive and is running looting and killing activities in South Kordofan state against civilians.

The NISS media officer said in a statement carried by state news agency that al-HIlu is also administering court-martials in the states as recently as Saturday .

The statement puts an end to earlier assertions by several government officials about al-Hilu’s death during last month’s SRF’s attack in North Kordofan.

This week the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs, Security and Defense Committee in the Sudanese National Assembly Mohamed al-Hassan al-Amin said that the latest information available shows that al-Hilu died after sustaining injuries and was buried in the city of Wau in South Sudan.

The NISS stressed that they know where al-Hilu is and that they are treating him as a “terrorist”.

Al-Hilu conducted an interview with Sudan Tribune late last month and dismissed government reports speaking about his demise.

(ST)