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22 soldiers killed in Abyei clashes – Sudan Armed Forces

May 21, 2008 (KHARTOUM) — The Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) lost 22 men in clashes with Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) in the volatile oil rich region of Abyei, local SAF commander said Wednesday, in incidents threatening to reignite the country’s bloody civil war.

Brig. Gen. Muntasser Sabil Adam, commander of northern Sudan army troops in Abyei, said that his soldiers repelled the attacking southern forces in a six hour battle Tuesday in which he lost 22 men. The town was now calm, he added, and his men were in control.

No SPLA official was available for comment Wednesday, but on Tuesday, southern official Michael Majak said the northern government is breaching the accord by keeping its forces in the town instead of deploying joint north-south units. Majak had no figures on southern casualties.

The fighting in the flashpoint region of Abyei that lies along the disputed boundary line between the former civil war foes began last week and has killed an undetermined number of people. A majority of the town’s civilians — between 30,000 and 50,000 — have been displaced, according to the U.N.

Tuesday’s fighting, which had broken an earlier ceasefire, was set off by an assault on the town by the southern Sudan People’s Liberation Army with tanks and infantry, firing rockets and mortars.

The United Nations has pulled out most of its 250 civilian staff of the town, leaving just the 400 peacekeepers on the ground.

Aid workers, U.N. and Sudanese officials have described the town as devastated, with the market area totally burned down, and the majority of its population displaced.

The north and south ended more than two decades of civil war, that killed 2 million people, with a 2005 peace agreement. The fate of Abyei, an oil rich region coveted by both sides, was left undetermined, however, and a separate protocol for resolving the dispute has not been implemented.

Many of the southern leaders come from Abyei and want to reclaim it while the northern-dominated government covet the area’s oil resources.

The southern leadership accused the northern government of reneging on aspects of the 2005 accord, by refusing to share oil wealth, failing to pull government troops out of South Sudan and remilitarizing contested border zones such as Abyei.

U.S. and U.N. officials on Tuesday condemned the latest fighting.

(AP)

12 Comments

  • Mr Famous Big_Logic_Boy
    Mr Famous Big_Logic_Boy

    22 soldiers killed in Abyei clashes – Sudan Armed Forces
    Great news i have to sing a wonderfull song to SPLA.Keep the spirit SPLA Abeyi must be under SPLA control if Beshir need a lession SPLA must be prepared because his stupid ideas of genocide like happining in Durfur must not be brough to Southern border.terrorist has no room in South,people such as Akol who were interested to live with terrorist must not be allow to live in South,one is Riek who has a big heart of leadership,should Riek attempt to repeat his ideas of 1990s for truth he will just end up on the street of upper nile not Juba nor Malakal.

    SPLA keep the Spirit to fire them as many as you can otherwise if you see a monkey bullet only

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  • Wilson Kur Lual
    Wilson Kur Lual

    22 soldiers killed in Abyei clashes – Sudan Armed Forces
    Nice and interesting news to hear lost pigs are dying.

    teach them one more lesson if they don’t understand. Abyei belong to south and shall remain for south forever.

    You idiotic dog Albashir, stop sending your tomatoes, otherwise we finish them.

    Long live SPLA

    God bless the operation.

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  • Deng Aruei Yak
    Deng Aruei Yak

    22 soldiers killed in Abyei clashes – Sudan Armed Forces
    dear Southerners,
    i heard of unfair judgement by the U.N that sudan armed force will remain in Abyei town .
    how do the came about that issues.
    please the Sudan armed force should also leave evacuated the area if the want the comprehensive peace agreement to be alive to all of us .
    it is better to get them out by force if there is no other solution take by U.N and peacekeeping force there.
    you can’t fool a wise man like president Kiir Mayardit .
    the only solution is to keep Sudan armed force out of Abyei Area.

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  • Mabutu Malet
    Mabutu Malet

    22 soldiers killed in Abyei clashes – Sudan Armed Forces
    Bravo, Bravo SPLA.

    I am not in joy for not hearing that Abyei is in control of your hands (SPlA)

    Please take other action till Abyei is in your hand.

    Let Bashir arms be to the northern part not Abyei area.

    I will be very happy if i hear that had hapened.

    SPLA take your full gear and continue till you accomplish your mission.

    SPLA Oyeeeeee…….Oyeeeeeeee!!!!!!

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  • lil saint
    lil saint

    22 soldiers killed in Abyei clashes – Sudan Armed Forces
    wonderful news to heard that lost children of arab are dying by the orgin of the sudan (dying by spla).

    thank you spla and the general commanders .lost childs need more lessons by shoting and decreasing their population .spla its good to teach lost child that they are in wrong people.

    continues killing them till the saf troops give up abyei area.make them goes back to saudi arabic where orinally they believes had came from!!!!

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