South Sudan will be the graveyard of Darfur rebels – official
March 27, 2012 (KHARTOUM) — The Director of the National Intelligence and Security services (NISS) scoffed Tuesday at the efforts of the Sudanese rebels to topple regime in Khartoum, reaffirming that Darfur rebels would not be allowed to return to western Sudan.
Mohamed Atta al-Moula Abbas held a press conference in Khartoum where he denounced the attack by the South Sudan army on the government troops in Heglig and reaffirmed that Sudan Armed Forces repelled the assailants.
Juba is accused of harbouring and supporting a coalition of Sudanese rebels including their former comrades of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement – North (SPLM-N), Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), and two factions of the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) led by Abdel Wahid al-Nur(SLM-AW) and Minni Minnawi (SLM-MM).
Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF)’s rebels operate in South Kordofan, to where Darfur groups moved many of their troop normally operating in western Sudan. The rebel joint force is led by Abdelzaiz Helu, SPLM-N deputy chairman and commander in chief of SPLM-N fighters.
Atta stressed at his press conference held at the NISS’s premises that the move of JEM forces to South Sudan means that they are condemned to stay there or to die. He said South Sudan will be their “incinerator” but they would not be allowed to return back to Darfur.
He further disclosed that JEM fighters had sought to enter the South Sudan since last October, but the Sudanese army hindered their plans and delayed it to December when the rebels attacked North Kordofan to divert the attention of the government troops to allow their former leader to cross to South Sudan.
During North Kordofan attacks, Sudanese army killed the rebel leader Khalil Ibrahim.
Atta said that the military operations continue in North Darfur to chase what he called JEM remnants and the army besiege SLM-AW fighters in Jebel Marra. He also pointed out that the security situation in Darfur is better than before as military operations decrease.
JEM said on Monday its fighters attacked government’s militias who burnt down four villages (Anka, Bireedeek and Nago Jarra) in North Darfur state.
The rebel group said the militiamen killed “an unspecified number of people, looted animal wealth and dismantled water pumps that supplied water to these villages.”
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