175 wounded rebels treated in South Sudanese hospitals, NISS say
June 9, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) on Saturday said South Sudan has received recently over 175 wounded Sudanese rebel fighters and continue to provide them with logistical support.
Juba during the past few days intensified supply operations to the rebel Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF) and provided them with vehicles, fuel, ammunition, spare parts and various amounts of weapons, the SMC reported citing a high ranking security source.
This operations are conducted “under the direct supervision of SPLA intelligence officers”, he further stressed.
The report went further to say that over 175 wounded rebel fighters were transported through South Kordofan to hospitals in Bentiu, Wau, and Juba, stressing that Jau and Bentiu served as transit point for the other towns in inside the South Sudan.
During the past months of April and May after the signing of matrix agreement last March, the SMC refrained from releasing reports about Juba’s support to the SRF’s groups. Recently, the NISS directly provided some newspapers in Khartoum with such reports.
Juba denies usually such reports of support to rebel groups and accuses Khartoum of failing to resolve its own problems. When the Sudanese government demanded to be allowed to pursue rebels insides the South Sudanese territory last May, the South Sudanese government said a joint force tasked with the monitoring of the border with the support of UNISFA peacekeepers is enough.
The cooperation agreements of 27 September 2012 aimed to respond to two urgent needs of the two countries: export South Sudanese oil and stop Sudanese rebels from using South Sudanese territory to launch attacks on the Sudanese army in Darfur, South Kordofan Blue Nile states.
However, observers say that it is obvious that such option is not functional unless the two parties resolve also their dispute over Abyei, and Khartoum has also to reach a peaceful settlement for itss conflict with the SPLM-N which remains close to the ruling party in South Sudan.
However, Sudanese officials accuse Juba of serving as basis to transport logistical support and arms provided by Israel to the rebels.
Information minister Ahmed Bilal Osman who serves as government spokesperson on Friday said that Israel plans to break-up Sudan’s unity and destabilise its security and stability.
(ST)