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| Army recaptures town in southern Sudan |
| 2002-07-01 |
| Government troops have recaptured the town of Gogrial in southern Sudan after two months of fighting with the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), the army said Sunday. Armed forces spokesman General Mohamed Beshir Suleiman, in a statement on state-run Omdurman radio, said troops backed by militiamen and mujahedeen volunteer Muslim fighters seized the town on Saturday. They "defeated the enemy in battles that lasted for about two months over Gogrial town, inflicted on them heavy losses in lives and captured all of their heavy weapons," he said. The radio said the town in North Bahr el-Ghazal state had been under SPLA control for more than two years. Southern Sudan has been ravaged by war and famine since 1983, when the mainly Christian and animist SPLA took up arms against the Arab and Muslim government in Khartoum. Now that they've beaten them up, they can extend the hand of friendship. I'd be interested in learning a bit more about those "mujahedeen," though. Maybe it's just me, but that term worries me... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |