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| East/Subsaharan Africa |
| Sudan 'ceasefire broken' |
| 2003-01-02 |
| SPLA rebels and the Sudanese Government have accused each other of attacks in oil-producing areas in the south, breaking a truce signed last year. The temporary ceasefire is supposed to last while peace talks continue in neighbouring Kenya. But there was no way in Hell that was going to happen... The negotiations over issues such as sharing oil wealth and the distribution of If there's anybody left alive to talk to... "Government forces supported by militias... are carrying out since 31 December a large-scale attack using tanks and helicopter gunships on our positions... in the Western Upper Nile region," the SPLA said in a statement. Some 1,500 fighters and helicopter gunships were involved in the offensive south of the city of Bentiu, according to the SPLA. "Yeah! They started it, damn them!" Army spokesman Mohamed Basher Sulieman in turn accused the rebels of killing three oil workers in the same region. He said that the SPLA offensive was repulsed. "They hit us first!" |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |