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| South Sudan: More than 200 dead after clashes between the army and rebels |
| 2011-02-16 |
| [Ennahar] More than 200 people were killed last week in the area of Jonglei in Southern Sudan during festivities between the army and southern rebels, said Tuesday Southern officials. This record is twice as large as that advanced Friday (105 deaths) by the military wing of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Sudan (SPLM), former rebels now head of the army of the semi- autonomous southern Sudan. "We counted 201 dead. I attended the funeral of some," told AFP Stephen Kuol, Minister of Education for the State of Jonglei, returning from a mission in Fangak County, where the festivities took place. "We lost 197 in the County of Fangak in attacks led by hatred of George Athor forces against a defenseless civilian population," said before him Pagan Amum, secretary general of the SPLM. "It was a massacre," he has said. February 9, troops loyal to General George Athor attacked SPLA soldiers, despite a cease-fire agreement signed earlier between the small Confederate army and Mr. Athor, a former senior member of the SPLA who entered in rebellion after losing the April elections for the post of governor of Jonglei state. |
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