Monday 30 April 2012
Sudan About To To War
There are fears of all-out war as the world's newest nation, South Sudan, prepares for action against its northern neighbour.
Less than a year after getting independence from Sudan, South Sudan is now ready to do battle as a state of emergency is declared on the border.
Now is the right time to arrest Omar Bashir. If the international community will not do it, we will do it.
South Sudan Major General James Gaduel, speaking to Sky News
Thousands of troops from the South have dug into defensive positions along the disputed border region, as more soldiers are dispatched to the area.
The conflict has arisen out of a contest for oil riches and disputed territory, and comes just days after South Sudanese troops withdrew from Sudan's largest oil field, at Heglig.
It gained independence last year and there were hopes that the two countries would remain at peace.
But the South Sudanese troops, who were once answerable to Sudan President Omar Bashir, have now turned their fury towards the Khartoum regime in the North.
South Sudan troops dig in near the disputed border with Sudan
South Sudan soldiers dig in near the border with Sudan
"We will fight because no one has the right to take our land from us," one South Sudanese soldier told Sky News.
On the other side, Mr Bashir has cranked up the rhetoric and said his aim was to "liberate" the people in the South.
He described the former rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement government in the southern capital Juba as "insects" that needed to be eliminated.
Witnesses reported bombing raids against southern forces after they took the Heglig oil field, and against the South Sudanese town of Bentui.
Soldiers training
Soldiers train in Sudan's Nuba Mountains
Major General James Gaduel told Sky News: "Now is the right time to arrest Omar Bashir. If the international community will not do it, we will do it."
The newly formed southern forces have inferior military capabilities to the North and struggle to protect the disputed border, which exceeds 1,300 miles.
The South Sudanese military, which is also responsible for an area the size as Texas, is sending more weapons to the area by transport aircraft and troops by lorries.
Meanwhile, UK consular staff confirmed that officials are "urgently investigating the arrest of a British national in Sudan" and had requested access to the man.
Sky News visited the Bentui state hospital, around 50 miles inside the border, where injured troops and civilian victims of air raids on the town have received rudimentary treatment.
"Let us leave this war, let us forget what has happened, and let us go to negotiations and not to war again," a doctor at the hospital said.
Soldiers in Heglig
Sudanese soldiers walk in the oil town of Heglig
Tens of thousands of refugees have now gathered in camps in South Sudan after being forced out of their villages by the fighting, with hundreds more making the trek every day.
South Sudan's embassy estimates 350,000 ethnic Southerners remain in the North after an April 8 deadline for them to either formalise their status or leave Sudan.
The World Food Programme has designated the situation a Level Three emergency, giving it the highest priority for deliveries to help starving civilians before seasonal rains make the dirt roads impassable.
:: The UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, had earlier made an appeal for more than $145m (£90m) from donors to help stockpile food and house displaced people before the rainy season.
There are fears of all-out war as the world's newest nation, South Sudan, prepares for action against its northern neighbour.
Less than a year after getting independence from Sudan, South Sudan is now ready to do battle as a state of emergency is declared on the border.
Thousands of troops from the South have dug into defensive positions along the disputed border region, as more soldiers are dispatched to the area.
The conflict has arisen out of a contest for oil riches and disputed territory, and comes just days after South Sudanese troops withdrew from Sudan's largest oil field, at Heglig.
It gained independence last year and there were hopes that the two countries would remain at peace.
But the South Sudanese troops, who were once answerable to Sudan President Omar Bashir, have now turned their fury towards the Khartoum regime in the North.
"We will fight because no one has the right to take our land from us," one South Sudanese soldier told Sky News.
On the other side, Mr Bashir has cranked up the rhetoric and said his aim was to "liberate" the people in the South.
He described the former rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement government in the southern capital Juba as "insects" that needed to be eliminated.
Witnesses reported bombing raids against southern forces after they took the Heglig oil field, and against the South Sudanese town of Bentui.
Major General James Gaduel told Sky News: "Now is the right time to arrest Omar Bashir. If the international community will not do it, we will do it."
The newly formed southern forces have inferior military capabilities to the North and struggle to protect the disputed border, which exceeds 1,300 miles.
The South Sudanese military, which is also responsible for an area the size as Texas, is sending more weapons to the area by transport aircraft and troops by lorries.
Meanwhile, UK consular staff confirmed that officials are "urgently investigating the arrest of a British national in Sudan" and had requested access to the man.
Sky News visited the Bentui state hospital, around 50 miles inside the border, where injured troops and civilian victims of air raids on the town have received rudimentary treatment.
"Let us leave this war, let us forget what has happened, and let us go to negotiations and not to war again," a doctor at the hospital said.
Soldiers in Heglig
Sudanese soldiers walk in the oil town of Heglig
Tens of thousands of refugees have now gathered in camps in South Sudan after being forced out of their villages by the fighting, with hundreds more making the trek every day.
South Sudan's embassy estimates 350,000 ethnic Southerners remain in the North after an April 8 deadline for them to either formalise their status or leave Sudan.
The World Food Programme has designated the situation a Level Three emergency, giving it the highest priority for deliveries to help starving civilians before seasonal rains make the dirt roads impassable.
:: The UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, had earlier made an appeal for more than $145m (£90m) from donors to help stockpile food and house displaced people before the rainy season.
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We must all support Anthony Butcher against yellow morris. Spread it round mate, let us let him know that we mean business-
http://www.democracyforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=109150&p=1374795#post1374795
Urgent, Send In Chinese Gordon!! Oh wait, sorry I thought this was the 19th Century, oh well, different Century same old shit.
On a side note, at least US troops are already deployed in the Sudan region. Nice little coincidence that one.
Check this out, the only way to freedom-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfbqNplGI2g
You need to update more often.
I was reading drudgereport and saw this story...http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/318045/EU-plot-to-scrap-Britain
Whih really proves that the EU, and each individual member state or countries political group from left to right has been taken over by far left radicals. Surely this was a planned communist coup.
Now look at this article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Manuel_Barroso
Barroso started, as they all do, as a Communist, then joined the center right and is now sending Europe down the path towards the United States of Europe.
Who funded these radical Communists and community organisers into power?
Check out Obama's speeches, he uses the word "Common Purpose" very often, and even mentioned it in his Inauguration speech.(when he won the Presidency).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQdDnbXXn20&feature=relmfu
How ere these people our enemy when even these old soldiers admit that they were trying to save Europe from Communism. They lost and so did we. The likes of Galloway and Mendelson, Blair dictate our lives.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NpF3jGmKOM&feature=related
skip to the end and you dont have to post this, but WTF why would you stand around waiting to get put in "gas chambers" which were to small to fit the other hundreds of thousands of people who were brought in by train. plus thousands "slashed" their wrists on the train. Surely, you would have thousands of people realise that they were in the thousands, on trains and the trains had at least 50 guards. Wouldnt at least 100 of those "thousands" fight back, grab weapons? This whole thing is just weird. When you realised that half your family was being exterminated surely you would take up arms???
The more I watch historical video and facts the more I realise that something just doesnt add up. And Im made to feel like a criminal for thinking this way.
Anglo-Zionist financial conspiracy
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/239756.html
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