Sudan prepares to attack SPLM-N’s stronghold positions in Blue Nile - group
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September 23, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – Washington-based Satellite Sentinel
Project (SSP) said today that the Sudanese army massing heavily
equipped troops to attack rebel positions in Blue Nile state.
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Images by the SSP showing Sudanese troops in Kadugli, Southern Kordofan
Sudanese president last July refused to engage talks with the rebel
Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) saying they have to
disarm first and negotiate directly with the government without a
foreign mediator.
The Sudan Armed Forces (SAF); which fights the SPLM-N in the Blue Nile
state since the first September, said it controls the whole state
except Kurmuk, a SPLM-N’s stronghold town near the Ethiopian border.
According to the SSP, Satellite images taken on 21 September reveal
that 3000 SAF troops equipped with battle tanks, towed artillery,
infantry fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers and troop
transports, are at 64 kilometers of Kurmuk.
The Sudanese troops are "apparently accompanied by half a dozen Hind
attack helicopters," the satellite monitoring group adds in today’s
statement.
The commander of SAF fourth infantry division in al-Damazin, Yahia
Mohamed Khair on Friday inspected the front lines of the army. The
general who was the Blue Nile military governor said determined to win
the battle and clear the state of SPLM-N rebels.
Also the army orchestrated a rally in the state capital on Thursday
with tanks and vehicles captured during the recent fighting with the
SPLM-N troops in Dandro, located 100 km away to the south of
al-Damazin.
There are no perspective for political talks between the two parties
as the Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zinawi filed a proposal for the
two parties told hold direct talks in Addis Ababa and to reinstate the
governor of Blue Nile state in his position.
In a testimony delivered at the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission on
Thursday, SPLM-N Secretary General Yasir Arman urged the US
Congressmen to push for the imposition of a no-fly-zone in the Blue
Nile Darfur and South Kordofan.
The measure implies the green light of the UN Security Council. But
first efforts also needed to convince Obama Administration to support
the no-fly-zone.
Obama’s special envoy to Sudan Princeton Lyman rejected idea saying it
would lead to large military confrontation and affect more civilians
in the troubled regions of Sudan.
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