SPLA issues statement on SAF Capture of Jau, demands withdrawal www.thecitizen.info Juba, 06/12/11 – SPLA spokesperson Colonel Philip Aguer confirmed that the Sudan armed forces SAF is occupying Jau area in South Sudan after it launched a heavy attack on the town in Unity State with mechanized infantry. He stresses that while exercising restraint, the SPLA deplores this rogue behaviour by the Republic of Sudan by increasingly and exacerbating tension in the region that is already rife with conflict, said Aguer. The spokesperson strongly condemned the “acts of aggression” and called upon Khartoum to immediately withdraw its forces from Jau, release SPLA soldiers taken prisoner in Um-Dolwich and ease the acts of aggression that may escalate the situation and drag the two states to the brink of full conflagration. He urged the international community to exert more pressure on the Sudan government to respect the sovereignty of South Sudan and its territorial integrity and to the UN, AU and IGAD to do the same. Panyang also called upon the Sudan armed forces to “end its occupation of the South Sudan areas of Kafia Kinji, Hufrat-al-Nahas, Karasana, Heglig and Gongbar and move out of them without delay.”
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