South Sudan army downplays rebel capability to disrupt oil production Article Comments (6)
email Email print Print pdfSave separation increase decrease separation separation September 18, 2017 (JUBA) - South Sudanese army on Monday downplayed capability of the armed opposition forces in unity region to regain strong foothold to disrupt oil production in the region JPEG - 17.4 kb Soldiers from the South Sudanese army (SPLA) guard an oil facility (AFP) The deputy spokesperson for the government forces Col. Santo Domic told Sudan Tribune that the security situation in the region was now calm and under control, though the anti-peace elements have been attempting to interfere with the life of the civil population from attending to economic activities. “There is no threat to oil fields. There are enough forces to provide protection for production," said Col. Domic when reached on Monday. For his part, Col.Dickson Gatluak Jock, spokesman of SPLA-IO faction under the leadership of the First Vice President Taban Deng Gai said in a separate statement released to the public on Monday that negative armed group under Machar launched a petty attack in an attempt to interrupt the sprouting stability in Northern Liech state. “At around 5:30 today in the morning, elements of disgruntled armed forces associated to Riek Machar attacked Nhialdiu town but they were repulsed back after they burnt down some houses at the outskirts of the town. Their intention was to loot civilian properties such as food and cattle and also to abduct children for eventual conscription to their forces,” said Dickson in a statement. Today’s attack, he said, coincided with ongoing local community dialogue in NhialDiu that brought together community leaders and counties commissioners of Budang, NhialDiu and Pawel. The spokesman of the pro-government faction the new attack was the second incident perpetrated by the same armed group of Machar after they allegedly failed at Pakur, Koch last week. “This is no longer legitimate to take the lives of those who are not carrying arms. Sudan people liberation army in Opposition, the SPLA-IO combined with SPLA infantry from the 4th Division is pursuing the fleeing elements towards the direction of Rupnyagai,” the statement reads in part. “We want to make it clear to these armed forces that, SPLA-IO under the leadership of General Taban Deng Gai will continue to protect civilians from any attack by any insurgents,” it adds It further claimed that the pro-government faction together with the government is very well informed and monitoring the movement of what he called peace spoilers from Bieh and Akobo states with intention of attacking our defensive position in Waat. “Finally, we want to bring it to the attention of the region and the international community that SPLA-IO forces are determined to protect peace and those elements of merciless force allied to Dr Riek who are targeting civilians,” it reads The deputy spokesman of armed opposition Lam Paul Gabriel did not make any comment to the statement when contacted to react to the release on Monday. 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If you want to express yourself in more detail than this allows, please e-mail your comment as an article to comm...@sudantribune.com Kind regards, The Sudan Tribune editorial team. 19 September 00:11, by john akeen I hate reading our country South Sudan news, and I hate reading our people comments, and I hate reading about stupid people who doesn’t know about peace, fighting ourselves will never take us anywhere, hating ourselves will never bring peace among ourselves. Pagan Amum is the main person who drugged South Sudanese people to war again and Riek Machar is the main follower who listen to Pagan repondre message 19 September 03:54, by Don-Don Malith Rual John Akeen,U right Bro, people are traumatised 📖 reading about killing n killed cases,our country is the only country on 🌍 earth where lost of human life is something like taking a ? cup of tea! Very simple. Other nations value human lives highly :’( repondre message 19 September 04:02, by Don-Don Malith Rual Very sad 😔, I’m traumatised 📖 reading all these articles f I r killing n being killed :’( repondre message 19 September 05:09, by Kush Natives Folks,we should all forget that crazy so called rebels in South Sudan, there’s no rebels any longer,those are just Nyagaatist, meaning crossroads, bandits. They’re no longer a threat against government except civilians. But, we will still deal with them accordingly. They have no an idea about oil mean, they’re only looking for the fast foods. Yang ti baa wee nak ke kuaan tee baa wee cam, that’s al repondre message 19 September 06:15, by Malakal county Simon Kush Native Maybe in your dream......90% of Upper Nile State territorial, is under control of SPLM_IO under Dr Machar..... That’s why this senseless war will continues for a very long time if you don’t accept a genuine resuscitation to this dead peace!!!! repondre message 19 September 07:06, by Peng Kimang The recent warning by the rebels has already sent negative signal to the foreign oil engineers and operators to step their feet to the oil fields. Neither production nor refinery will start soon. The rebels are just within the vicinity and the government will find it rough to resume production. 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