Posted on 04/16/2012 7:42:35 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
A prominent member of Sudans ruling National Congress Party (NCP) says the country is officially in a state of war with South Sudan.
Rabie Abdelati Obeid condemned as unacceptable the illegal invasion of its territory after forces from South Sudan seized the key disputed oil town of Heglig. Obeids comments came after Sudans parliament unanimously voted to declare South Sudan an enemy.
He said the people of the Republic of Sudan assign the same status to South Sudans ruling party, the Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement (SPLM).
They are now angry, he said, since the invasion of Heglig , where the Sudanese Armed Forces are now chasing the remaining rebels from corner to corner.
He says the government should take as tough a stance toward Juba as has Sudans national assembly.
Obeid said the countrys southern neighbor continues to foment trouble by refusing to withdraw from the disputed border town it seized.
Their language is a language of war, said Obeid.
How can we talk to those people in the language of peace, when they are against peace and stability? And they have now intentionally invaded an area which doesnt belong to them.
Violence has escalated along Sudan and South Sudan's border despite the United Nations Security Councils concerns about increasing conflict between the two neighbors.
Obeid said South Sudan has failed to abide by the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), which effectively ended decades of war between the north and south.
They are not respecting the CPA, and they dont understand [it]. Their mind is actually oriented to war and their culture is completely, different from a culture of peace, said Obeid.
There is no way now for talks unless we clean them out of the [Heglig] region...They started war; they invaded our area, and they distracted our localities. There is no way for any diplomacy.
South Sudan said it will only withdraw from the oil town if the United Nations intervenes.
The African Union, which was helping mediate talks between the two neighboring countries, condemned south Sudans occupation of the town.
Obeid denied accusations that Sudans army uses Heglig as a base to launch attacks on unarmed civilians.
If we want to do so, we should not have [allowed them to have] self-determination and the referendum, he said, in reference to the ballot last year in which mostly Christian and black southerners voted to separate from the predominantly Arab and Muslim Republic of Sudan.
Now we have clear evidence that they violated the peace, they violated the CPA, they invaded our area, they have committed a lot of mistakes and atrocities [and] they have caused a state of instability and insecurity. [Theirs is] is the behavior of rebels, not
of a government.
Well, I guess that didn’t take long. We should have known it’d be a matter of months before South Sudan would be re-invaded.
Gee, how long is it going to take the “Pretender” in Chief to have our troops involved in this?
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LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Come on guys! The real question :Who cares?
...is officially in a state of war with South Sudan.This is a big change from the twenty years of the state of war it used to be in against its then-citizens. Islamofascists ping.
I care. South Sudan is the Christian nation and Sudan is muslim.
That's not the most desirable bit of real estate on the planet.
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LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
When South Sudan became independent, they took much of Sudan's oil deposits with them. Sudan has control of the oil pipeline and is charging them quite a bit for access to port facilities to export the oil, but over time that can be fixed by a pipeline through Kenya.
I remember reading about this, sort of. Thanks for giving your succinct summary.
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