Tue Feb 23, 2010
Clashes between Sudanese soldiers and tribesmen in south Sudan have left at least 28 people dead and scores of others injured.
A military spokesman said on Tuesday that the fighting, which broke out in Lakes state, had claimed mostly civilians.
"There are seven SPLA (Sudan People's Liberation Army) killed, including two officers, and seven wounded in action," Major General Kuol Diem Kuol told AFP News Agency.
The fighting started after one tribe broke into a military weapon-storage facility where guns collected in a disarmament campaign were being kept. The tribe was trying to fend off an attack by a rival tribe.
Recently, a sharp rise in ethnic clashes in south Sudan — a common occurrence often sparked by cattle rustling and disputes over natural resources — has raised concerns.
Notably, the tribal fighting killed 2,500 people in 2009, more than the death toll in the strife-ravaged western region of Darfur throughout the same period.
The unrest has also uprooted some 350,000 Sudanese.
Source: PressTV.
Link: http://edition.presstv.ir/detail/119312.html.
Clashes between Sudanese soldiers and tribesmen in south Sudan have left at least 28 people dead and scores of others injured.
A military spokesman said on Tuesday that the fighting, which broke out in Lakes state, had claimed mostly civilians.
"There are seven SPLA (Sudan People's Liberation Army) killed, including two officers, and seven wounded in action," Major General Kuol Diem Kuol told AFP News Agency.
The fighting started after one tribe broke into a military weapon-storage facility where guns collected in a disarmament campaign were being kept. The tribe was trying to fend off an attack by a rival tribe.
Recently, a sharp rise in ethnic clashes in south Sudan — a common occurrence often sparked by cattle rustling and disputes over natural resources — has raised concerns.
Notably, the tribal fighting killed 2,500 people in 2009, more than the death toll in the strife-ravaged western region of Darfur throughout the same period.
The unrest has also uprooted some 350,000 Sudanese.
Source: PressTV.
Link: http://edition.presstv.ir/detail/119312.html.
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