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Sudan–Uganda Crackdown on Rebels

Sudan–Uganda Crackdown on Rebels Southern Sudan Vice‐President Riek Machar has ordered a military attack on armed people outside the Ugandan rebel assembly points in its massive campaign to crack down on attacks on civilians. Mr Machar’s announcement followed a government order on Ugandan troops to leave Sudanese territory in early July, blaming it on recent civilian attacks at the border with Uganda. The Uganda People’s Defence Forces ( UPDF )—who are currently in Sudan hunting rebels from the Uganda and Lord’s Resistance Army ( LRA ) —are accused of causing a chaotic situation in the country, which led to the death of 28 people in June. Mr Machar, who has commissioned a committee to investigate clashes in June in Nyongwa, near the Ugandan border, found that members of the UPDF were involved in the attacks. Southern Sudan has allowed Ugandan forces up to 100km inside its territory to pursue members of Uganda’s LRA rebels since 2002, in a bid to end two decades of civil war in the country. Uganda’s two‐decade civil was displaced 2m people and destabilised parts of oil‐producing south Sudan and mineral‐rich eastern Democratic Republic of Congo . Uganda’s New Vision newspaper said in an editorial that Riek Machar “should stop souring relations, and that his recent statements were “strange to say the least”. It commented that Sudan “has more serious problems to solve, for which it will need all the help it can get”. ( New Vision, Kampala 9/7 ) New LRA offensive? p. 17581 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series Wiley

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Wiley
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© Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2008
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10.1111/j.1467-825X.2008.01818.x
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Southern Sudan Vice‐President Riek Machar has ordered a military attack on armed people outside the Ugandan rebel assembly points in its massive campaign to crack down on attacks on civilians. Mr Machar’s announcement followed a government order on Ugandan troops to leave Sudanese territory in early July, blaming it on recent civilian attacks at the border with Uganda. The Uganda People’s Defence Forces ( UPDF )—who are currently in Sudan hunting rebels from the Uganda and Lord’s Resistance Army ( LRA ) —are accused of causing a chaotic situation in the country, which led to the death of 28 people in June. Mr Machar, who has commissioned a committee to investigate clashes in June in Nyongwa, near the Ugandan border, found that members of the UPDF were involved in the attacks. Southern Sudan has allowed Ugandan forces up to 100km inside its territory to pursue members of Uganda’s LRA rebels since 2002, in a bid to end two decades of civil war in the country. Uganda’s two‐decade civil was displaced 2m people and destabilised parts of oil‐producing south Sudan and mineral‐rich eastern Democratic Republic of Congo . Uganda’s New Vision newspaper said in an editorial that Riek Machar “should stop souring relations, and that his recent statements were “strange to say the least”. It commented that Sudan “has more serious problems to solve, for which it will need all the help it can get”. ( New Vision, Kampala 9/7 ) New LRA offensive? p. 17581

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Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series – Wiley

Published: Aug 1, 2008

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