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Israel Supplies South Sudan Government With Wiretapping Equipment
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Israel Supplies South Sudan Government With Wiretapping Equipment
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08:18 PM Jan, 27 2016 Sudanese Online Haaretz Daily Newspaper- My Library Short URL
While Israel stopped selling offensive weapons to African country after civil war broke, it continued to permit the sale of defensive and intelligence equipment, UN report says.
Israel told UN it was not selling lethal weapons to South Sudan Tel Aviv arms trade show braces for protest against South Sudan delegation Defense Ministry won’t discuss Israeli arms sales to war-torn South Sudan Israel sold wiretapping equipment to South Sudan even after the civil war broke out, and this equipment was used to identify and arrest opponents of the government, a UN report has charged. The report, compiled by a panel of experts tasked with examining the implementation of sanctions against South Sudan, is the final version of an interim report published in August. It concluded that both sides in the country’s civil war are managing to buy arms and other military equipment despite the sanctions. The interim report had said the South Sudanese army was using Israeli-made weapons, and even included pictures of soldiers armed with ACE assault rifles, an updated version of Israel’s Galil rifle. As Haaretz reported two weeks ago, when members of the panel of experts came to Israel to meet with senior officials from the foreign and defense ministries, they were told that the weapons in question had been sold before the outbreak of the civil war, and that Israel had decided to stop selling offensive weapons to South Sudan in early 2014, shortly after the war began. Israel also promised that this policy of not supplying lethal weapons would remain in force.
The final report largely accepted this Israel contention, despite its finding that both ACE rifles and another Israeli rifle, the Micro Galil, are widespread in South Sudan’s main conflict zones. The report stated explicitly that the government forces’ ACE rifles were purchased before the civil war began. Government forces used these rifles in a December 2013 attack on members of the Nuer tribe that is considered the starting point of the civil war.
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir addresses the National Parliament in Juba, November 18, 2015.Reuters As for the Micro Galil
rifles, the report concluded that they were originally sold to Uganda in 2007. In 2014, after the civil war broke out, the Ugandan government transferred the weapons to South Sudan, without informing Israel or asking its consent.
Yet even though Israel decided to stop selling offensive weapons to South Sudan, it continued to permit the sale of defensive equipment. The report said this included communications interception equipment. Israel apparently argued that such equipment isn’t weaponry, but a tool for maintaining domestic security. But the report found that the South Sudanese government was using this equipment to eavesdrop on and arrest its opponents. The government’s “ability to identify and illegally apprehend individuals has been significantly enhanced since the beginning of the conflict because it has acquired additional communications interception equipment from Israel,” it wrote.
South Sudan's rebel leader Riek Machar at a press conference in Kampala on January 26, 2016.AFP Eitay Mack, an attorney and activist who has been working to increase supervision over Israel’s arms exports, charged that Israel not only installed this listening equipment for the South Sudanese government, but also continues to operate it via Israeli technicians stationed in South Sudan. Mack also said the arrests cited in the report targeted not only opponents of the regime, but also journalists. MK Tamar Zandberg (Meretz) said that after Israel’s assurance to the UN panel was reported in the media, she asked the defense minister to review all the export licenses the ministry had granted to ensure they included no weapons. “There’s zero transparency on this issue,” she said. “If guys in the defense establishment are issuing licenses to their friends – and that’s what it seems like – there’s a system of the cat guarding the cream, and the arms control law is a dead letter. If monitoring equipment, which is used afterward for eavesdropping on, persecuting and oppressing the population, is sold, that’s okay؟ Because it doesn’t shoot؟” “This incident requires a reexamination of Israeli policy: first transparency, and implementation of red lines,” she added. “We want to know what’s being done in our name, whether people are dying from weapons we sold, and if women are being raped with an Uzi or Galil rifle pointed at their head.” “This reveals all the ills of the arms control system,” Mack concurred. “It shows the results, and that a serious revision of the entire supervisory system is needed.” The report also traced various other sources of weapons in South Sudan. For instance, it found, Ukraine sold South Sudan 830 light machine guns and 62 heavy machine guns in 2014. In addition, it said, the Chinese arms company Norinco sold 100 antitank missiles and about 10,000 automatic rifles to the Sudan People’s Liberation Army, which is the government’s army. Amnesty International in Israel slammed the government for selling intelligence technology to South. "In 2012 the [Israeli] government ordered the deportation of South Sudanese asylum seekers, saying that their lives were no longer in danger. Today Israel is providing the South Sudan government tools to persecute and harm the same asylum seekers it had deported."
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