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 Re: عاجل: سيلفا كير يحذر قبائل المسيرية من دخول اراضي الجنوب بسلاحهم!! (Re: Zakaria Joseph)
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JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) - South Sudan has refused northern demands that its soldiers redeploy further south after clashes along the oil-rich border raised tensions between the former foes, South Sudan's President Salva Kiir said on Sunday.
Kiir said both sides had agreed last year to withdraw to either side of the river Kiir, after four clashes between northern army-backed militias and the southern Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) along the border killed dozens.
Speaking at church on Sunday in semi-autonomous south Sudan's capital Juba, he said Khartoum's army had now told the southern armed forces to move another 50 km (30 miles) further south to the town of Aweil.
"Is Aweil the south Sudan border with the north? Nobody can accept that and of course we refused," said Kiir, leader of former southern rebels who came to power after a 2005 peace deal that ended decades of war and created a national coalition government.
The team charged with demarcating the disputed north-south border, where much of Sudan's oil wealth lies, is due to begin work in February. Under the deal, south Sudan should receive around 50 percent of revenues from oil wells in the south.
"(They) would want to push away the ... SPLA so when the border committee comes they just draw the line where they may be directed by (Khartoum's northern) National Congress Party," said Kiir.
The clashes between the SPLA and the northern nomadic Misseriya tribe reignited fears for the fragile peace deal that also allows southerners to hold a referendum on independence in 2011. Khartoum denies any link with the fighting.
Kiir said the Misseriya, who traditionally travel south for dry season cattle grazing, have refused to disarm. But he said that like other southern tribes, the nomads could only cross into the south unarmed.
"The National Congress Party together with the Sudan Armed Forces would want them to be accepted to come to southern Sudan with arms," he said. "If they come with their guns we will fight them."
Kiir also the heavy weaponry carried by the Misseriya proved the northern army had provided them with arms.
During the civil war, successive northern governments armed tribes including the Misseriya to wage war in south Sudan. Many were not disarmed following the peace deal.
"We know all the guns being used by the Sudanese army, and these are the ones being used by the Misseriya and we will not accept that thing being imposed on us," he said. "So we have still a problem to resolve with our partners."
The north-south war claimed around 2 million lives and displaced another 4 million from their homes. Both sides have accused the other of violations of the peace deal but have pledged not to return to war.
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