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Northern officer among south Sudan dead: official
(AFP) – 19 hours ago
KHARTOUM — A Sudanese army lieutenant was among more than 80 people killed in fighting this week between the southern army and a rebel militia in the south's oil-producing Unity state, its information minister said on Thursday."The fighting started on Sunday and ended on Monday. The rebel forces of Peter Gadet were attacked by the SPLA," Gideon Gatpan told AFP by phone, referring to the Sudan People's Liberation Army, the southern armed forces.
"On Sunday, 38 militia were killed in the village of Nadiet. Then there was another fight on Monday in Kuei Koi, in which 46 militia died. We had only one casualty on Monday," Gatpan said.
"A two-star SAF lieutenant was also killed. He was among the SAF-supported militia," the state information minister added.
The Sudanese Armed Forces could not immediately be contacted for comment on the allegations, but a rebel spokesman dismissed the claim as "rubbish."
"There is no way for the SAF to reach us. We are fighting in deep Nuer land," said Bol Gatkouth, referring to one of the south's main ethnic groups. Just 27 rebels were killed in the clashes, he added.
Southern officials have repeatedly accused their former civil war foes in the north of supporting splinter militia groups like those of Unity-based SPLA general turned rebel leader Peter Gadet, charges Khartoum strongly rejects.
But rarely has the south charged that northern troops, let alone officers, have been fighting alongside the militia groups since the signing of a 2005 north-south peace agreement, which ended the devastating 22-year civil war.
Earlier, SPLA spokesman Philip Aguer confirmed the fighting in Kuei Koi and put the rebel death toll since Sunday at 48.
He also claimed to have "clear evidence" that Khartoum was arming Gadet's forces, who he said had been chased across the north-south border back to their base in South Kordofan state.
But Aguer gave a different version of events on Sunday, saying 34 of those killed were civilians, and that the casualties resulted from a cattle raid and subsequent ambush in neighbouring Warrap state, after the army had chased the rebels out of Unity.
Speaking by phone, Gatkouth, the rebels' spokesman, denied that they had fled to the north, saying he was still in Unity's Mayom county, where the first clashes took place and where at least 100 people were killed in fighting last month.
South Sudan, which is due to be recognised as an independent country in July, has been rocked by bloody clashes between the SPLA and at least seven militia groups since a largely peaceful vote in January delivered a landslide for secession.
The wave of violence across the south, that has included fighting between rival ethnic groups over resources such as land and cattle, has left more than 1,000 people dead and forced at least 100,000 to flee their homes, according to UN figures.
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