Army says it dealt decisively with Nuer armed unit that crossed into Sudan from South Sudan
11 January, 2014Khartoum, (Sudanow)- The Sudanese army on Saturday said an armed battalion from the Nuer tribal group crossed the Sudanese national borders, opposite to Higlig, while running away from the advancement of the South Sudan People’s liberation Army (SPLA), the South Sudanese Army, which was advancing towards the town of Bentiu.
Colonel Sawarmi Khalid Saad, the army spokesman, said the Sudanese army on its part, dealt decisively and firmly with that battalion.
He said fifty four of them were disarmed and treated as refugees while the remainders decided to retreat inside the Sudan, after they refused to be disarmed like the others ‘’thus they were chased away, out of the Sudanese national borders’’
‘’We would like to reaffirm that our territories are now clear of any foreign troops and the international law will be our only means to deal with any future cases’’ the spokesman was quoted by the official Sudan News Agency SUNA as saying Saturday.
While in Juba, South Sudan, President Omar Al Bashir, said Sudan would not allow any camps or opposition inside its territories and that any South Sudanese wishing to enter the Sudan, as individual, would be welcomed, but Al Bashir stressed there would be no refugees camps inside the Sudan.
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