---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John Ashworth <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 11:24 AM Subject: [sudan-john-ashworth] Uganda Is Ready For War With Sudan To: Group <[email protected]>
“Bashir is a wounded hyena..." BEGIN Gen. Aronda: Uganda Is Ready For War With Sudan By Edison Akugizibwe 19/04/12 Chief of Defence Forces Gen. Aronda Nyakairima has warned Uganda will not sit back watching Gen. Omar Bashir bomb the South, Chimpreports.com reports The Uganda army commander’s threat comes hardly 24 hours after Sudan leader Bashir threatened to wipe out SPLA from oil-rich Heglig and also topple Gen. Salva Kiir in Juba. “Having suffered a proxy war for over 20 years, we are now getting intelligence that Kony, who was left with less than 200 fighters, is now in contact with Sudan. That is intelligence,” said Aronda during a meeting with regional security chiefs in Kampala on Wednesday night. “In one way or another we are going to get involved. We cannot sit and watch. As a member of this region, Uganda will intervene,” Aronda threatened. Aronda’s statement underlines Uganda’s preparedness to render all logistical support to South Sudan not only to consolidate her hold on Heglig but also remove Bashir from power. Aronda called upon all members of the region to join hands to avert war between the two countries. Bashir on Thursday told a huge rally in Sudan that he would teach SPLA a lesson they would never forget. He threatened to seize Juba and liberate Southerners from the bad rule of SPLA. Uganda enjoys a jovial relationship with Juba, having supported South Sudan forces for over two decades to gain independence from Khartoum. According to army spokesperson Lt. Col. Felix Kulayigye, Uganda backed SPLA in response to Sudan’s support of Kony. LRA perpetrated massacres in Northern Uganda before the rebel group was kicked out of Uganda in 2006. Three years later, UPDF war planes attacked LRA’s hideouts in Garamba thus sending the bandits into disarray. Mobile Special Forces intelligence squads are hunting down Kony and his elements in Central African Republic. The war rhetoric has been escalated by SPLA Liberation Council Senator David Majur who has called upon all South Sudanese especially students in Uganda to rush to Juba to defend their nation from Bashir. “Bashir is a wounded hyena capable of eating up its own offspring. How many will he fight? He has to fight the people from Blue Nile, Nuba Mountains, opposition in Khartoum, the international community and the International Criminal Court (ICC),” Majur said Thursday during an interview with NTV. “We keep telling Bashir not to drag his people into war because they will suffer but he does not listen. I welcome Uganda’s support. Bashir calls people insects but we are used to that. It’s not new. He has in the past called us infidels,” said Majur. He assured Uganda SPLA would hunt down Kony and his master Bashir if LRA resumed its atrocities. “We are returning to the trenches. We are a sovereign country. If somebody says he is invading us we shall fight him. Ask what happened to Saddam when he invaded Kuwait. We are no longer rebels. These are Bashir’s last days,” warned Majur. Military sources say the Ugandan army is on red alert in preparation for war with Bashir in case he attacks the South. http://www.chimpreports.com/index.php/news/4350-gen-aronda-uganda-is-ready-for-war-with-sudan.html END ______________________ John Ashworth Sudan, South Sudan Advisor [email protected] +254 725 926 297 (Kenya mobile) +211 919 695 362 (South Sudan mobile) +27 82 050 1235 (South Africa mobile) +44 750 304 1790 (UK/international) +88 216 4334 0735 (Thuraya satphone) PO Box 52002 - 00200, Nairobi, Kenya This is a personal e-mail address and the contents do not necessarily reflect the views of any organisation -- The content of this message does not necessarily reflect John Ashworth's views. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, John Ashworth is not the author of the content and the source is always cited. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sudan-john-ashworth" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.co.za/group/sudan-john-ashworth -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob?hl=en.
