Jonglei: Over 80 guns confiscated discovered in Bor town
May 30, 2013 (BOR) - The commissioner of South Sudan’s police in Jonglei state has reported 85 AK47 rifles, 1 PKM machine guns and a number of pistols have been confiscated from civilians in a disarmament clampdown in Bor town on May 29. JPEG - 40.8 kb South Sudanese police standing by recently confiscated guns in Bor, Jonglei state, May 30, 2013 (ST) “We targeted some residential houses in Bor, we searched for guns only but the our security forces had no problems with the people living here”, General Majok Adol said. Sources said the disarmament-targeted houses of the individuals who were marked out by security apparatus in the state capital of Bor. A combined force consisting of 1,000 soldiers and police was deployed early on Wednesday morning to ensure that people could not hide their weapons elsewhere. All the roads leading to Bor town were closed, and vehicles entering Bor were not reopened after 1pm. JPEG - 22.9 kb Police commissioner, Maj. Gen. Moses Majok Adol, in his office in Bor, May 30, 2013 (ST) “We got 85 AK47s, one PKM and many pistols from civilian houses”, Adol said. He said some individuals were keeping guns with them in order to conduct robberies and other crimes. Numerous cases of robbery at gunpoint have been reported in Bor over the last year but no suspects have been caught. Most of these illegal guns are reported to have been found in the houses of some government officials but the police and the government have not commented on this allegation. This is one of the many disarmament campaigns conducted in Jonglei state and in Bor town in particular by the government to remove illegal weapons from the hands of the civilians. South Sudan launched a state-wide operation deploying an extra 15,000 police and soldiers in Jonglei in March last year following a spike in raids and retaliatory violence between cattle herding groups. The army is currently fighting a rebellion in Jonglei’s Pibor county led by David Yauyau. (ST) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14oozEdPKoYHy%3DyZGHfjWrLWyxhaay-Fm0_fGtzef6KDHrQ%40mail.gmail.com?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
