South Sudanese rebels rubbish alleged letter to president Bashir over
military logistics
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June 28, 2015 (NAIROBI) – The South Sudanese armed opposition faction
led by former vice president, Riek Machar, has rubbished a letter
allegedly written by their top army chief to Sudanese president and
described it as a “concocted” attempt to score false evidence over the
alleged military support from the neighboring Sudan.
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Rebel commander Brig General Joseph Gai Gatluak (left) pictured in
front of his troops in Upper Nile state’s Manyo county in March 2015
(ST)
A letter dated 20 June, purportedly written to the Sudanese president
Omer Hassan al-Bashir by a number of rebel top commanders and signed
by the chief of general staff of the rebel forces, General Simon
Gatwech Dual, allegedly disclosed evidence that they were receiving
military logistics from Sudan.
The letter, which has been widely circulated in the social media, also
complained to president Bashir about how the rebel leader, Riek
Machar, and his chief negotiator, Taban Deng Gai, have been
mismanaging the logistics resulting to insignificant military
achievement on the ground.
“Your Excellency, we are not happy the way Dr. Riek and Taban Deng are
handling the logistics you offer to us. Due to that reason, that is
why the operation is not going well on the ground in South Sudan and
we don’t understand how the logistics is being managed,” partly reads
the letter which copy Sudan Tribune has obtained.
The scanned letter, which carried no official letterhead and logo of
the rebel movement, further suggested to president Bashir that the
military logistics should no longer be managed by “politicians” and
called on the president to allow the top commanders to meet him in
person in Khartoum and agree on how to handle the matter.
It also suggested that the logistics be directly handed over to the
top commanders in their various areas of control in Upper Nile, Bahr
el Ghazal and Equatoria regions.
However, rebel leader’s press secretary, James Gatdet Dak, said the
letter was forged by government agents of president Kiir who were
desperate to concoct an evidence.
“This is rubbish. It is a concocted attempt to try to score false
evidence and drive wedge between our military commanders and their
commander-in-chief,” Dak told Sudan Tribune when contacted on
Saturday.
He said the rebel’s chief of general staff, General Simon Gatwech
Dual, dismissed the allegation as work of the enemy, saying he did not
write a letter.
“General Simon Gatwech Dual was surprised to learn about this forged
letter. It was news to him,” he added.
Other sources however said the top commanders were not happy in the
way Machar was not serious to effectively fight the war and overthrow
president Kiir whom they accused of December 2013 genocide against
“thousands” of innocent Nuer civilians in the national capital, Juba.
They said whenever rebel fighters captured towns they were forced to
withdraw because their ammunitions always got finished unlike the
government that always had enough ammunitions to sustain fighting for
several days or weeks.
In the April 2015 conference in the rebel held territory of Pagak, top
rebel commanders reportedly challenged Machar to provide logistics to
the forces on the ground so as to take full control of Upper Nile
region and also take the war to Juba and other regions of Bahr el
Ghazal and Equatoria.
(ST)
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28 June 10:31, by Clausewitz
Are we expected to believe that Riek has severed ties with his
masters in Khartoum? We have evidence from third parties detailing
Khartoum’s support for Riek’s group, and so this denial is beyond
comical. Riek is a pathological liar; a liar that also denied that he
had received weapons and supplies from Khartoum in the wake of the
1991 massacre (s).
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28 June 14:37, by Ayuen deng
Better be ligation so war stops politicians are killing our
brothers with interest most special the rebels.
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