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SPLA rejects integration of 7,000 elements of SSDF |
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Friday, 18 April 2008 |
The Spokesman of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), Maj. Gen. Peter Parnyang, confirmed that the SPLA has rejected the integration of about 7,000 former elements of South Sudan Defense Forces (SSDF) into the SPLA.
Speaking to Miraya FM Maj. Gen. Parnyang explained that this is because the SSDF kept sending additional officers and not ordinary soldiers long after the deadline for reintegration was over.Earlier, the rejected forces had appealed to the International Community and the United Nations to save the Juba Declaration of 2006 between the SPLA and the SSDF from collapsing.
On the other hand, a number of disarmed Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) soldiers in the Central Equatoria State threatened to boycott the forthcoming Census.
The soldiers demand that the SAF sends their pensions through Ivory Bank in Juba as agreed upon earlier. A committee representing the former SAF soldiers petitioned the authorities rejecting the proposal that they go to Khartoum to receive their pensions.There are over 3,000 disarmed SAF soldiers in Central Equatoria State
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