The Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), one of the armed factions under the umbrella of the Sudanese Revolutionary Front, has accused the Sudanese government of training Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and other militias.
In an interview with Radio Tamazuj yesterday, JEM spokesman Jibril Adam Bilal said that their intelligence has been monitoring the movement of the Sudanese government in its endeavour to establish training camps for the LRA, local militias, and militias from the Central African Republic.
He said the forces being trained will be used in the war in Darfur and South Kordofan and could further destabilize South Sudan and the Central African Republic.
“At least two civilians were killed and another person wounded by those forces in the various areas which lie in the border between Sudan, South Sudan and the Central African Republic,” Bilal said. “They also torched Arogo village along the Sudan-South Sudan border.”
Bilal claimed that the recent visit to South Darfur state by Sudanese Defence Minister Abdul Rahim Mohamed Hussein was to supervise the training and recruitment of forces.
He said their intelligence monitored helicopters belonging to the Sudanese Armed Forces landing in the training camps to supply the foreign forces with weapons and ammunition.
Ali Delil, who represents Sira Malaga in the Western Bahr el Ghazal State Legislative Assembly in South Sudan, said the conflict in Central African Republic forced the LRA to move closer to the Sudan-South Sudan border at Kafia Kinji area.
Delil also accused the Sudanese government of providing support to the LRA forces.
“Those forces killed about four citizens in Sira Malaga during the voluntary repatriation of citizens to the area in last March” the MP explained.
Bilal claimed that the forces have been terrorizing local residents, affecting the planting season in Boro Medina.
“When those forces run out of food they attack people in the area,” he said.