SPLA Soldier Kills 5 Policemen in Khartoum

Posted on November 18, 2006
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This is not the first incident of its kind.

Nov 17, 2006 (KHARTOUM) — A former southern rebel soldier killed five police oin the edge of Khartoum on Friday in a shootout that further heightened tensions between northerners and southerners in the Sudanese capital.

…Officials said an SPLA soldier was stopped by police and asked to lay down his weapon early on Friday morning in the Jabel Awliya area south of the capital. He refused and opened fire, killing four policemen instantly. A fifth died later from his wounds.

“The soldier was killed,” said Joseph Dut, an official from the former southern rebels.

There have been some worrying developments happening over the past recent months. Clashes involving the police, Minnawi’s SLA (only Darfurian rebels who signed the Abuja agreement) and the southern SPLA occured in the middle of Khartoum. The NCP’s strong security forces have things rather under control. However they’ll only continue to as long as the NCP and the SPLM are on good cooperative terms. You know what amazes me though people? With all the problems happening in Darfur, the south and those incidents increasing within Khartoum, investment money is still flowing into the country. The politics tell one worrying story but somehow the economics tell another very positive one. It’s funny because you’d think that if one is bad then the other should be too since they’re both very related. I’ll defintely discuss this in due time but this topic is beyond the scope of this post. It defintely has me thinking though. Many Sudanese including me are worried but it looks like the investors are increasingly not. How does the NCP erase the investors’ concerns and make them so damn confident? I really want to learn how they do it.

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6 Responses to “SPLA Soldier Kills 5 Policemen in Khartoum”

  1. Precious on November 18th, 2006 9:22 am

    This is not the first incident of its kind, and I’m sure it wont be the last.. Many of them which happen in the outside areas of khartoum, such as : Maygoma, mayo and jabal awleya..

    Your question of how come these incidents do not affect the increasment of investment in Sudan.. is rather a very good one.. and I guess it would be a very good topic.. I’ll think of it and if I could come up with any answer be sure I’ll post it in my blog..

    Oh, and Good luck with the 3 left!

  2. Drima on November 18th, 2006 10:53 am

    Precious thanks and please do so. I’ve been desperately trying to get more Sudanese to blog. There are many topics that appear on the headlines which I don’t have time to comment about. At least this way the burden can be spread and readers from all over the world will have more diverse Sudanese opinions to read.

    Given that you recently started thanks to Hipster, I’ll greatly appreciate it if you can convince others to join. How about more people from Shamarat or Sudan.Net’s forums? I know Dinoz and Babydollx are very active online.

    We MUST form an active Sudanese blogosphere so our diverse voices can be heard. It’s a shame there isn’t one… a real shame.

  3. Precious on November 18th, 2006 11:43 am

    I’m already working on this with some friends I’ve known from the irc world which i am very familier with!!! I’ve known this Blogs thingie few weeks ago but am really INTO it.. am almost obssesed bout it now, and I will definetly get more Sudanese bloggers..Specially those who are living IN Sudan.. they are the ones who could have more insider news to what you get from the media and so..

  4. Drima on November 18th, 2006 12:11 pm

    Ah YES thanks a billion Precious. I always try my best to get an idea of what’s happening inside Sudan by checking up with friends there regularly. Sudanese bloggers from inside Sudan will surely make things easier and will defintely provide a sorely needed perspective on the situation there. Do all you can to convince them. I’ll blog a whole “announcement” post and link to every single one of them.

  5. Hipster on November 19th, 2006 12:18 pm

    Drima, interesting observation.

    Precious, I second what Drima said about bloggers from inside Sudan who can help clear things for us.

  6. The Sudanese Thinker » Sudanese Armed Forces Clash With SPLA in South Sudan: 300 Killed on December 3rd, 2006 3:47 pm

    […] This is an extremely worrying development. It’s already enough that Darfur is a disaster. If the war between the south and north fully ignites again, Sudan will become a… Hmmm… bigger disaster?… catastrophe?… no, I think we need a new word to describe the hell that Sudan will become. 300 are dead and some corpses are apparently floating on the Nile. This incident is huge unlike previous smaller incidents in Khartoum. I worry… I worry about the increasing tension between the SPLM and the NCP. Cracks have been widening steadily in the National Unity Government. I hope it holds. Otherwise we’re most probably doomed I fear. […]

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