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DATE=6/4/98
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
NUMBER=2-233339
TITLE=SUDAN FIGHTING (L ONLY)
BYLINE=CAROL PINEAU
DATELINE=NAIROBI
CONTENT=
VOICED AT: 
INTRO:  IN SUDAN, MORE THAN 100 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED IN FIERCE
FIGHTING NEAR THE ETHIOPIAN BORDER.  CAROL PINEAU IN NAIROBI 
REPORTS THE REBEL SUDANESE PEOPLE'S LIBERATION ARMY'S MOST RECENT
VICTORY COULD LEAD TO OTHER STRATEGIC OFFENSIVES.
TEXT:  THE SUDANESE PEOPLE'S LIBERATION ARMY, S-P-L-A, HAS 
CAPTURED FIVE GOVERNMENT HELD GARRISON TOWNS SINCE BEGINNING 
THEIR UPPER AND BLUE NILE OFFENSIVES MORE THAN ONE MONTH AGO.  
THIS WEEK THE GROUP ANNOUNCED ANOTHER VICTORY -- THE 
GOVERNMENT-HELD TOWN OF ULU.
ULU IS THE LAST OBSTACLE ON THE ROAD TO DAMAZIN AND THE ROSEIRES 
HYDRO-ELECTRIC DAM -- WHICH SUPPLIES 80 PERCENT OF KHARTOUM'S 
ELECTRICITY. 
ULU ALSO IS THE LAST OBSTACLE ON THE WAY TO THE OIL PRODUCING 
REGION OF KHORADAR.  S-P-L-A REPRESENTATIVES SAY THE NEARBY 
GOVERNMENT OIL-EXPLORATION OPERATIONS WILL BE THE NEXT TARGET. 
THE S-P-L-A ISSUED A STATEMENT WARNING FOREIGN OIL COMPANIES IN 
THE REGION THAT THEIR SAFETY WOULD  NOT  BE GUARANTEED AND THEY 
SHOULD HALT OPERATIONS.
FOLLOWING THE FALL OF THE GOVERNMENT GARRISON TOWN, SUDANESE 
PRESIDENT OMAR HASSAN AL BASHIR DECLARED IN A SPEECH WEDNESDAY A 
MAXIMUM STATE OF MOBILIZATION FOR YOUNG MEN.  HE CALLED ON THEM 
TO REPORT TO TRAINING CAMPS AND THEN MOVE ON TO THE FRONT.  
THE SUDAN GOVERNMENT NEWSPAPER QUOTED THE PRESIDENT AS SAYING THE
REBEL FORCES HAD RECEIVED ADDITIONAL ASSISTANCE FROM ENEMIES OF 
THE HOMELAND.  HE DID  NOT  NAME ANY COUNTRIES, BUT SUDAN HAS 
OFTEN ACCUSED ITS NEIGHBORS AND THE UNITED STATES OF AIDING THE 
S-P-L-A. 
CIVIL WAR HAS WRACKED SUDAN FOR THE PAST 14 YEARS. THE S-P-L-A 
HAS BEEN FIGHTING FOR THE CHRISTIAN AND ANIMIST SOUTH TO HAVE 
GREATER AUTONOMY FROM THE ARAB ISLAMIC GOVERNMENT IN THE NORTH.  
THE WAR HAS LEFT MORE THAN ONE-AND-ONE-HALF-MILLION PEOPLE DEAD, 
THOUSANDS DISPLACED, AND MOST RECENTLY, 350-THOUSAND AT RISK OF 
STARVATION.  (SIGNED)
NEB/CP/JWH
04-Jun-98 10:59 AM EDT (1459 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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