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DATE=11/18/98
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
NUMBER=2-241848
TITLE=SUDAN REBEL DISPUTE (L ONLY)
BYLINE=SONYA LAURENCE GREEN
DATELINE=NAIROBI
CONTENT=
VOICED AT: 
INTRO:  RIVAL SUDANESE REBELS HAVE TAKEN THEIR DISPUTE TO 
NEIGHBORING KENYA.  SONYA LAURENCE GREEN REPORTS THAT EACH 
ACCUSES THE OTHER OF PLOTTING MISCHIEF THIS WEEK IN NAIROBI.
TEXT:  RIVAL REBEL COMMANDERS IN SOUTHERN SUDAN -- KERUBINO 
KWANYIN BOL AND JOHN GARANG -- APPEAR TO BE LOCKED IN A NEW 
BATTLE -- THIS TIME, A WAR OF WORDS IN KENYA'S CAPITAL, NAIROBI.
MAJOR GENERAL KERUBINO -- THE LEADER OF A RENEGADE REBEL FORCE 
THAT OPERATES IN PARTS OF SOUTHERN SUDAN -- SAYS MEMBERS OF THE 
MAINSTREAM S-P-L-A REBELS HARASSED HIM IN KENYA, SEARCHED HIS 
HOME, AND HELPED ORCHESTRATE HIS ARREST LATE LAST WEEK.
BUT THE S-P-L-A SAYS THAT IS NONSENSE.  IT CATEGORICALLY DENIES 
HARASSING MR. KERUBINO.  IT SAYS KENYAN POLICE SEARCHED MR. 
KERUBINO'S HOME LOOKING FOR GUNS AND RADIO EQUIPMENT, AND THAT 
ONLY KENYAN POLICE COULD MAKE ANY ARRESTS.
THE S-P-L-A SAYS IT WAS MR. KERUBINO WHO WAS UP TO  NO  GOOD.  IT
SAYS HE TRIED UNSUCCESSFULLY TO ASSASSINATE S-P-L-A LEADER JOHN 
GARANG AT HIS HOME IN NAIROBI DURING THE WEEKEND.  IT SAYS A 
HIT-SQUAD OF 20 MEN ATTACKED MR. GARANG'S HOME.  IT SAYS THAT 
AFTER KENYAN POLICE INTERVENED, SOME OF THE ATTACKERS RAN TO THE 
S-P-L-A OFFICES TO LOOT EQUIPMENT.  BUT IT SAYS A LOCAL KENYAN 
VIGILANTE GROUP CAME TO THE AID OF THE OFFICE'S NIGHT WATCHMAN.
THE S-P-L-A SAYS WHAT IT CALLS MR. KERUBINO'S GANG OF TERRORISTS 
HAS ASSISTANCE FROM SUDAN'S GOVERNMENT, THROUGH THE SUDANESE 
EMBASSY IN NAIROBI.  SUDAN'S GOVERNMENT DENIES ANY LINKS TO 
TERRORISM ABROAD.  
BUT THE FACT THAT ALL THE PLOTS AND ACCUSATIONS HAVE EMERGED IN 
KENYA WAS PERHAPS INEVITABLE.  ALL THE FACTIONS IN SUDAN'S 
15-YEAR CIVIL WAR HAVE OFFICES IN NAIROBI WITHIN A FEW MILES OF 
EACH OTHER.
SUDAN'S BITTER CIVIL WAR HAS DRAGGED ON SINCE 1983.  SOUTHERN 
REBELS ARE FIGHTING THE NORTHERN ABABIZED GOVERNMENT, DEMANDING 
MORE AUTONOMY AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM FOR THE SOUTH.  BUT THE 
REBELS HAVE SPLIT AND HAVE FORMED ALLIANCES AND COUNTER-ALLIANCES
SO MANY TIMES THAT THE WAR HAS TURNED INTO SOMETHING OF A DEADLY 
STALEMATE.  (SIGNED)
NEB/SLG/JWH/GE
18-Nov-98 10:35 AM EST (1535 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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