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April 24th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Bashir, making a visit to Heglig, said the time for talks with Kiir’s
government, which he has previously described as an “insect” that must be
eliminated, was over.
“No negotiation with those people,” Bashir told soldiers in Heglig, which the
South occupied for 10 days. “Our talks with them were with guns and bullets.”
On Friday, Bashir and Defense Minister Abdelrahim Mohammed Hussein – both
wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes in Sudan’s
Darfur region – declared the army had forced Southern soldiers out of Heglig.
Kamal Marouf, a Sudanese army commander, claimed in Heglig on Monday that more
than 1,000 South Sudan troops were killed in the clashes.
But Kiir had already announced that his forces would leave under “an orderly
withdrawal” from Heglig, in response to appeals from world leaders and to
allow a resumption of dialogue.
Unity Governor Taban Deng said Sudanese bombs nonetheless fell on a key bridge
and a market, killing at least two children in Bentiu.
“We have been pressured by the international community to pull out of Heglig
and this is the consequence – we have brought the war to home,” Deng said.
In the market, stalls were on fire and large plumes of grey smoke rose high
into the air, as screaming civilians ran in panic.
Sudan denied the attack but the United States condemned it and urged an
“immediate” halt to hostilities and a return to talks.
France’s foreign affairs spokesman Bernard Valero denounced the “aggression”
as unacceptable, warning it ran the risk of worsening the situation.
The presidents of Sudan and South Sudan “must have the courage to negotiate”
because their people deserve peace, US President Barack Obama said.
Mac Paul, the South’s deputy director of military intelligence, called the
attack “a clear provocation.”
The air raid is the latest of several along the disputed border.
The violence in Heglig was the worst since South Sudan won independence in
July after a 1983-2005 civil war in which an estimated two million people
died.
In Beijing, Kiir was expected to plead his case to Chinese authorities, but
analysts said China was unlikely to take sides and would keep pushing for
dialogue.
China has been a key ally and the largest economic partner of diplomatically
isolated Sudan, but it is keen not to alienate the South, the world’s newest
nation and source of most of the former Sudan’s oil.
Source: agencies
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