South Sudan rebels slam Ukraine over weapons sale to South Sudan

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South Sudan rebels slam Ukraine over weapons sale to South Sudan
June 3, 2017Breaking News, News, South SudanNo Comments

South sudan’s Machar. Photo: Reuters/File

Pagak/Kampala, June 3, 2017 (SSNA) — In what has been described as a
“controversial move,” the South Sudanese main rebel movement
(SPLM/A-IO) under the leadership of Dr. Riek Machar has criticized
some European countries, saying, “Some first world nations with third
world mentality have been supplying Juba’s genocidal regime with
deadly weapons.”

The armed opposition also blasted Egypt, asserting, “Egyptian
President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is now a sworn brother of M7.” The SSNA
is aware that “M7” is an assertive portrayal of the current Ugandan
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni when he was a rebel leader.

The accusation comes months after the United Nations and some
international arms control groups exposed Ukraine as one of the main
suppliers of weapons and ammunition to South Sudanese government.

Documents leaked to the South Sudan News Agency by a United Nations
diplomatic source revealed that UN and some Westerns countries were
fully aware of Uganda’s involvement in the scheme. The source alleged
that Former US President Barack Obama refused to act, allowing Kampala
to “fly freely over Washington.”

“To make the story short, Former American leader (President Barack
Obama] basically allowed Ugandan President to fly freely over
Washington.”

The assertion, according to two South Sudanese legal analysts, shows
how Ugandan President Museveni managed to deceive Western countries.

“When we come to South Sudan civil war, the West under Obama was
technically a sworn supporter of Museveni. They accept anything
Museveni tells them,” one legal analyst told the South Sudan News
Agency.

“All the major European leaders [UK, Germany, and France] were not
convinced by Obama’s foreign policy towards South Sudan, but they
decided to accept US foreign policy on South Sudan,” the source added.

The documents also show that a central European country fighter jet
pilot who has been identified as “Tibor Czingali,” deliberately bombs
the armed opposition outposts. Czingali is believed to be operating in
the northern Ugandan city of Gulu, according to the documents.

“Ukraine is fairly a first world nation with a third world mentality,”
SPLA-IO’s Maj. General, Khor Chuol Giet told the South Sudan News
Agency in Pagak.

The documents also indicated that Kiev managed to supply Juba with
modern weapons and ammunition with help from Kampala.

“…, 3,000 S8 rockets for Russian-made Mi-24 attack helicopters, 5,000
rounds of T-55 tank ammunition, 12,000 RPG-7 rounds, 30 T-55 tanks, 20
ZU-23 anti-aircraft weapons, 10,000 122-mm M21OF rockets, 20 million
rounds of 7.62X39mm ammunition, 50, 000 AK-47 assault rifles, and 10
BM-21 “Grad” rocket systems,” were delivered to Juba through Kampala’s
help, the documents claim.

James Moises, a Former Ugandan intelligence officer who has been
widely credited for exposing Kampala-juba’s secrets dismissed the news
as “too old,” suggesting that the world should wait for what he
described as “the mother of all bombs.”

“The European and USA leaders love Museveni. They love him too much.
But they have no idea about the fact that Uganda is run by a President
who is the ring leader of all East African dictators,’ Moises
declared.

Moises calls SSNA’s report as “old news.”

“I am tired of this old news, they are too old. Just wait for the
mother of all secrets about South Sudan civil war.

Last month, Moises described the West as a Uganda’s client willing to
accept anything Museveni tells them about South Sudan’s armed
conflict.

Rebel military Major General Khor calls on the African Union and the
United Nations to scrutinize what he described as “foreign anti-Nuer
activists who gladly accept bribes from Juba to look the other way.”
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