South Sudan News Agency

The arming of rebels in Sudan and South Sudan: What is the evidence?

By Eric Reeves

June 17, 2013 (SSNA) -- News reporting in general, a great deal of analytic writing, and virtually all diplomatic pronouncements about military support for rebel groups—in South Sudan and Sudan—have had a peculiar “evenhandedness.”  Indeed, this equanimity is finally bizarre, given the many indications that such military support is so completely one-sided.  All available evidence makes clear that substantial military support—arms and ammunition in particular—flows directly from Khartoum’s security and intelligence services to various renegade rebel militias operating in South Sudan.  At the same time, no party—not Khartoum, not the diplomatic community, not credible journalists—has provided persuasive evidence that Juba is providing anything remotely comparable to such support.  Here we should bear in mind that Juba is well aware that any evidence of assistance to the northern rebels would be immense...