The government of Khartoum has resumed forced recruitment of IPDs and university students into militias to fight in South Sudan.
A Khartoum source told CRN News yesterday over the phone that contingents of police were abducting boys and girls in Khartoum to force them to join rebel groups fighting the Government of South Sudan, or demanding a ransom from relatives.The Citizen newspaper reported that rebel leaders George Athor and James Gai were supervising the forced recruitments with the help of al police in transit camps and university campuses in Khartoum.
Students were abducted from university gates and taken to centres before they were transported in large military trucks to rebel camps.
Relatives were able to release them by paying 2,000 Sudanese Pounds for each person.