The president of the government of south Sudan said he would not call for a reprisal attack against the northern army after an incident which the south says injured six people on Wednesday.
Four SPLA soldiers and two civilians were critically injured when gunships belonging to the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) allegedly bombed an army base at Kiir Adem, a remote area near Aweil North County, Northern Bahr el Ghazal State.National Congress Party told Reuters that reports of the attack “were absolutely not true”.
President Salva Kiir Mayardit said his government was committed to conduct a peaceful referendum and the SPLA would not retaliate.
President Kiir made the statement at an emergence security meeting with SPLA chief of General Staff, General James Hoth Mai, GoSS minister of SPLA affairs, Nhial Deng Nhial, and other top brass at his residence in Juba yesterday.
SPLA spokesman Colonel Philip Aguer Panyang told SCR News over the phone that the SPLA was working hard to calm down its forces in order not to react to the SAF provocation meant to derail the referendum vote.