Rifles, anti-aircraft guns found in Sudan search
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- Created on Thursday, 10 September 2009 19:53
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JUBA, Sudan, Sept 10 (Reuters) South Sudan's army found more than 600 pistols and rifles, rocket-propelled grenades and four anti-aircraft guns during a surprise search of houses in the region's capital, officers said on Thursday.
"There were a lot of guns ... These are very strange things to find in the houses of civilians," the southern army's chief of staff James Hoth told Reuters.
Officers shut down large parts of Juba on Wednesday as they made door-to-door searches as part of a crackdown on illegal weapons.
The region is awash with guns after more than two decades of civil war that ended in a faltering 2005 peace deal.
The region's semi-autonomous government has vowed to disarm its population to improve security in the region, currently suffering from a wave of ethnic violence.
Some attempts to disarm remote communities over the past years have led to more bloodshed, but Juba's raid went peacefully, Hoth said.
Officers had to apologise, he added, after they accidentally knocked on the door of the Dutch embassy, and South Sudan's own legal affairs ministry during the search.
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What a lie from SPLA and South Sudan police. How did the anti-aircraft guns entered Juba if the SPLA and police has professional MIs and CIDs in Juba as detective for security. If this is true it confirms the complain that the GoSS is occupied by incompetent staff appointed with tribal qualifications.
Look at the mess of the GoSS and their ignorance of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Immunities and Privileges! What a pity to SPLM failures!!! The wrong impression has already gone out and the apology will not help reform the bad image of the SPLM leadership. Minister Gier Chwang should be fired for ordering the operation without seeking advice of the Minsister of Regional Cooperation and without briefing the police and the army of South Sudan on who and where to search or not to search. Very bad and very shameful indeed!!!