mon 01 feb 2016, 13:36

‘Soldiers were people in the container stitching’

ADDIS ABABA –

In the crisis-ridden South Sudan have military, according to a report, about fifty people in a container’s surface. The military had these citizens in October in the north of the oil-rich nation in spite of the intense heat in a closed container driven. That is in a Monday report published by the so-called Mixed Commission for the Monitoring and Evaluation (JMEC).

The government dismissed the accusation as totally ridiculous” of the hand. The incident is a fantasy of the opponents of the government, said a spokesman of the South Sudanese president Salva Kiir in a comment.

The JMEC was established to support the implementation of a in August signed the peace agreement between the government and the rebels to monitor. The commission had the report Sunday evening in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa to the African Union (AU) needs to be submitted. Possible motives for the actions of the soldiers were at first unclear.

In the East African country there since december 2013, a power struggle between president Kiir and his former vice president Riek Machar, now the leader of the opposition rebels. This play also ethnic background play a role. Kiir belongs to the largest ethnic group in the country, the Dinka, Machar is a Nuer.

As a result of the violence in the youngest African republic, tens of thousands of people to the life, more than 2.2 million people have been displaced. About 860,000 people suffer hunger, about 10 percent of the population, according to aid agencies.