The rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) expressed concern over the incident and said it had stepped up security in the area. “Most of the victims are our people, we know them by name,” SPLM/A spokesman Samson Kwaje told IRIN on Monday. “We have beefed up security in the area and sent out some of our men in pursuit of the attackers.” He said the Khartoum government had put pressure on the LRA rebels to leave Sudan but “surprisingly these LRA rebels were coming from Uganda into Sudan”.
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