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Ugandan rebels allege plot to scuttle peace talks with govt |
But the rebel army accused Uganda of infiltrating the Sudan Peoples Liberation A rmy (SPLA) bases, which its soldiers use to launch attacks against the LRA soldi e rs attempting to gather at a border point.
LRA Spokesman David Nyekorach-Matsanga said here the rebel group's top military commander, Joseph Kony, had delayed the signing of a final peace accord with the
Ugandan government in May, to seek clarifications on certain segments of the fin a l peace accord.
The LRA official said Kony's failure to sign the agreement, reached way back in March this year, had provoked the Ugandan government into planning attacks again s t its troops.
"While the LRA leadership is still committed to a peaceful resolution of the con flict, it has now completely lost confidence in the SPLA as a force to stay in t h e buffer Zone once the final peace agreement is signed," Matsanga told a news co n ference in the Kenyan capital Wednesday.
The LRA, he said, was seeking "serious intervention" from the Eastern African re gion and the African Union (AU) to strengthen the monitoring team in Juba and to
save the peace process from total collapse.
"The inclusion and addition of more guarantors from AU will facilitate its compl etion; and guarantee its eventual full implementation," Matsanga told journalist s
According to the LRA, subsequent declaration of and actual collaboration with th e SPLA provoked an attack by the LRA on an SPLA camp at Nabanga on the Sudan/DR C ongo border on 6th June where 15 SPLA soldiers were killed.
The attack also left a Ugandan People's Defence Forces (UPDF) soldier and family killed.
"These Ugandans had lived as informers of the UPDF at the Assembly point in Naba nga near Rikwamgba for more than two years," the LRA official claimed.
UPDF has dismissed the LRA claims as "incurable lies" and denied the presence of the Ugandan soldiers within the SPLA ranks.
"We maintained during the peace negotiations that the Ugandan government and UPD F had a big presence in the SPLA and that Uganda has formed a battalion (105) wh o se main task is to collapse the peace process. LRA is now vindicated by the repo r ts in many international papers where Riek Machar, the Vice President of Souther n Sudan, has admitted that there are UPDF in Sudan," Matsanga said.
"The LRA wants to add to the voice of Machar that the UPDF leaves Sudan territor y. We want the monitoring team to verify and report to both sides that the UPDF h as left Southern Sudan completely."
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