Sudan Parliament Brands South's Government 'Enemy'
Sudan parliament voted unanimously on Monday to brand the government of South Sudan an enemy, after southern troops invaded the north's main oilfield.
"The government of South Sudan is an enemy and all Sudanese state agencies have to treat her accordingly," the parliament's resolution said.
After the vote, parliamentary speaker Ahmed Ibrahim El-Tahir called in the legislature for the overthrow of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) which rules the South.
"We announce that we will clash with SPLM until we end her government of South Sudan. We collect all our resources to reach this goal," he said.
World powers have urged restraint after heavy fighting began with waves of aerial bombardment hitting the South, whose troops last Tuesday seized Khartoum's main Heglig oil region from Khartoum's army.
It is the most serious fighting since July 2011 when South Sudan separated after an overwhelming "yes" vote under a peace deal that ended 22 years of civil war.
When the South became independent, Khartoum lost about 75 percent of its oil production and billions of dollars in revenue, leaving the Heglig area as its main oil center.
Tuesday's attack caused a total production shutdown, said Ahmed Haroun, the South Kordofan governor.
The latest fighting follows clashes around Heglig that began on March 26.
South Sudan disputes that Heglig is part of the north's territory.
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Naharnet, Call a spade a spade..
Sudan's Ahmed Ibrahim El-Tahir, representative of a Muslim government is calling South Sudan, a Christian enclave, an enemy..
Muslims can't seem to co-exist in harmony with anyone else; a majority of the global conflicts involve Muslims.
Naharnet; to maintain a balanced approach, kindly include the above notion in your analysis, even briefly, and the cause behind the South secession.
Khartoum has been enemy of southern sudanese for many years.they tried change the map of south sudan by mapping all the places that they can get has oil.the good thing is that we in southern sudan have obvious names for our places and with meanings.panthou which is a dinka name has been changed to Heglig that bears no meaning to the place,unlike Panthou it has meaning connected to the people who owns it.PAN MEANS VILLAGE AND MEANS THOU IS A DESERT DATE.