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it's a strange country I mean at first
they don't allow you to film anything
absolutely anything and then suddenly
they offer you the world take a shine to
you get exclusive trips up to the front
line now the Army drove us North in a
carefully planned PR opportunity to show
the world that the government still
controlled the entire road to the front
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line stop stop
stop time it's General's coming
back let me see what I can do it is good
it happened here yeah yeah because if it
happened in that area it could not be
okay no it is good it happened here let
us go to sit together here in
M do you think the solution to this
conflict will be a political one in Adis
Ababa or a military one here on the
ground to me I don't think that the
rebel they have legitimate right to
fight because we just liberated our
country
recently and if they need if the
politician need the the power they
should go to ballet paper okay we are
still a young Nation so I mean there are
all sorts of rumors flying around juba
that the the rebels they're coming down
this road no I don't think somebody
misled yeah at the moment that fighting
is around Jung and we are hopefully to
capture the town and you believe me what
I'm telling you at the moment is that we
are going to place them out from from
both towns and even the some started
running away as befits the commander of
the most elite unit in the South
Sudanese Army the general was confident
about the victory ahead he kept telling
me B would fall to government forces in
the next few hours and that the rebels
were m a poorly trained Rabel of tribal
volunteers that is why we are calling
them Rebels the rebel is somebody who is
not organized he has nothing he has no
basis yes we can say that uh some few
soldiers from within our forces they
defect it but uh to me I think they're
regretting the decision that they have
taken but the government had lost B
twice in the previous two weeks for all
the government Superior Equipment and
Manpower the rebels were clearly doing
something right
we stopped off for a few hours near
mangala a Garrison town just 50 km north
of the Capal that according to Juba
rumors had already fallen to the Rebels
the rumors were clearly wrong the
General's Commandos were firmly in
control of mangala and the dusty Village
was a hive of activity as they prepared
to move north to the
W it would take us all day to travel
less than 200 km to the front line the
General's men tried to hurry things
along by driving at high speed but
that's a gamble in roads like this the
truck in front of us hits a pothole and
flips into a ditch trapping soldiers
inside the convo is Zumi ahead of us in
these terrible roads when a car
overturned started gushing out smoke
couple of the guys here are injured not
too badly it could have been a lot worse
but it shows the difficulties of
traveling this country the roads
terrible it's a difficult place to wage
war
it was a bad Omen for the journey ahead
he barely left tuba and the General's
bodyguard had already taken
casualties as we approached territory
only recently recaptured from the Rebels
the Commandos looked visibly more alert
armed villagers had warned them that
they'd spotted suspicious men skullking
around the bush they suspected they were
Rebel Scouts but the general was Keen to
reassure me they being over cautious
yeah you know what when when there is
any information about the enemy the
soldiers you must take caution yeah yeah
yeah because you don't need to be
surprised by your enemy yeah it does not
mean that there is a a real enemy there
is a threat all along the road General
gwit stopped off at villages to greet
old comrades from a long 20-year
Liberation struggle against the Arab
government in cartoon eventually we
stopped for the night at the forward
base of the assault and bore the spa had
taken over a tourist Resort Sudan Safari
as their divisional headquarters so
we're here it's our home for the night
we're about 9 km south of the front line
or what was the front line it looks like
the Spa pushed forward it's a nice place
tourist used to come here before the war
now it's an armed Camp how are you I'm
good put your sunglasses
are everyone's pretty chilled out
they're all just chatting smoking
greeting friends I haven't seen for a
while they all say the rebels have fled
that balls already fallen we'll see
tomorrow if that's true or not but for
the moment things are looking good for
the spa
that was the reent attack the day before
you think the rebels have all run away
from po we are not intending to