Violence Grips South Sudan As Vote Nears -- New York TimesDUK PADIET, Sudan — The word went out on a Friday. Chibetek was coming, with warriors and a grudge to settle.
The whole village sprang into battle mode. Boys grabbed rusty rifles, women ran to the river to hide in the water, old men stood sentry on the village outskirts, training their yellow, rheumy eyes on the vast savannahs and malarial swamps that have kept this region cut off for decades.
And when the warriors did come, the villagers said, there were hundreds of them, maybe thousands, pouring through the chest-high elephant grass with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, dressed in crisp new uniforms that implied a level of military organization never seen before.
“This was no cattle raid,” said Majak Piok, a village elder.
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Update: Ethnic conflicts abound in southern Sudan -- UPI
My Comment: The South Sudan is about to experience a return to the civil war that devastated this part of Africa over a decade ago. It is unfortunate, the scourge of African tribalism, conflict, and war is about to revisit this country.
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