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THE SMART NEWS SOURCE | Feb 10 2010 00:52 | LAST UPDATED Feb 10 2010 00:52 |
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The United States is "deeply concerned" by reports that South African "military instructors" are training militiamen backed by the ruling junta in Guinea, a US official said Thursday. "The United States has received reports of 40 or 50 South African military instructors training militia members in Guinea, including some under the age of 18," the State Department official said on condition of anonymity. Witnesses in Guinea told Agence France-Presse on Monday that South African as well as Israeli army instructors, hired by the ruling junta, are training recruits in a camp in Forecariah, 100km south of the capital Conakry. The State Department official, who also understood that the camp is in Forecariah, said: "We are deeply concerned." He did not mention Israelis. "We view this activity as a direct affront to the democratic aspirations of the Guinean people contrary to the efforts of the international to reach a peaceful resolution to the current crisis and calculated move by the ruling junta to maintain power through armed force and ethnic division," the official said. He said the US government has raised its concerns with the South African authorities who "promised to investigate these reports. We applaud that." In Pretoria on Tuesday, South Africa's foreign ministry said it was investigating the reports that people described as South African mercenaries are training pro-junta recruits in Guinea. Witnesses said the new soldiers recruited by the junta, which seized power in Guinea on December 23 last year, are being trained in a camp formerly used to house Sierra Leone refugees outside Forecariah. About 40 military instructors are training soldiers "recruited on the basis of their ethnicity" as they belong to the same group as junta leader Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, witnesses said.  CONTINUES BELOW Observers accuse the junta, under increasing international pressure after the massacre of over 150 opposition supporters at a rally in September, of recruiting young men from Camara's home region close to Liberia and Sierra Leone. - AFP TOPICS IN THIS ARTICLE
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Apartheid created a lot of problems for us......now this formerly conscripted mercenaries are using their brutal military skills everywhere to feed their greed perpetuated by the Job Reservation programmes and the Afrikaner Bemagtiging........
Proudly_South African Proudly_South African on November 20, 2009, 8:59 am
@ PSA, so how did you get to that conclusion?
Fed up on November 20, 2009, 9:37 am
I erick would not be surprised if the trainers from SA are connected to the ANC
Erick Mulaudzi on November 20, 2009, 10:13 am
ANC Mercenaries?!! I certainly hope they are, It would be a shame for us to not have that kind of skill as a nation. But the problem lies in the cause they are employed in, tribal feuds are just rediculous. Read The Prince, he teaches well on the pros and cons of mercenaries.
Daliwonga Pantshwa on November 20, 2009, 10:28 am
@ EM, answer this "If you are skillful, unemployed and someone offers you a job to do train or train their personnel, wouldn't you accept it?" These people are not killing anyone, they are doing the training, and you did not bother to ask if they are training these people for good course or not. You start by jumping to connect them to ANC. I wonder if you are a true MuVhenda....LOL
Mnike Leswena on November 20, 2009, 12:23 pm
...says the US gov, "How dare you try and do what we have been doing for decades!"
Conrad Meyer on November 20, 2009, 3:35 pm
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