Amid South Sudanese President Salva Kiir’s announcement of military withdrawal from Heglig, a border town in the disputed oil-producing region of Abyei, about 100 soldiers lay around the shaded grounds of a military hospital, nursing injuries sustained on the frontlines. Despite the past week’s conflicting claims from Khartoum and Juba — Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir has threatened all-out war, while diplomats on both sides have intermittently denied claims of ongoing battle and even expressed a desire for peaceful arbitration — these troops of the South Sudanese military (SPLA) say they have been actively battling for two weeks. Some have been badly burned in Sudanese bombing raids, while others have been blinded.

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