PRO-GOVERNMENT south Sudanese militia have razed three camps of the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) in the south-east, killing at least 53 rebels. The militia, identified as “Peace Forces,” destroyed equipment, killed 53 rebels and forced the remaining SPLA men to flee into the bush, the state-owned Al-Anbaa daily newspaper reported. The SPLA has led mainly Christian and animist rebels in a 17-year-old civil war in south Sudan against consecutive Arab, Islamic governments in Khartoum. – AFP