Guinea has further encroached into Sierra Leone, expanding her illegal occupation of Yenga and forcing residents to flee after opening fire.
Here are various reports of the sordid drama and the violation of the territorial integrity of Sierra Leone..
TENSIONS RISE IN KISSI TENG AS HEAVILY ARMED GUINEAN FORCES OCCUPY BORDER POINTS :
Francis Allie
Wilberforce Barracks. Com
Tentions have escalated in the Eastern part of sierra Leone Chiefdom of Kissi Teng following the occupation of multiple Boder points by heavily Armed Guinean Forces, including the long disputed yenga area.
Local residents were reportedly caught off guard by the sudden military presence which led to the closure of several key boder crossing – among them the sierra Leone immigration Base in pengu Bengu, Sokoma, kpanguma, payluan, kpemalu, and kpengbakoru. The move has significantly restricted civilian movement and triggered widespread security concerns.
Sierra Leone is prepared to escalate its effort to resolve the protracted yenga border dispute with neighbouring Guinea through international legal channels if ongoing domestic diplomatic avenues fail.
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ABUBAKARR KAMARA
The attitude of the Guinean forces on the soil of Sierra-Leone is a cause of concern.
The past regime of former president Ernest Koroma went into a diplomatic talk in respect of Yenga and other villages close to the border with Guinea, but no positive results came out of that. What followed next when this junta regime came into power was that the military junta advanced more fighting troops across the Meli river and forcefully occupied Yenga and planted a huge pillar, taking Yenga as part of Guinea which is an illegal territorial invasion of a sovereign of Sierra-Leone and which tantamount to military provocation.
The attitude of the military junta moving heavy military weapons into a sovereign state forcing citizens to flee is a sign of war and at the end of the tunnel it is a war crime. The earlier Guinea ceases the provocation, the better.
My advice to this present government to take this issue very seriously. Mr.President. President Bio you need to take this issue very seriously. You were once a soldier in the Army that have fought the past civil war. You know Yenga very well as part of sierra-leone. You and your government should go out by all means necessary to see that Yenga be returned to the territory of sierra-leone.
Mr. President, this is time we should bring in the Mano River Union, the AU, Ecowas and the UN and the colonial masters that is Britain and France. I do believe the colonial masters left a written document in respect of that border between the two neighbouring countries to bring justice to light inorder to halt any future war provocation against our Army which is a war crime by the Guinean Army and the junta regime to move heavy war equipments across into a sovereign state illegally .
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