copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: Bousignies-sur-Roc is a territory of Belgium (Bousignies-sur-Roc, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2021-05-05): "I was happy, my town was bigger," David Lavaux, Mayor of the Belgian village of Erquelinnes, told a French TV station. "But the Mayor of Bousignies-sur-Roc didn't agree." Bousignies-sur-Roc is a commune on the French side of the border, which was established in 1820 after the Battle of Waterloo, which was fought in Belgium. [...] "We should be able to avoid a new border war," Bousignies-sur-Roc Mayor Aurélie Welonek told French media. "Our two countries get along well, so there were no great concerns at this point."
Claim: Bousignies-sur-Roc is a territory of Belgium (Bousignies-sur-Roc, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2021-05-04): The farmer "also repositioned his fence on trees that belong to the wood of Bousignies", according to Aurelie Welonek, the mayor of the French town Bousignies-sur-Roc. [...] He added: "I was happy, my town was bigger. But the mayor of Bousignies-sur-Roc didn’t agree.
Claim: Bousignies-sur-Roc is a territory of Belgium (Bousignies-sur-Roc, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2021-05-06): It’s now up to the head official on each side of the border—David Lavaux of Erquelinnes, Belgium, and Aurélie Welonek of Bousignies-sur-Roc, France—to sort out the issue. As long as the farmer agrees to replace the marker, they don’t plan on taking further action. "We have no interest in expanding the town, or the country," Lavaux joked to France Bleu.
Claim: Bousignies-sur-Roc is a territory of Belgium (Bousignies-sur-Roc, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2021-05-05): "I was happy, my town was bigger," the Belgian mayor added with a laugh. "But the mayor of Bousignies-sur-Roc didn’t agree."
Claim: Bousignies-sur-Roc is a territory of Belgium (Bousignies-sur-Roc, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2021-05-06): According to Mayor of Bousignies-sur-Roc, Aurélie Welonek, the farmer "also repositioned his fence on trees that belong to the wood of Bousignies".
Claim: Bousignies-sur-Roc is a territory of Belgium (Bousignies-sur-Roc, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2021-05-06): Aurélie Welonek, the mayor of Bousignies-sur-Roc gave a description of the situation pointing out how both countries "get along well" according to a comment made on CNN. She gave her understanding of the farmer's situation in regards to his farm but communicated to the farmer to put it back, failure to which the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would get involved.
Claim: Bousignies-sur-Roc is a territory of Belgium (Bousignies-sur-Roc, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2021-05-04): Aurélie Welonek, the mayor of the French town of Bousignies-sur-Roc which had its territory snipped, spoke to French press agency Internep in a video interview which also featured Lavaux. [...] The two towns lie roughly midway on the Franco-Belgian border, with Erquellines a Walloon municipality with a little under 10,000 residents and Bousignies-sur-Roc a commune in France’s Nord department with a population of around 400.
Claim: Bousignies-sur-Roc is a territory of Belgium (Bousignies-sur-Roc, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2021-05-04): According to a report from the outlet, the man moved the stone placement that got in the way of his tractor while tending to his land. French Mayor of Bousignies-sur-Roc Aurelie Welonek noted the man "also repositioned his fence on trees that belong to the wood of Bousignies," thus unintentionally expanding Belgium borders. [...] He later appeared on the French news channel TF1, saying: "He made Belgium bigger and France smaller, it's not a good idea ... I was happy, my town was bigger. But the mayor of Bousignies-sur-Roc didn't agree."
Claim: Bousignies-sur-Roc is a territory of Belgium (Bousignies-sur-Roc, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2021-05-05): Leaning against a tree in a wooded area near the village of Bousignies-sur-Roc, the boundary stone has delineated the French-Belgium border since 1819. [...] "He made Belgium bigger and France smaller. It’s not a good idea. I was happy, my town was bigger, but the mayor of Bousignies-sur-Roc didn't agree."
Claim: Bousignies-sur-Roc is a territory of Belgium (Bousignies-sur-Roc, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2021-05-04): As a result of his actions, the border was moved approximately 2.29 meters, enlarging southern Belgian territory to the detriment of the French village of Bousignies-sur-Roc. [...] Lavaux had traveled to the contentious border between Bousignies and Montignies on Monday with a team of journalists from the French television station TF1.
Claim: Bousignies-sur-Roc is a territory of Belgium (Bousignies-sur-Roc, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2021-05-05): As a result of his actions, the border was moved by approximately 2.29 metres, enlarging the southern Belgian territory and reducing the size of the French village of Bousignies-sur-Roc. [...] Lavaux had travelled to the contentious border between Bousignies and Montignies on Monday with a team of journalists from the French television station TF1. Speaking to local media, the mayor added that the farmer would be asked to return the stone to its border position to avoid court proceedings.
Claim: Bousignies-sur-Roc is a territory of Belgium (Bousignies-sur-Roc, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2021-05-05): The stone has history on its side: The French-Belgian border was formalized under the 1820 Treaty of Kortrijk, and the stone was originally placed there in 1819 when the border was first laid out. The neighboring French village of Bousignies-sur-Roc suffered the shrinkage. [...] Avec une équipe de tf1 à la frontière entre Bousignies et Montignies. On a bougé la borne de 1819, la Belgique et notre...
Claim: Heglig is a territory of South Sudan (Heglig, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-07-29): Heglig, or Panthou (also spelled Heglieg or Pandthow), is a small town at the border between the South Kordofan state of Sudan and the Unity State in South Sudan. The entirety of Heglig is claimed by both Sudan and South Sudan, but administered by Sudan. The area was contested during the Sudanese Civil War. In mid-April 2012, South Sudan's Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) captured the Heglig oil field from Sudan.[1] Sudan took it back at the Second Battle of Heglig ten days later.[2] [...] Heglig oil field [edit]Heglig is situated within the Muglad Basin, a rift basin which contains much of South Sudan's proven oil reserves. The Heglig oil field was first developed in 1996 by Arakis Energy (now part of Talisman Energy).[citation needed] Today it is operated by the Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Company.[4] Production at Heglig is reported to have peaked in 2006 and is now in decline.[5] The Heglig oil field is connected to Khartoum and Port Sudan via the Greater Nile Oil Pipeline.
Claim: Heglig is a territory of South Sudan (Heglig, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2012-04-13): Heglig is vital because it accounts for about half of Sudan's 115,000 barrel-a-day oil output, Reuters reports. The fighting has stopped production there, officials say. [...] A presidential press statement said the South Sudanese had to be sure Heglig would not be used as a base for cross-border raids against them. [...] The African Union Peace and Security Council has called the occupation of Heglig "illegal and unacceptable", and also condemned Sudan for carrying out aerial bombardments of South Sudan.
Claim: Heglig is a territory of South Sudan (Heglig, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2012-04-11): Sudan vows to retake Heglig oil fields from South Sudan - Published [...] South Sudanese troops seized control of Heglig on Tuesday, as heavy fighting raged for a second day. [...] Oil-rich Heglig is usually recognised as being part of the north, although South Sudan disputes this.
Claim: Heglig is a territory of South Sudan (Heglig, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2012-04-20): Later that evening, however, South Sudan's ambassador to the United Nations, Agnes Oswaha, told reporters at U.N. headquarters in New York that southern forces were still in complete control of Heglig. She did confirm that all southern forces would be out of Heglig within 72 hours. [...] In Washington, U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the United States is urging South Sudan to fully withdraw all forces from Heglig, and is calling on Sudan to immediately end any reprisal attacks. [...] The South's information minister said Friday that Juba still considers Heglig to be part of its territory and wants the status of that area and other contested regions to be determined by international arbitration.
Claim: Heglig is a territory of South Sudan (Heglig, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2012-04-20): South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has ordered the withdrawal of his troops from the Heglig oil field in Sudan. [...] Mr Kiir said the South still believed that Heglig was a part of South Sudan and that its final status should be determined by international arbitration, Associated Press reported. Heglig is internationally accepted to be part of Sudanese territory - although the precise border is yet to be demarcated.
Claim: Heglig is a territory of South Sudan (Heglig, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2012-04-14): The location of "Heglig" (which Southerners have long referred to as Panthou) has yet to be negotiated vis-à-vis the "1 January 1956 border," the determining point of reference in establishing whether a wide range of locations lie in the South or the North. Although the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) repeatedly and explicitly stipulates the "1 January 1956 border," the precise location was to have been to be a matter that required extensive research and negotiation by the Technical Boundary Committee (TBC). [...] In short, the location of Heglig remains to be negotiated, even as Khartoum refuses to negotiate—and the regime is distinctly less likely to do so now that its pre-emptive geographic claim of the region has been ratified by a series of statements by international actors of consequence. Given Juba’s determination that Heglig will not be allowed to become a future staging ground for additional assaults on Southern territory, and the strong belief by many Southerners that Heglig is south of the "1 January 1956 boundary," either the geographic status of Heglig is negotiated, or there will be no peace. [...] • "The move by the South Sudanese armed forces to occupy Heglig in Sudan is completely unacceptable," declared the UK’s Minister for Africa, Henry Bellingham.
Claim: Heglig is a territory of South Sudan (Heglig, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-09-28): On 15 April 2012, the Arab Parliament called on South Sudan for restraint and to withdraw from the town of Heglig. A statement signed by Arab Parliament head Salem Deqbasi said that the Arab Parliament's bureau called on South Sudan to "heed the voice of reason" and immediately pull its forces out of the areas it had occupied inside Sudanese territory, including Heglig.[96] On 26 April, the Arab League escalated its rhetoric, condemning South Sudan's "aggression" and saying Heglig belongs to Sudan. The Arab League went further to say it supported Sudan's "right to defend itself", and condemned South Sudan's alleged support of rebels in Sudan.[91]
Claim: Heglig is a territory of South Sudan (Heglig, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2012-04-10): Heglig, or Panthou (also spelled Heglieg or Pandthow), is a small town at the border between the South Kordofan state of Sudan and the Unity State in South Sudan. The entirety of Heglig is claimed by both Sudan and South Sudan, but administered by Sudan. The area was contested during the Sudanese Civil War. In mid-April 2012, South Sudan's Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) captured the Heglig oil field from Sudan.[1] Sudan took it back at the Second Battle of Heglig ten days later.[2] [...] Heglig is situated within the Muglad Basin, a rift basin which contains much of South Sudan's proven oil reserves. The Heglig oil field was first developed in 1996 by Arakis Energy (now part of Talisman Energy).[citation needed] Today it is operated by the Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Company.[4] Production at Heglig is reported to have peaked in 2006 and is now in decline.[5] The Heglig oil field is connected to Khartoum and Port Sudan via the Greater Nile Oil Pipeline.
Claim: Heglig is a territory of South Sudan (Heglig, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2023-04-18): REPUBLIC OF SOUTH SUDAN: FACTS [...] 2012 - Disagreements with Sudan over the oil-rich region of Abyei erupt into fighting, known as the Heglig Crisis. A peace deal is reached, creating a 10km demilitarized zone along the border and allowing South Sudan's oil exports to restart.
Claim: Heglig is a territory of South Sudan (Heglig, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2012-04-10): South Sudan said its forces had advanced to Heglig, but stopped short of saying its forces actually controlled the oil fields. [...] Col Khalid Sawarmi, the spokesman for the Sudan Armed Forces, said: "Now the [soldiers] from South Sudan they are inside Heglig city, and the oilfield, they conquered the Sudanese army outside of Heglig. "The South Sudanese attacked our Sudanese army in Heglig, as you know Heglig is not part of South Sudan," he continued.
Claim: Heglig is a territory of South Sudan (Heglig, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2012-04-12): Al Jazeera’s Harriet Martin, reporting from Khartoum, said that under international law, Heglig belongs to Sudan, not South Sudan. [...] "The occupation of Heglig is taking [the Sudan-South Sudan] battle to a different level," our correspondent said. "What you have now is the possibility of it severely affecting the supply of oil to Sudan." [...] A 2009 ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague placed Heglig in Sudan’s Southern Kordofan region. But South Sudan has disputed the ruling, asserting that the region is in South Sudan’s Unity State.
Claim: Heglig is a territory of South Sudan (Heglig, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2012-04-20): The announcement from President Salva Kiir said the south still believes that the town of Heglig is a part of South Sudan. Kiir said he expects its final status to be determined by international arbitration. [...] In the presidential statement he read, South Sudan government spokesman Barnaba Marial Benjamin referred to Heglig by the name the south calls it -- Panthou. Military spokesman Col. Philip Aguer said the withdrawal would be completed within three days. [...] Ban on Thursday called on South Sudan to immediately withdraw from Heglig area, calling the invasion "an infringement on the sovereignty of Sudan and a clearly illegal act." He called on the government of Sudan to immediately stop shelling and bombing South Sudanese territory and withdraw its forces from disputed territories including Abyei.
Claim: Heglig is a territory of South Sudan (Heglig, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2012-05-09): The disputed area of Heglig, or Panthou as it is being referred to in South Sudan, grabbed the world’s attention in the past weeks. On 10 April 2012 the Government of the Republic of South Sudan announced that they had successfully occupied the area which most people had understood to be part of Sudan in the troubled state of Southern Kordofan. [...] While South Sudanese maintain that they have always considered the area of Panthou (Heglig) to be part of South Sudan, the dispute remained generally off the radar, overshadowed by issues such as the ownership of Abyei and negotiations on oil revenues. The issue of ownership of Panthou/Heglig was not high on the agenda of actors within South Sudan, other than as part of the overall need for border demarcation. The ruling of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, which had been given the mandate to delimit the borders of Abyei and was to constitute a final and binding ruling, released its decision on 22 July 2009 stating that Heglig was not within the territory of Abyei. With this came an assumption by many that if Heglig is not a part of the disputed area of Abyei, and was not mentioned as part of other disputed areas, then it was part of Southern Kordofan State, Sudan.
Claim: Heglig is a territory of South Sudan (Heglig, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2012-04-15): "They tried to attack our positions north of Heglig last night but it was contained," said Barnaba Marial Benjamin. "Heglig is [still] under our control." South Sudanese forces seized control of Heglig town earlier in the week during the worst fighting in the region since the South seceded from Khartoum’s rule last year. [...] The African Union denounced the South’s occupation of Heglig as illegal and urged the two sides to avert a "disastrous" war.
Claim: Heglig is a territory of South Sudan (Heglig, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2001-03-06): In the north of Western Upper Nile, the government used displacement to make the area "safe" for foreign and northern-based exploitation of oil. The Heglig oil location (in Block 2) was not densely populated, but Dinka lived dispersed in the whole Heglig area and moved their cattle tocattle camps in that same region, according to contemporary accounts, the memories of former residents, and older maps.140 [...] When Chevron dismantled some of its rigs in Unity field in 1988, shipping them to Heglig and then on to El Muglad further north, the SPLM/A considered that they had pushed Chevron out of the south: "The SPLA established a firm liberated area and we visited often, searching for the [government] army. The oilfield work was stopped. We stopped them," asserted one SPLA combatant.187 Another said, "We fought the enemy in Heglig . . . The objective there: the enemy came and took the petrol. We chased them away. The purpose was protection."188 [...] 118 Alier, Southern Sudan, p. 240. According a former governor of Unity State, "Heglig point" was twenty-four kilometers inside the state. Taban Deng Gai, former governor of Unity State, Human Rights Watch interview, Khartoum, July 26, 1999.
Claim: Heglig is a territory of South Sudan (Heglig, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2017-12-01): South Sudan says it was responding to aerial bombardments and a ground attack on its territory, and has shown no desire to pull back. Instead, officials in the capital, Juba, have reiterated a claim that Heglig belongs to the south. [...] Sources say that Khartoum's forces struck first, possibly in an attempt to dislodge South Sudan's army from a base at Teshwin on the disputed border which it had taken two weeks earlier. On Tuesday, the north bombarded several targets in Unity state, in South Sudan, before the ground troops moved in. "The Sudanese attacked first, but they didn't have as many soldiers, so they were forced to flee," said an oil industry worker in the Heglig area who did not want to be named. [...] After Sudan became independent in 1956, disputes and wars over autonomy for the south continued until a peace agreement in 2005. After a referendum, the south declared itself a republic in 2011, and joined the UN and the AU. In July 2009, the permanent court of arbitration redefined the boundaries between north and south, placing the Heglig oilfield in Sudan, but did not specify oil sharing. Based on this, Sudan announced it would not share any of the oil revenue with South Sudan, since Heglig was a part of the north. South Sudan, however, refused to accept the decision saying arbitration court was appointed specifically for the disputed region of Abyei not Heglig.
Claim: Heglig is a territory of South Sudan (Heglig, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2012-04-27): The location of Heglig/Panthou in relation to the North/South border at the time of Sudan’s independence (January 1, 1956) continues to be misrepresented by not only the Arab League and African Union, but now (implicitly) by the UN Security Council, which has introduced the threat of sanctions against Khartoum and Juba if the African Union vision of how peace is to be achieved is not followed. Let us recall first the view of the African Union, which on April 14, 2012 "noted with alarm, the occupation of the Heglig by the forces of (South Sudan) …." (all emphases added) [...] "Heglig, which is known as Thou (or Panthou) in Dinka, was one of the territories depopulated by militias during the second civil war, when Sudan used paramilitary Popular Defence Forces (PDF) to clear southern residents from areas around oil-producing sites. For many Dinka at the border, accepting Sudan’s possession of these territories is tantamount to accepting the ethnic clearings of the 80s and 90s." [...] It is important to recall again that the July 2009 Abyei boundary ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration did not place Heglig in northern Sudan or South Sudan; it simply said that Heglig lies to the east of Abyei:
Claim: Heglig is a territory of South Sudan (Heglig, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2012-05-16): When CPA negotiators first addressed the matter of Abyei, the issue was further complicated by the fact that it was considered to be an oil-rich territory. The Abyei Boundary Commission, set up in 2005 to demarcate the territory of the nine Dinka chiefdoms, had included the Heglig oil fields in Abyei’s territory. This inclusion was a blow to Khartoum because in the short run, Abyei would keep more of the oil revenue it produced, and in the long run, the South might keep it all if Abyei voted for secession, as appeared likely. Khartoum thus appealed the decision of the Abyei Commission and the issue was taken up by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, which in 2009 ruled that Heglig was not historically part of the old chiefdoms’ territory but was located in Kordofan state. The oil town was thus taken from Abyei and placed within South Kordofan’s borders, making it a contested hot spot that both North and South Sudan claim to be a part of their territories.
Claim: Heglig is a territory of South Sudan (Heglig, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2012-04-20): 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. [...] Sudan controlled Heglig until South Sudanese forces seized the territory about two weeks ago. Oil fields in Heglig produced about half of Sudan's total oil output, and the South says northern forces were using the area to launch attack on southern territory, including here in Unity State. [...] It appears battle may not be over yet. The SPLA has previously withdrawn from Heglig only to retake control of the town a few days later.
Claim: Heglig is a territory of South Sudan (Heglig, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2016-07-31): The South Sudan army seized Heglig Tuesday, claiming that its forces were acting in self-defence because Sudan was using Heglig as a base for attacks on South Sudan. Sudan, however, charges that Heglig is its territory and that it would use "all legitimate means" to win it back, reported the BBC. Sudan announced mobilization of the Sudan army. The African Union said it is "deeply alarmed" and called on both sides to exercise the "utmost restraint," reported Reuters. The AU called on South Sudan to withdraw its troops from Heglig.