The Vigilant

The Vigilant was an English-language newspaper published from Khartoum, Sudan. The first issue was published on March 23, 1965. It was an organ of the Southern Front. It functioned as a relatively well-written informative newsletter, and became the mouthpiece of the Southern movement in general and the Southern Front in particular. Effectively it was the sole press outlet for Southern opinions.

Bona Malual Madut Ring (the general secretary of the Southern Front) was the editor of The Vigilant. Darurs Beshar was the registered proprietor of the publication.

Publication of The Vigilant was interrupted between July 1965 and January 1966. The suspension was issued on July 15, 1965, following the publishing of articles about the recent massacres in Juba and Wau.The Vigilant had held the government responsible for what it called 'barbaric and brutal killing'. The newspaper claimed that there had been 1,400 casualties and 76 killed (out of whom 49 victims would have been Southern Sudanese government employees, killed in Wau on Mau 8-9). Furthermore the publication argued that the incidents was "not accident but part and parcel of a plan to depopulate the south". Copies of the newspaper commenting on the massacres were seized. Darurs Beshar and Bona Malual were arrested and tried in court. They were eventually acquitted of any criminal acts.

Vigilant

Vigilant can refer to:

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CGS Vigilant

CGS Vigilant was an armed 3rd class cruiser employed as a Canadian Great Lakes Fisheries Protection vessel. She replaced CGS Petrel, which had previously performed these duties. Sold in 1924, she was later chartered by the Customs Preventive Service for East Coast patrols between 1927-29. In 1935 new owner had the cruiser converted to a barge by Port Colborne Iron Works, sold in 1938 and further converted as a crane barge for Hindman Transportation Co, Vigilant was decommissioned after 1944 and scrapped in 1956.

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Vickers Vigilant

The Vickers Vigilant was a British 1960s era MCLOS wire guided anti-tank missile used by the British Army that was also licence-built in the USA for the US Marine Corps as Clevite.

History

Vigilant was a private development begun in 1956 by the Vickers-Armstrongs Guided Weapons Department at Brooklands, Surrey for the anti-tank role in the British Army, the name being formed from VIsually Guided Infantry Light ANti-Tank missile. Vigilant was wire-guided and optically tracked, like its successor Swingfire. As well as infantry use, it could be mounted on vehicles such as the Ferret armoured car and Land Rovers. Vigilant had a short service life: Swingfire started to replace Vigilant from 1966 onwards.

Description

The missile system could be deployed in a number of configurations. The man-portable configuration consists of a launcher which doubles up as a transport container, a combined sight and controller, a battery and a 63 meter long cable. An optional Missile Selector Box allowed up to 6 missiles to be controlled by, and widely separated from, a single sight controller. The launcher box is placed on the ground facing the direction of expected targets, and then connected by the cable to the sight controller, which can be deployed some distance away. The sight controller is a pistol grip design, with two grips. The front grip has the launch trigger, and the rear grip has a thumb joystick for steering the missile. A low-magnification (3.2x) monocular forms the sight itself. Engraved stadia lines allow simple ranging, based on a typical tank target bridging the lines once in range.