‘South Kordofan littered with unexploded ordnance’: SPLM-N
The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) has warned for a catastrophe in South Kordofan, as the number of land mines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) in the region has increased significantly during the past months of bombing and shelling by the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF). The SPLM-N governor of the areas under rebel control in South Kordofan, Simon Kalu, stressed in a statement on Saturday that the lives of thousands of civilians are in great danger if international organisations will not intervene and remove the UXO. “During the past few months, the Sudanese Air Force dropped hundreds of bombs on the region. Many of them did not explode.”“The areas are littered with UXO after the intensive bombardments and shelling by the Sudan Armed Forces. 700,000 people were forced to flee their homes, and are wandering around in search for food and water.” Kalu urged mine experts to “come to the SPLM-N-controlled areas, to detonate and remove hundreds of UXO, including the ones that are internationally banned”. The spokesman for the SAF, El Sawarmi Khaled Saad, told Ashorooq TV on Wednesday that the Sudanese army is at its best, following continued successes in South Kordofan and Darfur. He declared stronger military operations against the rebel movements “at all frontlines in the coming period to eliminate the insurgency by the end of the dry season campaign”. File photo: Haroun Ali (17), from Mellit in North Darfur, is recovering in El Fasher from the injuries he sustained when he picked up an UXO, 2 April 2013 (Albert González Farran/Unamid) Related:South Kordofan rebels ‘down Sudan chopper’ (3 July 2014) SPLM-N attacks El Atmor in South Kordofan (29 June 2014) Attacks on South Kordofan ‘may constitute war crime’: Amnesty Int (25 June 2014) Hospital bombed in Sudan’s South Kordofan (17 June 2014) ‘Attacks on South Kordofan displace 35,615’: SPLM-N (16 June 2014) EU concerned about bombing of hospital in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains (12 May 2014)
The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) has warned for a catastrophe in South Kordofan, as the number of land mines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) in the region has increased significantly during the past months of bombing and shelling by the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF).
The SPLM-N governor of the areas under rebel control in South Kordofan, Simon Kalu, stressed in a statement on Saturday that the lives of thousands of civilians are in great danger if international organisations will not intervene and remove the UXO. “During the past few months, the Sudanese Air Force dropped hundreds of bombs on the region. Many of them did not explode.”
“The areas are littered with UXO after the intensive bombardments and shelling by the Sudan Armed Forces. 700,000 people were forced to flee their homes, and are wandering around in search for food and water.”
Kalu urged mine experts to “come to the SPLM-N-controlled areas, to detonate and remove hundreds of UXO, including the ones that are internationally banned”.
The spokesman for the SAF, El Sawarmi Khaled Saad, told Ashorooq TV on Wednesday that the Sudanese army is at its best, following continued successes in South Kordofan and Darfur. He declared stronger military operations against the rebel movements “at all frontlines in the coming period to eliminate the insurgency by the end of the dry season campaign”.
File photo: Haroun Ali (17), from Mellit in North Darfur, is recovering in El Fasher from the injuries he sustained when he picked up an UXO, 2 April 2013 (Albert González Farran/Unamid)
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South Kordofan rebels ‘down Sudan chopper’ (3 July 2014)
SPLM-N attacks El Atmor in South Kordofan (29 June 2014)
Attacks on South Kordofan ‘may constitute war crime’: Amnesty Int (25 June 2014)
Hospital bombed in Sudan’s South Kordofan (17 June 2014)
‘Attacks on South Kordofan displace 35,615’: SPLM-N (16 June 2014)
EU concerned about bombing of hospital in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains (12 May 2014)
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