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Title: Re: شاهد من رويتر على قصف شمال السودان لمعسكر لاجئين بجنوب السودان!!
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Date: 11-11-2011, 01:37 AM
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South Sudan Accuses Sudan of Bombing Civilian Camp Amid Fears of War
By JOSH KRON
Published: November 10, 2011
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NAIROBI, Kenya — Civilians fled as bombs fell on a camp for displaced
people in South Sudan on Thursday, and President Salva Kiir accused
the Sudanese government of planning to invade his newly independent nation.
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Less than six months after South Sudan broke away from Sudan, an act
that was the culmination of a peace accord to end decades of civil war,
tensions between the neighbors are crystallizing into fears of direct confrontation.
Speaking in South Sudan’s capital, Juba, Mr. Kiir denounced the Sudanese
government for threatening what he called a “military invasion” of South
Sudan, and he rejected accusations by the Sudanese government that his
country was arming Sudanese rebels as “utterly baseless and malicious.”
Mr. Kiir has also accused the Sudanese government of bombing the South
Sudanese area of Guffa in recent days, killing at least seven people and
potentially moving the insurgencies on both sides of the border closer to an
international conflict.
The United States issued a statement on Thursday condemning “in the
strongest possible terms” what it called “negative developments”
between the nations, particularly the airstrike by the Sudanese forces.
“The provocative aerial bombardments near the border increase the
potential of direct confrontation between Sudan and South Sudan,”
the American statement said. Sudan has denied striking South
Sudanese territory.
Nevertheless, on Thursday afternoon an Antonov bomber dropped
four bombs on the South Sudanese area of Yida, hitting a
refugee camp of roughly 21,000 people, some of them northern
Sudanese who had crossed the border since the rebellion in Sudan
began.
According to an aid worker with knowledge of the event,
two bombs fell on an airstrip, one hit a school and one landed on a market,
but did not detonate. There were varying reports of casualties,
but none could be confirmed.
While the two nations continue to discuss how to split lucrative
oil revenues and the fate of the contested region of Abyei, a spreading
rebellion inside Sudan has prompted the Sudanese
government to accuse the south of providing military support to the rebels.
Last week, the Sudanese government lodged a formal
complaint with the United Nations Security
Council, arguing that South Sudan was trying to start a border war.
“We don’t have any intention to go to war again, but it is now up to the southern
government to either strengthen its state without hostility, or to disturb us,”
said a Sudanese government spokesman, Rabie A. Atti.
“If they come to war, they will lose a lot.”
Many residents in the Sudanese provinces of Southern Kordofan and Blue
Nile fought alongside the south during its civil war with the north.
But the 2005 peace treaty placed the two provinces in Sudan’s territory,
leaving South Sudan to hold a referendum to decide its own fate. In January,
the South Sudanese voted almost unanimously to secede from the rest of the
country. Their fellow combatants in Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile remained
on the other side of the border, and an armed rebellion soon began.
“We are ready to fight and continue until we reach Khartoum,” the
Sudanese capital, said one of the rebel leaders, Abdel Aziz al-Hilu, in a September
interview. “We are prepared for a protracted war, a long war,” he added,
“in order to see this regime ousted.”
In return, the Sudanese military has clamped down hard on the rebellion,
filling the skies over Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile with Antonov bombers,
some of which have flown over South Sudanese territory, too. A satellite
imaging project organized by the Enough Project, an advocacy group,
has published what it says is evidence of mass graves in the
rebellious regions, and the United Nations has said the military activity
could amount to war crimes.
The United States, a close partner of South Sudan, had made
strong overtures to the government in Sudan, saying that if it
cooperated peacefully with South Sudan’s transition to independence,
economic sanctions on the country could be lifted.
But last week, President Obama seemed to change his mind,
calling for sanctions to be extended over what he called “hostile”
actions on the part of the Sudanese government that posed an
“unusual and extraordinary threat” to American foreign policy.
“They promised us a lot of things; nothing actually implemented,”
said Mr. Atti, the Sudanese government spokesman. “It’s unfair.”
South Sudan — or Sudan — can ill afford a new war. The economies
of both nations are in a delicate state, with Sudan suffering from a
loss of oil income since South Sudan’s independence, and protests springing
up in the streets of Khartoum early this year.
As for South Sudan, it is one of the least developed countries
in the world. Furthermore, it faces a number of internal rebellions itself,
particularly in provinces near the border, and it has accused the Sudanese
government of backing militias there.
“The overall view is that they have to exist with the other side,” said Aly Verjee,
a senior researcher at the Rift Valley Institute. “Even if you don’t trust them so
much, and if they are meddling in your own sovereign territory, there is a
lot riding on that.” |
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