Sudanese aircraft bombs refugee camp in South Sudan

2011-11-11 20:21:00 GMT+7 (ICT)

JUBA (BNO NEWS) -- The U.S. and South Sudanese governments on Friday accused the Sudan Armed Forces of bombing a refugee camp in the Yida area of Unity State, causing no casualties. The international community has condemned the attack.

The attack happened on Thursday when an aircraft dropped two bombs on a temporary refugee camp which shelters more than 20,000 people who have recently fled violence in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan's Southern Kordofan State. The camp is located in South Sudan, just across the border with Sudan.

Media reports initially said as many as a dozen people were killed in the bombing, but the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR later said there were no casualties in the camp. "We are verifying the situation of surrounding communities," said Adrian Edwards, a spokesman for UNHCR.

Rupert Colville, a spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, condemned the attack. "We need more information about the incident, but the aerial bombing of a camp containing civilians is an extremely serious matter and could amount to an international crime," he said.

In the United States, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said such aerial bombardments increase the potential for a direct confrontation between Sudan and South Sudan. "This bombing of civilians and humanitarian workers is an outrageous act, and those responsible must be held accountable for their actions," he said.

Carney said the United States demands the Government of Sudan halt aerial bombardments immediately. "We urge the Government of South Sudan to exercise restraint in responding to this provocation to prevent further escalation of hostilities," he added.

Hours before the Sudanese attack, South Sudanese President Saliva Kiir Mayardit insisted that his country is not supporting any armed opposition groups which are fighting against the Sudanese government. He discarded Sudanese claims that it is supporting and harboring rebels as 'baseless, malicious and unfounded.'

South Sudan became the world's newest country when it broke away from Sudan on July 9 as a culmination of a six-year peace process which began in January 2005 with the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) between the Government of Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM).

More than two million people, most of them civilians who died due to starvation and drought, were killed during the 20-year civil war in Sudan. Although there were hopes that South Sudanese secession would lead to peace, violence has continued both on a local level in South Sudan as well as with the Sudanese forces.

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Let's see, bombing a refugee camp, any takers amongst the usual suspects?

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How many millions of Christians, animists, and black moderate muslims have to be slaughtered in the jihadi war in Sudan before the international community takes its head out of the caliphate's culo and stands against this mindless slaughter for allah?