Sudan’s Commitment to Peace Made Clear…
If you have been a reader of my blog you know of my relationship with Ryan Boyette and his unique reporting for the global media on the ongoing
situation in Sudan and South Sudan. This is his latest report sent to me by
email this morning. By way of background, Ryan lives with his Sudanese wife in
the Nuba region which is a part of Sudan that borders with the new country of
South Sudan. You can follow the story at this site that Ryan and others report at and he will have further updates there as they become avaialbe. I have highlighted in bold particularly striking aspects of Ryan’s
latest report.
At exactly 10:30am on Thursday,
September 27, 2012 the Sudan Government dropped 6 bombs on the village of
Heiban. What makes this bombing unique is that every Thursday is market day in Heiban and as many as 2,000 civilians come
from all over Nuba to the market on this day to sell what little
possessions they have to get money to purchase food for their families. Six civilians were badly injured in the
bombing and 1 woman was killed.
The other fact that makes this
bombing unique is that it happened within
the same hour that Sudan was signing an agreement with South Sudan. At
the very time that the pen was on the paper the plane was in the air with the
mission to bomb one of the largest weekly markets in Nuba. Sudan claims
that the South Kordofan conflict is a proxy of South Sudan. It seems to
me that the agreement in Addis is
distracting from a conflict that is taking place right now.
We have more
details to come as well as video footage and pictures with GPS coordinates of
the bombing.
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