Yasir Arman speaks out on the summer offensive of the Sudan Government in the Nuba Mountains
3 min readYasir Arman speaks out on the summer offensive of the Sudan Government in the Nuba Mountains
In the last three days, the National Congress Government of Sudan started launching its summer offensive in the Nuba Mountains in four different directions after they brought fresh forces from Western Sudan and Attbra training center, which their graduation was attended by the two indicted war criminals, General Abedraheim Hussain, the Minister of Defense, and Ahmad Haroun. The forces started a major offensive in Torge-Bram area. The fighting is continuing the last two days. There is a heavy bombardment against civilian populations and massive displacement.
The National Congress summer offensive is going to result in a much bigger humanitarian crisis than the last offensive that started in June 2011. The civilian population lacks water, which they were getting from the rainy season, and food, which they didn’t harvest during the rainy season because of the war. It is to be recorded that when we visited Bram-Torge area last June with former President Thabo Mbeki and Haile Menkerios of the UN, they saw for themselves how the Sudan air force destroyed and burned down the old rural town of Bram, which was inhabited by more than 20,000 people.
At the time, when President Mbeki visited it to meet Commander Abdel Azziz Adam Elhilu to pave the way to sign the Addis Ababa Framework Agreement which was later denounced by General Bashir, President Mbeki was met by less than 15 people from the inhabitants of Bram town. The rest of the 20,000 civilian population, they were displaced massively and some were killed and some were wounded, including children and women. And since June up until now, President Bashir’s government prevented and denied access for food and medicine and humanitarian assistance for civilian populations and instead they are launching now a major offensive and they are using the Sudan air force extensively against civilian populations in most of the cases.
This is happening in the 3rd millennium. The Sudan government believes that displacing and killing civilian populations will destroy the moral of the SPLM-N fighters who came from the civilian populations. We would like to bring to the attention of all human rights activists and those who are concerned of the protection of the civilian population that General Bashir of Sudan and his gang are war criminals.
They are on their way to commit more war crimes and atrocities against the civilian populations of the Nuba Mountains. The silence and the impunity they are getting is encouraging them to commit more crimes in front of the eyes and ears of the whole world. Your attention and your voice and your action are needed.
The information was sent by SKYPE from Yasir Arman, Secretary General, SPLM-N
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