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Nadia & Giovanni (Ass.ne Amani) wrote:
Nonostante il governo di Khartoum abbia proclamato il cessate il fuoco in
tutte le zone di guerra, la sua aviazione ha bombardato la scuola di Kauda
sulle montagne Nuba. Sono stati massacrati dai 15 ai 25 bambini e i feriti
sono moltissimi.
P. Kizito sta tentando di raggiungere la località per evacuare i ferito,
almeno i più gravi.
Vi ricordo che i civili governi dell'Europa, sdegnati per l'elezione di
Haider, non hanno problemi ad intrattenne legami economici e politici con
il
governo del Sudan - il governo italiano è in prima linea -; responsabile
del
bombardamento, e dal 1983 del genocidio nei confronti dei Nuba.
Probabilmente il petrolio, di cui l'Austria è sprovvista, vale di più dei
campi di concentramento sudanesi.
Chiediamo una preghiera per le piccole vittime.
Riporto l'agenzia di della Reuter, non aggiornata.
Nadia e Giovanni
News Article by REUTERS on February 08, 2000 at 21:27:15:
FOCUS-Rebels say Sudanese bomber kills 13 pupils
By Kieran Murray
NAIROBI, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Sudanese rebels said a government
plane killed at least 13 children on Tuesday in an air attack on
an elementary school in the famed Nuba Mountains.
The Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) said an Antonov
plane dropped six bombs onto the grounds of the school in the
Nuba Mountains, the home of a rich traditional culture but also
a major battlefield in Sudan's 17-year-old civil war.
"They have killed 13 people on the spot. All of them were
students. Very many more are reported injured," SPLA spokesman
Samson Kwaje told Reuters in the Kenyan capital Nairobi.
He said the Kaouda Elementary School, which was set up by an
SPLA-backed group, has 600 students aged between six and 13.
"They were in their classes when the bombing began and when
they ran outside, they were killed inside the school compound,"
he said, adding that another four bombs landed near the school.
Government officials were not immediately available and the
allegations could not be independently confirmed.
Kwaje said the Sudanese government last month declared a
three-month comprehensive ceasefire for all fronts of the civil
war and that Tuesday's alleged attack demonstrated it was not
interested in peace.
He said the SPLA would not pull out of peace talks scheduled
for later this month in Nairobi, but would stress to mediators
that the government in Khartoum could not be trusted.
The Nuba Mountains lie in central Sudan and have seen some
of the fiercest fighting and counter-insurgency campaigns since
the civil war erupted in 1983.
NUBA HAVE RICH CULTURE
The Nuba tribe of pastoralists are best known for intricate
body painting, stick fighting and wrestling.
They were immortalised in "The Last of the Nuba," a 1973
photographic book by Leni Riefenstahl, the influential German
filmmaker who won notoriety for her Nazi-era documentary films.
Riefenstahl, who is now 97 and has often expressed
irritation that her name is linked with Nazi Germany, said last
week she planned to travel back to the Nuba Mountains and "try
to find a way to help them."
Most Nuba share the Islamic religion of the Khartoum
government but many say they have more in common with their
African brothers to the south.
Broadly speaking, Sudan's war pits the Islamic and Arab
north against the south, which is overwhelmingly black and
either Christian or animist.
It is a conflict in which some 1.5 million people have died,
either in fighting or through war-related famine and disease.
Both the government and the SPLA control territory inside
the Nuba mountains and neither side has been prepared to give up
its claim to the region.
No foreign aid organisations have been allowed to provide
humanitarian support for the Nuba although the United Nations
has been pushing for change and hopes to fly critical supplies
into the region soon.
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