{"id":20078389,"date":"2024-03-22T15:33:56","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T14:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/?p=20078389"},"modified":"2024-03-22T15:37:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T14:37:33","slug":"sudan-rebel-leader-after-attack-on-nuba-village-school-we-will-defend-our-people-and-let-the-army-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/sudan-rebel-leader-after-attack-on-nuba-village-school-we-will-defend-our-people-and-let-the-army-know","title":{"rendered":"Sudan SPLM-N El Hilu leader: \u2018We will defend our people and let the army know\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

According to the secretary-general of the Sudan People\u2019s Liberation Movement-North under the leadership of Abdelaziz El Hilu (SPLM-N El Hilu), the aerial targeting of villagers in the area of Dalami a week ago \u201cwas surprising, but we have since long stopped to wonder what the government is doing\u201d. Justice Africa Sudan called on the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) \u201cto ensure protection of civilians according to their commitments under the 1949 Geneva Convention\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ammar Amoun Daldoum, secretary-general of the SPLM-N El Hilu, which is based in Kauda in the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan, yesterday told Radio Dabanga yesterday that the Antonov of the Sudanese Air Force bombed the school in El Hadra village<\/a> on March 14 \u201cin the early morning, when the students were at school, and killed 11 children and two teachers instantly. At least 45 others were injured, most of them also students and their relatives\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Antonov also bombed the area of El Geniziya in the north of Dalami that day, killing 15 people and wounding three others. The bombing also included Habila town and Kargal village. At least 2,000 people fled their homes and searched refuge in safer areas, Daldoum said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He went on to say that the air raid \u201cwas surprising, but we have since long stopped to wonder what the government is doing\u201d and referred \u201cfor instance to the bombing of a hospital<\/a> that was ran by M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res (MSF) eight years ago\u201d.  <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Nuba rebel leader accused the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), which he called \u201cnon-Sudanese\u201d several times during the interview, of \u201cwaging a brutal war devouring the green and the dry for 69 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSuch a long war against a foreign territory has never been recorded. And the enemy was always the Sudanese people. This was the case in southern Sudan, the Nuba Mountains, and the Blue Nile state since 1955<\/a>, and much later, in Darfur and areas in the far east and far north of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Sudanese army always had difficulty with ruling by the Constitution,\u201d he said. \u201cFor 69 years, the rulers have governed the country through the violence of the army against the Sudanese living in the periphery.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consequences<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On behalf of the SPLM-N El Hilu, which launched several attacks against SAF bases in South Kordofan<\/a> and Blue Nile region<\/a> after the war between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) broke out in April last year, the rebel leader warned of \u201cthe consequences of continued targeting of civilians and young children which the army believes leads victories against the SPLM-N in particular and against the people in the peripheries in general\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daldoum stressed that the SPLM-N El Hilu \u201chas a moral responsibility towards the people in the areas it controls. We will not stand idly when people civilian institutions like schools, hospitals, and places of worship are attacked. We will defend our people and our civil institutions, and let the army know that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Justice Africa Sudan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Sudanese human rights organisation Justice Africa Sudan last week demanded the formation of an independent investigation into the aerial attacks on Habila town and villages in Dalami.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a statement on Sunday, the NGO included lists of people, mostly killed in an airstrike, on El Hadra village last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It reminded the warring factions \u201cto ensure protection of civilians according to their commitments under Geneva Conventions 1949 and its four protocols\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Part<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Part of the list of 45 people, most of them children, injured during an air raid on the El Hadra village school in Dalami, South Kordofan, on March 14 (List composed by Justice Africa Sudan)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The organisation stated: \u201cAlmost all the districts of the Nuba Mountains are under siege since the start of the ongoing war that erupted on 15 April 2023. The RSF and its allied militias are blocking the main road between North and South Kordofan, hindering the movement of people and goods to these areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt the same time, the SPLM-N is blocking the road between Delling and Kadugli, capital of South Kordofan, which has very serious impacts on the cost of living as the price of a [10kg] sack of sorghum reached SDG 100,000 in Kadugli and a famine is .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe urge RSF and SPLM-A to immediately end the blockage of the roads and to ensure safe passage of good and humanitarian assistance,\u201d the statement concludes.<\/p>\n