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‘Soft target’ bombings reportedly doubled

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    The bombing of civilian and humanitarian targets by the Sudanese government aircraft has doubled this year as compared to last, according to a statement released by the US Committee for Refugees (USCR) in Washington DC on Wednesday. Sudanese air force planes had attacked civilian and humanitarian 132 times this year as compared to 65 times last year, the statement said. Over the past four years Sudanese aircraft had bombed non-military targets 259 times, the report added. The latest attack, on Friday 8 December, the fifth on southern Sudan this month, targeted the southern village of Yomciir, killing two people, one of them an aid worker, according to the statement.

    The statement accused the international community of “failing to take a forceful action” against the government of Sudan. The statement quoted Roger Winter, the executive director of the USCR, as urging the UN to “suspend the government of Sudan for its continuing egregious violations of international law and of the UN Charter”.

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