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Market bombed in Sudan; more than 100 dead

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Market bombed in Sudan; more than 100 dead

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La Jornada Newspaper
Wednesday, December 11, 2024, p. 22

Port Sudan. More than 100 people died the day before yesterday in a bombing by the Sudanese army in a market in North Darfur, in western Sudan, a group of lawyers from this country reported yesterday.

Sudan has been mired in a civil war since April 2023. The conflict has left tens of thousands dead, according to the United Nations (UN).

The army, led by General Abdel Fatah al Burhan, is fighting the paramilitaries of the Rapid Support Forces (FAR) of his former deputy, General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo.

Monday’s bombing took place in Kabkabiya, about 180 kilometers west of El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state, besieged by the FAR since May.

The airstrike took place on weekly market day in the city, where residents of neighboring towns flock.said the organization Emergency Lawyers, which documents the atrocities committed in the country since the start of the war.

More than 100 people were killed in the bombing and hundreds were injured, including women and children, the group said, describing horrendous carnage caused by bombing.

The Sudanese army denied having carried out the attack and denounced the lies spread by the political parties that support the FAR. The military stated in a statement that they would continue exercising their right to defend the country.

In Omdurman, on the outskirts of the capital Khartoum, a bombing by paramilitary forces against a bus yesterday killed at least 15 people, according to medical sources.

The regular army, led by Al Burhan, and the FAR forces have been accused of war crimes, especially indiscriminate bombings in inhabited areas.

Since the conflict broke out, tens of thousands of people have died and more than 11 million Sudanese have been forced to flee, according to the UN.

The United Nations and humanitarian organizations fear that the war will degenerate into new ethnic violence, especially in Darfur, which was devastated more than 20 years ago by the policy of scorched earth applied by the Janjaweed, Arab militiamen who have since joined the FAR.