The bombing of civilian and humanitarian targets by the Sudanese government aircraft has doubled this year, as compared with last, according to the U.S. Committee for Refugees.
The committee said Sudanese air force planes had attacked civilian and humanitarian targets 132 times this year, as compared with 65 times last year. On Dec. 4, government planes carried out two more bombing raids in two villages northeast of Yirol, Bahr al-Ghazal, in southern Sudan. In the first raid, two people were killed and three others injured.
In an address to mark Human Rights Day on Dec. 6, U.S. President Bill Clinton singled out Sudan as guilty of human rights atrocities. Meanwhile, Sudan called on the U.N. Security Council to reprimand the United States over last month´s unauthorized visit to southern Sudan by U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Susan Rice.
After her visit, Rice vigorously condemned the continuous aerial attacks and expressed outrage at the abduction and enslavement of women and children by the Popular Defense Forces operating with government support.
