Sudanese Struggle to Survive Endless Bombings Aimed to Quell Rebels

New York Times ^ | July 3, 2011 | JEFFREY GETTLEMAN

[Pan_Yan]

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As the July 9 division of Sudan nears, the government in Khartoum is scrambling to crush any rebellious chunks of the territory that will remain its own. Its forces have been relentlessly pounding the Nuba Mountains from Russian-made Antonov bombers for weeks, demanding that tens of thousands of rebel fighters dug in here disarm and drop their insistence on more autonomy for the distinctive Nuba people. Hundreds of civilians have been killed, including many children. Bombs have been dropped on huts, on farmers in the field, on girls fetching water together, slicing them in half with buckets in their hands.

As the area inches toward becoming fully engulfed in war, the Nuba caves offer a crucial refuge.

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Because they had been subjugated by Sudan’s Arab rulers for generations, the Nuba sided with southern rebels during the latter half of Sudan’s north-south civil war, in the 1980s and ’90s. The government responded by bombing the hillsides, wiping out villages and incarcerating hundreds of thousands of Nuba in so-called peace camps where many were forced to convert to Islam at gunpoint. People fled to caves then, too.

A peace treaty signed in 2004 called for Nuba to have a say in determining how much autonomy they would get — again, protecting their unique culture was a priority — but autonomy never came. Now, it seems, the government’s sudden interest in Nuba is timed to the south’s independence on Saturday. Khartoum may feel it has to send a signal that even after the south breaks off, the result of decades of struggle for liberation, it will not tolerate other secession movements.

[GeronL]

Has the NY Times got around to mentioning the Sudanese incursion into southern Libya yet??

[Pan_Yan]

Search for Libya and Sudan in Google News and the story doesn’t come up from any source.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Pan_Yan.

[Sudan's Islamofascist dictator has been] relentlessly pounding the Nuba Mountains from Russian-made Antonov bombers for weeks, demanding that tens of thousands of rebel fighters dug in here disarm and drop their insistence on more autonomy for the distinctive Nuba people. Hundreds of civilians have been killed, including many children. Bombs have been dropped on huts, on farmers in the field, on girls fetching water... the Nuba caves offer a crucial refuge... the Nuba sided with southern rebels during the latter half of Sudan's north-south civil war... many were forced to convert to Islam at gunpoint.

[cranked]

Leave it to the libtard idiotic NYT to take the side of insurgents, terrorists, militants, extremists, etc. =.=

[Pan_Yan]

Leave it to the libtard idiotic NYT to take the side of insurgents, terrorists, militants, extremists, etc. =.=

You mean the Christian, Animist and some Muslim mountain tribes being bombed by the Arabs because they fought against the dictator Bashir the Butcher who's been trying to wipe them out for decades??

[Marty62]

For another an better explaination of the situation.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/18/sudan-khartoum-displaced-nuba

“They rigged the census, the elections, the ballot boxes,” Hilu told Mbeki on Thursday. “We tested the NCP over six years. They don’t respect agreements, they did not implement the CPA. They declared clearly there is no room in this country for any group except Arabs, and no other religion except Islam.”

[Fred Nerks]

By El-Tahir El-Faki

June 20, 2011 - During the height of the Darfur crisis the Islamic regime of President Bashir lead massive ethnic and genocide campaigns against the indigenous Africans to replace them with Arabs from countries such as Chad, Central Africa, Niger, Mauretania and Mali. While the international community was concentrating on the Darfur crisis, the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) was reminding all concerned that the issue was national requiring holistic solutions. Furthermore it stressed that it would only be a matter of time before Bashir would repeat the same scenario in Kordofan. The indicators were clear and copious. The Nuba of Kordofan are indigenous multi-religious Africans who are mostly supporters of the SPLM and perceived by Islamic regime of Bashir as infidels whose rich and fertile lands must be evacuated and given to the Arabs. -A period of relative peace and stability ensued until the recent events on the 5th of June 2011.

SOURCE

[Pan_Yan]

Thanks for the link. I’ve been reading up on Sudan for a couple of years now. I think I first got interested when Somali pirates captured a ship full of tanks from Belarus being smuggled to Southern Sudan through Kenya with a wink from our government. That was until Obama came to power.

[Marty62]

“That was until Obama came to power”

Ofcourse. Zero put a stop to that, post haste.

[He Rides A White Horse]

The government responded by bombing the hillsides, wiping out villages and incarcerating hundreds of thousands of Nuba in so-called peace camps where many were forced to convert to Islam at gunpoint.

The Islamic hordes have cast their eyes upon Africa, and Obama will help them.

[blueplum]

Because they had been subjugated by Sudan’s Arab rulers for generations

even after (being forced into) becoming "muslim", the arab muslims still bomb them as if their lives have no worth. Watch and learn.