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Nuba Mountains

British The Guardian publishes information whereof it affirms were obtained by the Observer from UN sources according to which the government in Khartoum, Sudan, has executed a systematic campaign of violence against the Nuba black people in the mountainous regions of this country.

According to two confidential reports, the regime of Omar al Bashir, whose already under an international arrest warrant for the way he handled the situation in the breakaway province of Darfur, there are accounts of devastating aerial bombardments of civilians, “indiscriminated” shelling of civilian areas, summary executions, and the deliberate targeting of these people.

One of the reports shows how the authorities in South Kordofan obstructed the UN Mission in Sudan from fulfilling its basic requirements of the mandate.

The UN Mission is scheduled to leave Sudanese province by July 31, at the request of the authorities in Khartoum, and its support for the Nuba people is inconsistent, as it is the attempt to correctly ascertain the situation of the people affected by the war that broke out on June 5.

This war seems the first serious attempt by president Omar al Bashir to suppress ethnic and cultural diversity in favor of a rigid Arabic-speaking Muslim state in the rest of Sudan, after the secession of South Sudan.

The UN secretariat for humanitarian affairs states that some 1.4 million people were affected by this new war, but cannot confirm the reports from the field about mass graves, extra-judicial killings or other atrocities reported.

The army of the Nubas, Nuba Sudan People’s Movement, formerly allied with the South Sudanese SPLA, now attempt to ally themselves with forces in the north that seek the toppling of Bashir’s regime.

According to this rebel army, 400,000 people have been displaced and 3,000 killed since the war broke out.

The conflict seems to have been triggered by the refuse of the Nuba army to acknowledge the state elections in May, at least that is what the government alleges.

The Nubians in their turn say that the conflict was caused by the request made by Khartoum that the Nubian fighters leave and settle to north, which would been no less than depriving them of the citizenship, given that on July 9, the south became a new country.

Nubas Preparing for War

The UN mission for Sudan accuses aggressions against its own staff, the killing of one member, random arrests, and other threats the government posed against them.

For that, they require the UN not only to condemn the regime of Bashir, but to hold accountable Sudan for what it is doing in this province.

South Sudan broke away from the Republic of Sudan after 22 years of civil war and a referendum by which 99% of the population pronounced in favor of independence.

The independence was proclaimed on July 9, and the new country, one of the poorest in the world, has already printed new currency, the South Sudanese pound, and on Tuesday has began selling oil in a symbolic move that indicates that its future could be bright if the rulers manage wisely the immense amounts of oil.

Great powers like Russia, China, India, and the United States have shown interest in relations with South Sudan, and recognized the state almost immediately.

Vatican also hailed the born of a new Christian state by sending one of the most important cardinals to the Independence Proclamation Day.

What remains of the former Sudan was proclaimed by Omar al Bashir a “second republic,” with Arabic as official language, and Islam as official religion.

Bashir pledged to respect the ethnic diversity, and the culture of all the people living in the new Sudan, but there are still matters to solve, whose outcome could lead to a further shrinking of the state.

An accord was reached recently between the central government and the Darfur province, but it is expected that the accord be more of an image manoeuvre than an actual cessation of conflict, considering that only one of three rebel groups has signed it.

The oil-rich Abyei province has yet to determine the state to which it wants to belong, and the conflict in South Kordofan is far from over.

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