Nuba Population

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Nuba Population

U.S. Satellite Sentinel Project showed on Wednesday images of mass graves in Southern Kordofan, Sudan, proving right the UN humanitarian aid reports issued last month, which were stating that mass murder has been committed in this country in the province of Southern Kordofan against the Nuba population.

The satellite has documented eight mass graves in the area since June, and an additional one near the capital of the province, Kadugli. According to the satellite project, what is showed in the images are body bags. The account is confirmed by witnesses in the field.

The Sudanese Red Crescent Society has gathered human remains, has wrapped them in body bags and has buried them in those places, the project managers said.

President Omar al-Bashir dismissed these information as false, and called on Tuesday for a unilateral ceasefire in the region with a Nuba population. Al-Bashir, who has an international arrest warrant issued in his name for the crimes in the Darfur region, said that the ceasefire would be for two weeks, during which period of time the government would assess the situation in the region.

The satellite project’s imagery is consistent with the reports about Sudanese army having engaged in actions of killing civilians in the regions dominated by Nuba population.

The report presented in July to the United Nations was specifying that aerial attacks had been carried on, attacks on churches, arbitrary arrests, abductions and homes searches.

Nuba fighters fought during the civil war on the side of the South Sudanese army, and after the secession the government in Khartoum wanted to push the Nubians out of the province, at least those who actually took arms and fought against the state’s troops.

North Sudan separated from South Sudan at the end of a very bloody civil war that lasted 25 years and claimed almost one million lives.

The South Sudan went through a referendum in January and more than 90% of the population voted in favor of separating from the North. The separation was made official on July 9, when South Sudan declared independence, and became the newest state in the world.

Soon after that event, Omar al-Bashir announced that north Sudan will install a “second republic,” that is a Muslim state, whose law system draws on the sharia Muslim law, with an Arabic speaking population.

Al-Bashir promised that all the internal conflicts in the country would be over and that all citizens, regardless of their ethnical background, would be equal subjects before the law.

Satellite Images

To show he wants to make good on his promise, al-Bashir even suggested that a ceasefire be signed on Darfur situation. The agreement was signed by only two of the factions that fight in Darfur, which makes it hard to believe that it would be observed any time soon.

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