HORN OF AFRICA: IRIN Weekly Round-up 9
SUDAN: Government again accused of bombing civilians
The government bombing of civilian targets in Eastern Equatoria in
southern Sudan was having "devastating effects on traumatised local
people", the Roman Catholic Church stated on Wednesday. Those worst
affected were children, who now fled at the sight or sound of any
aircraft, according to a statement issued by the Nairobi-based Sudan
Catholic Information Office (SCIO). Fr Maurice Loguti, stationed in the
Catholic Diocese of Torit - the site of regular bombings - said the way
the air raids were now conducted would leave even the most daring soldier
terrified, and said that on 25 October an Antonov bomber dropped 12 bombs
- two by two over two hours - on Ikotos, near the Ugandan border. The
government has frequently been accused of deliberately bombing civilian
targets ever since the civil war broke out in 1983.
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