Sudanese rebel group, The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement North (SPLM-N), has accused the Sudanese government in Khartoum of ethnic cleansing of the Nuba people of South Kordofan, due to arbitrary air attacks launched by the government air forces last Friday on Fayiath area of Rashideen province in South Kordofan.

Five civilians were killed, including children and women, while hundreds more families have been forced to flee the area in search for safety and survival.

Speaking to Radio Tamazuj, the SPLM-N spokesman Arno Nogotolu Lodi claimed that the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) in Sudan is continuing its trend to cleanse the Nuba people from Sudan.

He disclosed that government air-forces dropped 6 bombs at Al-Fayiath village leading to the death of Halima Mustafa who was 25 years old, 18 year old Umm-Sarah Mohammed, a 6 year old child named Ekram Mohammed, Janna Ezzael-Deenwho was 6 years old and 4 year old Zubeer Hamid Abdel-Rahaman.

Many others were seriously injured including three children, Yusuf Ismail Al-Faki, Sarah Al-Sheikh Mohammed and Osman Al-Sheikh Ibrahim, aged between 3 and 15 years old.

Arno further noted that given that all casualties were women and children, the government is deliberately attacking innocent civilians.

“In fact, the NCP regime is continuing to prove the crimes which they are carrying out and the attacks on civilians it shows its intention to cleanse Nuba ethnic. On 15 May they carried out (an) aerial bombardment on Fayiath village near Rashid locality and killed 5 civilians all children and women as well as wounding other 3 children,” Arno noted.

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