Press Release

STRONG CONDEMNATION OF GoS BOMBING OF CIVILIAN POPULATION

October 28, 2001

The Sudan Human Rights Organization Cairo Branch condemns in the strongest terms possible the ongoing savage attacks of the Government of Sudan (GoS) on the villages of the South that suffered massive losses of people and property as a result of these terrorist attacks.

The Organization repeats deep concerns for the unrelenting attempts by the GoS to extract as much oil as is possible from the oil-fields areas of the South, at expense of the indigenous population.

The killings and destruction of civilian establishments by government troops or militias is adding hundreds of victims to the millions thus far killed, tortured, or displaced in the South alone, in addition to hundreds of thousands of the other citizens especially in the Nuba Mountains, the Ingessana Hills, DarFur, and Eastern Sudan.

SHRO-Cairo draws the attention of the International Community to the gross acts of terrorism that GoS is increasingly pursuing for cheap political and military gain through the encouraging involvement of the oil producing companies in the area.

The following report has been sent to the Human Rights Commission, all human rights organizations, democracy organizations and activists, as well as the Specail Envoy of America to Sudan.

SHRO-Cairo urges all human rights activists to exercise maximum pressure on the Government of Sudan to respect the rights of people, stop all acts of terrorism and aggression, and insure the right of self determination to the citizens of the South and all other war-stricken citizens, as a serious step to bring about the fair and permanent peace in Sudan.