The Sudanese government has been providing air support for Janjaweed fighters for some time. This is an example of the Khartoum government taking action against civilians in Darfur without Janjaweed attack.
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — The peacekeeping force in Darfur said Tuesday it was still trying to evacuate those wounded in airstrikes two days earlier that an aid group reported left 12 people dead, including six children.
The U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan, Ameerah Haq, called for immediate access to the wounded.
“I am deeply perturbed by the reported bombings of a school, water installations and a market where civilians, especially women and children are present,” she said in a statement.
Gen. Martin Luther Agwai, commander of the joint African Union-UN peacekeeping mission, said the bombings were “unacceptable acts against civilians” and said recent Darfur violence reflected a “total lack of commitment” by the government and the rebel groups to the peace process.
U.S.-based Darfur Diaries said six children, ages 4 to 11, were killed in an airstrike Sunday on a school it funds in the village of Shegeg Karo in North Darfur. Six more people were killed when the village’s market area was bombed.
Residents reported that a Sudanese government aircraft hovered over the area for some time before repeatedly bombing it, the aid group said.
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