Bishop fears Rwanda repeat in South Sudan borderlands Article Comments (0) Email PrintSave --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
June 19, 2011 (LONDON) – A senior member of the South Sudanese clergy expressed his grave concerns about the situation in the North/South Sudan borderlands and called for international intervention in an interview on UK radio on Sunday. Anthony Poggo, the Anglican Bishop of Kaju Keji told BBC Radio 4 he feared “another Rwanda” and called for the implementation of a no-fly zone along the border as “there is evidence that they [Khartoum] are bombing civilians”. The UN received condemnation for their failure to react expeditiously to the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 where 800,000 people lost their lives. The security situation in the border regions of Abyei and between North and South Sudan has been deteriorating rapidly in the run-up to the declaration of South Sudan’s independence on 9 July. The UN agencies estimate last week 60,000 had been displaced from South Kordofan people and on 7 June that over 100,000 people had been displaced in the Abyei region. A Government of South Sudan official has already described the actions of the North Sudan army as genocide and on the 10 June a group of UK Peers said "the ethnic cleansing could soon become genocide." Poggo also called for the international community to take a tougher stance against Khartoum in light of their “encouraging the various rebellions” in South Sudan and to renew the UN’s mandate in Sudan, which is scheduled to end with the declaration of the South’s independence. (ST) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JFD info" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jfdinfo?hl=en.
