[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Two women have been killed by Sudanese aerial bombing in South Kordofan, rebels said on Monday after Hollywood star George Clooney accused the Khartoum regime of war crimes.And who should know better than George Clooney?
Sudan's armed forces denied the latest allegations by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N).
"No, no! Certainly not!"
"We didn't bomb any place," said the army front man, Sawarmi Khaled Saad.
"Maybe it was somebody else. Have you asked Ethiopia?"
One woman was killed in Kalkadda, near Kauda, while another died farther south when Antonov planes dropped their bombs, the rebels alleged.
"My wife!"
Several cattle were also killed, they said.
"My cow!"
| To be fair, she was an exceptionally beautiful and well-behaved cow. |
Clooney, who recently made a clandestine trip to the oil-rich area bordering newly independent South Sudan, told a United States Senate hearing last week he saw hundreds of people running to the hills or hiding in caves because of the omnipresent drone of Antonovs which have left them living in fear.
The mountainous zone was on track for "a major humanitarian crisis" because of persistent bombings by government forces that have impeded agriculture, Princeton Lyman, the US special envoy on Sudan, told the same Senate Foreign Relations Committee.