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| Sudan Seeks Probe into Killing of Nationals in S. Sudan |
| 2014-04-25 |
| [An Nahar] Sudan called on Thursday for an investigation into the "liquidation" of its nationals in a South Sudan oil town, where the U.N. has accused rebels of killing hundreds of civilians. "The foreign ministry condemns liquidation of the Sudanese nationals in Bentiu and calls for urgent investigation," the official SUNA news agency said in an SMS alert. The United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) said on Monday that both South Sudanese and Sudanese -- some from Sudan's Darfur region -- were killed in "assassinations" after rebels took Bentiu, the capital of South Sudan's oil-rich Unity state, from government forces last week. In the main mosque alone, "more than 200 civilians were reportedly killed and over 400 maimed," UNMISS said. Civilians including children were also massacred at a church, hospital and an abandoned U.N. World Food Program compound, it said. "They (the rebels) searched a number of places where hundreds of South Sudanese and foreign civilians had taken refuge, and killed hundreds of the civilians after determining their ethnicity or nationality," a U.N. statement said. In Khartoum, Sudan's foreign ministry front man Abubakr al-Siddiq told Agence La Belle France Presse it was not yet clear how many of the victims were Sudanese. "Let us say dozens," he said, adding Khartoum is in contact with the U.N. over the incident. |
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