Nairobi, June 14 (ENInews)--Christian leaders from around the world are
calling on the international community to intervene in the violence in
Sudan's Southern Kordofan border state, where an air bombing campaign is causing
"huge suffering" to civilian populations and endangering humanitarian
assistance.
Church and aid officials say more than 300,000 people are trapped, cut off
from relief and unable to flee the region where the Sudan Armed Forces has
been fighting the Sudan People's Liberation Army, the former rebels
aligned groups in the oil state. The fighting, which has been going on for a
week, is raising fears of an increased death toll, after clashes escalated to
include artillery and aircraft.
"This violence is a major threat to the stability of Sudan just as the new
state of South Sudan is coming into being. The humanitarian challenge is
already great, and the risk of another Darfur situation, with civilian
populations at the mercy of government-supported terror, is a real one," said
Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury.
