Sudan: Governmental raids destroy a health center affiliated to the Catholic Church
Sudan, Politics, 9/19/2000

Sources in a Sudanese Church assured that the health center that was destroy due to the Sudanese governmental raids is run by the Catholic Church.

A statement issued by the Church said that a governmental airplane shelled the location yesterday while women and children were waiting to receive treatment and that 2 persons were killed while others was seriously wounded and were moved to an affiliated hospital to the Red Cross nearly 45 kilometers away from the borders Kenya, mentioning that the center was one of the best centers in the area and destroying it will deprive the civilians from health care.

The Sudanese government pledged in the past not to shell any civilian targets yet these raids continued.

The raid came shortly after the international food program affiliated to the U.N spoke of resuming its development operations in Bahr El-Gazal governorate four month after a stop for not having a secured atmospheres due to the fight between the government and the public army for liberating Sudan.

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