Office of the Spokesperson and Media Directorate

The Republic of Sudan
Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Office of the Spokesperson and Media Directorate

Press Release

As the so-called Geneva talks between the US envoy and the Janjaweed Militia began yesterday, the Militia bombed Al-Khansa Girls Secondary School and a primary school in the city of Al-Obeid, the capital of North Kordofan. The attack resulted in the death of five citizens and the injury of 30 students. At the same time, the Militia intensified its deliberate bombing of residential areas in Karari Province, in Greater Omdurman. A day before, the Militia attacked Al-Naw Hospital in Al-Thawra neighborhood, Karari, with three missiles, resulting in 4 patients being seriously injured.
These terrorist crimes by the Militia on the very same day it claims to have embarked on peace talks suffice to demonstrate the futility of the current Geneva meeting, for the Militia is using it as a platform for false propaganda which its crimes on the ground expose. Definitely peace will not be achieved by giving the Militia the opportunity to dishonor the previous agreements and obligations derived from international humanitarian law, or elevating its sponsors,who supply the long-range artillery missiles and drones it uses to kill civilians, to a peace partner. Nor will it be attained by deliberating Sudanese affairs in the absence of the Government of Sudan, a precedent that has no basis in international law and the United Nation Charter.