The Sudanese government bombed its own people in a crowded marketplace Thursday morning, even as the rogue nation’s president met in Ethiopia for peace talks. Click below to find out more.
A witness told FoxNews.com the attack on a bustling bazaar that killed one civilian and injured six others was just the latest in a series of attacks on poverty-stricken villages by the rogue regime of President Omar al-Bashir. Wanted for war crimes and genocide for his troops’ actions in Darfur, al-Bashir has mounted a campaign of terror against his own people in the years before the southern portion of the North African country seceded a year ago.
The attack came even as al-Bashir, who is wanted for genocide by the International Criminal Court, and his South Sudan counterpart, Salva Kiir, were meeting in Ethiopia to reach a deal to allow oil to flow across the vague border separating the nations, which were divided last year amid an ongoing and bloody civil war. The agreement, signed on Thursday in Addis Ababa, will allow South Sudan to send its oil to market using Sudanese pipelines. More importantly, it could establish a demilitarized buffer zone in the rugged boundary between the two nations where allegiances don’t comport with a map. But even as they met, al-Bashir’s bombing raid was aimed at rooting out South Sudanese — and mainly Christian — sympathizers residing on his side of the border.
