Sudan's air force has resumed bombing Darfur villages, claims More4News - an offshoot of Channel 4 TV here in the UK. More4News is available only via a digital box. I do not subscribe to digital TV and was unable to view the broadcast. Many thanks to Eugene at Coalition for Darfur in the US for alerting me to the news and the following report at More4News website, copied here in full:
Evidence of Sudan's bombing
More4 News has obtained evidence the Sudanese air force has resumed aerial bombardment of villages in Darfur.
It comes in breach of a ceasefire and no-fly zone agreed more than a year ago.
Last week we filmed charred and blackened huts in several villages which had been recently set on fire by Janjaweed militiamen confirming reports of an increase in attacks since the beginning of the year.
But in the village of Donkey Dreisa, south of Nyala, the damage was clearly different buildings had been reduced to rubble by bombardment which villagers told us came from Sudanese air force Antonov jets.
More 4 News was told that the attack on Donkey Dreisa on February 17th followed earlier aerial bombardment of villages near the town of Omgonya, also in South Darfur.
Hilary Benn MP, Secretary of State for International Development told More 4 News he was very concerned to hear the news.
"We were aware there had been attacks in Gereida in February but these are the first reports that I have heard that there may have been attacks from the air."
Watch the report on More 4 News at 8pm.
Click here to watch the report and the Tony Benn interview [it is probably a typo and should read "Hilary" Benn, I use Apple Mac and am unable to access the reports]
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WFP Monthly Situation Report Feb 2006
Highlights of report by UN World Food Programme, 16 March 2006 courtesy ReliefWeb.
There is no Antonov jet. It must have been some other type of aircraft.
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