Khartoum, December 14 (EFE). – Six Bengali soldiers from the UN mission in South Sudan were killed in a drone attack in the town of Kadugli in the southern Kordofan region, an action that the Sudanese army attributed to the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (FAR).
“The attack by the terrorist militia on the headquarters of the United Nations Mission and the Bengal battalion in Kadugli constitutes a criminal offense and a blatant violation of international and humanitarian law,” Sudanese Armed Forces spokesman Asim Abdelwahab said in a statement released through the channels of the military institution in the last few hours.
He also warned that the attack “violates UN resolutions protecting international peacekeepers and facilities and clearly demonstrates the rebel militia’s destructive actions.”
The attack occurred on Saturday against a blue helmet base in Kadugli, the capital of South Kordofan state, where there have been constant bombings and fighting between the FAR and the Sudanese army, which have been waging an open war since April 2023.
The FAR, for its part, in another statement denied its connection to the attack on the UN mission and described as “lies” the allegations that it blamed for the attack that caused the deaths of six Bengali peacekeepers.
“The FAR rejects the claims and accusations (…) regarding an airstrike on the United Nations headquarters in Kadugli, as well as the false accusations against our armed forces that they were behind it through the use of a drone,” the paramilitary group said in its statement.
That attack came days after the FAR took control of the Heglig area, home to Sudan’s main oil field, as part of its advance in Kordofan toward the east of the country after driving the army out of the vast western Darfur region.
The war in Sudan has caused the deaths of tens of thousands of people, devastated the country and made it the scene of the worst humanitarian crisis on the planet, with the internal and external displacement of more than 13 million people, according to the UN. EFE
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