The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Sudan has come out strongly to condemn the mass killing of children in the South Kordofan attacks.
Confirming the death of at least 10 children, then children’s fund urged the warring parties to respect child rights and not to involve innocent lives in their disputes.
In a short statement issued on Thursday, the agency said that the children, who were aged between 2 and 15 years, were killed in only two weeks.
UNICEF did not however provide details about how and when they have been killed but the commissioner of Kadugli, South Kordofan state claimed that the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement killed two children in a mortar attack on the town on Wednesday.
The SPLM-N also accused the government forces of carrying out air and ground attacks on villages inhabited by civilians in the rebel controlled areas during the past two weeks.
Over the past month SPLA-N rebels have attacked nearly a dozen garrison towns across South Kordofan state.
In the most recent South Kordofan attack a truck of ballots was seized on the road to Kadugli, the state capital.
The rebels are targeting garrisons and military installations and according to the UN, thousands have been displaced.
