Anglican Communion News Service : Sudan : Government aircraft bomb Yei
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article24873
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican World
- Date
- 1998 Trinity
- Issue
- 90
- Page
- 51
- Notes
- "A Sudanese Air Force Antonov plane on 5 March [1998] flew four sorties over the rebel-held town of Yei in the Western Equatorial region of southern Sudan, dropping 13 bombs. Five of the bombs hit the town's hospital complex, killing a medical assistant and 10 patients." Other hospitals have also been attacked. "The Rt. Rev. Joseph Marona, the interim chairman of the New Sudan Council of Churches (NSCC) and the Bishop of Maridi Diocese in Southern Sudan, has described the Yei incident as horrible and inhuman". "The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. George Carey wrote a letter on 2 April [1998] to the Sudanese Ambassador in Britain, expressing his concern about the bombing." Text of letter included. "Meanwhile, a Word Food Programme spokeswoman, Christine Bethnaume, said in Geneva that 350,000 people in southern Sudan now face starvation."
- Subjects
- Sudan - Politics and government - 1985-
- Sudan - Religious aspects - Church of England
- Sudan - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Bombing, Aerial - Sudan
- Episcopal Church of The Sudan. Diocese of Maridi
- Marona, Joseph (Joseph Biringi), 1941-2009
- Location
- General Synod Archives