During March, 58 people were killed in bombing with incendiary bombs, southern Sudan

On Thursday, Human Rights Watch accused the forces of southern Sudan of using innovative incendiary bombs that were brought down by aircraft last month, killing at least 58 people, including children in the northeast of the country, where clashes have been taking place for weeks.

The clashes in several regions of the most recent country in the world, but very poor and unstable, as well as the arrest of Vice President Riek Machar in late March by the forces loyal to President Salva Kiir, the peace agreement that ended in 2018 five years of the civil war.

Using flammable materials

The air strikes intensified in mid -March, according to Human Rights Watch, about 10 days after an attack on a United Nations helicopter in Nasser Province, northeast of the country, killing a member of the crew and Granur from South Sudan.

Eyewitnesses met by the non -governmental organization spoke about “barrels” that were shot down from a plane and exploded on the ground, and one of the paramedics explained that the affected areas were burned for several days, with a crackling sound, which Human Rights Watch said that it indicates that flammable materials were used as a burning factor.

These bombs were proven in 4 attacks between March 16 and 21, killing at least 58 people and wounding others with serious burns, according to Human Rights Watch.
One of the witnesses spoke about the victims of their skin, so that one of the men who died in the hospital was burned.

Random attacks on civilians

At the end of March, the head of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, Nicholas Haysum, condemned the random attacks on civilians, including the air strikes with bombs claiming to contain very flammable liquid, causing a large number of victims and horrific injuries, especially burns.

“If you, as a civil, are there, we cannot do anything,” said when he was asked about the killing of civilians in these raids.