ICC Note: One infant boy from a Christian family has been killed and six other people wounded after the Sudanese Air Force bombed civilian towns in South Sudan on Monday, May 23^rd. This tragedy occurred in a string of aerial attacks by the Sudanese Air Force, targeting the black ethnic Nuba population of South Sudan. The Sudanese government is instigating these attacks to retaliate against South Sudan’s secession from the north as well as to exterminate Christians and any other non-Arabs from the region. Christians face intensified persecution in Sudan where President Omar al-Bashir has imposed sharia law and seeks to wipe out any non-Islamic culture.

05/26/16, Juba, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – A Sudanese Air Force bombing of civilians in the Nuba Mountains town of Heiban on Monday (May 23) struck a Christian family, killing a 6-month-old boy and wounding six others, a rebel source said.

One of several bombs dropped from a Russian-made Antonov plane on the town in South Kordofan state killed infant Kacho John and wounded 4-year-old Kuku John, 7-year-old Zainab John and Kaka John, 20, of the Sudanese Church of Christ. Others injured were identified as Hafida Abdurahman Banat, 10, Hani Saeed Kori, 35, and Ismail Alnur.

A spokesman for the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Army-North (SPLA-N), which is battling government forces in southeastern Sudan, noted the bombing in a press statement on Facebook. The area’s predominantly black ethnic Nuba believe that since South Sudan split from Sudan in a 2011 referendum, the government’s goal of quashing SPLA-N rebels is also meant to rid the area of non-Arabs and Christianity

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