Sudan accuses Ethiopia of executing 7 soldiers, a civilian

June 26, 2022 (KHARTOUM) – Ethiopia executed seven soldiers and a civilian who were captives, the Sudanese armed forces said on Sunday.

The army, in a statement extended to SUNA, also accused Ethiopia of displaying the bodies of those executed to the public and vowed to take an “appropriate response”.

The statement pointed out that “in a manner that contradicts all the laws and of war and international humanitarian law, the Ethiopian army executed seven Sudanese soldiers and a citizen who were prisoners of war and then presented them to their fellow citizens with all meanness”.

“The Sudanese Armed Forces, while extending their sincere condolences to the families of the honourable martyrs, affirmed unequivocally to the honourable Sudanese people that this treacherous situation will not pass without a response, and it will respond to this cowardly behaviour”. noted the statement.

In recent years, tensions between Sudan and Ethiopia have run high in because of a spillover of the conflict in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region and Ethiopia’s construction of a giant hydropower dam on the Blue Nile.

According to aid agencies, tens of thousands of refugees have fled into eastern Sudan and there have been military skirmishes in an area of contested farmland along the border between Sudan and Ethiopia.

(ST)