KADUGLI, Sudan — Military intelligence agents killed one Christian, and Islamic militants sympathetic to the government slaughtered another in June after attacking churches in Sudan’s embattled South Kordofan state. Christian sources said a Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) Intelligence unit detained Nimeri Philip Kalo, a student at St. Paul Major Seminary, on June 8 near the gate of the United Nations Mission in Sudan in Kadugli’s al-Shaeer area and shot him in front of bystanders.
Kalo and other Christians were fleeing the town after Muslim militias loyal to the SAF attacked and looted at least three church buildings in Kadugli, they said. Armed conflict in Kadugli broke out between southern and northern militaries June 6 after northern forces seized Abyei in May. On June 8, Islamic militants loyal to the SAF slaughtered a young Christian man by sword in Kadugli Market, the sources said. Adeeb Gismalla Aksam, 33, was a bus driver whose father is an elder with the Evangelical Church in Kadugli. The Islamic militias were heard shouting “Allahu akbar” (God is great) as they began shooting at a Roman Catholic church building the same day. No one was hit by the bullets shot at the building from the outside, but SAF agents arrested Pastor Abraham James Lual in front of his congregation.
Authorities took him to an unknown location and tortured him for two days, a priest said. On June 8, the SAF and Islamic militias also set fire to buildings of the Episcopal Church of Sudan and the Sudanese Church of Christ in Kadugli, sources said. “The churches and pastors were directly targeted,” Anglican Bishop Andudu Adam Elnail said.
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