Groups from the Nuba Mountains in Sudan protested on Thursday outside the White House in Washington, as well as in Britain and Ireland, calling for action in the face of oppression in South Sudan.
A member of the Nuba Mountains International Association (NMIA), Dahiya Sereer Toto, said that the protests were intended to raise global awareness of the conditions and violations suffered by Nuba people in South Sudan so as to encourage intervention and avert a humanitarian catastrophe.
According to NMIA, action is needed to ensure peace for the area and Nuba identity, political and religious freedoms.
"We will call for self-determination because our province is oppressed. It should have been given this right in the 2005 peace treaty," Toto added.
He said that the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) have committed over a hundred security violations in the Nuba Mountains, endangering its people.
The Sudanese government deployed over 200 tanks across Nuba's towns and villages outside schools, hospitals and residential areas, according to NMIA.
"We fear a cleansing operation by the NCP in Nuba directly after the south secedes," Toto said. He points out newspapers loyal to the regime that claim Nuba was the new "south Sudan" threatening the stability of the country as grounds for his fears.
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