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"War already started" in Sudan's Blue Nile State - official.

BBC Monitoring International Reports

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Text of report in English by independent, Juba-based, USAID-funded Sudan Radio Service on 2 September

2 September 2011 - (Damazin) - [Malik Agar]: "We are under fire now, we are not in a position to talk, please"

That is the voice of the governor of Blue Nile State, Malik Agar, when the capital Damazin came under heavy air bombardment from the Sudan Armed Forces [SAF].

When Governor Malik Agar could not give details of the attack, SRS [Sudan Radio Service] called his deputy, Ali Bander Asisi on a satellite phone, and this is what he said.

[Bander]: This is war, the war has already started, and we will not go back again....Just a minute, just a …

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