Posted on 07/16/2004 1:58:24 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
A mediation committee in southern Sudan has secured the freedom of 85 black Sudanese boys who had been held as slaves, Christian Solidarity International reports.
The Arab-Dinka Peace Committee facilitated the rescue, which was documented last week by an international team of researchers sponsored by CSI.
The freed slave boys were among the tens of thousands of black women and children who had been enslaved by Sudanese government-sponsored militias during two decades of civil war. All of the boys reported that they were forced to work without pay and were frequently beaten and subjected to racial insults.
According to CSI, Over 80 percent of the boys reported that they had been forced to practice Islam against their will, while 18 percent claimed they had been raped by their masters or by their masters' friends and relatives. One 14-year-old boy, Mawien Garang, explained that his master forced him to serve another man as a male prostitute. Two-thirds of the slaves reported that they had witnessed the execution of other black Africans during slave raids or while in captivity.
The Islamic government in Khartoum has sanctioned slavery as part of its declared jihad against Christians and others in the southern part of the nation.
As a result of a U.S. supported cease-fire in southern Sudan, the regime recently suspended slave raids there. But it has revived the practice against the black African tribes of Darfur in western Sudan, CSI reports.
In the Darfur region, the conflict between government-backed Arab militiamen and mainly black rebels has led to the deaths of thousands and the displacement of as many as 1 million people. Many consider the situation genocide.
Since 1983, an estimated 2 million people have died from war and related famine due to the government's targeting of non-Muslims.
Says CSI in a statement: "This year, U.N. sources have documented the extensive 'abduction' and rape of black women and children in Darfur by the armed forces of the Sudanese government. 'Abduction' is the euphemism used by U.N. agencies as coded language for the enslavement of black citizens of Sudan."
Why this isn't front and center in the NAACP agenda is beyond me.
Because it is very difficult to pin this on Bush exclusively. Prior administrations would be dragged in as well, and we can't have that.
Enslaved by MUSLIMS.....sponsored by oil companies....including the Red Chinese
The Sudanese Muslims slave traders and owners also rape the little boys (and little girls-Christians)....and have also tortured...and mutilated...cut off their arms and legs and set them on fire for refusing to convert to Islam....
Paul Harvey needs to interject...THE REST OF THE STORY.....
Christians don't blow up oil wells, pipelines, storage facilities, and refineries.....Muslims do... And since other oil interests of these same companies are also in Muslim dominated countries its better business to placate the Muslims...and let them take over the oil bearing land in S Sudan even though its legally owned by Christians.....appease the Muslims...sacrifice a few Christian children...and the oil flows....nothing personal kids...its just business...
And both Clinton and the Bush administrations have done nothing to stop it...we will however free Muslims to set up Muslim governments but wont free Christians from Muslims...or even provide them with weapons....to protect themselves and their children from Muslim slave traders...we do send them flashlights and sandwiches though....we aren't completely insensitive to their needs....
Oh yeah we also sent them Colin Powell to cluck his tongue...about four years too late though...
imo
Ha....the NAACP is about Black Power and the advancement of a certain color of people...over white people....
If the NAACP had it's way....the white meat served at Popeye's wouldn't be chicken...
Though like the Mandelas they would find a use for old tires...
IMO
Boy sex slaves for sure....among other duties.
"And both Clinton and the Bush administrations have done nothing to stop it...we will however free Muslims to set up Muslim governments but wont free Christians from Muslims...or even provide them with weapons....to protect themselves and their children from Muslim slave traders."
Sad, I always thought we were the good guys. Guess not.
(/sarcasm)
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