Posted on 11/05/2008 8:32:31 AM PST by Perseverando
In a triumph of the human spirit, it was reported last week that a woman sold into slavery at age 12 in Niger successfully sued the West African country’s government for not protecting her from this barbaric practice. Besides winning her case, the woman, Hadijatou Mani, 24, who was physically and sexually mistreated for years, also experienced the satisfaction of drawing the world’s attention to the obscenity of child slavery in Islamic countries.
And perhaps no where is child slavery more prevalent in Africa than in the Sudan. A Ugandan parliamentary committee heard last week that as many as 30,000 children abducted in Uganda over nearly two decades by the savage, anti-government Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) for use in its operations had been sold in Sudan’s Darfur region. The LRA has been fighting the Ugandan government for years with Sudanese government support. After their sale in Darfur, the children were employed as child soldiers and laborers, while others were “sold as sex slaves to the Sudanese.”
When in the Sudan from 1992 to 1996, Osama bin Laden was known as one of the biggest buyers of LRA-supplied children. The Islamist Khartoum government had given the al Qaeda leader one million acres of farmland “in perpetuity” for a road he had built in their country. It is believed bin Laden wanted the children as laborers for his farm, paying the LRA the price of one Kalashnikov rifle per child.
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What is BO going to do about this? When can we count on him having stopped this ghastly practice?
Many problems that were the scourge of civilization will cease to be mentioned under President The One.
We’ll have a new set of scourges, though. Like the “lawless unregulated Internet.”
Repeat after me: Everything bad that happens from today, on, for the next four years, is Obama’s fault. Now say it ten times a day, as things arise. Keep saying it.
Very true since now the democrats have all 3 branches everything that happens falls into their lap.
Hey, I’m starting to feel better.
I’m really looking forward to it. Takes a boulder off my shoulders.
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